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Phantom Noise

Phantom Noise

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"There is this ringing hum, this bullet-borne language."

- Brian Turner

 

 

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About Phantom Noise is an excerpt from the extended work Dreams of the Fallen. Originally written for solo piano, chorus, and orchestra, with powerful texts written by Iraq War veteran and award-winning poet Brian Turner, Dreams of the Fallen explores a soldier's response to the terrors of war and its lasting impact.
Instrumentation SATB choir (divisi) & piano.
Duration 5:30
Year Completed 2013
Commissioner A consortium of professional orchestras across the USA. More information here.
Text Phantom Noise by Brian Turner

There is this ringing hum    this
bullet-borne language      ringing
shell-fall and static    this late-night
ringing
hiss and steam     this wing-beat
of rotors and tanks    broken
bodies ringing in steel     humming these
voices of dust     these years ringing
ringing these children their gravestones
their limbs gone missing
this eardrum    this rifled symphonic      this
ringing of midnight in gunpowder and oil     this
threading of bullets in muscle and bone     this ringing
hum     this ringing hum      this
ringing
Errata None
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More Info New York Times article: "Out of War, A Symphony"