Consume Us

Art Song (2019)

Info:

Commissioned and composed for the 2019 Art Song Collaborative Project's "Cries of the Earth"

Libretto

If any place should be unspoiled / It is here / Why won’t they listen?

Eighty-thousand tons / Plastic Soup / Growing Closer / One point six million kilometers 

Million million million million million million million million... 

Plastic bags / Children’s toys / Eel trap cones / Tooth brushes / Lighters / Fishing Nets / Crates / Oyster Spacers / Bottles / And bottle caps 

Plastic soup / Growing closer / It will consume us 

When the rain comes down on the brave new world / You’ll put on your plastic rain coat

Instrumentation:
2 Sopranos, Tenor, vln, vc, pno, perc, fixed media

Duration: c. 7’