Name: Lann, Vanessa - American Accents performed by Claire Edwardes & Niels Meliefste by Claire Edwardes - PERCUSSIONIST/COMPOSER
Duration: 10 min 51 s
Description: This original piece by US Dutch based composer Vanessa Lann uses vocalising combined with percussion very effectively. Here it is performed by Duo Vertigo on the early naughties sometime!

What is it like to collaborate with yourself? Weaver finds one answer to this question in Control Yourself, working with a bespoke AI sound-generation tool trained on a simple sung melody. The piece opens with this training melody and quickly branches off into various sonic scenes for the resulting AI to exist within. The tool (affectionately dubbed ‘AI-Lexis’ by the artist) works within strict parameters, blurting out almost-intelligible words; visceral utterings which convey emotion beyond human language. This work first premiered as a live performance for the Sydney Opera House's Outlines livestream series in July 2023, and has since been converted to a fixed media work. 

A huge thanks to Koup Music, Kopi Su Studios, and the Sydney Opera House for funding the original project.

Excerpt 3: Hissing

Excerpt 2: Alxsv2

Excerpt 1: Insects

This original piece by US Dutch based composer Vanessa Lann uses vocalising combined with percussion very effectively. Here it is performed by Duo Vertigo on the early naughties sometime!

Lann, Vanessa - American Accents performed by Claire Edwardes & Niels Meliefste

Claire Edwardes is an internationally acclaimed percussion soloist, chamber musician and artistic director of Sydney based innovative new music group, Ensemble Offspring. She has been described by the press as a ‘sorceress of percussion’ and is well known for her powerhouse style of playing and unique stage presence. Claire is the only Australian musician to win the APRA Art Music Award for Excellence by an Individual three times (2016, 2012, 2007), is the recipient of an Australia Council and Freedman Fellowship and the winner of numerous European instrumental and percussion competitions (resident there for seven years) as well as 1999 Australian Young Performer of the Year. Recently appearing as soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Myer Music Bowl and on Play School to an audience of thousands of children, Claire is passionate about percussion and new sounds being widely disseminated.

Lann, Vanessa - American Accents performed by Claire Edwardes & Niels Meliefste

Claire Edwardes - PERCUSSIONIST/COMPOSER

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