15 Photos

"darkly moving"
-I Care If You Listen

"drones, dramatically lit passages of shadowboxing, growling vocalizations that alternated with more angelic writing, and some furiously compressed renditions of medieval epics"
-New York Times

15 Photos is a song cycle for movement and voice and instrumental drone, inspired by poems, stories, images, essays and improvisations on aging, masculinity, medieval epics, death and love.

I. Introduction


II. Alpha Male


III. Reverie


IV. On Boxing


V. Nennius


VI. Tseten


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VIII. 100 Soldiers


IX. "hands... my hands"


X. Love looked this way longer than expected


XI. On Death


XII. At the Entrance to the Dragon's Cave


XIII. Herself as a Sacrifice


XIV. Edwin


XV. Beatrice