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Clouds of sound, pools of glowing light<\/p>\n
\u00abThese voices are like no choir you ever heard.\u00bb Richard Williams writes in his liner notes for Rooms & Rituals. \u00abThey can form pale clouds of sound, or pools of glowing light, or bright shafts of pure sound.\u00bb <\/p>\n
Trondheim Voices draw from a pool of up to 10 female singers. In the past they have given the premieres of specially commissioned pieces by distinguished composers including Marilyn Mazur, Jon Balke, Christian Wallumr\u00f8d and St\u00e5le Storl\u00f8kken. Their performances are often site-specific and make use of the element of mobility enabled by their use of a unique technology.<\/p>\n
As they move around the performance space, the singers wear small wireless boxes featuring controls that enable each one to modify her voice through the manipulation of effects that include reverb, delay, pitch-shift and looping. These boxes are called Maccatrols,\u00a0developed and designed exclusively for the ensemble by sound designer Asle Karstad and programmer Arnvid Lau Karstad.\u00a0The voices are the sole sound source and, as\u00a0unlikely as it sometimes sounds, everything the audience hears is created in real time. The organic and the technological elements combine to make something genuinely innovative.<\/p>\n
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\u00abThese voices are like no choir you ever heard.\u00bb Richard Williams writes in his liner notes for Rooms & Rituals. \u00abThey can form pale clouds of sound, or pools of glowing light, or bright shafts of pure sound.\u00bb<\/p>\n
As they move around the performance space, the singers wear small wireless boxes featuring controls that enable each one to modify her voice through the manipulation of effects that include reverb, delay, pitch-shift and looping. These boxes are called Maccatrols,\u00a0developed and designed exclusively for the ensemble by sound designers Asle Karstad and Arnvid Lau Karstad.\u00a0The voices are the sole sound source and, as\u00a0unlikely as it sometimes sounds, everything the audience hears is created in real time. The organic and the technological elements combine to make something genuinely innovative.<\/p>\n
This album consists of pieces taken from several performances, including one at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin in 2017. \u00abAs the director of Jazzfest Berlin, it was my privilege to introduce them to an audience that quickly fell under the spell of their quietly dramatic combination of musical and theatrical elements.\u00bb Richard Williams writes in the liner notes for the album. \u00abIt was a performance that made full use of the meditative atmosphere created by the modernist church\u2019s hexagonal space, its stained-glass windows and its special acoustical properties.\u00bb Two pieces here are from that concert, one of them (\u201cHymn") featuring a Norwegian folk song\u00a0against a backdrop that shows what strikingly sensitive, original and emotionally resonant effects the singers and their sound designer can create from apparently simple materials. For both the singers and their audience, this is music in a constant state of discovery.<\/p>\n
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