Diameters (soprano and tape), 2005
Diameters is a simple plea for sanity setting a poem by the late Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai.
The electroacoustic part consists entirely of sounds created by the sonification of hyperspectral images of human cells.
Diameters was last performed by Bracha Kol as part of Meitar Ensemble’s 2015 concert series.
The Diameter of the Bomb
Yehuda Amichai
The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters the diameter of its range, seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded.
Around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, are two hospitals
and one graveyard.
But the young woman who was burried
in her home town
over a hundred kilometers away
enlarges the circle.
And the man mourning her death
on distant shores
makes the entire world a circle.
Not to mention the cry of orphans
reaching up to God’s throne and beyond
which makes a circle with no end and no God.
(translation: Jonathan Berger)
