Speech <-> Music examples ... Lussier, Tenney ...

[Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 1989 CD of René Lussier, Le Trésor de la langue is another 
earlier example of speech (pattern) inspired playing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_trésor_de_la_langue

James Tenney, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney, wrote Three 
Indigenous Songs, 2 piccolos, alto flute, bassoon/tuba, 2 percussion, 
(1979), wherein from the text, he extracted the formant frequencies 
of vowels and put them into the flute parts, the lower instrument 
played the 'melodic' fundamental, and the percussion were used for 
consonants.

In 1987 I constructed an algorithmic analog synthesizer patch of a 
low frequency pulse wave fed through four high-q band pass filters 
(with random controls), to emulate mouth movements and vowels. 
Phonemes seem to occur from time to time, and I hear many more now 
than I did 15 years ago.
http://cec.concordia.ca/electrobox/sonus02/Austin_Static_Gestures.mp3
http://www.sonus.ca/app/ui/more.php?Language=en&MediaID=13
This is a mono source with random panning, but I find a rather high 
level of streaming, making me ponder the concept of 'mono' or 
'unison'.

And there is Stimmung by Stockhausen.
http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco2/Rec/Stockhausen/stockframes.html
Scroll down to: Stockhausen Edition no. 12 (Stimmung), for details.


A book on the "composer's view" worth finding is Alternative Voices, 
by Istvan Anhalt, University of Toronto Press, 1984. Now out-of-print.

Best

Kevin
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