dershem wrote:
Seriously, though, the limits depend on the player. I can recall
seeing Bill Watrous speak through his trombone.
cd
......
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
Yeah, played vowel sounds are a different deal entirely. Stuart
Dempster and Vinko Globokar are the pioneers. The assumption is that
the basic brass sound is "ah" (or "oh"), and that one can, with change
of mouth shape, produce all the vowel sounds.
Watrous was playing for you a few bars of this classic work:
<http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=11>
My guess, is, that like me, Bill has only mastered a few bars of the
piece, as his priorities are elsewhere. But I could be wrong. I heard
him do a nice bit of multiphonics, years ago.
Here is a 2006 article on my good friend Stuart Dempster at age 70. Stu
commissioned (really co-composed, from what I understand) and championed
"General Speech" back in the late 60's:
<http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=31594>
RBH
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