This is an example of all-too-typical choral singing today. Sound, yes, but to heck with the message - no intelligible text. Resonant rooms such as this cover a multitude of sins (musical) and hide any meaning.
@IUFTR Consider the setting as well as the means of recording - what you're hearing in this is the audio from a video camera, which often over-compresses the sound in a room to "help" even out audio. This is also the debut performance. Regardless - you can hear a very nicely recorded rendition on iTunes & InstantEncore - recorded with professional equipment in a church in Lawrence, KS a few days later. The clarity is much improved, as is the stereo separation. Thanks for the comment!
Can we get the words added to this page? I can never understand the lyrics in this type of singing, and being able to follow along helps immensely with my enjoyment of the performance.
Comprehensible or not, I love this idea. Thanks to the person who created it and those who performed it.
@calspace If you expand the info (just under the video) it expands and you can read along with the words. I didn't have time to annotate this one before putting it online last night
@leviathant I see that, but the description says that the work comes from "excerpts of public testimony."
In addition to the CD, consider selling the video on iTunes.
Is the piece available for licensing? My mother is friends with someone on the board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and I'd love to see that performed live here.
@calspace Hi - composer Melissa Dunphy here. An annotated video from the recording session is available on my channel (click my username). I self-publish, and I'm currently working on a whizz-bang website for my publishing company, but if you or anyone you know is interested in performing the piece, please have them contact me at contact [at] melissadunphy [dot] com in the meantime.
This is an example of all-too-typical choral singing today. Sound, yes, but to heck with the message - no intelligible text. Resonant rooms such as this cover a multitude of sins (musical) and hide any meaning.
Can't understand a word.
IUFTR 10 months ago
@IUFTR Consider the setting as well as the means of recording - what you're hearing in this is the audio from a video camera, which often over-compresses the sound in a room to "help" even out audio. This is also the debut performance. Regardless - you can hear a very nicely recorded rendition on iTunes & InstantEncore - recorded with professional equipment in a church in Lawrence, KS a few days later. The clarity is much improved, as is the stereo separation. Thanks for the comment!
leviathant 10 months ago
This is utterly gorgeous.
andrewoconnorblue 1 year ago
Can we get the words added to this page? I can never understand the lyrics in this type of singing, and being able to follow along helps immensely with my enjoyment of the performance.
Comprehensible or not, I love this idea. Thanks to the person who created it and those who performed it.
calspace 1 year ago
@calspace If you expand the info (just under the video) it expands and you can read along with the words. I didn't have time to annotate this one before putting it online last night
leviathant 1 year ago
@leviathant I see that, but the description says that the work comes from "excerpts of public testimony."
In addition to the CD, consider selling the video on iTunes.
Is the piece available for licensing? My mother is friends with someone on the board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and I'd love to see that performed live here.
calspace 1 year ago
@calspace Hi - composer Melissa Dunphy here. An annotated video from the recording session is available on my channel (click my username). I self-publish, and I'm currently working on a whizz-bang website for my publishing company, but if you or anyone you know is interested in performing the piece, please have them contact me at contact [at] melissadunphy [dot] com in the meantime.
Thanks so much!
mormolyke 1 year ago
beautiful!
taloisi 1 year ago