… each flight is an arc to buttress the sky,
a loan to the sky
And the little words we make of them, the single feathers, dropped
for us to recover,
fall and fall,
a nimble armor ...
-Jorie Graham
8 Dec 2023
music with text
counter)induction and Marlanda Dekine
Byrne:Kozar:Duo
Robert Baker and Molly Orlando
For the American composer Douglas Boyce, writing music is an act of philosophising. Each of the recent vocal chamber works gathered on this album revolves around a distinctive stylistic orientation and scoring. The effect is not merely an array of varying sound environments but an interrogation of the nature of language – musical and verbal, and the potential interlockings between these conduits of meaning – along with its limits and liberations.