Highlights from the premiere of "Ursonography" by Jaap Blonk and Golan Levin, 2005. Blonk's performance of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate is augmented with a modest but elegant new form of expressive, r...
Highlights from the premiere of "Ursonography" by Jaap Blonk and Golan Levin, 2005. Blonk's performance of Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate is augmented with a modest but elegant new form of expressive, real-time, "intelligent subtitles." With the help of computer-based speech recognition and score-following technologies, projected subtitles are tightly locked to the timing and timbre of Blonk's voice, and brought forth with a variety of dynamic typographic transformations that reveal new dimensions of the poem's structure. Performed at Ars Electronica, September 2005.
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This is unbelieveable. So brilliant. I can't believe Blonk memorized all this. He is so expressive with the words. This is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I think of Berio's vocal lines as being less patterned or at least in less detail than the highly articulated Ursonate. I think of some of Bobby Mc Ferrin's stunning improvisations. In my experience as both performer and listener, the human voice is inexhaustibly expressive. I wonder if anyone's ever done a book or a film on extended vocal forms in global performance? From Tibetan chanting to the Roy Hart Theatre, Korean Pansori, scat singing, Chinese opera, Klingon opera (!) and more!
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