Blood of the Air is a suite of pieces based on the poetry and speech melodies of Beat-era Surrealist poet Philip Lamantia. This exciting new composition features a greatly expanded version of Brown’s working band and utilizes recordings of Lamantia reading his own work, with the pitches and cadence of the poet’s voice providing the raw melodic and rhythmic material, in addition to live readings by poet Andrew Joron and interpretations of Lamantia’s speech melodies by vocalist Lorin Benedict.
neem is Gabby Fluke-Mogul on violin and Kelley Kipperman on double bass. They are a collaborating improvising duo. Their compositions text-score
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