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Lord Lord Lord Caw Caw Caw

by Timo Tuhkanen

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Lord Lord Lord Caw Caw Caw is titled and was written by inspiration from Allan Ginsberg's poem Kaddish. Using the text of Psalm 10: 1-17, which is a plea and a question of how God can stand injustice and wickedness the virtuosic bass choir develops a complex and formal harmonic and rhythmic language that contrasts two images of the same perceived event. In this way we first perceive a type of stillness, the unmoving mass chord, which hockets between the musicians, creating micromovement within the sound, but at the same time it gives the impression of not moving, but then by treating the sound as a 3D object, the sound is turned and the side views show how our perspective on the stillness is a lie of our sensory apparatus, of perception and, in fact, looking at the sound from multiple angles it is revealed that movement and duration exist and what we thought was happening is merely contained by our point of view.Two version of this piece exist. One for a virtuosic bass choir and for speaking contrabass ensemble.The contrabass version asks the bassists to speak the words at the beginning of the chord creating a symbolic texture from the text that overlays the sound and intrudes into the harmonic language as a question and demand.

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