[Intro — dust, vinyl surface noise, sub drone on low G, zero drums] [Tape machine starts: soft motor hum, delicate granular fluttering] [Tenor 1 — close-mic whisper-singing, dry, intimate] Lives... not remembered... (not, not) re re membered.. [Tenor 2 enters at the fifth, sustained open interval] I fly.../ i-fall fall fall [Granular time-stretch flutter] and fall in turns... [Soft static click] or so I dreamt dreamt, last night... [Tenor & Cantus polyphonic vocal chops] lives-not-re-mem-bered / i-blush fly-and-fall-in-turns / the-rush or-so-i-dreamt / last-night float-ing / in-the-li-ght [Harsh tape-scrub harmonic dissonance, fading into sub drone] Broken chartreuse wings... [Low sub-bass rumble, held long] pinning me to earth. me me me to earth [Sample — dry tape spoken word, low-pass filter] "it is possible in dreams..." [Movement I — Sacred polyphonic swell, unmeasured rubato, tape flutter] [Three voices in slow organum, no beat, warm room reverb] Yearning skyward, release me To fly to the heavens... [Granular vocal trail, micro-clicks] longing to be free... [Chorus — maximalist glitch-hop drop, 3-part modal polyphony over heavy swing] yearning skyward, release me to fly to the heavens oh / oh / oh longing to be free [Square-wave bassline, parallel fifths] yearning skyward, release me to fly to the heavens oh / oh / oh longing to be free free-free / free-free long-ing-to-be-free free-free / free-free oh / oh / oh [Texture strips down to pure tape hiss and subtle sine-drone] It is possible in dreams... [Intimate spoken whisper, dry right channel] "But the dreamer awakes earthbound." [Movement II — Microsound breakdown, tiny contact clicks and vocal cuts] [Quiet syncopated vocal chops, isolated and dry] Im-ag-es... scat-ter... like loose... e-lec-tri-ci-ty... [Granular stutter, micro-glitch] Ne-on but-ter-flies... flick-er... Night-ly mi-gra-tion... [Voices close together in tight dissonant suspension, low sub vibration] boxed souls wake to neon life [High subtle sine whistle, quiet tape saturation] To chase the floating world... [Movement III — Polyphonic ascent, layered tenor harmonies over sub drone] [Three-part contrapuntal entrance, slow arching lines] Yearning skyward, release me To fly to the heavens... [Dynamic swell, pure sustained fifths] longing to be free... [Break — Sound of magnetic tape stopping, lone vinyl crackle] [Dry, intimate close-mic voice] Eyes flutter... confusion... falling... wake-ing... [Granular whisper] was it just a dream... [Movement IV — Radiant climax, choral organum expanding outward] [All voices soaring in hollow modal polyphony, sub bass anchoring low] rising up on tawny wings... wake-ing in the sky... [Vocal drone holds steady as micro-glitches scatter across the stereo field] A-ware-ness o-pen-ing all... [Voices converge on an open unison, long natural decay] A-wake... dream-ing... same... [Sample — warm, close-mic spoken voice] "...but the dreamer awakes earthbound." [Vinyl run-out groove, faint tape motor stop, room silence]
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