A recording of Cathy Berberian reading an excerpt from Sirens from James Joyce’s Ulysses. She has such a smooth voice. I came across this listening to Crystal Castle’s song Air War. Text:
BRONZE BY GOLD HEARD THE HOOFIRONS, STEELYRINING IMPERthnthn thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the
Gold pinnacled hair.
A jumping rose on satiny breasts of satin, rose of Castille.
Trilling, trilling: I dolores.
Peep!