record - object "Duet was constructed
by cutting two different, commercially released LPs in half and gluing
one to the other to produce a playable disc. There were many cut and
paste experiments as the final sound quality and listenability were
a concern. My audio criteria, a high pitched male voice and a low pitched
female voice were influenced by a variety of pop phenomena; an inordinate
number of male soprano and falsetto voices in pop music, the pairing
of Sonny & Cher with their visual and vocal gender confusion, the
duet in general and in particular the improbable bursts into song of
bickering lovebirds in American musical films and magical realism, the
Brazilian version." (B. G.) |