So cool. The uke gets through on a technicality I'd say

And here the typical Suinancywort-Interlude. "So what?"

Well this in incredible and unique! Although playing with my cat next to me she things otherwise :)

Interestingly if you take your headphones off and just set them down chirruping away - this doesn't sound like you. Then put them back on and it does. I like both versions :-)

Face Dance
 
This is entirely sounds made by my face - for 'About Face' - a community arts project to explore the human face.

So the percussion is tapping, rubbing, slapping my face (it starts quietly)
 
I played my ukulele with my face – struck strings with chin and nose.
 
I didn’t want to use any sounds made by my mouth – clicking, hissing or anything like that because then it might as well been beat boxing or even singing.
 
Some of the sounds are more or less raw – but as I had quite a limited musical palette there are a lot of treatments to the sounds – changing pitch, all kinds of effects, guitar pedals etc.
 
I changed the pitch of the ukulele note to get a scale then ‘played’ it on the computer.

There's the idea of passage of time - clock ticking - the picture is a 'clockface' with an amalgamation of my young face / older face, but it's supposed to be celebratory and optimistic  - a dance of life.

See more about the About Face project here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2602235176705849/

p.s.  no faces were harmed in the making of this track :)

Facedance (made from sounds from my face - see description)

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BBC 6 Music  - Feb 2015
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0546jl6
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