mouth music / uninvention of the guitar

 

(via John Olson) 

Dave Segal on the case

https://www.thestranger.com/music/2017/12/20/25640340/lost-classic-album-alert-sue-ann-harkeys-the-ancient-past-and-the-ancient-future-are-both-seconds-away

Some of this stuff reminds me of disintegrated Jefferson Airplane

munmusik / det här var imorgon

 

musique de bouche (cos personally I'm more of a Saverot's man)

 

szájzene / ez volt a holnap

 

more Magyartronika  but no so mouth music-y

mouth music (Todd is Odd) (wordscapes)

 

not mouth music, but electronic album by Todd that is excellent stuff

This tune is also well worth a listen and it's called "Wordscapes"

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/george-todd-wordscapes

mundmusik (atem-scape / schnaufend und keuchend)

 

mund musik (Brün baby Brün)

Two Brün's actually - Herbert & Marianne Brün

Some "das war morgen" business 

mouth music (gift of the gaburo)

very amusing that

but please do check out the astonishing "Antiphony III - pearly-white moments" which is the first long piece on this album 

likewise this demented silly-scary sped-up-vox screamscape - which reminds me just a bit of the old Python "are you Mary Queen of Scots" skit 

 

now this next one is non-vocal but truly amazing (and a homage to Partch) 

ditto for this one, sort of melting-clock jazz, kinda, sorta 

another goodie 

and another

text-sound-scape 

Mundmusik (Maas confusion)

 

hearable here

more Gunter goodies including demo of his audio-visual painting invention!

música en la boca (Beatriz y el habla de los niños)

 

musique de la bouche (poème électronique)

 

música en la boca (canto)

 

Another great Beatriz Ferreyra record from Room40 -  Canto+

Listen and buy here 

Release rationale: 

".... Beatriz Ferreyra is one of only a few female concrète composers who were active across the second half of the 20th century through to today. Her work, which is still very much an active investigation, is simultaneously complex and elegantly simple. Often drawing upon singular object of focus, Ferreyra’s use of tape and other forms of manipulation radically reconfigure her chosen sound materials, opening them outward.

"Canto+, collects works from almost 40 years of her life in music and pays homage to her unerring interests in dynamism, rhythm, voice and the morphic potentials of concrète materials. Two of the works are also dedication to close friends; Jingle Bayle’s (to François Bayle) and Au revoir l’Ami (to Bernard Bashet). This edition picks up where Echos+ leaves off and opens her sound worlds even further." 

mouth music (rotatey flowerpot)

 

(via David Stubbs)

catmouth music

 

mouth music (gwod bothered)

 

chuzzlewit

mouth music (progmetheus unbound)

 

in homage to The Wire's Peter Hammill / Van Der Graaf Generator issue, and via Derek Walmsley's editorial 

mouth music (horsey hoarsey)

 

musique de la bouche (how now Brau kao)

 

Schnabelmusik versus Mundmusik

 

from Speech Poems / Fruity Music, new on Black Truffle

release rationale: 

"Black Truffle is delighted to offer up a rare serving of unheard works by legendary Swiss artist Anton Bruhin. Active as a visual artist, poet, and musician since the 1960s, Bruhin has created important work in forms as varied as concrete poetry and landscape painting, imbuing everything he does with wit, humility, and absurdist humour. A recognised master of the jew’s harp (or Trümpi, as this ancient folk instrument is known in Swiss German), Bruhin’s sound work also encompasses tape collage, sound poetry, and manipulated bird song.

On Speech Poems/Fruity Music we are treated to 26 short pieces made between 2006 and 2008 using the audio software Fruity Loops. These pieces carry on Bruhin’s long-running project of exploring the creative use and misuse of cheap, accessible technologies. In many of his analogue works, Bruhin explored the possibilities of simple cassette equipment. He invented DIY approaches to layering sounds by using multiple tape machines, experimented with distortion and tape speed, or, in his classic Inout (1981) created a maniacally single-minded audio monument to the pause button. Like the computer pixel drawings the artist produced around the same time as these recordings, Speech Poems/Fruity Music extends this approach to consumer software, presenting two parallel sequences of works that make use of Fruity Loops’ inbuilt synthetic instruments and its speech synthesis function. The instrumental works play like a twisted take on the aesthetics of 1980s video game soundtracks, using synthetic accordion and harpsichord sounds to realise jaunty little ditties that exploit their machine-realisation by making use of improbable pitch-bends and humanly impossible tempos and articulations.

Between these samples of Fruity Music, we are treated to the Speech Poems, a series of recitations by a lone computer-generated voice. Many of them are in fact songs, as the synthetic voice crudely and hilariously changes pitch as it moves through its fragmented syllables and odes to cream in coffee. Carrying on Bruhin’s interest in the creative misuse of technology, many of the Speech Poems attempt to force Fruity Loops’ voice synthesis, designed only to speak English, to speak German. By entering phonetic text into the program, Bruhin gets it to produce a passable German alphabet and a series of approximations to a proper pronunciation of his name.

Hilarious while strangely austere, entertaining but bizarre, Speech Poems/Fruity Music is classic Anton Bruhin, arriving in a beautiful mosaic cover by the artist, with the text of the ‘abc für anglophone’ on the back cover. "

more Bruhin bruitisme

and a taste of his experimental jew's harp music!

mouth music (punkapella)