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Vocal improvisation 1 20:14
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Vocal Improvisation 2 10:24
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Extended Voices

New Forms in Experimental Music (series)
Vol 2: Extended Voices

Experiments in voice and playing instruments while walking and dervishing in a resonant acoustic space. Structured long-form improvisation.

Throughout the 1980s my music partner Stuart Hinds and I created long-form radiobroadcast pieces for WCBN-FM in Ann Arbor, text/sound poetry, tape music in the UM Electronic Music Studio, live concerts, composed and improvised music for voices and instruments, and Javanese gamelan, and much more.

This group of improvised and structured-improvisation pieces were created during a visit that I made to work with Stuart in Lubbock in 1985 before departing for Indonesia for my Fulbright year studying Javanese gamelan as a composer. We had access to Moody Auditorium, with its glass and stone entrance lobby that has a cathedral-like acoustic reverb. We did several sessions to multitrack reel tape as well as to portable Marantz cassette recorder. Microphone placements included widely separated stereo mics while we walked through the space, and an AT single-point stereo ambient mic for some of the semi-composed structured-improv recordings.

We also wrote and performed a live concert during my two weeks visiting in Lubbock, featuring both live and tape music.

Other pieces from these Moody Auditorium sessions can be found as the “Worlds” series of pieces on “a stone flute” (NFIEM Vol. 1), also on my Bandcamp site.

There are more recordings from these sessions that I will continue to release over time.

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released April 4, 2022

Written & Produced by Arthur Durkee and Stuart Hinds
© 2022 Arthur Durkee Arts. All Rights Reserved.

Recorded live in 1985 to reel to reel tape at Moody Auditorium, Lubbock, TX. Co-produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered with Stuart Hinds. Remixed and remastered 2022 by AD at Dragonsweyr.

Performed by AD/SH: voices, extended vocals, bells swung on ropes, pitched whirling tubes, harmonic overtone singing, flutes, voices through objects

AD/SH is: Art Durkee and Stuart Hinds

Album artwork by Arthur Durkee

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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