I first read Robert Siegel's The Serpent Speaks in 2007, as my love of poetry was just being sparked. Though I was immediately interested in setting the poem to music, it wasn't until receiving a Fellowship at the Trinity Forum Academy that I had the time and resources I needed to realize the project.
My setting of The Serpent Speaks blurs distinctions between composition and improvisation using a mixture of verbal cues; traditional, and non-traditional notation.
Lineup
Emily Clare Zempel, voice
Jonathan Roberts, voice
Jacob Teichroew, saxophone
James Hall, trombone
Ryan Ferreira, guitar
Ike Sturm, bass
Ziv Ravitz, drumset
Mike Truesdell, percussion