Unscored. I think the documentary style speaking works. The way the majority of these recorded voices are speaking is in an almost singing style, i.e. "it makes you weep" - it's that kind of pitched/unpitched beauty of the human voice that's interesting. So I hear the music in the voices, not necessarily in the score.

My vote is for unscored. Beautiful and haunting though the music is, the plain honesty of the raw vox pop makes a much more powerful impression.

I'd prefer unscored. The voices themselves and their nuances give us the raw data and then the pause between word and music gives space to breathe and absorb their meaning, perhaps applying memory and experience of our own, then introducing the music gives us something to reflect the words against and extract another facet of meaning. I don't particularly like linking any existing piece of music (purpose-made scores are a little different) directly with an event for the reason that you may be forever robbing one individual somewhere of their own (maybe more comforting) personal association for that music - overwriting it , in a sense - by linking it to an iconic event or idea so contrary to their particular experience which they may never be able to undo.

I'd vote for unscored. Although the music creates an exquisite backdrop, I found it too distracting. I was listening to the music rather than the stories, harrowing though they were. But the musical choices are perfect.

My vote is for "scored". Without the scoring, it just seems like a documentary. With the music it makes it something more, something deeper.

As beautifully as you've handled the scoring (I've listened to both versions), I come away feeling that both the voices and the music are better honored separately. Turning these compositions into a bed for these narratives, as noble as they are, after all, isn't what most of the composers will have contemplated. And somehow, I find that I like the purity of the unaccompanied voices -- I hear their own music better without the genius of Vasks and Gonashvili behind them. Nevertheless, I love the project and all the work you guys are doing on it, and will listen attentively, whatever you decide. Thanks.