Answer4, Aria 5, Answer 5, Glory Chorale
from 5 dreams;marriage (2000)

for What is it Like to Be a Bat?, by Kitty Brazelton and Dafna Naphtali

Five arias based on her wedding vows composed for and sung by Dafna Naphtali, alternate with five answers sung by Kitty Brazelton derived from her 1978 song I Told You So which describes the decay of a marital relationship. Everything explodes at the end of Answer 5 and is concluded by the Glory Chorale with Dafna, Kitty, drummer Danny Tunick and sound designer Paul Geluso singing a fugue over CMIX pluck algorithms.

Premiered Sound Symposium 2000, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. American premiere, Whitney Museum Design Triennial, New York City, listed in New Yorker magazine. Released on Tzadik/Oracles summer 2003. Reviews: The Wire, All Music Guide, Boston Herald, etc.

Recorded by Paul Geluso at MakeBelieve Ballroom, November 2000.


  • Kitty Brazelton: voice, electric bass, soundtracks, sampler, keyboard
  • Dafna Naphtali: voice, electric guitar, live MAX interactive processing
  • Danny Tunick: drums, conducting, recorder, vibes, glockenspiel, voice
  • Paul Geluso: vocals, filtering

ANSWER 4

Five times
Five times
Five times tonite

We sit
We talk
We get in a fight

Five times
Five times
Five times tonite

We sit
We talk
We get in a fight

an it's all I know to wanna go-o-o
I told ya so

We work
We sleep
We watch the tv

No desire
No I-to-I
we don't wish to agree

We work
We sleep
We watch the tv

No desire
No I-to-I
we don't wish to agree

an it's all I know to wanna go-o-o
I told ya so

ARIA 5

I am so very happy very, very happy h-h-h-h-happy to make you my husband

Hocket:
I I I I I promise promise
Five times Five times Five times Five times tonite
I I I I I promise promise
Five times Five times Five times Five times tonite

I am so very happy very, very happy h-h-h-h-happy to share my life with you.

Hocket:
I I I I I promise promise
Five times Five times Five times Five times tonite
I I I I I promise promise
Five times Five times Five times Five times tonite

ANSWER 5

Five times
you've asked me
five times
around the table

we sit
round table
opposite
round table
known end
we know the end
we think we know the end
round table
round table
round table

an it's all I know to wanna go-o-o
at a bigger table
spread out large
smoke a long long cigarette
which is really a pipe
until we're bigger than houses or whales.

it's time to go
it's time to go
it's time to go

an it's all I know to wan-na go-o-o
I told ya so
I told you so

so so so

Change channels of rods of waters
which cannot turn corners
How to bend
bend to
how to bend
bend to you new young girl
who does your wash?

your lip is but split
eyes are tiny mad
shut the window pane
It's lucite for you to gaze through
lucite for you to gaze through

Gaze through what not to do
mood of hoe
gaze through
what not to do
mood of hoe
it's time to go
it's time to go
it's time to go
I told you so
I told you so
I I I I I I I I I I I I I

I NEED LOVE
I NEED LOVE
I NEED
I NEED
I NEED
I NEED
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
I—

 

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