Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) - Selections from Ursonate (throughout) (1922-32)
Caroline Shaw (b.1982) - Rise (2018)
Stuart Macrae (b.1976) - elided compressed (2022)
Ngai Sze Ilias Ho* - Bellum
Erin Gee (b.1974) - Mouthpiece I (2000)
Kenrick Ho* - Śuddhi
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-88) - Hô I (1960)
Ed Cooper* - They no longer call my name
Morton Feldman (1926-87) - Only (1946)
Annie Blin-Bolt* - A Warning (excerpt)
Mathis Saunier (b.1999) - Cannibal (2022)
Linda Buckley (b.1979) - revelavit (2011)
Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean sings works for solo amplified voice with electronics, from groundbreaking 20th Century works by Scelsi, Feldman and Schwitters to 21st Century pieces that draw on medieval plainchant, experimental hip-hop and breakcore, including works by Mathis Saunier, Stuart MacRae, Linda Buckley and Erin Gee. Lotte will also perform selected works by student composers (*) at Leeds.
Receiving its highly-charged début at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2022, Voice Electric is in part a tribute to Lotte’s lifelong fascination with electronic music, as well as a reflection and celebration of the medium of solo voice and fixed electronic audio in modern composition.
Voice Electric explores the vivid colours of the amplified human voice as it oscillates between ambience and stillness, words and sound, light and dark, wild and calm.
