Snapshot of the Red Eclipse by Allison McIntosh

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Snapshot of the Red Eclipse by Allison McIntosh
Text by Anna Goodson

Performed by:
Kathryn Vetter, bass clarinet
Alina Tamborini, voice
Peter White, percussion

Commissioned and premiered by Sputter Box

All proceeds are split with the composer.

lyrics

The moon was supposed to be soft
like fruit that night
but to me it looked like
a glass eye.

I felt like
the spokes of an umbrella
or the tines on a fork
or some other specific piece of metal
that performs a precise function.
And I said nothing, or maybe too much;
and we stood there shoulder-to-shoulder unless
there was actually a crack of night between us;

and I felt myself lift out of myself;
left the framework of my body
like pitting fruit--
finally felt soft, like I wasn’t made
out of spindles & wax, but then your hand bumped into mine
and strummed my mind back into my body.
Something was ripped.
Everything was seams.

And that’s what you see in the picture:
a single red eye and two bodies--
one of them full, like a basket of apples,
and the other sheathed in grey shadow
like the puddle of night
surrounding the eclipse.
-Text by Anna Goodson

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released April 1, 2022
Text by Anna Goodson
Mike Tierney, audio engineer

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Sputter Box Brooklyn, New York

Sputter Box is a clarinet, voice, percussion performance art ensemble committed to performing interdisciplinary pieces involving sound, theater, movement, visual art, and improvisation.

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