murmuring tOngue Of Ovid: XS: The Opera, a collaboration with Jane Smith, Rhys Chatham, Yves Musard, Karen Hansgen et al at Shakespeare Theatre, Boston
1985 (photo by Paula Court)

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid was just posted at:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid is the second movement of Joseph Nechvatal's viral symphOny. It is based on a recording Nechvatal made of Jane Smith reading from Ovid's poem Metamorphosis in 1985. Mathew Underwood has collaborated with Nechvatal on murmuring tOngue Of Ovid using sections from the viral symphOny as nano, micro, meso and macro material.

Joseph Nechvatal : original concept, viral structures, & synthesizer
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ viral programming
Ovid's Metamorphosis: text
Jane Smith: voice

20:53 minutes
(c) Joseph Nechvatal 2008