Completed recently in Prague, this work began with recording several weeks of free improvisation 
using extended techniques on my mother's old violin back in Portland. The pitch of the recorded 
violin was tuned to the lyde, a found instrument which is about a quarter-tone flat of a D-natural. 
The text and vocal parts were written in Prague, at the same time, with the live violin and lyde 
parts added last. The work envisions the singer afloat atop a sinking violin which 
has just pushed off from rocky shores. The work is loosely autobiographical.
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