Desire

To My Friends and Fellow Students of the Urantia Book

Desire

Words by Rumi
Music by Jerry Gerber

I desire you more than food or drink.
My body, my senses, my mind,
Hunger for your taste.
I can sense your presence in my heart.
Although you belong to all the world,
I wait in silent passion,
For one gesture, one glance from you.

Technical Information:

This piece was composed and sequenced into a computer (A DAW, or digital audio workstation)

and the choir is from a "sample library", which is essentially many thousands of recordings

of professional singers singing various syllables, vowels, consonances, siblances and plosives.

The composer chooses which samples will sing which words by typing text into a "word builder", which uses its own

programming language to arrive at a reasonably close approximation of how human singers

would pronounce the words. As you probably are aware, when a live choir is singing in a reverberant hall or church,

it's often difficult to understand the text unless program notes with the printed words are available.

In some ways, this recording is not much different, which is why I included the words above.

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