Engineers, architects, interior designers and planners sing in this 'untrained' choir, as part of a major sound installation. This is an extract from a devising session at Tashkeel, an art gallery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The live performance and the process of creating the choir is part of an architectural piece by Tashkeel artists-in-residence Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver. More on the piece can be found at http://guestartist.tashkeel.org/

Experimental Choir Excerpt

The original is from Miss Kenichis Album "The Trail".

Miss Kenichi "Dream" - Protassov edit

music written and performed by Melissa R. Kaplan
3rd track from Universal Hall Pass's 1st album Mercury

Mercury

Misdirected

Avatar (Tragic Chorus Remix)

from Universal Hall Pass - Mercury - 2004

Katrinah Josephina

Universal Hall Pass: Forms Of Imprisonment: Subtle Things

Universal Hall Pass returns with a six song EP entitled Subtle Things. This is a collaboration between Melissa R. Kaplan and former Splashdown band mate Kasson Crooker. Subtle Things to take a beautifully dark \"fantastic planet\" tinged journey into a three part story of power and melancholy followed by three Symbion Project remixes from UHP\'s debut album Mercury. The remixes are cut from the same exotic cloth as the first three original songs to give the entire EP a dark other- worldly atmosphere with beautiful string arrangements, artistic drum programming and hints of Raymond Scott\'s electronic faery dust. 
Music by Kasson Crooker
Melody/Harmony/ and Lyrics by Melissa R. Kaplan

Lyrics:
Stable fortress
What makes the boundless stand on a pin?
For saturnine blue torches downed in size

Subterranean forests
Move outward by design
Consider
A diamond's view of time
Can see more ways

We're offering a new power
Stop sheltering a doomed flower
That's not what we're meant to be made of
Swallowed Saturn under the terms of our imprisonment
To arrest in a new form 'till the shadow of him covered every good limit
No more narrow cage to gild
Don't let the stable fortress come to nothing

If you want to be...
You can free any form you love
We put ban on poetry and growing things
To see the seasons we've been sweeping
Under Saturn's hair
We've been sweeping seasons
Asleep
All the kings are out on ant hills
So don't let this come to nothing

Come taste
Our strong sense of will
All bets on the table trumping a visit with a death by inches
Of what a win - win game of will is
Come in Sally and sing
Under the stars
Say no to sleep

For those who wish to be they can free any form they love
Stop putting bans on poetry
And sweeping the seasons
Holding pins
With he weight of the world

Forms Of Imprisonment

All acoustic GLANK instruments:  tuned propane tanks, tuned saw blades, found object shakers.  Composed and performed by Paul Rudolph.  

SKA-GLANK

There are all the beat produced during the 10th Brussels Loop Sessions Online Edition Episode2 with "Zazou Bikaye Cy1 - Noir et Blanc" as an imposed sampling matérial by Rrita Jashari.

TZ13 - Loop Session Brussels #10 Online Edition Episode2

by GLANK and Paul Rudolph. 128 bpm electronic, samples, loops, drumline riff, etc. GLANK instruments include heat sink guiro, tuned propane tanks, plus found object loops: paper towel dispenser, can lid, poster tube. Other samples: 1955 radio drama, London Tube train 'windup', vintage alarm.
Vintage keyboards from UVI Workstation: Yamaha YC10 combo.
Vintage sounds from Precisionsound.net: 
Speak and Music (1985 Texas Instruments)
Music Major (1986 Vtech)
Cretone Time Tapper
Various vintage 50's LP organ samples combined
All GLANK tracks may/will be used in live multi-media performances that includes percussion, audience integration, and a general good time.

128 bpm LAVINIA NEBBS

Found Object Percussion: tuned propane tanks, artillery shells, saw blades... Combined with driving grooves, experimental, electronic, downtempo, 5/4, 7/4, linear groove compositions, multi-media pieces, etc.
ALL part of the GLANK live show aesthetic: anonymous performers, audience integration: Industrial - Percussive - Alchemy. Created by Paul Rudolph.

SKA-GLANK

GLANK percussion

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