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Small Writing (to the memory of Kenneth Gaburo)

from Moving in Shadows by Robert Paredes

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Small Writing is music-cum-theater about the act of composing, in which a cellist writes/speaks a letter to a friend in words, parts of words, and gestures in sound.

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Dear Friend,

I hope that you may find me in these fragments, bits, and pieces....splinters, shards, and perturbations....remonstrations, admonitions, and delectations....buzzes....rasps....of sounding life....weighted to no going together, save through close-on speaking in a tangle of behaving things. Although I could tell you how I am in other ways, I prefer this one. No particulars here, only the scratch and curl of living movement. mark on and after living mark, taking an energy to the possibility of ear. Now’s the time for this, I think, as reflection unfolds too clear a place wherein no sound can live, and yet, I hope you may still find me....even there.

-- R. Paredes

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from Moving in Shadows, released June 24, 2021
Speaking cellist, Craig Hultgren
Percussion, Keith Collins

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Robert Paredes Iowa City, Iowa

Robert Paredes (1948-2005) was a composer, performer, essayist, multi-media artist
and teacher whose output was consistently and consciously experimental. Expressing his deep interest in language, social justice and interpersonal relationships, his work was often a context to investigate the
essence of music, its meaning and its role in society. ... more

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