Each composer was asked to provide a picture and quote that they felt was representative of their new work for Ekmeles and Sandbox Percussion, premiering on May 1, 2023.
Baldwin Giang
our chinatown, their chinatown
woven, like a braid.
Each an other to the other,
yet intertwined too.
Image from Untapped Cities by Michelle Young
Justin Weiss
Separate in
relation
divergently
bound
reminder of
another way
Image: Cover from The Visit by Susan Lewis
Kari Watson
#3 - sappho translated by Anne Carson
]to give
]yet of the glorious
]of the beautiful and good, you
]of pain [me ]blame
]swollen
]you take your fill. For [my thinking ]not thus
]is arranged
]nor
all night long] I am aware ]of evildoing
]
]other ]minds ]blessed ones ]
]
#23 Response by Kevin Madison
I cry for i
Fathomed my intensity
Impossible you shirked my
Coldness and loved me warm
Image: Composite (pillars of craft and industry), a lithograph by Emily Harter, 2018
Paul Novak
My body
as a field of orchids at the bottom
of a lake. A dead cockroach. An ex-girlfriend,
addicted to a drug I’ve never heard of.
A car-jacking. A book I’ve forgotten
how to read. A conversation with a
dead friend, mundane and lovely. My body
as a wasp’s nest, writhing. My lungs
a murmuration of starlings.
Yuting Tan
I remember the fire burning into long nights of euphoric tears.
Maria Kaoutzani
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough...
And I shall be more silent (than ever)...
Image can be viewed here.
Silence by Johan Hagemeyer