<p dir="ltr">A composition for two women’s voices and playback (2025)</p><p dir="ltr">Dedicated to Kate McMillan</p><p dir="ltr">The score is a proportional, the vertical axis refers to pitch, line length refers to volume, which should never exceed medium loud. Each singer takes a part – red or white. Do not amplify the voices, ensure the playback part (in the score) matches the volume of the voices, and ensure it is presented in a highly reverberant space. Sing the text as written. Sometimes you will be in ‘duet’ with singers in the fixed media part. The score should be read in the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/decibel-scoreplayer/id622591851" target="_blank">Decibel ScorePlayer application</a> as the audio part is embedded in the score.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>CREDITS</b><br>The singers on the playback part are Vera Brozzoni and Sarah Dacey, who featured in the preparation of the premiere performance as part of Kate McMillan’s<a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-rivers-stomach-songs-of-empire" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"> audiovisual installation</a>, The River’s Stomach (Songs of Empire).</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><p dir="ltr"><b>PROGRAM_NOTE</b><br>This work was written for The River’s Stomach (Songs of Empire), by Kate McMillan, a site-specific audio-visual intervention first presented at Strand Lane ‘Roman Baths’ in London. The work weaves together the mediums of sound, video, objects and performance, combing true, false, real and imaginary stories, transforming them into a haunting exploration of the residues of colonial violence and the systemic forgetting of women’s stories. The sound in the installation was fixed – this score was recorded to create it. </p><p dir="ltr">The piece premiered on 22<sup>nd</sup> May 2025.</p>
