About the work

‘Vox in Rama is a wonderfully evocative text, full of grief and visceral outpouring. I wanted to capture something of this in my setting, setting the words as if they are outcries from Rachel herself, wild and guttural. Surrounding these exclamations is a haze of solo voices, passing around softer murmurings. I was interested in using the difference in timbre of human voices as a way of exploring the text’s very human focus - the phrases appear and reappear in different voice parts, introducing subtle changes in colour.’
Anna Semple