Nocturne 41: Trevor Wishart

Trevor Wishart (Komponist, Autor und Softwareentwickler) ist bekannt für das experimentelle Ausloten von "extended vocal techniques" in seinen Stücken, sowie den Einbezug alltäglicher Stimmaufnahmen und deren radikaler elektroakustischer Transformation.  Hierzu verwendet er zumeist seine selbst entwickelten Softwaretools ("CDP - Composers Desktop Project"). Er ist zudem Autor musiktheoretischer ‪Werke wie "On Sonic Art" und "Audible Design".  American Triptych (1999):The twentieth century was dominated by the American Dream … liberty, technological progress and the pursuit of happiness, and represented here by the voices of Martin Luther King, the astronaut and moon-walker Neil Armstrong, and Elvis Presley. The fall of the Berlin wall seemed to herald the final triumph of this dream, and signalled to some, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, the “End of History”. As we move into the new millennium, how permanent or ephemeral will this dream prove to be?
"American Triptych" recreates and transforms these iconic voices. Alongside more conventional techniques, the piece plays with the poor quality of radio reception from space, using the ‘crackly’ noise background as source material, and sometimes processing the voices to reduce their comprehensilbility.
The piece was commissioned by the French Government for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) and first performed in January, 2008, as part of the Cycle Acousmatique concert series, in the Salle Olivier Messiaen at Radio France in Paris. Vocalise: Trevor Wishart explores the possibibililipbilitibilties of the huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuma%*!N  voice!!!!!!!! Globalalia was commissioned by Folkmar Hein, for his 60^th birthday, and premiered at Inventionen 2004, Berlin. The piece was composed using the Composers Desktop Project software between June 2003 and June 2004, in York and in Berlin, where the composer was Edgard Varese Visiting Professor of Music at the Technical University, a residency supported by the DAAD. 
Special thanks are due to Natasha Barrett, Andrew Bentley, Warren Burt, Jane Kasam, Patrick Kosk and Kouhei who all responded to my request to collect speaking voices from the airwaves. As a result, 26 different human languages are represented in this piece. All the sounds used are syllables edited from human speech and selected from an initial database of over 8300 examples. Initial research for this piece was made possible through an AHRB Creative Arts Fellowship.