music        news/events        bio        contact        recordings Transitive 1984 soprano harp 2 percussion   1: cellophane sheet, claves, glockenspiel, cymbals, hi-hat, metal sheet,       sizzle cymbal, stones, 2 suspended cymbals, 3 woodblocks, xylophone   2: bass drum, chimes, 2 gongs, 3 roto-toms, 3 temple blocks, tenor drum, triangle, twigs, vibraphone  duration 10' TEXTS The Wind  It has broken us it has crushed us it has drowned us o king of the starbright kingdom the wind has consumed us as twigs are consumed by crimson fire from heaven  traditional (Irish) trans. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson  I Hear that the Axe has Flowered  I hear that the axe has flowered, I hear that the place can't be named,  I heard that the bread which looks at him  heals the hanged man, the bread baked for him by his wife,  I hear that they call life  our only refuge.  Paul Celan (1920–1970) trans. Paul Hamburger  Once Once I heard him, he was washing the world,  unseen, nightlong, real.  One and infinite, annihilated, Light was. Salvation  Paul Celan (1920–1970) trans. Paul Hamburger  Psalm No one moulds us again out of earth and clay, no one conjures our dust. No one.  Praised be your name, no one. For your sake we shall flower Towards you.  A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering, the nothing the no one's rose.  With our pistil soul-bright with our stamen heaven ravaged our corolla red with the crimson word which we sang  over, o over the thorn.  Paul Celan (1920–1970) trans. Paul Hamburger  You are Whiter than the Swan  You are whiter than the swan on the swampy lake, you are whiter than the white seagull of the stream, you are whiter than the snow on the lofty peaks, you are whiter than the love of the angels of heaven.  You are the lovely red rowan  that calms the wrath and anger of all men like a wave of the sea from flood to ebb  traditional (Scottish) trans. Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson