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für Violine, Klarinette und Violoncello
Sabine Akiko Arendt, Violine; Diego Montes, Klarinette; Jan-Filip Tupa, Violoncello

Treibgut II (2009)

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

If you have the Gravikords, Whirlies and Pyrophones CD/book set, introduced by Tom Waits and nicely produced by Ellipsis Arts, you've already heard the shortened version of this song. This  post is of the original, longer version of Silence the Tongues of Prophecy.

Always fascinated by synthetic speech, as soon as the tech became available (early 1980's) I began building human voice synthesizers. In this recording I use an instrument built around the vintage SP0256-AL2 IC. 

The instrument, in fact, uses two SP0256-AL2s to create a stereo human voice synthesizer. Originally named the "R.A.P." (pre-dates popular rap music and stood for Readily Available Phonemes), I've since re-named it after discovering its circuit-bent personality: the Subliminal Chant Generator.

In the text sheet accompanying the IC I noticed a statement something like, "The SP0256-AL2 needs the control of an external microprocessor to concatenate allophones into words." Immediately I thought, "nah." 

After all, address lines are only voltage levels. I wanted to build a machine with which I could activate allophones manually, by pressing keys on a keyboard, a modern version of the classic 1940's Bell Labs Voder talking machine. 

I did that, and with the addition of the final bending of the circuit (allowing bits to float) the vast realm of subliminal chant appeared.

Here, however, the Subliminal Chant Generator operates in its more overt personality, delivering allophones with clear certainty. The subliminal aspect of the voice synthesis is not presented in this recording but will be in an upcoming post of songs from "Voice of America," a cassette album from my old Sound Theater catalog.

Joining the  Subliminal Chant Generator in this post is one of my first incantors (I'd not yet written about the design, at the time of the recording they couldn't be heard elsewhere). 

That's all you need to know to understand what you'll hear. If you'd like to know more about the instrument, check-out my Facebook post of Dec. 2, 2015 for an up-dated excerpt from my EMI article, "The Subliminal Chant Generator."

Sound Theater Archives: Silence the Tongues of Prophecy

RED SKY is taken from the upcoming JOHN DUNCAN album "BITTER EARTH" (iDEAL129), available on vinyl in April 2016. Pre-orders will be available at the iDEAL Big Cartel site shortly.
As a companion to "BITTER EARTH", a limited three song 7" (iDEAL129-7) will be released aswell, with material not available on the LP.

Vocal: John Duncan 
Chorus: Leif Elggren, Marja-leena Sillanpää, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, France Jobin, Tom Recchion, Elán Garfias, Christopher James, Eve Muller, Liane Schirmer, Vetza.

Vocal recorded and mixed at Pieve del Pino, Bologna by John Duncan.

Chorus vocals recorded in Bologna, Los Angeles, Montreal and Stockholm.

Lyrics and music by John Duncan.

JOHN DUNCAN - RED SKY (iDEAL129 LP)

Entrañas 

	1	Pérdida
	2	Torero
	3	Culebra
	4	Vicar
	5	Cement Garden interlude
	6	Baby Doll / ft. Mica Levi 
	7	Lulled
	8	Think of / ft. Mica Levi & Massacooraman 
	9	Clocked
	10	Pargo
	11	Turnt / ft. Total Freedom
	12	Girasol
	13	Fount
	14	Sin Rumbo

Artwork by Jesse Kanda www.jessekanda.com

Humbled by the gift of speaking in unison along
Total Freedom https://soundcloud.com/totalfreedom
Mica Levi https://www.facebook.com/Micachu-10361552241/
Massacooraman https://soundcloud.com/massacooramaan


Video for 'Sin Rumbo' @ https://youtu.be/hE6OjTiMY3o

Download with hi res artwork:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/r90yay0zd5ekbmn/Arca_-_Entran%CC%83as.zip

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Entrañas

Costes presente...Glacial - 89ºF

mellow_Clapping

Excerpt of a CD released in 2012 on and/OAR.

A journey to the Chinese Qinghai province (Tibetan culture region of Amdo) was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut China. Its purpose was to experience the province and to produce art works to be presented at The Third Guangzhou Triennial, subtitled «Farewell to Post-Colonialism» in the same year. The sound installation Unit and a series of photographs called Cutting Qinghai resulted from this journey, during which I took photographs and made audio recordings. The installation was presented from September 6, 2008 to November 18, 2008.

Unit consists of five pairs of floor-mounted frame drums and hanging loud speakers. The frame drums resonate, depending on the sound pressure level from the speakers, which hover a few centimeters above them. There are four sound elements (stones, crickets, cymbals and drums used in the 5-channel audio composition for this set-up, which were auto-selected and projected onto the frame drums according to an aleatoric script on a multi-channel DVD.)

50 copies of this release come with a (6.75" x 6.75") 40 page book entitled Cutting Qinghai. The regular edition of the CD is limited to 250 copies.

Unit (excerpt)

Marc Behrens works with electronic and concrete music, installation, performance, photography, text and video. He exhibited artworks or performed in many European countries, in South Africa, Chile, USA, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Israel and Palestine. Since 1989 Behrens has released more than 30 music albums. 
Selected collaborators: Atom™, Annesley Black, Miguel Carvalhais, Maile Colbert, Steve Van den Bosch, Bernhard Günter, Nikolaus Heyduck (Behrens Heyduck), Yôko Higashi, Francisco López, Julia Mihály, profikollektion, Paulo Raposo, Pedro Tudela, Ho. Turner, Achim Wollscheid