Jackson Mac Low, a poet featured on this album, is compared to John Cage in music, as both employed chance procedures and were motivated by Buddhism learned from D. T. Suzuki.
Compositional Technique
Cathy Berberian's Stripsody is a Pop Art aria with a score notated graphically with words and drawings in the style of a cartoon comic.
Recording & Production
The performance of Jackson Mac Low's Young Turtle Asymmetries on this album was created by superimposing five separate recordings of one person reading each page of the text, resulting in unplanned fifths.
Compositional Technique
Two of the pieces on this album, Luciano Berio's A-Ronne and Cathy Berberian's Stripsody, advance in straight lines by following the alphabet, while others go round in circles.
Composer Biography
Cathy Berberian, an American mezzo-soprano of Armenian extraction and composer of Stripsody, was married to Luciano Berio, who composed many pieces for her.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composers on this album are linked by the influence of John Cage, an American composer known for his use of chance procedures, or the personality of Cathy Berberian, an American mezzo-soprano and composer.
Performer Biography
Theatre of Voices, the Grammy®-award winning ensemble performing on this album, was founded by Paul Hillier in 1990.
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