Our newly expanded crew, just back from a weeklong rehearsal residency at UT Austin, is now getting a grip on the great size of it. We added eight musicians to the work and, what's more, they all agreed (with the exception of one participant who is still working somewhere out there on the Pacific Rim) to join us in Texas. What we have is a whole new audio vocabulary. We've laptops with reconstructive software, reed instruments, handmade cranked objects, trumpets, tongs, and multiple other nameless sources. For a moment we attempted to provide a guzheng but had to let it go til the next rehearsal week in early January of '07.
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