First performed at the City Recital Hall in Sydney by the saxophone quartet "Quadraphonic" in 2007. Recorded at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music by Dave Gertler.

Doxology - For Saxophone Quartet.WAV

dear spectre: I would like to paint you so colourful. Contours first and then the shades, you are as my love for Korean drama. You have read your Longfellow. We go for a walk in the shadows, crossing Parkland Walk, breathing Crouch Hill, Jade Empress of the Golden Chrysanthemum. I have crossed you. I will betray you. With your delicate hands you paint my legs. You choose carefully which fifteenth-century lexicon you will use in delineating my shade. I have killed you. I have loved you. I have given you life. I have brought experience and richness into your ecstasy. I am a drum machine that gives you the beats of senseless dance, mindless fantasies and paroxysms of desire.. I can only stay sane by writing this love poetry. There is nothing I have to say, really, just a series of descriptions, perhaps not more than a spectacle.. but there is a certain blandness to the way I see the world. Everything is static, and it seems I have forgotten the aspect of my former youthful beauty. I have forgotten the outlines of my former noble soul.

Doxology - For Saxophone Quartet.WAV

Seth Cole