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Voices from the Killing Jar is a musical composition by the American composer Kate Soper (composer). This work was written in 2010-2012 for the Wet Ink Ensemble, and was released by the Carrier Records on January 1, 2014.

“Voices from the Killing Jar” speaks directly to the and  movements. The tile was inspired by a device that entomologists use to trap and kill insects with minimal damage to their bodies. The composition invites connections between characters both historical and fictional from widely varying cultures and times. The music examines the ways that seven different women are portrayed in storytelling, with characters borrowed from sources as diverse as Shakespeare, Flaubert, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Haruki Murakami.

Instrumentation
Voices from the Killing Jar is a piece for seven performers: voice, flute, saxophone/clarinet, piano, violin/trumpet, piano, and live electronics. The instrumental parts have the musicians switching out instruments and moving about the stage. The soprano plays the clarinet and a number of percussion instruments, while a percussionist and electronics add textures.

Movements
The piece is in eight movements, which describes eight female subjects, trapped in their own killing jars.

1. Prelude: May Kasahara

2. Isabel Archer: My Last Duchess

3. Palilalia: Iphegenia

4. Midnight's Tolling: Lucile Duplessis

5. Mad Scene: Emma Bovary

6. Interlude: Asta Solilja

7. The Owl and the Wren: Lady Macduff

8. Her Voice is Full of Money (a deathless song): Dasy Buchanan

The first movement introduces May Kasahara from Japanese author Murakami’s 1995 novel. The second moment presents Isabel Archer's tragic marriage from Henry James’s “Portrait of a Lady." In the third movement, Clytemnestra justifies her rationale for committing murder. In the sixth movements, a young girl Asta Solilja from Halldor Laxness's novel “Independent People” finds beauty and a dream of love while cloud-gazing on her father's harshly isolated sheep farm in 19th century Iceland. The seventh movement introduces a Celtic folk tune sung by Lady Macduff, with distorted electronics disrupting her voice.