As another element to my research I have put together a playlist of musicians who experiment with both the voice and the process of listening, asking you to approach the sounds from a new perspective. In the case of Bjork, these are taken from Medúlla that explored experiments with the voice to create a purely vocal album. Here Bjork was concerned with how voices fit together and the relationships between them. The resulting affect is one of feeling and emotion, where every sound regardless of the processes it went through has its origins in the human voice. Pamela Z, Maja Ratkje and Tanya Tagaq each explore the voice and the pushing of this to its limit. In doing so they open up the voice into avenues that we wouldn’t have though possible. In Tagaq’s work she uses Inuit throat singing layered in growls, grunts and raw emotion to convey a power that celebrates heritage and elevates it into new dimensions. Holly Herndon on the other hand explores sound as derived from the laptop as a hyper-emotional instrument. Her voice and accompanying sounds are put through digital technology to form an output that taps into the generational voice as mediated through our smart phones, commenting on the notion that there is no escape from this only an exit and that exit will result in a new platform rather than an impossible utopia.

Perhaps my project could form a collaborative composition that also has an element of collaborative curation? Voices (from experimental vocalists, choirs, everyday speech patterns) can be collated via various online platforms and in turn objectified through them. Sound as object via the medium it is translated through.