The Languages Project - Counting in Quileute

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Counting in Quileute a musical composition for small ensemble created by Kevin Danger James, is the first of four pieces based on aural qualities of nearly extinct languages that Kevin will be completing between now and Spring of 2010.

The languages Kevin will focus on are to include Quileute, a Native American tribe of the Pacific Northwest, two Australian aboriginal languages, and Hokkaido Ainu, the aboriginal language of the Japanese islands.

This project will be a large scale exploration of the extraordinary subtleties of human language. It will result in works with musical palettes never heard before and it will introduce uniquely intimate and personalized approaches to performance and musical communication. As all of the pieces will be accompanied by taped material culled from the field recordings of the various languages, it will both seek to acknowledge the world's consumption of this most fragile resource and to embody it's renewal.

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