Without Us
(for singing violinist and optional piano, voices)
“Without Us” is a meditation on the many kinds of silence we’ve all been tangling with since Covid-19 hit the world. It is, in part, inspired by Alan Weisman’s book, The World Without Us, in which he describes how the natural world would reclaim our urban spaces were we all to simply disappear. I found it oddly comforting.
Commissioned by Stephen & Evelyn Block/Raulee Marcus
Music and text: Carla Kihlstedt
Voice and violin: Carla Kihlstedt
Additional Vocals: Tallulah Lazlo Bossi, Lucia Gómez-Ibáñez, Samara Marie Leshin-Sell, Winter Muric, Evelyn Rain Schertzer
Videography: Michael Cestaro & Joseph Navas
Editing: Michael Cestaro
Recorded and Mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill, Orleans, MA