Music for ‘Ornithopter’

Music for ‘Ornithopter’

2001, 50:00

Voice, flute, synthesizer, hardanger fiddle and string quartet, tape and live electronics

Written for Scapino Ballet (Rotterdam)

Programme notes

Choreographer Ederson Rodrigues Xavier

Lyrics

The First Two Letters

Jack and Jill
had a little time to kill
hanging on their cellphones
sending dirty messages by satellite ‘cross the lunch room
Unzip your mind
tossing and spinning and crossing up the rhyme
la-dee-da
la-dee-dee
me-me-me-me-media
the first two letters are ‘me’
Jill love Jack
Jack love her right back
’til one day when his phone book wouldn’t dial up
so he dials her number himself
puts the seven before the five
sends his love-get-down message to a number in SoHo
Cindy wrote back
“”S ‘n M,
S ‘n MS
I don’t know what it means
but I’d like to guess…””
You take a ride
you turn it wide
you can get your fender dented
la-dee-da
la-dee-dee
me-me-me-me-media
the first two letters are ‘me’

© 2001 voLsap Music, Amsterdam