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\nThe Pomegranate Cycle is the debut album from Textile Audio \u2013 a solo project by composer, mezzo soprano and sound engineer Eve Klein.
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\nThe Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0is the debut album from Textile Audio \u2013 a solo project by composer, mezzo soprano and sound engineer Eve Klein. It is a space for wild, romantic experiments in ambient electronica and post-classical forms.
\nThe Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0is woven from song, sound textures and fragmented orchestration \u2013 a fragile, ebbing work, part sonic and part myth.\u00a0The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0uses poetry and abstract language to convey a felt sense of narrative. It traces opera and the ghosts of women whose lives have been touched by violence. Elements of the Persephone story are strewn through symphonic timbres and ruptured with grain and glitch. A girl collecting flowers is stolen, transfigured, a mother seeks her lost child, and wreaks vengeance.
\nThis is a new kind of opera. It deals with the genre\u2019s inability to reconcile its institutions and outmoded vision of romance with contemporary audiences. It rejects the gendered violence of opera, perpetuated in the tropes of dying sopranos.\u00a0The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0embodies a new kind operatic heroine, who lives, reflects and heals. She is the spark for a women\u2019s centered opera, a highly configurable and living tradition where the singer is the composer and producer simultaneously.
\nThe Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0is a living work. It premiered on stage at the 2010 Brisbane Festival as a work for laptop, mezzo soprano and dancer and is now being reconfigured as a work for mezzo soprano, conductor and networked midi orchestra by Sydney\u2019s Opera Prometheus.
\nThis work demands deep listening. At once vast in scope yet intimate in execution, the album contains sixteen songs in three acts. It ranges from the girlish and pop-like\u00a0Of Hymn<\/em>, through the violent sonics of\u00a0Ripping<\/em>, to the subtle glitchings of\u00a0Her Song<\/em>. It is tied together by spoken story, theme and soundscape to form a complete work.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty rare to find something so refreshingly unlike anything you have ever heard \u2026 The overall effect of [the] music is to immerse the listener in an operatic fever dream \u2026 Even if you aren\u2019t all that familiar with opera, \u2018The Pomegranate Cycle\u2019 makes for an expansive listening experience \u2013 the perfect antidote to an ear that\u2019s been aching from the tiresome repetition of modern pop.\u201d<\/em>
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\nEve Klein has been a renegade romantic since childhood. Eve\u2019s solo project, Textile Audio, is the fruition of a lifetime of daydreams, opera and wanderings in the Australian wilderness. Textile Audio weaves together orchestral scores, field recordings, opera and pop vocals to take the listener on a rich melodic and emotional journey.
\nEve has been working as a professional operatic mezzo soprano, electronic musician and absent-minded academic since 2002. In 2012 Eve toured with Opera Australia\u2019s Oz Opera performing nearly 300 shows as Hansel, Mother, Sand Fairy and Witch in Humperdink\u2019s opera Hansel and Gretel. Textile Audio compositions have been featured on radio around Australia, included on movie soundtracks, and released through Feral Media, Mess+Noise, Cyclic Defrost, New Weird Australia and Wood & Wire.
\nCyclic Defrost has described Textile Audio\u2019s music as\u00a0\u201ccontemporary music at its most relevant \u2013 it is simultaneously inward and outward focused in addressing the challenge of its existence and its capacity to produce something great\u201d<\/em>.
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\n01 \u2013 Inside\u2028 \u2013 01:59
\n02 \u2013 Portent (I) \u2013 04:57
\n03 \u2013 Of Hymn\u2028 \u2013 04:09
\n04 \u2013 Ripping\u2028- 02:46
\n05 \u2013 Narcissus Bloom & the Rape of the Pomegranate \u2013 08:37
\n06 \u2013 Searching\u2028- 02:11
\n07 \u2013 Portent (II) \u2013 01:52
\n08 \u2013 Demeter\u2019s Lament\u2028- 05:26
\n09 \u2013 Land of Hades\u2028- 08:16
\n10 \u2013 Burning\u2028- 02:27
\n11 \u2013 Dissent\u2028- 01:50
\n12 \u2013 Portent (III)\u2028- 05:12
\n13 \u2013 Punishment\u2028- 02:23
\n14 \u2013 Seeds of Accusation\u2028- 05:25
\n15 \u2013 Her Song\u2028- 08:54
\n16 \u2013 Lullaby: A Hymn Reprised \u2013 01:23
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\nWritten and performed by Textile Audio
\nSongs recorded at Fragile Light & QUT Gasworks Studio
\nPhotography by Ravi Glasser-Vora
\nDesign by Heath Killen
\nDedicated to the she and we and us, women living beyond violence.\u00a0Special thanks to Ravi Glasser-Vora, Julian Knowles & Stuart Buchanan.
\nThis project is released in affiliation with Macquarie University\u2019s Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies.
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