Thira: Therese Costes, soprano; Laurel Ridd, flute/piccolo; Lori Freedman, soprano/bass clarinets; Paule Préfontaine, violin; Arkadiusz Tesarczyk, cello; Mary Jo Carrabré, piano; Michael Matthews, electronics; (1st work) ; Stephen Duke, soprano/alto saxophones (3rd work)
The 1st work for soprano, 5 instruments, and computer music recitation/processing; the 2nd work for computer; the 3rd work for saxophone and computer music/processing.
Text for the 1st work from the poems written by Albert Giraud, translated by Otto Erich Hartleben and used by Arnold Schoenberg in Pierre Lunaire.
Recorded at the Dallas Sound Lab, Dallas, Texas, Sept., 1997 (1st work); on location in Tokyo, June-July, 1994 (2nd work); at Bolo Digital Studios, Denton, Texas, Jan., 1995; at the composer's studio, gaLarry, Denton, Texas, Feb.-Sept., 1995; and at the Dallas Sound Lab, Dallas, Texas, Oct., 1996 (3rd work).
Sung or spoken in English, French, German and Japanese (1st work).
Variations--beyond Pierrot. Part I (10:10) ; Part II (9:50) ; Part III (10:30) -- Shin-Edo: CityscapeSet (1994-96). Ikebukuro/Sunshine city (4:13) ; Rikugien garden (2:01) ; Kunitachi morning (2:53) ; "Tamagawa-josui desu" (7:38) ; Shinjuku/Ginza (2:39) -- BluesAx (1995). BluesInCameroon (3:00) ; Sidney (3:00) ; Trane (3:15) ; BluesLude (1:15) ; Hodges (3:30) ; Cadenzae (1:30) ; BluesOutParker (3:00)