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WISHART, TREVOR - Voiceprints

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Electronic Music Foundation Ldt. EMF CD 029 Release Year: 2000 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info “Master composer Trevor Wishart shapes recordings of the human voice into a majestic, sonic extravaganza. With satire, sympathy, and his extraordinary talent with sound, Wishart gives us an audio panorama of the world today through the voices of many different people, famous and unknown. In 'Two Women' (1998), he uses the voice of Margaret Thatcher to create a political cartoon and creates a personal portrait and touching documentary from the voice of Princess Diana. In 'American Triptych' (1999), the powerful resonance of the words of Martin Luther King, the crackly quality of the radio transmission through space of Neil Armstrong's voice, and the zany musicality of Elvis Presley's singing comprise a vast sonic portrait of the 20th century American dream of "liberty, technological progress, and the pursuit of pleasure". In 'Anna's Magic Garden' (1982), Wishart transforms his young daughter's voice, along with the sounds of pipes, elastic bands, food, and footsteps, in a playful view of the world through a child's ears. In 'Blue Tulips' (1994), an eighty year-old woman describes her dream about blue tulips she saw in the house of a friend. 'Tongues of Fire' (1995), the final work on the CD, is a masterpiece. It is a complex extended composition that explores the human condition through the transformation of the human voice. In a spectacular display of skill in performing audio transformations, Wishart bases a major work of sounds and textures on a few utterings. This work represents an important moment in the history of electronic music. Don't miss this CD!“ [label description]