"Saracta Manufactory; A Left Zygomatic Arch" for Solo Situationist Soprano." - The Performers and Performances

"Saracta Manufactory; A Left Zygomatic Arch" for Solo Situationist Soprano."

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett. Soprano

"Saracta Manufactory; A Left Zygomatic Arch" for Solo Situationist Soprano."

Anna Netrebko. Soprano. Premiere Performance.

"The more types of empirical evidence supporting the idea that composers intuitions about hypothetical scenarios are not especially well grounded, the more general pressure there is against those who think composer's intuitions about such scenarios have special epistemic merit. 

Purist extremism on either side seems unwarranted: Almost everyone would agree, that composers are subject to many of the same epistemic vices as everyone else in some respects and have some special skills in other respects. 

So the question becomes: What are the boundaries of compositional expertise? I believe that those boundaries might be narrower than one would have thought."- M. Ades

"In 'Saracta', it may be that the performer, having resisted the idea that the intimate combination of free verse, traditional notation and unusual typography could be coded, now resists the idea that the code could be seriously put into doubt." 

- Amanda DeBoer Bartlett

"Against the formless continuum of life, I posit the need for radical discontinuity; against the false modesty of finitude, pleading for the mathematical infinity of everyday situations; against the lure of ultraleftism, this music vindicates the dilettante Sopranista."

-Anna G. Smith

Guided by a small set of fundamental questions concerning the nature of the voice, the event, the subject, and truth, I push to an extreme the polemical force of lyrical nomenclature.