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Two Rivers (score)

by Laura C. Bates

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From Laura C. Bates: "When my friend Matt Williams approached me to compose the score for Two Rivers, I immediately said yes. What followed was weeks of ruminating and brooding over his images as they cycled on my desktop background. I struggled to find melodic threads that would pull them together in a chronological way.  

When I was on tour I received a voice memo—a guided meditation— from Matt. I listened to this narrative in the back of the van and while falling asleep on floors at night. I realized the composition would manifest as a duet, but one that was nonlinear in structure—a web woven by two voices: thought and memory.

An early demo of layering the two parts sounded stale. It needed two musicians playing simultaneously to let it breathe. My violist friend Zöe Santo braved snowbanks to come to my house, and we recorded the piece live as the wind shook my window panes. I was finally able to deliver my sonic realization of Two Rivers: coarse, aching, and soaring in a mist of tape hiss. I believe it conjures all the strangeness, sorrow, elation, and expansive nature of the photographs."

All profits from the sale of this score will go to the West Central Women's Resource Centre in the west end of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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released July 24, 2020

Composed by Laura C. Bates
Performed by Laura C. Bates & Zöe Santo
Recorded and mixed by Lucas Gadke

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The original score for Matt Williams' photo book Two Rivers, composed by Laura C. Bates.

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