"SONGS FROM LANGUAGE" von Elwyn
Dennis Sound engineer: Russell Thompson
H2> Listen Dauer: 30'31"
Composer Elwyn Dennis lives in rural Victoria. On visits to Melbourne,
the big smoke, he delighted in the mix of languages he heard on
the streets. At first an exotic titillation for the ear, he realised
that it fitted in with his interest in the music of other cultures,
particularly the classical music. It began to occur to him that
there was a relationship between these spoken languages, their structure,
the specific sounds that they used and the musical constructs of
the parent cultures. So the prospect of using spoken language as a basis for developing
new composition began to take shape. Through co-operation between
The
Listening Room and Radio Australia, many different language
groups were recorded towards this purpose, including Mandarin, Khmer,
Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, Greek, English, and an Aboriginal
language. Once into the project, Elwyn discovered that the notions about
relationships between language and music began to prove true. This
song series complements Elwyn Dennis compositons with sounds recorded
in the natural environment; the human voice, too, being a natural
sound serving the needs of our communication.
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