Voice Lessons is an electronic, audio device that interrogates the popular myth that every musical instrument imitates the human voice. Touching the screen allows the participant to manipulate the visuals and vocalizations of the “voice teacher” as he recites vocal warm up exercises. The piece resides in the space between a musical instrument and voice [...]

The second movement (Cuckoo-borough) of Dale’s Voice Without Words will be performed at the ICMC on August 4th at Huddersfield University, UK. The piece will be presented in 5.1 surround sound. You can hear a stereo version in this post.

Ongoing development of a Free, Open Source bio-sensing software/hardware framework for the application of muscle sounds to biophysical generation and control of music, video and responsive milieux. This research will investigate to what extent could muscle sounds be employed musically and how such envision could inform the methodology of music performance. Similarly to human voice, [...]