Forever Singing Winter into Spring
An art/pop song cycle for solo voice, orchestra and electronics
by Ade Vincent and Lior
Image: Teresa Clark
Forever Singing Winter into Spring was composed and premiered as the culmination of Ade Vincent's series of breakthrough compositions as the inaugural Young Composer in Residence for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The work sees him once again paired with celebrated Australian singer/songwriter Lior following the success of their 2016 collaboration commissioned by the Melbourne Recital Centre titled Hours I have Never Known.
Ambitious in scope and execution, the work confidently combines the emotional grandeur of live orchestra with the incisive innovation and driving rhythm of modern electronic music. The accomplished voice of Lior moves deftly from fragile sincerity to soaring falsetto – sometimes exposed and honest, sometimes digitally stretched, pulled, sped up and cut as he lyrically explores four stories of a single life reflected through the changing seasons.
The piece takes inspiration from the axiomatic truth that all life is cyclical with the seasons symbolic of its cardinal points; birth, growth, change and death. Through time we experience this ever-repeating cycle over shifting scales – a day, a year, a lifetime. The score moves from the burgeoning hope of spring and new life with lush ambient orchestral electronica through to the infectious electro pop of summer; from autumnal trip-hop to the hymnal introspection of winter. The synaesthesia of the seasons draws on the abstract paintings of contemporary Mexican artist Teresa Clark and the elegant haiku of Kobayashi Issa.
Ambitious in scope and execution, the work confidently combines the emotional grandeur of live orchestra with the incisive innovation and driving rhythm of modern electronic music. The accomplished voice of Lior moves deftly from fragile sincerity to soaring falsetto – sometimes exposed and honest, sometimes digitally stretched, pulled, sped up and cut as he lyrically explores four stories of a single life reflected through the changing seasons.
The piece takes inspiration from the axiomatic truth that all life is cyclical with the seasons symbolic of its cardinal points; birth, growth, change and death. Through time we experience this ever-repeating cycle over shifting scales – a day, a year, a lifetime. The score moves from the burgeoning hope of spring and new life with lush ambient orchestral electronica through to the infectious electro pop of summer; from autumnal trip-hop to the hymnal introspection of winter. The synaesthesia of the seasons draws on the abstract paintings of contemporary Mexican artist Teresa Clark and the elegant haiku of Kobayashi Issa.
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