I Am Not My Photograph (You Cannot Erase Me)
I Am Not My Photograph (You Cannot Erase Me)
Violin x2, Viola, Cello
I Am Not My Photograph (You Cannot Erase Me) is part of The Planes of Your Location.
Purchase includes full score and parts for all instruments.
Here is a recording of I Am Not My Photograph (You Cannot Erase Me) performed live in March 2020 at Art Share in Los Angeles featuring the Isaura String Quartet:
“In this culminating string quartet, composer Kitty Brazelton plots the trajectory of a life—her life, her father’s life, your life; it doesn’t matter. We are born, we grow older, we begin to doubt ourselves, and yet we harbor hope. We wonder, “Did I choose the right path?” And now, somewhere along the way in an increasingly digitized landscape, we have all become invisible; isolated from each other.
Woven into I am not my Photograph is the protest anthem Jerusalem, with words by William Blake to protest the industrial revolution in 1809, and music by Sir Hubert Parry written in support of women’s suffrage in 1916. Brazelton carries these protests forward, asking her audience to “go ahead and feel something.” She invites you to listen, and cough, and shift in your seat. To prove that you’re still present, and you’re still you. Wherever you are.”