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Please let me know if Santa Cruz will ever be again. I perform solo using only voice along with 2 Digitech Echo Plus pedals and a Jam Man. I overlay tones and then sing lyrically over the results..my range is about 4 octaves so I'll let these high notes ring, and then bring my voice down to it's lowest point for a bassline (for me..it's tenor). I love organic sounds above all else..when creating music I prefer using found sounds in combination with voice. Most of my recordings are voice-only and the closest comparison I would be able to make to the sound of it is like that of a group of theremins. I've had more people say "angels", but I'll stick with the sound I know! I love trance music with minimal percussion, and overtones. Looping appliances and matching pitch with them is also very satisfying as well. Jehn eyelight ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Walker (loop.pool)" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:34 AM Subject: re: improv voice loops > Hi Jehn, > Welcome to the list. I don't know if you've been here long enough to > have heard about the Festival of Voice + Electronics that I produced in > Santa Cruz last month but we had solo acapella vocal performances, > (including Loopers Delight vet, Simran Gleason from S.F.), by > an opera singer, a classical singer, a death metal singer, a human > beatboxer, several different styles of overtone singing (tuvan and >tibetan > and california new age), an overtone choir (nearly destroyed by my errant > vocoder ;-) all being mixed by three Loopers Delight members: Miko B, > myself and my brother, Bill Walker (a phenomenal electric > guitarist/guitarsynthesist in his own right). Santa Cruz's own incredible, > John Whooley, then closed the show with a wonderfully inventive performance > of voice, one Dl-4 looper and an expression pedal. The 'singers' had no > control over what the processors were doing (a whole lot o' loopin' goin' > on) and the processors didn't know what the singers were going to do. It > produced some very interesting results. It was a wonderfully creative > evening and I want to do it again, at some point > > Also,I was just rewriting my resume for press releases and I added this > little snippet it to my 'instruments' played category: > " He plays...............blah, blah, woof, woof (sic)..........and has a > fascinating repertoire of unusual and exotic vocal techniques at his command > (overtone singing, warble singing, trill singing, gutteral singing, > hum-whistling, mouth percussion and effects, beatbox and faux industrial > beatbox,yodelling and pygmy bottle blowing/falsetto singing). > > I do a lot of things besides using voice in my music but I almost always > include one piece for human voice only in my solo looping shows. > In these shows, I get my audiences to learn how to do very simple >overtone > singing for the first time and get someone from the audience to conduct > them, using them as an ambient real time 'loop' for my own improvisation or > I get them to make group shhhhhhhhhhh sssssssssssss and >chhhhhhhhhhh > sounds at their highest and lowest ranges and > I then loop them and use them in a faux industrial piece (inspired, > originally, by the Aphex Twin remix of Nine Inch Nails on Further Down >the > Spiral which was the single piece of music that turned me into an > electronica > fanatic after having not touched it for almost twenty years----a lot of > steam > pressure noises and other noise bursts in that piece). > What kinds of things are you into? > > Good luck, yours, Rick Walker (loop.pool) > > > >