The music to composer Craig Shepards performance work that presents listeners with text drawn from court testimony in the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, here concentrating on the quiet long tones generated by wind instruments and ebow strings, where pure tones pass between the musicians to build a pulsating chord that then drops away tone by tone.
Label: Music For Contemplation, Inc. Catalog ID: None Squidco Product Code: 28601
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Austria Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Degraw Sound, in Brooklyn, New York, by Nicholas Prout.
"In Broken Silence, music supports listeners engaging with text drawn from court testimony connected with the scandal in the Catholic Church. The 75-minute live performances includes spoken word and quiet long tones from winds and ebow strings.
In the live presentations, musicians sit in a circle surrounded by listeners in concentric rings. The music has three fifteen to eighteen minute parts with silence in between. Each part begins with a pure tone, which is passed between the musicians across the circle. Over five to ten minutes, tones are added one at a time, building a pulsating chord. Then tones drop out one at a time, often imperceptibly.
Shaping the flow of the piece, the speaker pays attention to the resonance with the musicians and listeners, moving forward or slowing down as needed."-Music for Contemplation