Re: improv voice loops

["Jehn" <juno7@cfl.rr.com>]

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)
>
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