An Andrea Amatii violin and Stari Most were completed
in the same year, 1566. When I discovered this in 1994 I heard men singing
uunder a shelf of rock down by The Neretva River in Mostar beside where
Stari Most had arched before being destroyed in 1993.
Explosion sound loud between the faces of stone in the
valley People never get used to that.
I was reminded of the young people who leapt from the high point of
Stari Most passing into adulthood as they hit the cold water of The
Neretva each July.
And Ithought of Angels watching over the young, who now seeing the coming
awful conflict, cried a warning and knowing it would not stop, rose
above it, calling.
I understand harmonic vocalisation in the Tuvan Region
of Siberia reflected wind blowing over rocks and ice.
I liked the sound and could use it myself, practicing for about 10 years
to myself, when I realised after asking singers could they help record
a piece that it was as well that I should do it. The piece was performed
in 1997 in Limerick on The Abbey River, at the moment the ghost of Stari
Most was represented as a swimmer passed in the darkness of nightfall
underneath the artwork with a float of lights at the moment the artwork
Star Bridge - Bridge of Leaps was illuminated.
The piece you hear is newly recorded and rpresents more
work and thought about this vocalisation.