Leilehua Lanzilotti

the embryology of the heart — solo cello (2023)

for Andrew Yee, duration 9’

the embryology of the heart sets several texts to timbral commentary:

i. resources for healing the voice
brooke smiley — Friday, January 29, 2021
Learning to Speak: Resources for Healing the Voice
From Embodied Social Justice Summit
ii. there are only so many breaths
Alok Vaid-Menon, “feelings are biological facts,”
from your wound / my garden (2021)
iii. if this should be
e.e. cummings, “it may not always be so;and i say,”
first published as “Sonnets—Unrealities I” in Tulips and Chimneys
New York: Liveright, 1996.

This work was developed during a residency at the Tusen Takk Foundation. tusentakk.org.