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Kate Soper: The Understanding of All Things / Soper, Pluta
New Focus Recordings

Kate Soper: The Understanding of All Things / Soper, Pluta

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Composer
Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
Artist
Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
Format
CD
Label
New Focus Recordings
Released
Mar 04, 2022
Catalog #
FCR322
UPC
690277901911

About

Composer/vocalist Kate Soper teams up with longtime Wet Ink Ensemble colleague, composer, and electronic musician Sam Pluta in this bracing collection that explores the ever-shifting hierarchy between text-driven and music-dominated vocal work. Soper's characteristically clever approach to setting text is balanced by Pluta's ever inventive and sensitive marshaling of his unique arsenal of electronic textures. Writers set here include Franz Kafka, W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, George Berkeley, and Parmenides.

Kate Soper is a composer, performer, and writer. Her work explores the integration of drama and rhetoric into musical structure, the slippery continuums of expressivity, intelligibility and sense, and the wonderfully treacherous landscape of the human voice. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, she has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been a featured performer with ensembles including the LA Philharmonic New Music Group, the MIVOS quartet, and the American Composers Orchestra. As a writer of fiction and non-fiction, she has been published by McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Massachusetts Review, and PAJ. She is a co-director of the Wet Ink Ensemble.

Tracklist 5 tracks

  1. 1 The Understanding of All Things 07:53
    Track
    1
    Title
    The Understanding of All Things
    Duration
    07:53
    Composer
    Kate Soper
    Performer
    Kate Soper
  2. 2 Dialogue I 11:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    Dialogue I
    Duration
    11:06
    Composer
    Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
    Performer
    Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
  3. 3 The Fragments of Parmenides 19:44
    Track
    3
    Title
    The Fragments of Parmenides
    Duration
    19:44
    Composer
    Kate Soper
    Performer
    Kate Soper
  4. 4 Dialogue II 09:53
    Track
    4
    Title
    Dialogue II
    Duration
    09:53
    Composer
    Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
    Performer
    Kate Soper, Sam Pluta
  5. 5 So Dawn Chromatically Descends to Day 03:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    So Dawn Chromatically Descends to Day
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Kate Soper
    Performer
    Kate Soper