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Jeni Little  

Shanti

Duration: 04' 09" Year: 1999
for 4-part vocal group with digital soundscape

• Programme Note

  Shanti is an electroacoustic work and an elegy. It is dedicated to four people – my close friend David who died from skin cancer in 1991; Georgia who died in 1997, a past student who was killed in a motorbike accident; my Nana who died in 1997; and Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn who also died in 1997, the world’s finest Qawaali singer from Pakistan.
  
  
  All of these deaths had a strong impact on me and inspired the composition of this work. Each of the dedicatees has a section (or verse) which refers directly to them. The piece ends with a life-affirming coda – the simple act of having the sun on our back always makes us feel better. The backing track is a digital soundscape with manipulated vocals layered throughout.

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  • Little: Shanti; computer-set 

    Part - recorded | CD
    

  • Little: Shanti; computer-set 

    Full score | Hardcopy - computer set
    
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  • Little: Shanti; computer set  Year: 1999 

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