Trevor Wishart
Tongues Of Fire (CD)
FormatCDLabelOrpheus The PantomimeGenreExperimental
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Trevor Wishart is the British composer who more than anyone has turned the human voice into raw material for electroacoustic transformation. Tongues of Fire (1994) was realised almost entirely on a home computer using software developed by Wishart and the Composers Desktop Project, the UK cooperative that made studio-level sound processing affordable, along with Csound and the phase vocoder.
The piece was commissioned by the GMEB in Bourges and premiered at the Synthèse festival there in 1994. Twenty-five minutes of voice turned into fire, swarms and liquid, on the composer's own Orpheus the Pantomime label.
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This music was realised almost entirely on a low cost home computer using software developed by the composer and other participants in the Composers Desktop Project (a UK based composers cooperative) with the support of public domain software (Berry Vercoe's CSound and Mark Dolson's Phase Vocoder). The final mixdown was planned at the GMEB studio in Bourges, France, but realised on the CDP system. The final planning stage was made possible by a commission from the GMEB studio and the assistance…
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- GMEB Studio
- Commissioned By
- Trevor Wishart
- Liner Notes [1994]
