Ever Changing Skies

So that was Anna Semple's The Old Gold Song of the Almost Finished Year.

It's a wordless piece.

Lots of, well, as it says in the program note, we're talking about autumn's active processes.

And, um, so it's got lots of vocal effects, some kind of, and some vocal fry.

So I actually was teaching a very young pupil the other day and I got her to do some breathing.

And she said, that's really bad for you.

And I said, no, it's not.

It's not, because

Eamon says it's okay.

And I had to try and explain to an eight-year-old why it was okay, but she wasn't having any of it.

I note from the notes in the piece that you sent through, I'd listened to parts of the album thinking, this is the piece that really means something to me.

And And then the note straightaway says, this is a silly, lighthearted piece.

That's me, kind of jazzy.

And then she says, not really ever sung full voiced in brackets.

Sorry.

Because she's a singer, isn't she? She's a professional singer.

She is a singer

indeed.

She's a very versatile singer.

And it's the sort of thing where you know her, you meet her and you think, what a lovely, lovely, calm, interesting person.

But then she writes this sort of piece and you're like, how does your brain go there? Where...

What makes you think of this?

She talks on her website about slightly improvised processes.

The whole piece, it says, is fairly held back.

White tone is essentially really plain and without vibrato.