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What the Thunder Said

from What the Thunder Said (EP) by Steve Layton

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A journey or meditation. A tiny snippet of a recording (five seconds from the second movement of my composer-friend Alex Shapiro's "At the Abyss") was stretched to something over 18 minutes. This became the template for the composition, a kind of path that I had to accept, finding my way through, making whatever evocations and connections appear somehow form a thread of their own sense and meaning. The title is taken from the final section of T.S. Eliot's iconic poem "The Wasteland":

After the torch-light red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and place and reverberation
Of thunder of spring over distant mountains
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience

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from What the Thunder Said (EP), released June 26, 2012
Steve Layton: Alesis QSR, Voyetra Digital Orchestrator, Adobe Audition.

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Steve Layton Seattle, Washington

Composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21.com, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music.
Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. NiwoSound is an umbrella for innovative art music / art sound. ... more

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