The audio track for the project's first outing was created in collaboration with Evie Janneman, who lent her 13 year-old voice to reading through a list which, repeating the word 'unprecedented', touches on a kaleidoscope of pressing contemporary issues. The track opens with 39 bell tolls which, marking my age in years at the time of the performance, open up a liminal space for the work. As backing, the track samples percussion from the funeral ceremonies for Elizabeth II, some notes from Cow Song by Meredith Monk, and fragments of the second movement of Hernyk Górecki's Symphony No.3 also know as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
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