On 3/12/2010 7:26 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
dershem wrote:
Seriously, though, the limits depend on the player. I can recall
seeing Bill Watrous speak through his trombone.
cd
None of these effects are as resonant as actually _playing_ the
instrument, though, and can fool the player, and possibly the conductor,
as to how far the sound carries.
Years ago we performed, then recorded a work called "Forest Music" by
Paul Chihara. In the middle of the work the brass players,
unaccompanied, individually recite various overlapping poems about trees
through their instruments. (I remember the tubist is directed to recite
"I think that I shall never see / a tuba lovely as a tree," but most
were more serious, as if that makes any difference.) During that section
my parents in the audience said they could hear nothing. One of our
members caught the radio broadcast of the concert - nearly a minute of
dead air in the middle of the piece.
We recorded the work - I assume the recording engineer (Andy Kazdin from
Columbia Records) got some sound down.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist,
Louisville Orchestra
That could be fun, but Bill did more of a ... controlled vowel movement,
changing the timbre of the sounds he played to sound like speech. He
was creating the buzz, but the pitch was highly variable, and very
strongly modulated.
He did the beginning of MacArthur's retirement speech.
cd
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