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About this piece
A nine-minute piece for vocalizing cellist and electronics written in 2019 (revised 2021) for Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project 2.0, which commissioned solo-cello multimedia works from women and gender-marginalised composers. Temple's note says it explores 'the erotics of everyday life' and the blurry line between pleasant and unpleasant physical sensation: the cellist plays, sings, speaks, whispers and breathes in rhythm while delivering a text of described sensations, with two improvisation passages forming part of a 'spectrum of tactile experience'. Gookin's studio recording appears on Forward Music Project 2.0: in this skin (2021).
Technical overview
Vocalising cellist (singing, speaking, whispering, rhythmic breathing) with electronics; two improvised passages, one deliberately tense and one 'good under the hands'.