Name: Part 1: And If The Body Were Not The Soul?
Duration: P00H00M59S
Description: My use of the cymbals here is pretty much Ives' use of strings in 'Housatonic at Stockbridge' and 'The Unanswered Question'. These are massive, unknowable questions, and the monolith of sound stands as we ask them.

Part 1: And If The Body Were Not The Soul?

from I Sing The Body Electric by Matt Riggen

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My use of the cymbals here is pretty much Ives' use of strings in 'Housatonic at Stockbridge' and 'The Unanswered Question'. These are massive, unknowable questions, and the monolith of sound stands as we ask them.

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I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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from I Sing The Body Electric, released May 1, 2020
Walt Whitman: poetry
Matt Riggen: narration, bowed cymbals

(cymbals bowed with erhu bow: Zildjian 18" Ride [50's], Sabian 20" Sound Control [80's], SR2 Factory 14" Crash, Sabian 8" Splash)

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Matt Riggen Chicago, Illinois

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