Their Lives Are Stripped of Meaning

This is a composition for instrument, voice and electronics.Materials related to the piece are available above: this includes the score as a film, any recordings, a digital image of the score, screenshots of the score, reviews, posters of past performances, programs and other ephemera related to the piece.Program NoteIn 2016, Australian author Richard Flanagan made a statement in a response to the Australian Government’s policy on the treatment of refugees arriving in Australia by boat, which involves detention. "Their lives are stripped of meaning." In this piece, the vocalist sings these words, but they become incomprehensible as they are separated out over the 8 minutes of the piece; a direct reference to the indeterminate length of detention that Australia enforces upon refugees. Time passes, we forget and our ability to understand becomes difficult. In addition, the electronic part is created by sampling the instruments at certain moments in the piece, and strips away the timbral characteristics of the work, another metaphor for the consequences of this treatment of our fellow human beings.Performance instructionsTo perform this work, you will need the Decibel ScorePlayer, an application which presents the score on an iPad. You can download this from the iTunes store.Instructions on how to use the app are included in the app, or you can read about it on the Decibel new music website. The app requires a file to be added to the app, available above, with the extension. The instructions on how to play the piece are also included above.You can make your own electronics, or use the MAX MSP patch available above. A paper score is available from the publisher, Material Press. Commissioner informationIt was commissioned by Callum G'Froerer and premiered by G'Froerer and Olivia Stahn at Ölberg-Kirche, Berlin May 2018.Subsequent performancesAustralasian Computer Music Conference, Tone List concert, Perth, December 2018 - by Dan O'Connor (tpt), Anika Moses (voice) and Stuart James (electronics).

作品概述：本作品为器乐、人声与电子音响融合的创作。相关素材已在上文提供，其中包含以胶片形式呈现的总谱、各类录音、总谱数字图像、总谱截图、相关评论、过往演出海报、节目单及其他与本作品相关的零散印刷资料。

创作手记：2016年，澳大利亚作家理查德·弗拉纳根（Richard Flanagan）就澳大利亚政府针对乘船抵澳难民的拘押政策发表回应，称“他们的生命被剥夺了意义”。在本作品中，人声演唱者将朗诵上述语句，但在长达8分钟的演奏过程中，这些语句被拆分拆解，最终变得无法被理解——这直接呼应了澳大利亚政府对难民实施的、期限未定的拘押政策。岁月流转，人们终将淡忘，理解的能力亦逐渐消逝。此外，电子音响部分通过采样作品特定节点的器乐声响制作而成，剥离了作品原有的音色特质，这亦是对这种对待同类的行径所造成后果的又一重隐喻。

演出说明：演奏本作品需使用《Decibel ScorePlayer》应用程序，该程序可在iPad上呈现总谱，用户可从苹果应用商店（iTunes Store）下载该应用。应用内包含使用指南，用户亦可在Decibel新音乐官网查阅相关说明。该应用需导入上文提供的特定扩展名文件，作品演奏指南亦已在上文提供。演奏者可自行制作电子音响部分，亦可使用上文提供的MAX MSP补丁文件。纸质总谱可通过出版商Material Press获取。

委约信息：本作品由卡勒姆·G'弗罗勒尔（Callum G'Froerer）委约，并于2018年5月在柏林厄尔贝格教堂（Ölberg-Kirche）由G'弗罗勒尔与奥利维亚·施塔恩（Olivia Stahn）完成首演。

后续演出：2018年12月，在珀斯举办的澳大拉西亚计算机音乐会议（Australasian Computer Music Conference）“音色列表”音乐会（Tone List concert）上，丹·奥康纳（Dan O'Connor，小号tpt）、阿妮卡·摩西（Anika Moses，人声）与斯图尔特·詹姆斯（Stuart James，电子音响）完成了该作品的演出。