A Cacophony Of Voices, Human And Planetary: Songs Of World As One

 Matthew Aucoin is hearing a lot of voices. In the shadow of the gathering climate crisis, the visionary American composer’s ambitious new work — a “synesthetic song cycle,” in his words — conjures a cacophony of human, post-human, and natural voices, both individual and collective, sometimes indistinguishable, and all struggling to be heard.