Tag: shit around the world

12 Mar 2009
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Flautist Solomiya Moroz and percussionist Nicholas Jacques première my piece, Shit Around The World, with a text consisting of the word shit in 12 languages.

7:30pm, Bentley Music Studio
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive (map)
Banff, Canada
Admission: Free
www.banffcentre.ca/music    
Instru­men­ta­tion: flt + voice, perc + voice
Dura­tion: 11’00
mp3 listen to Shit Around The World — I
mp3 listen to Shit Around The World — II
mp3 listen to Shit Around The World — III
Per­form­ers: Flute – Solomiya Moroz, Percussion – Nicholas Jacques
Pro­gramme Note

This piece is based on the sound of the word shit in twelve dif­fer­ent lan­guages. It trav­els from west to east geo­graph­i­cally across the world. The lan­guages were chosen either because I speak them, or because I could find a native speaker of that lan­guage to teach me how to say shit. I did, how­ever, attempt to keep a some­what even spac­ing between geo­graph­i­cal areas, although a com­pletely even dis­tri­b­u­tion would have been, of course, impos­si­ble to realize.