» Requiem [for KV]
for solo amplified voice and pre-recorded voices
or three amplified voices
duration: 6 minutes

Commissioned by/Premiere:
Commissioned by/Premiere: Daisy Press, New Music New Haven, Yale University on December 18, 2007

Additional Performances:
Daisy Press, April 17, 2008 at Death By Audio in Brooklyn, NY
Daisy Press, April 18, 2008 at the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York
Christiana Little, April 10, 2009 at the Manhattan School of Music
Christiana Little, September 4, 2009 at the Stone in New York
Delea Shand, Amanda DeBoer, and Sonya Knussen, August 2010, Bang on a Can Festival
Christiana Little, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2010 at the 92Y TriBeCa

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Score:
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About the Work:
Requiem [for K.V.] was composed in September 2007 and was very much inspired by my now fifteen year long relationship with the author of the text as well as Daisy Press's uncanny ability to make sonic landscapes out of a single voice. The recording made here was recorded by soprano Christiana Little at Yale University's Center for Studies in Music Technology.

Text:
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
"It is done."
People did not like it here.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) from A Man Without a Country

All works are Copyright Christopher Cerrone and published by Outburst-Inburst Musics. For a printed perusal score and CD recording, please contact me.