performance study one. vocal loops with improvised voice. Recorded 12/29/2018.

save the date: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

performance study one loops w improv

performance study two. simple midi drone with improvised voice in telephone-esque game. Recorded 12/29/2018

save the date: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

performance study two voices with other voices

we are slowly piecing together the sound-space of 'and there was a voice which you slowly recognized as your own'. MSet is one version of organization of our scores we are improvising and composing. vocal loops with improvised voice. Recorded 1/18/2019.

save the date: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

MSet hocket-hysteria-drone study

Margaret McNeal introduces some of her vocal vocabulary through the lens of 'hysteria'.

grieving, transformation, and hysteria are some words we use to improvise around in 'and there was a voice which you slowly recognized as your own'. SSet is one version of organization of our scores we are improvising and composing. vocal loops with improvised voice. Recorded 1/25/2019.

see this performed live: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

SSet Margaret Hysterics

Stephanie Lavon Trotter makes some loops and plays within all of the territories of her vocal vocabulary.

grieving, transformation, and hysteria are some words we use to improvise around in 'and there was a voice which you slowly recognized as your own'. SSet is one version of organization of our scores we are improvising and composing. vocal loops with improvised voice. Recorded 1/25/2019.

see this work performed live: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

SSet Stephanie Hysterics

Pitching is this term we are using to find each other within the pitch, becoming the other sound, and then playing within and around the sound. This is a score we are slowly finely composing after its more improvisatory genesis, as a bigger part of our evening length vocal-based performance 'and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own'. Recorded 2/1/2019.

see this work performed live: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR. 

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

Pitching Score

Margaret's Song is an improvised score from our evening length vocal-based performance 'and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own'. Recorded 3/8/2019.

see this performed live: april 19-20, 2019 at PWNW, portland, OR.

golden organ is margaret mcneal and stephanie lavon trotter.

Margaret's Song

GOLDEN ORGAN brings together vocalists from all different backgrounds; employing classical, radical and experimental vocal sounds and techniques; forging new performance experiences.

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