Cave was commissioned by the St. Louis ensemble Synchronia for a program investigating the theme of America in Y2K. The text is by Eileen Myles. It is the third piece in the last year I have been asked to write on this subject*, and I’m noticing that I know less about the meaning of the millennium, or the future in general, the more I’m asked to write pieces about it. I have, however, had several excellent conversations about souls with Ansel Elgort, who is six, while I’ve been writing this piece, so I dedicate it to him with love and thanks for his friendship.

Cave is July 3rd in my ongoing project A Book of Days.

Here is a demo recording, with me singing most of the instrumental parts.

Here is a score of the piece in pdf format, and here's a set of parts. I'm open to you reorchestrating it for your ensemble; let me know what you have in mind. You will need the pre-recorded material: I can supply on CD or in downloadable form. Please email me for those materials.

If you wish to use the original DX7 patch, here are some possible ways of getting it: in Motu's Unisyn format, as a standard MIDI file (.mid), and as a .pdf (for laborious hand-entry.)

You are warmly invited to support this very low-key way of publishing:

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cave photograph © French Ministry of Culture and Communication
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Regional department of archaeology