For (counter-)tenor and recorder
Premiered by UMS' n JIP (Switzerland) at CUHK in 2010.
I’m a gold-en fish in a globe, breathing eating swimming breathing eating breathing sleeping eating swimming eating breathing sleeping, breathing eating swimming breathing eating breathing sleeping eating swimming eating sleeping, eating sleeping eating sleeping eating eating eating, and one day I will be a shark!
(You are only a goldfish.)
Proud to be a goldfish playing hide and seek alone in waterweeds turning my belly up-side-down to pretend dead.
UMS' n JIP are a Swiss contemporary music duo based in Münster (Valais/Switzerland) consisting of Ulrike Mayer-Spohn (UMS) on recorders & electronics and Javier Hagen (JIP), voice & electronics. This composition was especially written for them during their visit at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010.
The work presents a little goldfish in a witty expression, with an exploration of dramatic voice and recorder techniques.