Tsk Tsk - A Musique Concrète Étude

Tsk tsk. A clicking sound, often read as /ˈtɪskˌtɪsk/ interjection — used to show disapproval often in a humorous way. Accessed October 11, 2024, Britannica Dictionary.

The work is a satirical meditation and reflection on life, and how people all around us sometimes take offence so easily and quickly - tsk tsk-ing here there everywhere… when we should learn to tune out the noise and not miss out on the beautiful things that are around us if we learn to listen more carefully. As per my modus operandi, a cool “easter egg” can be found in this composition. Hope you will have an Amazing time finding this Grace-ful insert.


Process
I was always fascinated by the sounds that one could draw from normal instruments via extended techniques. I’ve wondered why so many orchestration and composition textbooks do not seem to think of, or talk about the human voice and body as an instrument, let alone cover possible ‘extended techniques’ that the voice is capable of. Au contraire, the human body deserves a far longer chapter than any man-made instrument - in the hands (pardon the pun) of a creative mind, and in view of the sophisticated state of artificial amplification of sound today, the human body is capable of contributing a palette of colours and sounds that might be more interesting and wide-ranging than a violin or an oboe!

I explored numerous possibilities that included extended vocal techniques and timbres ranging from overtone singing, vocal fry, modal voice, falsetto, to the tapping of the body in unusual places, vocal percussion etc. Experimentation with conventional microphone distances, as well as extremely close microphone distances due to the nature of sounds that I wished to collect (teeth tapping was especially challenging). Despite having collected over 20 unprocessed sounds, the final mixing and assembly of the étude saw a major “composing with an eraser”, using 4 objet sonore and employing the full gamut of processing techniques on both the processed sounds and the final étude: 

Cut, copy, and paste
Fade in/Fade out
Waveform reverse
Tape speed variation (affecting pitch and duration simultaneously)
Amplification
Multitrack sound layering
Stereo panning (L/R balance and spatialisation)


Albert Tay
11 October 2024
22:22hrs
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Urbana, Illinois, USA

Tsk Tsk - A Musique Concrète Étude

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