Humming As Sonic Art

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KATHY KENNEDY – HMMM REMIX COMPILATION (CD by Le Son 666)
Perhaps it’s safe to assume that all people hum, at least every now and
then. Humming to themselves, to a tune or to meditate. Kathy Kennedy, of
whom I never heard, does group hummings for ’sonic experimentation and
meditation, for play and for physical well-being’. Recordings of this
humming were given to a whole bunch of people in order to crank out some
form of remix, which is clever thinking, me thinks, because it brings her
work to a new audience. Kennedy is, I believe, from Montreal, so some of the
Montreal posse are here, such as Helene Prevost, i8u but also Francisco
Lopez, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, Austici, and lesser known names, such
as Doug van Nort, Magali Babin, Jonas Olesen, Margaret Schedel. Some of them
use the humming of voices as a starting point to create electronic
deviations of it, other use the voices as voices, and layered them, change
the pitch etc. But all of the twelve remixes (the first track is a sort of
documentary piece about humming and people are
being interviewed) seem to be interested in creating densely, atmospheric
music in which you can feel good. To create perhaps a similar effect as
humming, to enter a relaxing state. Quite a nice compilation, but not always
a big surprise. (FdW)
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David Newman
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