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Mivos Quartet
Olivia de Prato, violin
Lauren Cauley, violin
Victor Lowrie, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Matthew Gold, percussion
Creative Musicians Retreat Chamber Chorus
Sarah Riskind, conductor
fixed electronics
Creative Musicians Retreat Chamber Chorus
Emma Daniels, Renée Favand-See, Laura Jobin-Acosta, Loretta Notareschi, Jennifer Yoo, sopranos
Katie Balch, Anna Brake, Sarah Curzi, Wendy Griffiths, Nicole Gutman,
Ashlin Hunter, Jamie Klenetsky Fay, Caroline Mallonée, Osnat Netzer, Brooke Steele, altos
Seth Brenzel, Dakota Hayton, Matt Magerkurth, tenors
Brian Fancher, Michael Frank, Brent Morden, Nate Trier, basses
lyrics
Gravitas
Music and lyrics by Michael Frank
Narrated text from “Mr g” by Alan Lightman
The void served as a gracious receptacle for my thoughts. It was my playground of ideas. The void had always vibrated with
the music of my thoughts, but before the existence of time, the totality of sound occurred simultaneously, as if a thousand,
thousand notes were played all at once…”
Now I could hear one note following another, cascades of sound, arpeggios, glissades. I could hear melodies and rhythms and
metrical phrases gathering up time in lovely folds of sound. In every place and in very moment, I was wrapped and engulfed
in music. At times, the music poured forth in fierce heaving swells. At other times, it advanced in the softest little steps,
delicate as a fleeting veil in the Void. Music clung to my being as parcels of emptiness had in the past. Music went inside of
me. I had created music, but now music created. It lifted and remade, and formed a completeness of being.
In the beginning there was no light, no light… There was sound…There was Music.
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