kate (hi kate!) wrote: in my researching for things to say for our joni tribute i came >across this gem which i think helps to explain her vocal >sound...btw, i have >tried this at a friends house who had a baby grand & a cool echoing >room...its really fun... > >One of the things that we did that was kind of fun <> he had me sing a lot of >it into a grand piano with the ringing pedal down. So every note I sang >repeated itself in the strings. If you sing into a grand piano, >the notes on the strings reproduce the sound of your voice, that's the amazing thing.
very cool. a couple of contemporary classical composers do this. luciano berio has done a bunch of solo instrumentals he calls 'sequenzas' and a sequenza for trumpet has the hornist blowing at the strings of an open grand piano, while a pianist silently depresses the keys into various chords. so the piece is a solo. and it's not. even better is george crumb's 'ancient voices of children'. the soprano sings some of the texts (garcma lorca poems) directly into the piano. i heard this live a couple of weeks ago (my company helped produce a three-day george crumb festival here in new york in september) and i'm still dreaming about it. oh, by the way, live music rocks. patrick np - soundtrack, the man who cried
