He Got Dictators is a piece for soprano, plucked bass, and piano. It was commissioned by Bermuda Triangle (Dora Ohrenstein, Robert Black, and Kathy Supove) as part of their Political Songbook project. The text is from Stevie Smith’s Novel on Yellow Paper. This performance is by the Sonic Liberation Players.

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He Got Dictators

MARY JANE LEACH is a composer/performer whose work reveals a fascination with the physicality of sound, its acoustic properties and how they interact with space. In many of her works Leach creates an other-worldly sound environment using difference, combination, and interference tones; these are tones not actually sounded by the performers, but acoustic phenomena arising from Leach’s deft manipulation of intonation and timbral qualities: “an acoustic Through the Looking Glass world based on sound that the performer is not making.” (The New Yorker).

He Got Dictators

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