CUTTER (2007, rev. 2011)

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*note: this relatively low-fi iphone recording is of a rehearsal with AVANT NEW MEDIA on February 12, 2012. More professional audio coming soon!

PROGRAM NOTE
CUTTER is a raw portrayal of an adolescent girl who, while watching The Never-Ending Story and listening to Metallica’s “One,” secretly self-injures. It was composed for Megan Schubert in 2007, and revised in 2011 for the 2012 Avant New Media Festival. -JOJ

TEXT (by the composer)
Five
Seven
Nine
Seven
Five
Seven

Five
Seven
Nine
Seven
Five
Seven
Five
Seven

Nine million
Nine trillion
Nine million

Nine million
Five trillion
Seven billion

How many?
How many?
How many scars?

None to speak of

Please
It doesn’t hurt
Don’t make me stop

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

February 11, 2007: Megan Schubert with ICE, Tenri Cultural Center, NYC.
February 16, 2012: AVANT MEDIA FESTIVAL, Megan Schubert, soprano, Wild Project, NYC.
November 8, 2012: Jane Peacock with DECIBEL, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia.