title: Dragonflies
instrumentation: one or more voices
duration: indeterminate
written in: 2020
Dragonflies is a very open-ended piece, or maybe a very guided improvisation. The singer(s) — who can be formally trained musicians, informally trained musicians, or non-musicians — are given four collections of words called “MEMORY BANKS,” which represent areas of someone’s mind as they try to recall a vague childhood memor; they’re also given options for how to deliver them. Words include “grass,” “if,” “always,” “backyard,” “yellowgreen,” “remember,” “absolutely” and “cemetery.”
I wrote Dragonflies for the Forage & Flourish Community Music Project in Alpharetta, GA.
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Clara Elena Montes, lead voice
Sophie Carpenter, voice
Sarah Daniels, voice
Cassie Kollman, voice
Brittany Martin, voice
Betsy Podsiadlo, voice
Caroline Wolf, voice
Choreography by the performers, based on The Viewpoints by Mary Overlie.
Live at Longy School of Music, 6.19.22