Alarm Will Sound | Cradle: Alyssa Pyper and Alarm Will Sound @alarmwillsound | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
alyssapyper.bandcamp.com/album/cradle
Learn more about "Cradle" here: youtu.be/AM00D_-alCc
Notes from the composer:
I am a lesbian, gender-nonconforming woman of Mormon descent. I come from a people who wish I did not exist. I was raised in a culture that kept me hidden from myself.
I wrote Cradle while still living in Utah as a way to hold myself when no one else would. I wrote this music in response to breaches of nurture, by way of blood and betrayal.
This music comes from my body; originally written using voice, violin, and loop pedal, it has now found a home with the thoughtful, resonant musicians of Alarm Will Sound. I am grateful for the container they hold - I no longer having to hold myself alone.
Immense thanks to Alan Pierson for holding me and this work with tender care and vision.
Gratitude to inti figgis-vizueta for brainstorming with me + mentoring on notations.
CRADLE Text:
Cradle
Cradle
In your light
I’m in your light
The only like I’ve known
Cradle
Cradle
Second life
A second life unknown
Bathe me
Bathe me
In your light
Hold me
Hold me
In your mind
In your
In your mind
I see you in a crowded room
I can taste your withered bloom
Bathe me
Bathe me
In your mind
Hold me
Hold me
In your light
There’s a window inside my mind
Keeps me turning, turning inside
Close my curtain, safe from outside
I have nothing, nothing to hide
Like a promise I can’t keep
Wellspring dried beneath your feet
Lifeless daughter hear your own
Feel your thoughts your shaking home
Like a shadow at my side
Dryness pulls me out of mind
Lifeless daughter hear me cry!
I am asking for my life!
(You’re afraid, and you cry
The salt still crusting you inside)
Acknowledgements:
"Cradle" is supported by the Matt Marks Impact Fund, a fund created by Alarm Will Sound in memory of AWS founding member, Matt Marks, to commission and develop new works by underrepresented composers and for unconventional practices.
Alarm Will Sound gratefully acknowledges our individual donors and the following foundations for their support: Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, Cheswatyr Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund in 2022-23, Mellon Foundation, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
Additional Support provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
PERSONNEL
Erin Lesser, flutes
Christa Robinson, oboe and English horn
Bill Kalinkos, clarinets
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinets
Michael Harley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Tim Leopold, trumpet
Michael Clayville, trombone
Matt Smallcomb, percussion
Chris P. Thompson, percussion
John Orfe, piano
Courtney Orlando, violin
Stefan Freund, cello
Miles Brown, bass
Daniel Neumann, Audio Engineer
Nigel Maister, Staging Director
Alan Pierson, conductor and Artistic Director
Gavin Chuck, Executive Director
Peter Ferry, Assistant Director of Artistic Planning
Jason Varvaro, Production Manager
Annie Toth, General Manager
Tracy Mendez, Development Manager
Michael Clayville, Director of Marketing
Bill Kalinkos, Librarian
Uday Singh, Program Coordinator
Shot and edited by Four/Ten Media
Special thanks to Curtis Stewart (violin), Matt Albert (viola), Titi Ayangade (cello), and Adam Booker (bass) for their contributions to the video.
alyssapyper.bandcamp.com/album/cradle
Learn more about "Cradle" here: youtu.be/AM00D_-alCc
Notes from the composer:
I am a lesbian, gender-nonconforming woman of Mormon descent. I come from a people who wish I did not exist. I was raised in a culture that kept me hidden from myself.
I wrote Cradle while still living in Utah as a way to hold myself when no one else would. I wrote this music in response to breaches of nurture, by way of blood and betrayal.
This music comes from my body; originally written using voice, violin, and loop pedal, it has now found a home with the thoughtful, resonant musicians of Alarm Will Sound. I am grateful for the container they hold - I no longer having to hold myself alone.
Immense thanks to Alan Pierson for holding me and this work with tender care and vision.
Gratitude to inti figgis-vizueta for brainstorming with me + mentoring on notations.
CRADLE Text:
Cradle
Cradle
In your light
I’m in your light
The only like I’ve known
Cradle
Cradle
Second life
A second life unknown
Bathe me
Bathe me
In your light
Hold me
Hold me
In your mind
In your
In your mind
I see you in a crowded room
I can taste your withered bloom
Bathe me
Bathe me
In your mind
Hold me
Hold me
In your light
There’s a window inside my mind
Keeps me turning, turning inside
Close my curtain, safe from outside
I have nothing, nothing to hide
Like a promise I can’t keep
Wellspring dried beneath your feet
Lifeless daughter hear your own
Feel your thoughts your shaking home
Like a shadow at my side
Dryness pulls me out of mind
Lifeless daughter hear me cry!
I am asking for my life!
(You’re afraid, and you cry
The salt still crusting you inside)
Acknowledgements:
"Cradle" is supported by the Matt Marks Impact Fund, a fund created by Alarm Will Sound in memory of AWS founding member, Matt Marks, to commission and develop new works by underrepresented composers and for unconventional practices.
Alarm Will Sound gratefully acknowledges our individual donors and the following foundations for their support: Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Amphion Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, BMI Foundation, Cheswatyr Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, New Music USA’s Organizational Development Fund in 2022-23, Mellon Foundation, and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
Additional Support provided by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the National Endowment for the Arts.
PERSONNEL
Erin Lesser, flutes
Christa Robinson, oboe and English horn
Bill Kalinkos, clarinets
Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinets
Michael Harley, bassoon
Laura Weiner, horn
Tim Leopold, trumpet
Michael Clayville, trombone
Matt Smallcomb, percussion
Chris P. Thompson, percussion
John Orfe, piano
Courtney Orlando, violin
Stefan Freund, cello
Miles Brown, bass
Daniel Neumann, Audio Engineer
Nigel Maister, Staging Director
Alan Pierson, conductor and Artistic Director
Gavin Chuck, Executive Director
Peter Ferry, Assistant Director of Artistic Planning
Jason Varvaro, Production Manager
Annie Toth, General Manager
Tracy Mendez, Development Manager
Michael Clayville, Director of Marketing
Bill Kalinkos, Librarian
Uday Singh, Program Coordinator
Shot and edited by Four/Ten Media
Special thanks to Curtis Stewart (violin), Matt Albert (viola), Titi Ayangade (cello), and Adam Booker (bass) for their contributions to the video.
