Item Details
Composer
Name of Work
Call No.
Year Created
Type
Duration
Media
Notes
Biography
Aaron Gervais, 1980
Shit around the world
: for flute and percussion
2007
00:10:00
Degree of Difficulty:
Advanced
Physical Description:
score
Physical Description:
2 parts
Instrumentation:
Flute - 1
Unspecified percussion - 1
Notes:
flute, percussion, their speaking voices
Content Notes:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Premiere Information:
12/03/2009
Bentley Studio, Banff Centre
Banff, Canada
Live event, recital. Solomiya Moroz (flute), Nicholas Jacques (percussion).
This piece is based on the sound of the word shit in twelve different languages. It travels from west to east geographically across the world: starting in North America and ending in Japan. The languages were chosen either because I speak them, or because I could find a native speaker of that language to teach me how to say shit. I did, however, attempt to keep a somewhat even spacing between geographical areas, although a completely even distribution would have been, of course, impossible to realize.