Abstract
Rather the flight of the bird passing... is a five-channel composition created to produce a surreal sound environment that could only exist in a recorded, multichannel version. The solo trombonist in the piece (the composer) performs and is recorded by 5 human mobile microphone stands, i.e., people holding microphones and moving around the recording space searching for sounds. The sounds and the movements are influenced by a poem by Alberto Caeiro (1889–1915), a poet who did not actually physically exist. He was a heteronym created by the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935). Pessoa created numerous heteronyms, each with their own styles and subject matter. The line of the poem, ‘‘What’s past is nothing and remembering is not seeing,’’ is central to the practices used by all the performers to create the work.
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