On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, patrick matte wrote:
quoted 1 line So whats up with Paul Lanski and Daft Punk ?> So whats up with Paul Lanski and Daft Punk ?
There's no connection as far as I know. But the names came up in a
discussion of music with cut-up vocals.
Check out Lansky's "Idle Chatter" pieces on his "More Than Idle Chatter"
album. His first chatter piece was written in like 1984 using a
technique called Linear Predictive Coding (which I believe is a form of
Granular Synthesis. ie: the stuttering voices in various Gescom/Ae
tracks) on a recording of his wife's voice and is really amazing. It
sounds something like someone trying to conduct a 100 person choir to talk
in groups of 5 at various parts of the stereo spectrum while
this sort of gamelan like percussion (really just the chatter pitched
down) goes on underneath. And it's all surprisngly melodic/tonal which
makes you want to listen to the pieces over and over... There's so much
going on that every time you listen to it you hear something new.
And if my word isn't enough check out the latest issue of Grooves
where Autechre, Matmos, Richie Devine, and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead)
give their props to Lansky.
hs
[full disclosure: I wrote the article]
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