Garden of Love, for Oboe and Boombox, by Jacob ter Veldhuis
with poetry by William Blake
Jared Hauser, oboe
Audio/Video production by Continuous Motion Productions
for oboe and boombox (soundtrack)
Garden of Love, a piece for "oboe and boombox," is a setting of William Blake's poem of the same title. The work includes a pre-recorded audio track (with a reading of the poem, electronic sounds, sampled oboe, harpsichord, strings, percussion and birds) to be played over a "boombox" or other amplified sound system as the solo oboist plays in time with the track.
The Garden Of Love by William Blake:
I went to the Garden of Love.
And saw what I had never seen,
A chapel was built int he midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of the chapel were shut,
and Thou Shalt Not writ over the door:
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys and desires.
6 июн 2023
