The tempest

and the splashes

after mist settled

under the leaves

the wet games began

that autumn

startling warm pebbles.

 

"And Juraj Kojs, from Slovakia, contributed The Wetland, which Shapiro has rightly championed. It’s a strong work, using electronic sounds and filled with many extended techniques for the instrument; often Shapiro could be seen tapping around the cello’s bridge and along the sides, or rubbing the strings to produce an array of glassy, brittle sounds." (Bruce Hodges, Seen and Heard International on the performance at The Tank, New York City, 26.4.2012)

Madeleine Shapiro premiering The Wetland at Harold Golen Gallery on September 22, 2010.

Click here to listen to the recording of The Wetland performed by M. Shapiro.

Duration: ca. 14’30”

Dowload the score here.