Twin Souls
Barry Truax
- Composer(s): Barry Truax
- Performer(s): Robert Black, Marcel van Neer, Frances-Marie Uitti, Elizabeth Carefoot, Phyllis Mailing, Sue McGowan, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn
CD (CSR 0102)
- 1Wings of Fire (1996), 14:00cello (female) and fixed mediumFrances-Marie Uitti, cello
- 2Androgyne, mon amour (1996-97), 16:02music theatreamplified male double bass musician, fixed medium and fixed mediumRobert Black, double bass
- 2You and I [1] + Cruising + Winter Smoke + Liturgy of Roses + Wolf’s Hour + The Ice-Blue Wind + You and I [2], 16:02
- 3Patterns (1996), 6:11female voice and fixed mediumElizabeth Carefoot, voice
- 4She, a Solo (1973), 11:50mezzo-soprano and fixed mediumPhyllis Mailing, mezzo-soprano
- 5Powers of Two: In Memoriam A.H.H. (1999), 4:13Marcel van Neer, tenor
- 6Powers of Two: Hymn to the Moon (1997), 3:01Sue McGowan, viola
- 7Twin Souls (1997), 14:02chorus and fixed medium
- 7Thou and I, 7:18
- 8
- Label: Cambridge Street Records
- CSR 0102
- 2001
- Total duration: 70:00
- Jewel case
- 125 mm × 142 mm × 10 mm
- 115 g
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Notices
Twin Souls, Text-based Electroacoustic Music
Twin Souls is a collection of electroacoustic compositions that incorporate texts which deal with various gender issues. Some, but not all, refer to same sex relationships; others leave the identity of “the other” to the listener’s interpretation. In all cases I have gravitated toward lyric poetry that expresses the human desire for this other being, whether a “mirror image,” an idealized partner, or a complementary “opposite.” In the first two works, the instrument itself is personified as the lover to whom the poetry is addressed. In the excerpts from my opera Powers of Two, these relationships are dramatized on stage. In each piece, the disembodied electroacoustic element takes on the role of creating in your mind your own version of the “twin soul.”