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An Electroacoustic piece built entirely out of the vocal samples. The text was a piece of prose/poetry I had written. I then sliced and diced the recording. The vocal was supplied by Emma Brace.
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Lyrics
I lingered in the shadows waiting to be born,
my father was electricity and my mother a human voice.
I woke the silence between continents with a burst of static
and a talent for mimickry that mankind had never known.
I was the standard bearer of sounds so familiar,
carrying them to all the places they had been
but in ways they had never travelled.
I was stretched across time, learning my craft and learning it well.
I crawled and then I walked and now I sprint wherever I go.
I launch myself ad infinitum and whiplash back and forth beneath the ocean.
First borne aloft on roads of copper and now highways of glass. I scream across the air at the speed of imagination,
gather pace with every passing second wait for intellect and innovation to guide me faster and faster.
I was anchored, tethered and tied to the Earth
Yet now I leap into the sky like a bolt from the blue and out into the black.
I’m all around you on the ground and in the stars.
I carry your thoughts and your words and I convey your sadness and joy.
I bear tidings good and ill. I can save lives, and sometimes end them.
I am an order for pens and paper, I am a mother’s good night kiss.
I’m the latest headline in the paper and a faded photograph remade anew.
I’m your blessing and your curse.
Now more than ever I follow you wherever you go, I’ll bounce off tin cans in the sky to be with you.
I’ll take your precious, private moments and crumble them to dust.
I’m half a world away and I’m in the next street. I am the bearer of all tidings.
my father was electricity and my mother a human voice.
I woke the silence between continents with a burst of static
and a talent for mimickry that mankind had never known.
I was the standard bearer of sounds so familiar,
carrying them to all the places they had been
but in ways they had never travelled.
I was stretched across time, learning my craft and learning it well.
I crawled and then I walked and now I sprint wherever I go.
I launch myself ad infinitum and whiplash back and forth beneath the ocean.
First borne aloft on roads of copper and now highways of glass. I scream across the air at the speed of imagination,
gather pace with every passing second wait for intellect and innovation to guide me faster and faster.
I was anchored, tethered and tied to the Earth
Yet now I leap into the sky like a bolt from the blue and out into the black.
I’m all around you on the ground and in the stars.
I carry your thoughts and your words and I convey your sadness and joy.
I bear tidings good and ill. I can save lives, and sometimes end them.
I am an order for pens and paper, I am a mother’s good night kiss.
I’m the latest headline in the paper and a faded photograph remade anew.
I’m your blessing and your curse.
Now more than ever I follow you wherever you go, I’ll bounce off tin cans in the sky to be with you.
I’ll take your precious, private moments and crumble them to dust.
I’m half a world away and I’m in the next street. I am the bearer of all tidings.
_nderscore
i love the buzzing insect-like feel of this, & how the
sounds sometimes feel close or very far away (&
sometimes both at the same time). excellent work on the
vox FX & the writing. wonderful experiment
DL'd/faved