Singcircle - Mouth Music (1983)
Gregory Rose conducts the exceptionally talented 'Singcircle' avant-garde vocal group -- made famous through their performance of Stockhausen's 'Stiimmung' -- here paired with three slightly less overground electroacoustic composers.
Smalley's
piece, 'Pneuma', is electroacoustic only in the sense that the voices
and instruments are amplified. These are mostly tiny sounds -- scraping
drums, finger taps, hisses and whispers, and resonant metal percussion,
sometimes transporting the listener to an acoustically dead cave full of
dripping stalactites and intimate witchcraft -- which could only
translate through recording or precise amplification.
Simon Emmerson uses stereo panning delays and other live electronic production techniques to extend the ensemble's voices to great effect.
NWW list favourite Trevor Wishart -- who also worked with Singcircle on his piece 'Anticredos' -- gets the team to make... well, frankly, a series of quite rude noises.
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