Singing Through
by John Cage
- Type: Album
- Released: 1990
- Label: New Albion
- Country: United States
- Length: 55:43
- Community rating: 3.77/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Highlighting the legendary avant-garde composer's fascination with the human voice, 'Singing Through' presents a series of unaccompanied vocal pieces performed by Joan La Barbara. The challenging, minimalist compositions utilize chance operations and non-traditional phonetic expressions to completely dismantle standard operatic conventions.
Genres
Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, nature, a-cappella, experimental, avant-garde, atonal, dissonant, complex
Tracklist
- A Flower / Joan La Barbara (3:31)
- Mirakus / Joan La Barbara (9:05)
- Eight Whiskus / Joan La Barbara (4:17)
- The Wondeful Widow of Eighteen Springs / Joan La Barbara (2:41)
- Nowth Upon Nacht / Joan La Barbara (1:08)
- Sonnekus / Joan La Barbara (17:08)
- Forever and Sunsmell / Joan La Barbara (5:09)
- Solo for Voice 49 / Joan La Barbara (1:19)
- Solo for Voice 52 / Joan La Barbara (3:58)
- Solo for Voice 67 / Joan La Barbara (2:20)
- Music for Two (5:03)
Credits
- John Cage - primary artist, artwork [cover image], composed by
- William Winant - piano [closed], percussion
- Erik Satie - composed by
- Dominique Bonnaud - lyrics by
- Henry Pacory - lyrics by
- Numa Bl猫s - lyrics by
- Vincent Hyspa - lyrics by
- Leonard Stein - piano [satie cabaret songs]