Aye, Wonder Text

Aye, Wonder is the musical storytelling of the poem Alice in Wonder by Luisa Inés Garcia.

When I first read this epic poem it tore me to shreds, striking a chord so deep within my subconscious I was swept away on a nine month compositional journey to set it to music.

With violin, voice, and electronics, the performance rides a delicate balance between improvisation and composition using effects, loops, and a vocal processing patch developed in MaxMSP.  These fundamental elements meld to cross between folk, classical, and new music aesthetics with the programmatic bones of the vivid text driving the performance.

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Aye, Wonder at the Together Festival, Boston