Greed

To My Friends and Fellow Students of the Urantia Book

Greed

Words by Rumi
Music by Jerry Gerber

Oh you greedy men and women of this

material-worshipping world,
tie up some rope of spirituality
around your legs,
so you don't lose yourself

in this money-obsessed world

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.