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Piano Piece No. 3

Audio Clip: MP3 | Real Audio

 
   
Catalogue #: LT. 8
Composer: Frank Horvat
Year Composed: 1996
Instrumentation: Piano, MIDI generated instrumentation and sound effects & clips from news footage
Duration: 7 1/2 min
Score: Yes

Recording Information

Availability: Live Demo. Tape only part available on DAT Tape and CD
Date: March 31, 1996
Location: University of Toronto, Walter Hall
Musician: Erik Ross
Producer/Engineer: Frank Horvat

Programme Notes...

Piano Piece No. 3 is based on an anonymous poem that was left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The words paint a vivid picture of what war is like from the perspective of a soldier. This inspired me to search for other non-musical content to include in the tape part. Audio clips from the 1991 Iraq War were used including the constant rumble of bombardment, a recorded message from an American POW, and clips from a speech by George Bush Sr.

- Frank Horvat

 

Red stains the dirt
Red stains
The Fabric of my trousers
Spattered with your life
The warmth dissipating
Even as your torn lungs
Release their final breath-
Its father used in
Warning me to be alert.

Dust devils at my feet now
The terror of your destruction
Close at hand
I turn and fire
To survive
To rent gashes in yellow skin
Like those burned on my eyes

- anonymously left at Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington D.C.

 

 

 

 




 
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