Friday, December 6, 2019, 20:30

AKUSMONAUTIKUM 2

Trevor Wishart: Two Women

with Christian Tschinkel (sound direction)

[Trevor Wishart]

 

Two Women

1998. Published as part of the album voiceprints (Electronic Music Foundation, 2000).

The voice of Margaret Thatcher is used to create a political cartoon, while the voice of Princess Diana creates a personal portrait. This is an example of an extended documentary as art, where the portrayal of a real world personality is transformed to extend its meaning in order to express deeper and more universal values. [Trevor Wishart]

Master composer Trevor Wishart shapes recordings of the human voice into a majestic, sonic extravaganza. With satire, sympathy, and his extraordinary talent with sound, Wishart gives us an audio panorama of the world today through the voices of many different people, famous and unknown. You'll hear the voice of Margaret Thatcher as a political cartoon, a touching portrait of Princess Diana, the powerful resonance of Martin Luther King's well-known words, the crackly voice of Neil Armstrong, the zany musicality of Elvis Presley, the playful sounds of Wishart's young daughter's voice, and the touching story of an 80-year-old woman's dream. Tongues of Fire, the final work on the CD, is a masterpiece. It is a complex extended composition that explores the human condition through the transformation of the human voice. In a spectacular display of skill in performing audio transformations, Wishart bases a major work of sounds and textures on a few utterings. This disc is an important moment in the history of electronic music.

[https://www.soundohm.com/product/voiceprints/pid/9580/]


Trevor Wishart

Trevor Wishart (born 11 October 1946) is an English composer, based in York. Wishart has contributed to composing with digital audio media, both fixed and interactive. He has also written extensively on the topic of what he terms "sonic art", and contributed to the design and implementation of software tools used in the creation of digital music; notably, the Composers Desktop Project. Wishart was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at the University of Oxford (BA 1968), the University of Nottingham (MA 1969), and the University of York (PhD 1973). Although mainly a freelance composer, he holds an honorary position at the University of York. He was appointed as composer-in-residence at the University of Durham in 2006, and then at the University of Oxford Faculty of Music in 2010–11, supported by the Leverhulme Trust. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Wishart]

http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk

Christian Tschinkel

see here.