Physical sheet music the embryology of the heart (2023) for solo cello. Music by Leilehua Lanzilotti, lyrics by brooke smiley, Alok Vaid-Menon, and e.e. cummings. the embryology of the heart sets several texts to timbral commentary: i. resources for healing the voice brooke smiley — Friday, January 29, 2021 Learning to Speak: Resources for Healing the Voice From Embodied Social Justice Summit ii. there are only so many breaths Alok Vaid-Menon, “feelings are biological facts,” from your wound ​/​ my garden (2021) iii. if this should be e.e. cummings, “it may not always be so;and i say,” first published as “Sonnets—Unrealities I” in Tulips and Chimneys New York: Liveright, 1996.

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9 x 12 paper score