a r t i s t : Daniel Menche
t i t l e : Hover
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : touch
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2010
t r a c k s : 02
b i t r a t e : 320kbps
s i z e : 63,2 MB
u r l : http://www.touchshop.org/product_info.php?products_id=402
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I work at a high school library here in Portland, Oregon. Once
a week there's a choir class and occasionally I will poke my
head in to hear the fantastic sounds of the kids singing. The
singing can be a bit rusty mainly due to the shyness factor in
their young voices and the reluctant learning of the music
notation from the choir teacher. I really liked hearing that
rough-awkward singing from the kids and it remind me of myself
being in a choir as a little kid and remembering how much I
HATED IT! Mainly because I didn't understand music notation...
nor did I want to and also I was incredibly shy just like
these kids.
Well anyways I'm always thinking of ways to get young folks to
have fun with sound and such and also I had an idea to use
these fine choir students for a recording utilizing their
awkward singing sounds. My strategy for the kids was vowels
because every kid knows vowels! A-E-I-O-U and just sing those
letters as long as possible is what I will instruct the kids
to do. I mentioned to the choir teacher that I will be coming
in and taking ten minutes of the student's time to record them
for a recorded composition and the teacher approved with this
idea but she was also very confused. How can I be a known
recording musician and not know about music notation such as
'flat C or sharp D' or whatever that jargon is. I told them...
"Don't worry... kids will have fun and it'll sound fantastic."
And so I barged into the classroom and hit record on my little
recorder and began the vowel singing game with the kids. The
sheer state of confusion on their young faces was rather
beautiful and the singing was fantastic to my ears. I noticed
immediately that they couldn't get the low sounds very well
because wellà they're kids and baritone sounds just aren't in
the picture yet for them. So I utilized a Hammond organ for
the bass sounds for the final piece of music titled "HOVER".
Included is the raw unedited "as is" recording document of
myself having fun with the kids and getting sounds out of them
for this "HOVER" recording. This raw recording has a charm to
it of the kids being confused and having some fun. Teenage
cathartic-ism to say the least. The look on the choir
teacher's face when I had everyone screaming in different
vowels was priceless. I can see her facial expression
screaming at me "Music notation blasphemy!!!"... I respond
back "Yep, sure is and now look at all the smiles on our kids
faces.
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01-Hover [19:29]
02-As Is [08:07]
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27:36 min