Cevanne Application to the Arts Foundation Supporting Materials
Tracks, Scores + Lyrics
Track 1) Ser Սեր (Love)
SATB - 2017 - duration 5’
Performed by the BBC Singers for BBC Radio 3
Commissioned by EFG London Jazz Festival and developed for BASCA
Track 2) WHAT’LL WE DO
(S)AT(B) (multi-tracked & electronically manipulated folk voices)
2020 - duration 4’13”
Performed by Crewdson & Cevanne for Kings Cross Cubitt Sessions
Midi-Controllers (Light Dome, Sonic Bonnet)
built by Hugh Crewdson Jones
Text, Composition, and Field Recordings
by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian, 2020
“What’ll we do? What’ll we do with her head?”
“Bake it into sourdough bread!”
“What’ll we do? What’ll we do with her hands?”
"Sand ‘em down and clap ‘em to’!”
“What’ll we do? What’ll we do with her eyes?”
"Take her eyes, water with lies,
Take her hands, clap and sand
Take her head, bake into bread!”
“What’ll we do? What’ll we do with her arms?”
"Carry the baby, carry the dead!”
“What’ll we do with her heart?”
“Wind a watch and make it start!
Take her eyes, water with lies,
Take her hands, clap and sand
Take her head, bake into bread!”
“I can’t see you anymore.
You are distant
when I close my eyes.
I can’t see it anymore.
It is distant.”
Track 3) Paradox
SSA + String Quartet - 2018 - duration 4’30”
Performed and commissioned by the Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC
Text by Zitkala-Sa, Blue Star Woman,
American Indian Stories, 1921:
“It was a paradox
upon a land of prophecy
that its path to future glory
be stained
by the blood
of its aborigines.”