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VOICE

BASS TROMBONE

8-Channel Tape

Effects Processor

Lighting & Video

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Video: ONFog Machine: ON

Tape: ON

INTERMEDIA

[Bell (#1)] [Bell (#2)]

FX (Vox & Btn): Setting A (reverb)

[Creaking noises fade in (c.30")...]

Joseph Klein

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(after W.S. Merwin)(1998)

© 1998 by Joseph Klein. All rights reserved.

Leviathan

Leviathanfor male voice, bass trombone, and intermedia

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[Bell (#3)]

[Video: Image #1a (4")]

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[Video #1: Image A (c. 25")] [Video #2: Image B (c. 35")]

Stand light #2: fade ON (c. 8")

[Bell (#4)] [Bell (#5)][Ship horn]

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spoken text:This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack, Ancient as ocean's shifting hills,

[Stand light #2: ON (full)]

[Bell (#6)] [Crashing surf]

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who in sea-toils Travelling, who furrows the

Stand light #1: fade ON (c. 8")

[Bell (#7)] [Ship horn]

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salt acres Heavily,

[Stand light #1: ON (full)]

his wake hoary behind him, Shoulders spouting,

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Over wastes gray-green crashing, the fist of his forehead

[Bell (#8)] [Crashing surf]

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past bone-wreck of vessels,among horses unbroken From bellowing fields,

[Ship horn]

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Tide-ruin, wash of lost bodies bobbing[Bell (#9)]

[Video: Image #1b (13")]

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No longer sought for,

[Video #2: Image C (c. 50")]

and islands of ice gleaming, [Crashing surf] [Ice cracking]

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Who ravening the rank flood, wave-marshalling,

[Video #1: Image D (c. 35")]

[Video: Image #2a (19")]

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Overmastering the dark sea-marches, finds home

[Video: Image #2b (9")]

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And harvest. [Bell (#10)]

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Frightening to foolhardiest Mariners, his size were difficult to describe:

[Creaking noises gradually submerge (c.40")...]

FX (Vox & Btn): Setting B (reverb)

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[Video #1: Images E1-E7; Video #2: Images F1-F9 (c. 2', intermittent)]

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The hulk of him is like hills heaving, Dark, yet as crags of drift-ice,

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crowns, cracking in thunder, Like land's self by night black-

[Video: Image #3b (28")] [Video: Image #3a (6")]

["Hyper-trombone" interjection (short)]

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surf churning and trailing Along his shores' rushing,

[Video: Image #4a (60")]

looming,

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shoal-water boding About the dark of his jaws;

[Bell (#15)]

[Bell (#11)]

Flood lights: fade ON (c. 45")

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and who should moor at his edge And fare on afoot

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would find gates of no gardens, But the

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hill of dark underfoot diving, Closing overhead, the cold deep,

[Flood lights: ON (full)]

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and drowning.

(ossia: 8va)

[Video: Image #5a (90")]

["Hyper-trombone" interjection]

FX (Vox & Btn): OFF

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There go the ships: there is that leviathan,

Step forward (into the spotlight)

Spot light #1: fade ON (c. 3")

["Leviathan" echoes...]

[Video: Image #5b (90")]

whom thou hast made to play therein. Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an hook?

I will not

["Hyper-trombone" chord (c.1'40")]

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conceal his parts, nor his power, Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

...nor his comely proportion.

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. Canst thou put an hook

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into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?...as out of a seething pot or cauldron.

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid.

His breath kindleth coals,

Canst thou fill his skin with barbed Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, and a

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irons? or his head with fish spears? Upon earth there is not his like, He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: Behold, the hope of him is in vain:

...he makethflame goeth out of his mouth. ...who is made without fear.

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In that day the Lord

Spot light: fade OFF (c. 7")

["Hyper-trombone" chord portamento (c.10")]

the sea like a pot of ointment. ...shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?...with his sore and great and strong sword

None is so fierce that dare stir him up:...shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan, that

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...and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Return to original position

[Spot light: OFF]

[Bell (#12)]["Hyper-trombone" sustains D]

[Video: Image #6a (29")]

crooked serpent;

who then is able to stand before me?

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when he lies Like an angel,

["Hyper-trombone" multiphonics fade in (c.20")... ]

Freely explore multiphonic spectra, playing/singing within the range indicated; resulting sound should blend with taped sounds.

Days there are, nonetheless,

[Video: Image #6b (41")]

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On the waste's unease,[distortion of text ("waste's unease") ]

although a lost angel

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Bird hovering, fish flashing,

[Video #1: Image H (c. 20")]

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[Video: Image #7a (19")]

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creature whatever Who after him

[Video: Image #7b (4")] Flood lights: fade OFF (c.25")

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came to herit earth's emptiness.

["Hyper-trombone" multiphonics transforming into submerged creaking (c.30")... ]

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Froth at flanks seething soothes to

[Bell (#13)]

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soothes to still - - -

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(as a deep sigh)

Waits;

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stillness Waits;

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with one eye he watches Dark of night sinking last, with one eye dayrise

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As at first over foaming pastures. He makes no cry Though that

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light is a breath. The sea-curling, Star-climbed,[Bell (#14)]

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[Stand light #2: OFF]

Wind-combed, cumbered with itself still As at first it was,

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is the hand not yet contented Of the Creator.[Bell (#15)]

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And he waits for the world to begin.

FREEZEuntil dark

Stand light #2: fade OFF (c. 8")

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FREEZEuntil dark

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[Bell (#16)]

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[Bell (#17)][Creaking fades out (c. 30")...]

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Tape: OFF

Video: OFFFog Machine: OFF

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