Phillip Faber CHANGE SPEED

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Phillip Faber

CHANGE SPEED for tenor and baritone voice (2025) Original text by Michael Strunge

Chorus score

Phillip Faber

CHANGE SPEED for tenor and baritone voice (2025)

Original text by Michael Strunge. From the anthology Livets hastighed, 1978 Translated by John Irons Written for Theatre of Voices and conductor Paul Hillier.

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation Duration: c. 2 min.

Chorus score

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Change Speed grows out of a paradox: the cry for change is urgent and breathless, yet the music itself refuses to rush. In a time defined by acceleration - by constant movement, renewal and demands for transformation - I wanted to slow the pulse down and listen more closely to what that urgency contains.

The two voices interrupt, imitate and pursue one another through constantly shifting meters. The words return insistently, as if repetition might turn desire into action: “I transform my life before it transforms me.” Gradually, what begins as an individual impulse becomes a shared and almost inescapable rhythm.

For me, the piece is not simply about moving faster or breaking free. It is about our need to change speed - to step outside the velocity of our time, if only for a moment, and ask whether we are shaping our lives, or merely being shaped by them.

Phillip Faber

Change speed I need a change of speed I transform my life before it transforms me

Change speed

Tenor solo

Baritone solo

Words: Michael Strunge, 1978 Translation: John Irons, 2011 Music: Phillip Faber, 2025

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