Drivel Team is a ritual of difference. In sixteen “tellings,” it presents the transcribed spoken performances of each of the members of Quince as they read Lydia Davis’ short story, “My Husband and I.” From one telling to the next, the musicalized speech is presented so as to highlight various dimensions of difference between the performers’ speech patterns. The piece is not concerned with linguistic meaning - it creates significance through a verticalization of that which is individual or distinctive in how we speak: interpretation become harmony.
Commissioned by Quince Vocal Ensemble