I adapted "Cocktail" from the Wikipedia article on Molotov Cocktails, and was constrained by the music I had already written for the excerpt from Steal This Book, so I had to create and edit a text according to the melodies that were already there.
My choice of texts does offer me much more freedom in terms of the range of appropriate things I can accomplish, in that there's no emotional context I'm beholden to; but I still feel the need to communicate something about the texts, to make them something more than just something to hang my music on. I do prefer texts that are written as emotionally neutrally as possible, that are powerful not because of their language but from their contexts.
Incidentally, I've come to the opinion that there's no way to make voice "merely another instrument". I think the brain is hardwired to latch on to the voice as a focal point, no matter the context in which it appears.
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Date: 2007-04-05 07:30 pm (UTC)My choice of texts does offer me much more freedom in terms of the range of appropriate things I can accomplish, in that there's no emotional context I'm beholden to; but I still feel the need to communicate something about the texts, to make them something more than just something to hang my music on. I do prefer texts that are written as emotionally neutrally as possible, that are powerful not because of their language but from their contexts.
Incidentally, I've come to the opinion that there's no way to make voice "merely another instrument". I think the brain is hardwired to latch on to the voice as a focal point, no matter the context in which it appears.