Another little life ambition fulfilled:
seen Laurie Anderson LIVE
($40 buys me a seat a little left of centre, on the main Orchestra section, can just about see Andersons' face = priceless)
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theatre, 28/09/10
A more 'stripped 'show in comparison with her epics that we're all perhaps used to (e.g. United States I-IV, Songs of M0by Dick)
I go expecting for inspiration, and she certainly delivers:
Voice Manipulation. It's taken her a long time to really perfect the voice modifier to avoid it sounding too 70s and of unintentional comic effect, having to reinvent and redevelop the same technology over these years. For this show she chose to just use the deep, resonant, ulta-masculine 'voice of authority' as she describes.
It seems like a safe bet, as most of the higher frequency voice modifiers can never escape comic unintention. However, she does need to more wary of how booming the lower frequency registers can affect the comprehensibility of her speech. At several points I was straining to keep up with the story she was threading.
Voice Changers: http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/av-voice-changer.html
Reasonably priced, professional espionage-style sound- however, personally untried and untested, so could result in Darth Vader and mickey Mouse antics, which are fun and comical, the need is to bend gender through sonic modification, to play around with the voice and the vocal yet maintaining some level of 'sonic acceptability'- whereby the auditor recognizes that the voice is still human and 'real', of another human being, yet in order to deceive the auditor enough- should the voice changer be used 'in remote and hidden circumstance' as opposed to in live performance. Even then, some concealment (method) could be created in order to disguise the technology through some symbolic material as decoy/distraction whereby the voice changer is hidden behind.
seen Laurie Anderson LIVE
($40 buys me a seat a little left of centre, on the main Orchestra section, can just about see Andersons' face = priceless)
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Harvey Theatre, 28/09/10
A more 'stripped 'show in comparison with her epics that we're all perhaps used to (e.g. United States I-IV, Songs of M0by Dick)
I go expecting for inspiration, and she certainly delivers:
Voice Manipulation. It's taken her a long time to really perfect the voice modifier to avoid it sounding too 70s and of unintentional comic effect, having to reinvent and redevelop the same technology over these years. For this show she chose to just use the deep, resonant, ulta-masculine 'voice of authority' as she describes.
It seems like a safe bet, as most of the higher frequency voice modifiers can never escape comic unintention. However, she does need to more wary of how booming the lower frequency registers can affect the comprehensibility of her speech. At several points I was straining to keep up with the story she was threading.
Voice Changers: http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/av-voice-changer.html
Reasonably priced, professional espionage-style sound- however, personally untried and untested, so could result in Darth Vader and mickey Mouse antics, which are fun and comical, the need is to bend gender through sonic modification, to play around with the voice and the vocal yet maintaining some level of 'sonic acceptability'- whereby the auditor recognizes that the voice is still human and 'real', of another human being, yet in order to deceive the auditor enough- should the voice changer be used 'in remote and hidden circumstance' as opposed to in live performance. Even then, some concealment (method) could be created in order to disguise the technology through some symbolic material as decoy/distraction whereby the voice changer is hidden behind.
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