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All Life Long
Duration: Approximately 75–90 minutes with no intermission.
For Choir
- Passage Through the Spheres
- All Life Long (for voice)
- Slow of Faith
For Brass
- No Sun to Burn (for brass)
- Retrograde Canon
- Formation Flight
For Organ
- All Life Long (for organ)
- Prisoned on Watery Shore
- Fastened Maze
- No Sun to Burn (for organ)
- The Unification of Inner & Outer Life
Credits
All music composed by Kali Malone.
Passage Through the Spheres lyrics adapted from “In Praise of Profanation” (2007) by Giorgio Agamben.
All Life Long (for voice) lyrics adapted from The Crying Water (1914) by Arthur Symons.
Slow of Faith lyrics adapted from The Present Crisis (1845) by James Russell Lowell.
Performers
Conductor
Muhamad Yusri Bin Mohamed Ali
Choir
Members of the University Singers:
Johann Albrecht
Turner Bilodeau
Logan Claassen-Wilson
Skyler Gustavson
Aubrie Lueck
Aly Meier
Michael Phelan
Lotus Roodi
Brass
Alex Berglund, horn
Jake Meixner, trumpet
Will Parada, trumpet
Austin Kulm, trombone
Perry Brennan, tuba
Pipe Organ
Kali Malone
Stephen O’Malley
Lyrics
Passage Through the Spheres
Lyrics adapted from “In Praise of Profanation” (2007) by Giorgio Agamben.
Italian translation by Caterina Barbieri.
C’è un contagio profano, un tocco che disincanta e ritorna ad usare ciò che il sacro aveva separato e pietrificato.
There is a profane contagion, a touch that disenchants and returns to use what the sacred had separated and petrified.
All Life Long (for voice)
Lyrics adapted from The Crying Water (1914) by Arthur Symons.
O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand,
All night long with a mournful cry,
As I lie and listen, cannot understand
The voice of my heart in my side or voice of the sea,
O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I?
O water, crying for the rest, cry like the sea
All life long
Cry without avail
All night long
As the water
All life long
Is crying to me
All night long
Cry without avail
As the water
Is crying to me
Water cry to me
All life long
Slow of Faith
Lyrics adapted from The Present Crisis (1845) by James Russell Lowell.
Truth on the scaffold,
Wrong on the throne,
that scaffold sways the future,
behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
keeping watch above his own.
We see dimly in the Present
what is small and what is great,
Slow of faith
how weak an arm
turns the iron helm of fate
Biographies
Photo © Yuichiro Noda, Tokyo.
Kali Malone: Composer & Organist
The works of composer and sound artist Kali Malone implement specific tuning systems in minimalist structures for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. Malone’s compositions are rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations, emitting distinct emotive, dynamic, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus.
Malone's recently released albums The Sacrificial Code (2019), Living Torch (2022), Does Spring Hide Its Joy (2023), and All Life Long (2024), quickly rose to international critical acclaim. She has performed extensively, presenting her music at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Philharmonie de Paris, Radio France, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Grace Cathedral, Southbank Center, Bozar, Schauspielhaus, Unsound Festival, Musica Festival, Berlin Atonal, Moogfest, and Kanal Pompidou, amongst many other museums, contemporary art spaces, concert halls, churches, and festivals throughout Europe, North America, and Australia. Her commissioned work and invited residencies include the Ina GRM, the Venice Biennale, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Lafayette Anticipations, the Richard Thomas Foundation, MACBA, and Elektronmusikstudion. She has collaborated and performed with various artists, including Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton, Macadam Ensemble, Frederikke Hoffmeier, Leila Bordreuil, and Drew McDowall.
Originally from Colorado, Malone relocated to Stockholm in 2012. She is currently based between Stockholm and Paris.
Photo © Philippe Levy.
Stephen O'Malley: Organist
Stephen O’Malley is a guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone and experimental music groups for over two decades—SUNN O))), KTL, and Khanate being among his best-known creations. Wildly prolific, O’Malley’s oeuvre is defined by its remarkable breadth, complexity, and multidisciplinary interests. It includes collaborations with a wide range of experimental artists, including Scott Walker, Kali Malone, Alvin Lucier, choreographer Gisèle Vienne, the authors Dennis Cooper and Alan Moore, Peter Rehberg, Fujiko Nakaya, Jim Jarmusch, Johan Johansson, and experimental music research centers IRCAM, INA-GRM (Paris), EMS (Stockholm), and many others. O’Malley is also a vigorous live performer and has toured around the world since 2000. His live performances feature a reverberating fog of electric guitar minimalism—sorcery that challenges boundaries of space and time.
Presented by Northrop and Liquid Music.
Choral music performed by members of the University Singers, UMN School of Music.
Brass music performed by members of the Brass Ensemble, UMN School of Music.
Special thanks to Regina Greene at Front Porch Productions.
Liquid Music Staff
Kate Nordstrum, artistic director
Chris Mode, associate producer
Katie Hare, communications manager
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