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Pascelle Burton (feat. Renee Vaughan Sutherland) - As If, Philip Tagg

from Intone: Voice Abstractions by Various Artists

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As If, Philip Tagg is a response to an article written by musicologist Philip Tagg in a 1987 issue of Semiotica, called ‘Musicology and the Semiotics of Popular Music’. While I appreciate much of the sentiment of Philip Tagg, there was a concept in this article that stirred me:

(Try producing music by reading this sentence in a normal tone of voice!) … precision of musical discourse does not equal precision of verbal discourse since the two symbolic modalities are not interchangeable and have no quid pro quo relationship with each other …
So I took up Tagg’s challenge and recorded film artist and sometimes collaborator, Renee Vaughan Sutherland, saying a variety of words from the article in a 'normal tone of voice'. Using the words and phonemes, I produced a track that consists entirely of speech and is, in some regards, undeniably musical. The track brings to light the concept of the musicality of spoken word as well as making reference to the innovative possibilities of digitizing the voice.

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from Intone: Voice Abstractions, released September 30, 2015
written by P. Burton

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The Clan Analogue collective was started in Sydney, Australia, in 1992 by a small group of people who were interested and active in electronic sound. Largely fuelled by the sore lack of live venues in Australia for electronic music and a lack of options for releasing recorded material, Clan Analogue was born out of necessity. ... more

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