Name: Madness Rooted in Purpose
Duration: P00H12M30S
Description: This piece is an improvisation that uses a graphic score, that features the poem engraved on stones at the mass graveyard in Skibbereen, Ireland, where the great famine hit hardest. Over 9,000 bodies are buried in this small plot of land.

Madness Rooted in Purpose

from Werifesteria | Part 1 by Caleb Hall

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This piece is an improvisation that uses a graphic score, that features the poem engraved on stones at the mass graveyard in Skibbereen, Ireland, where the great famine hit hardest. Over 9,000 bodies are buried in this small plot of land.

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The poem is as follows:

"A million a decade! - of human wrecks,
Corpses lying in fever sheds -
Corpses huddled on foundering decks,
And shroudless dead on their rocky beds;
Nerve and muscle, and heart and brain,
Lost to Ireland - Lost in vain.

Pause - and you can almost hear
The sounds echo down the ages;
The creak of the burial cart,
The rattle of the hinged-coffin door,
The sigh of spade on Earth.
Now and again, All day long.

Here in humiliation and sorrow,
Not unmixed with indignation,
One is driven to exclaim:
O God! That bread should be so dear
And human flesh so cheap."

This is the inscription of dedication:

"1845 - 1850
To the nameless dead
Victims of famine and fever
Who lie here in the Abbey
And in other cemeteries
And in wayside graves"

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from Werifesteria | Part 1, released March 6, 2020
Caleb Hall - Trumpet and electronics
Josh Howard - Bass
Garrit Tillman - Drums and percussion
Jake Smith - Guitar
Andrew Laprise - Rhodes
Hannah Howard - Vocal/Spoken-word

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Caleb Hall Boston, Massachusetts

Caleb is a sound artist, composer, and trumpet player. His recent works include a hybrid approach using acoustic and electronic sounds, combining these with field recordings.

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