Comments on: The Secret Love Affair of Speech and Song: A History http://hermenaut.org/2009/02/19/the-secret-love-affair-of-speech-and-song-a-history/ (an aggregator) Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:08:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Saskia Delores http://hermenaut.org/2009/02/19/the-secret-love-affair-of-speech-and-song-a-history/comment-page-1/#comment-12512 Saskia Delores Wed, 27 May 2009 21:50:07 +0000 http://www.zoilus.com/documents/general/2009/001322.php#comment-12512 I appreciate all the work you have done to aggregate this information. I came upon this page when trying to find a way to digitally transform my voice into other instruments. In my earlier works I tried to "transcend language" which I found to be next to impossible since language is everywhere and at most, I made abstracted sounds- nuances of meaning. Now I am fully committing to ideas in English (and eventually multilingual music) but I still want to capture the conversational and every day sounds of life. Any way, this is a great blog. Thanks a lot! I appreciate all the work you have done to aggregate this information. I came upon this page when trying to find a way to digitally transform my voice into other instruments.
In my earlier works I tried to “transcend language” which I found to be next to impossible since language is everywhere and at most, I made abstracted sounds- nuances of meaning. Now I am fully committing to ideas in English (and eventually multilingual music) but I still want to capture the conversational and every day sounds of life.

Any way, this is a great blog. Thanks a lot!

]]> By: David Minnick http://hermenaut.org/2009/02/19/the-secret-love-affair-of-speech-and-song-a-history/comment-page-1/#comment-12040 David Minnick Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:59:39 +0000 http://www.zoilus.com/documents/general/2009/001322.php#comment-12040 It's great to see all of this information in one place! Thanks! Digital recording technology has made it possible for me to transform longer, non-repeating pieces of spoken word into music (although all of the real work of figuring out the melodies, finding a tempo and beat that will work for a majority of the piece and harmoniizing are still done the old fashioned way...by ear!) Zappa did this a lot, which is why his melodies are so catchy is spite of being terribly complicated. I get "Ship Arriving too Late to Save a Drowning Witch" stuck in my head all the time...Damn...there it is again! You should check out The Sursiks' "I didn't know i was singing vol. 1": phone messages set to music by a whole band... Thanks Rob for the place on your list, and thanks Judge for linking me to this page! David Minnick/The Sursiks/Crabid Music It’s great to see all of this information in one place! Thanks! Digital recording technology has made it possible for me to transform longer, non-repeating pieces of spoken word into music (although all of the real work of figuring out the melodies, finding a tempo and beat that will work for a majority of the piece and harmoniizing are still done the old fashioned way…by ear!) Zappa did this a lot, which is why his melodies are so catchy is spite of being terribly complicated. I get “Ship Arriving too Late to Save a Drowning Witch” stuck in my head all the time…Damn…there it is again!
You should check out The Sursiks’ “I didn’t know i was singing vol. 1″: phone messages set to music by a whole band… Thanks Rob for the place on your list, and thanks Judge for linking me to this page!
David Minnick/The Sursiks/Crabid Music

]]> By: Rob Davidson http://hermenaut.org/2009/02/19/the-secret-love-affair-of-speech-and-song-a-history/comment-page-1/#comment-11896 Rob Davidson Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:53:17 +0000 http://www.zoilus.com/documents/general/2009/001322.php#comment-11896 This is a subject very dear to my heart - thanks for showing me some new things to check out. Some other artists relevant: Sursiks Victor Wooten Steve Vai Frank Zappa Peter Ablinger Jonathan Dimond I love all this. This is a subject very dear to my heart – thanks for showing me some new things to check out. Some other artists relevant:

Sursiks
Victor Wooten
Steve Vai
Frank Zappa
Peter Ablinger
Jonathan Dimond

I love all this.

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