A 2008 residency in France supported by the Camargo Foundation enabled the original development of this Les Murray setting by Felipe Waller. The composer has since relocated to Berlin where the work was completed in early 2010. Murray’s poems have often been described as superbly musical in the way the poet ‘composes’ its sentences and creates verse with unmistakable rhythm. It makes his poetry complete, hardly in need of musical illustration and often daunting for a composer to approach. Waller actively uses deformation of material as an integrating principle in his work. The last paragraph of Bats’ Ultrasound, a free flowing vocalisation that is both music and text, gave him the opportunity to draw different music out of the text in order to then gradually change the text by substituting consonants from different autochthonous idioms. Roland Peelman,
The Song Company
This 29 second recording comes 'Courtesy of ABC Classic FM and ABC Classics’, in Australia.
