Voicespace

Philip Larson (Performer), Roger Reynolds (Composer)

Product Details

• Performer: Philip Larson
• Composer: Roger Reynolds
• Audio CD (September 18, 1993)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lovely Music
• ASIN: B00000IO9P
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #484,260 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Andrew Porter, The New Yorker

"Working with words...with virtuoso singers and speakers, and with sophisticated electronic equipment, Reynolds explores analogues between sound and sense, and...builds beautiful structures moving through space, enclosing the listeners in a mysterious world where their own poetic and imaginative faculties are sharpened and refreshed."

Product Description

Voices, language and space interested Roger Reynolds since The Emperor of Ice Cream was written for the ONCE Festivals in Ann Arbor in the 1960s. In the 1970s, at the Center for Music Experiment in La Jolla, he heard the daily rehearsals of the Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble and, in the evenings, read his my daughter to sleep, trying to capture an individual and consistent vocal behavior for each character in the story. A demanding critic, she stimulated Reynolds' reflections on vocal identity. Electronics offered rather precise control over auditory space (a particular sound's size, location, distance, the character of the host space in which it was heard). Choosing spare but evocative texts (Borges, Melville, Stevens, Coleridge) Reynolds conjures up unfamiliar yet appropriate vocal behaviors with which to present them. The five works in the series thus far share a concern with the potential of auditory imaging: this is a subject still only tentatively broached. They attempt to create a personal theater through the mind's ear. Yet they are distinct. Three of them are presented on this CD: The Palace (Voicespace IV), Eclipse (Voicespace III), Still (Voicespace I).