Sunday, May 31, 2015

mouth music (appropriative collage)











plus some source unfindable







oh my goodness -  the original version of The Jezebel Spirit with the Kathryn Kuhlman voice samples that her estate forbad the use of (the reason, that My Life In the Bush of Ghosts was delayed and didn't come out before Remain In Light, as was planned). Didn't know this version was out there




Just watched Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and noticed there's a character called Eno - played by an actor called Luke Askew


mouth music (talk box)



Saturday, May 30, 2015

mouth music (digital maximinimalism)




"A 480 are vocal pieces. All the sounds are sourced from the 'voice' and confront the nature of the voice in the age of data. The virtual choirs are convoluted versions of actual recorded singers that have been unpersonally sourced, downloaded, then disembodied, disfigured, and displaced over forty times, finally reappearing here through a convoluted process of digital reincarnation. Hopefully this work is not their final destination.

"The voices are curationally divided into short loops of different lengths in an audio loop program and played at different speeds across 4 different channels. Slight temporal variations fade in and out over time in constant flux, occasionally pausing for immersion in a pulse chamber before it moves onto another. The length of the looped samples are adjusted one at a time— lengthened and shortened, and at times switched out altogether, to reveal how seemingly minute temporal variations have impactful effects on overarching rhythm, melody, and energy."

the voice unvoiced, the mouth unmouthed... breath uninspirated