Franck Martin
How Dare You! Live at Gray Area
How Dare You! Live at Gray Area: Recorded in quadraphonic during LeftCoastLights Eclectic Festival at the Gray Area in San Francisco on 9th September 2021.
It expresses the general inaction while we are facing a climate disaster.
I wanted to use the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Action Summit on Sep 23, 2019, but I was not able to reach for clearance. So I wrote my own text. My wife, Jasmine Ali, read it. It is then loaded in MakeNoise Morphagene (this is a kind of digital tape). I play it unaltered at the beginning of the piece and then I splice it, alter it, and fragments are played randomly until the end of the piece when it all comes whole again.