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FAMILY ALBUM completes an ongoing preoccupation which began several decades ago. Stories, not photographs, are collected here. Together, Every Dream Has Its Number and Storytime span four generations of women in my family.

In the late 1970's, I had recorded my grandmother telling her many stories. I then used these stories to create a narrative portrait of her called, A Grandmother's Song... . My grandmother's voice from those recordings appears during my telling of the tale in Storytime. Her story is both remarkable and mundane in the way the stories of deeply cherished relatives often are.

In Every Dream Has Its Number, my mother talks about her mother and herself. I focused on gambling as a way to explore our relationship because my mother's personality and addiction to gambling shaped our lives to a large extent. Through stories, conflicting memories, music and the sounds of gambling environments, I have created a portrait of a difficult relationship in its final stages.

Although both pieces travel the course of dying, death is not the focus of the work. I think the human spirit as heard through the stories of lives that were lived hard, often with great pain, has a very loud and triumphant voice. I would love others to hear these voices as I have.

The Giant Music Box which I play in Every Dream Has Its Number is an
instrument/ interactive exhibit that I built in collaboration with Richard Gagnon for The Exploratorium in San Francisco. It consists of a large rotating cylinder (38" X 32" diameter) and an octave and a half of 40 brass bars tuned to a quarter tone scale. It is played by inserting push pins into the cylinder which corresponds to the notes you want to play, then gently tapping the pins with a rubber mallet before pushing the cylinder forward.

Voys #5 - Family Album

Every Dream Has Its Number

innova 056
https://www.innova.mu/albums/quince-ensemble/david-lang-love-fail

love fail

david lang: he was and she was

Hide In Plain Sight

Kathy, Sam and I at the Rock Beach on Lake Superior in Ironwood, MI. Day 7 of the cross country drive to see my father in the time of COVID

Day7 Resting in Michigan

This song was the result of a group project in the College of San Mateo's course Small Ensembles - Electronic Music. 

Jared Lipka - drums, guitar, and mixing
Shawn Westmoreland - bass and lyrics
Gloria Capulong - keys
Carol Broderick - vocals, lyrics, and melody

Gotta Get Away

Half a Mile

bell and voice as the sun rose on a full moon halloween day.

10.31.20 Full Moon Sunrise

A high and low chime with vocals as the sun rose on November 2020's full moon.

11.30.20 Full Moon Sunrise

Bowing a bell with a rough cloth while singing a slow ascent as the sun rose on the last full moon day of this crazy year.

Every Dream Has Its Number

brendah555

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