Musical translations by composer Nick Williams, in collaboration with singer Anna Snow and pianist Kate Ledger:
Credits
Composer: Nick Williams
Voice: Anna Snow
Piano Lid: Kate Ledger
Text: Sandra Alland
Performed live at 100 Second Song Project (Dot Dash Music), 5/3/2022, York.
Bfillssu Eimst Transcript (words arranged alphabetically)
[The words are sung in allegretto soprano, and accompanied by allegro staccato drumming on a closed wooden piano lid. The percussion rhythm is based on a morse code translation of another poem from Blissful Times, “M. le fils is bust”.]
A) a) About actually all apear.
Ask (asking asking) at be.
Be creature: deal does fellow for great,
hardly. He, heart in, indeed into it.
It left less.
Look, moon!
Moon needs not of one other –
peace, peace perhaps possible.
See/seem the (the the)
then think this time:
times to (to to) what, when, whereas.
Would you your?
M. le fils is bust Transcript (anagram translation using title)
Bus fills, emits.
Subtle, I film SS:
fuses lit, limbs
slit. ‘Fib less.’ ‘Um’.
Bums, flies, silt.
‘Fess it – bullism!’
(Sell but/if isms.)
If SS, must libel
ill mess. If bust?
Lift! U.S. slime, BS.