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In 1996, I walked the pilgrimage to Compostela across France and Spain. During these months, I conceived of a series of works that could musically enact the slow transformations of the individual that experience creates. |
TextBased on memory and rough . . . notes, I have written this account...(Beards... Horse... memory ... felt hat... memory...) I was wearing a wide felt hat... Four days... One of them hit it and knocked it off my head. I raised my fist to hit the man. They seem to be mean people... They dry themselves and comb their beards. I was cold that night and caught some indecent disease. We rode through the mountains for four days without seeing any human habitation. I was in great danger. I will continue trying... A poor man passed by. Call the man over... Eat with us... If it is not as well said as others might have, I beg pardon. from Galen R. Kline, The Voyage d'Outremer by Bertrandon de la Broquire Translated, Edited, and Annotated with an Introduction and Maps (New York / Darmstadt 1988) 1, 20, 58, 63, 66, 170. |
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PerformancesMerkin Concert Hall, New York March 30, 2005 |
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