Marseille Section
Gavin Bryars was a principal composer for this section, and a principal writer was Lebanese poet Etel Adnan, though the collage-like libretto incorporated a diverse collection of texts. Bryars set a speech by Marie Curie, "I am among those who believe that science has a great beauty," a poem by Pope Leo XIII on the then-new art of photography, and a speech by an imaginary scientist in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
The work was not completed or publicly performed, but Bryars incorporated a number of its arias into the later works Effarene and On Photography.
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