Hover by Daniel Menche - Touch [SPIRE3]

Hover

Daniel Menche

A 2 track vocal single (27m 35s) — released June 28th 2010 on Touch

#classical #vocal
"I work at a high school library here in Portland, Oregon. Once a week there's a choir class and occasionally I will poke my head in to hear the fantastic sounds of the kids singing. The singing can be a bit rusty mainly due to the shyness factor in their young voices and the reluctant learning of the music notation from the choir teacher. I really liked hearing that rough-awkward singing from the kids and it remind me of myself being in a choir as a little kid and remembering how much I HATED IT! Mainly because I didn't understand music notation... nor did I want to and also I was incredibly shy just like these kids. Well anyways I'm always thinking of ways to get young folks to have fun with sound and such and also I had an idea to use these fine choir students for a recording utilizing their awkward singing sounds. My strategy for the kids was vowels because every kid knows vowels! A-E-I-O-U and just sing those letters as long as possible is what I will instruct the kids to do. I mentioned to the choir teacher that I will be coming in and taking ten minutes of the student's time to record them for a recorded composition and the teacher approved with this idea but she was also very confused. How can I be a known recording musician and not know about music notation such as 'flat C or sharp D' or whatever that jargon is. I told them... "Don't worry... kids will have fun and it'll sound fantastic." And so I barged into the classroom and hit record on my little recorder and began the vowel singing game with the kids. The sheer state of confusion on their young faces was rather beautiful and the singing was fantastic to my ears. I noticed immediately that they couldn't get the low sounds very well because well... they're kids and baritone sounds just aren't in the picture yet for them. So I utilized a Hammond organ for the bass sounds for the final piece of music titled "HOVER". Included is the raw unedited "as is" recording document of myself having fun with the kids and getting sounds out of them for this "HOVER" recording. This raw recording has a charm to it of the kids being confused and having some fun. Teenage cathartic-ism to say the least. The look on the choir teacher's face when I had everyone screaming in different vowels was priceless. I can see her facial expression screaming at me "Music notation blasphemy!!!"... I respond back "Yep, sure is and now look at all the smiles on our kids faces."
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