The score of “New Bodies” translates the polyphony of Graham’s poetry into a chamber group of instruments and electronics, and, most unusually, five vocalists. Aucoin called the singers “a destabilized” take on the balance of a Mass or a four-part chorale. They pass fragments of lines among one another, as if sharing consciousness, or gather to function as a unified force larger than, or not even, human.

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