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Twin Souls,
text-based electroacoustic music
by Barry Truax |csr_0102-0001|
Twin Souls is a
collection of electroacoustic compositions that incorporate texts which deal
with various gender issues. Some, but not all, refer to same sex
relationships; others leave the identity of “the other” to the
listener’s interpretation. In all cases I have gravitated toward lyric
poetry that expresses the human desire for this other being, whether a
“mirror image,” an idealized partner, or a complementary
“opposite.” In the first two works, the instrument itself is
personified as the lover to whom the poetry is addressed. In the excerpts
from my opera Powers of Two, these
relationships are dramatized on stage. In each piece, the disembodied
electroacoustic element takes on the role of creating in your mind your own
version of the “twin soul.”
Barry Truax
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Barry Truax: Twin Souls: liner notes
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