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Heather Mease - All the Voices of Feeling Died in the West

from Stockhausen Serves the Worms by Semibegun

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The inspiration for this remix project ties directly to the ambivalence I feel regarding the two pieces sampled here for voice and electronic sounds, Milton Babbitt's Philomel (1964) and Luciano Berio's Visage (1961). I deeply admire the craft of these works, now even more so after combing through their details note by note. Bethany Beardslee and Cathy Berberian do much of that leg work purely through immaculate and terrifying performance. My qualms partially stem from content and the ways in which Berio and Babbitt compose that content through the voice. However, I state that grievance not without caveats. The issue is not simply Philomel's mutilation translated into the language of austere avant garde virtuosity. Maybe more objectionable is the context of its encounter: studying Berberian's moans in windowless classrooms packed with young men and multichannel arrays in conservatory basements, presented as landmarks of a windowless electronic music history. 

In the resampling process I worked through the source material with an eraser, an attempt at speculative composition and historical revision through absence, only to occasionally recompose the same piece with the remaining scraps. The title refers to a line near the end of Philomel: "Finally, as all the voices of feeling died in the west…"  

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from Stockhausen Serves the Worms, released May 5, 2023

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