Poem of Change (1990). Pauline Oliveros /"is this your wake up call?"/

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Poem of Change is the strangest thing I've heard in awhile. The first listen was bewildering, the second enlightening.

The composer:

A Poem of Change is my text mixed with actual World War II sounds, accordion and vocal sounds.

HurdAudio on the piece:

The calm delivery of the text (that is often whispered) and the sparse drones of the accordion punctuated by the sound of warfare are well matched. This is a rare case where the concrete meaning of the text serves and is served by the abstract qualities of the composition. 

30 second stream on lala: