Following on from my curation of vocal sounds I decided to experiment myself in layering vocal sounds using a loop pedal. I took the notion of the paralinguistic and began by layering one by one different sounds, pitches, speeds until the point at which the original sounds were taken over, distorted and ultimately intervened into. Intervention here became the loop pedal, creating the ability to build up sounds in a spontaneous composition that isn’t planned and only exists in that moment. The fragility of the voice is emphasised by the ability to become noise, a drone of compressed sounds all fighting for position. We hear by the end that very few of the original sounds can be differentiated, even initially those that are the most piercing. As it moves towards the crescendo, you begin to hear the places in which the sounds come together in agreement, harmonise and become rhythmic and also where they are in dissonance, where they clash and fight each other resulting in an uncomfortable listening experience.

The two sound clips both only use vocal sounds without words/language. Then the first video brings in the use of word as part of the layering process, seeing how these can be intervened into by the sounds which we make outside of language. The second video then explores the layering of one sound, building different pitches on top of each other to form a resonance that would be unachievable with a singular voice.