{"id":347,"date":"2009-04-05T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T02:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2009-04-05T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T02:19:45","slug":"joseph-zitt-and-katherine-setar-eight-fractured-folk-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/cds\/joseph-zitt-and-katherine-setar-eight-fractured-folk-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zitt\/Setar: <i>Eight Fractured Folk Songs<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:57,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.archive.org\\\/details\\\/JosephZitt_KatherineSetar_EightFracturedFolkSongs&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/archive.org\\\/details\\\/JosephZitt_KatherineSetar_EightFracturedFolkSongs&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:58,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.archive.org\\\/details\\\/metatron-press&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/archive.org\\\/details\\\/metatron-press&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/setar-zitt-cover-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-348\" title=\"setar-zitt-cover-color\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/setar-zitt-cover-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"setar-zitt-cover-color\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/setar-zitt-cover-color-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/setar-zitt-cover-color.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/JosephZitt_KatherineSetar_EightFracturedFolkSongs\">Download or stream<\/a>\u00a0this album for free from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/metatron-press\">Metatron Press Archives<\/a>\u00a0netlabel at archive.org!)<\/p>\n<p><em>Eight Fractured Folk Songs for Voice and Piano (2004-2005)<\/em>\u00a0blends the talents of composer\/singer\/poet Joseph Zitt with those of composer\/pianist\/music theorist Katherine Setar. The songs are, in effect, acoustic remixes of existing folk or public domain songs which were inspired by such diverse influences as contemporary mash-up recordings, John Cale&#8217;s reworking of &#8220;Heartbreak Hotel,&#8221; Karlheinz Stockhausen&#8217;s electronic and acoustic &#8220;moment form&#8221; works, and the \u201cDeep Listening\u201d work of Pauline Oliveros. Setar and Zitt have created a different method of improvising for each song, starting with its text and musical elements and creating new musical languages that bring out its most emotionally involving and musically intriguing elements.\u00a0<em>Eight Fractured Folk Songs for Voice and Piano<\/em>\u00a0explores a wide range of both musical methodologies and emotional ranges. Among the many settings of songs, Zitt and Setar have also included \u201cBlack is the Color of my True Love\u2019s Hair,\u201d a folk song also set by composer Luciano Berio for his wife, Cathy Berberian.<\/p>\n<p>The songs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All The Pretty Little Horses<\/li>\n<li>Black Is The Color of My True Love&#8217;s Hair<\/li>\n<li>All My Trials<\/li>\n<li>John Reilly<\/li>\n<li>Plaisir D&#8217;Amour<\/li>\n<li>Olvad A H\u00f3<\/li>\n<li>House Of The Rising Sun<\/li>\n<li>Salangadou<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I explain what we&#8217;re doing with each song in Intro tracks between the songs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a live performance from July 16, 2005, presented at the\u00a07th Annual Midsummer Music Festival, curated by Tom Bickley, \u00a0at the\u00a0Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, CA.\u00a0<a href=\"email:mic@zoka.com\">Michael Zelner\/ZOKA<\/a> recorded and mastered the performance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s taken me a long time to post these, since, as happens with live recordings, all I could hear were my mistakes. (While Katherine&#8217;s playing is impeccable, there are times when, as my father used to say, my reach exceeded my grasp.) But at this remove, I find that I quite like them, and they present some of the more accessible recordings of my vocal work and our connections of composition and improvisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Download or stream\u00a0this album for free from the\u00a0Metatron Press Archives\u00a0netlabel at archive.org!) Eight Fractured Folk Songs for Voice and Piano (2004-2005)\u00a0blends the talents of composer\/singer\/poet Joseph Zitt with those of composer\/pianist\/music theorist Katherine Setar. The songs are, in effect, acoustic remixes of existing folk or public domain songs which were inspired by such diverse influences &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/cds\/joseph-zitt-and-katherine-setar-eight-fractured-folk-songs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zitt\/Setar: <i>Eight Fractured Folk Songs<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.josephzitt.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}