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Sheet Music: ScoreTongue of the invisible : a work for improvising pianist, baritone singer and 16 musicians / Liza Lim.by Liza Lim (2011)
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A one-hour song cycle composed by Liza Lim, setting the poetry of Hafez translated/ adapted by Jonathan Holmes, for baritone, improvising pianist and 16 musicians.
Project Description:
Improvisation as unpredictable play
Song as longing for the Divine
Musicians as listeners, drunk with desire
The Concert Hall as a tavern, a meeting-place between
world and other
The work is structured as an unfolding narrative of fixed and open (guided improvised forms) where the creative contribution of the musicians enacts a metaphor for pathways for renewal and the creation of multiplicity of meaning that is in dialogue with the composed music.
Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Ricordi Munich) — 1 score (137p. -- A3 (portrait))
Duration: 1 hours
1. At dawn I heard the tongue of the invisible -- 2. Between the pages of the world (i) -- 3. This door is the mouth of love -- 4. Between the pages of the world (ii) -- 5. The roots of the world are entwined in the wind -- 6. Between the pages of the world (iii) -- 7. Encircling its towers with a silver coronet of song -- 8. Our embraces are a banquet of revolving time.
Commissioned by Ensemble musikFabrik, Holland Festival, Kunststiftung NRW.
First performance by Omar Ebrahim, Uri Caine, Ensemble musikFabrik, André de Ridder — 8 Jun 11. Bimhuis, Amsterdam
Includes program notes, performance notes and full text of Hafiz's poem.
Typeset edition.
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Analysis & Media
- Article: Distributed Creativity and Ecological Dynamics: A Case Study of Liza Lim’s ‘Tongue of the Invisible’
by Eric Clarke, Mark Doffman, and Liza Lim; Oxford University, University of Huddersfield. © OUP
Music and Letters, OUP (Pay per view)
This essay addresses distributed creative processes in the preparation and performance of a new musical work—Tongue of the Invisible by Liza Lim, commissioned by the Cologne-based Ensemble musikFabrik. Situating the research within a broadly ecological perspective, and in the specific context of the interface between composition, improvisation, and performance, the study offers a social and distributed understanding of creative production.
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