WORK AND RESULTS

This section gives an account of the musical outcomes of this project. Different aspects of the music making process are described – from what constitute the material, what kind of features of speech have been explored musically, to how these features have been translated into musical structures and sound, and how these structures have been organised as music. This includes approaches to improvisation, composition, repertoire development, orchestration, sound sources and performance methods. In short – all the practical artistic methods used in this project for fulfilling the aim of creating and performing improvised music based on speech.

A fairly detailed overview of the software instrument system developed for realizing this musical exploration is also included. This is provided not just as a plain technical description, but – as all the technical choices in the design are a consequence of musical decisions – as an important and integral part of the background to understand the concrete methods adopted for making music in this project.


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