Angels, Hear Our Cyborg Prayers for Mankind Led Astray

For voice, piano and marimba  c.5'00.  Advanced level of difficulty.

This is the seventh song in a cycle of eight songs. Libretto is by the composer.

The Bionic Girl, Neo-Tatiana, a creation of the year 2099, is not just a very advanced  technological celebrity vested with extraordinarily intellectual conditioned reflexes and automatic responses. She possesses the human capacity to experience deeply moving emotions, perceptions, as well the ability to feel something physically, especially by touching. She is graced with a heightened awareness of the human psyche, and responds strongly to heat, pain and a range of senses. Together with the inbuilt resilience of her robotic half, she feels a deep sense of obligation and responsibility for her unique heritage - a merger of machine parts with humanly derived DNA and human brain cells, which are the substratum of her AI framework.

Although traditional hymns and chorales primarily use simple, functional harmonies and tonal inflections rooted in diatonic scales, I have digressed from this and re introduced a more sustained version of the slightly dissonant seventh chord (G-F) as a bass ostinato under an undulating vocal line. The voice line rises and drops and then breaks into a more lively and joyful metre.

Composed 2026

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