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What Happened II

What Happened II

The original version of What Happened was created for a compilation curated by Melody who asked several composers from the Mills College Music Community where she was studying, to create music based on her texts to be broadcast on the radio. Originally performed with my home made PAIA synthesizer, cassette tapes and Prophet 5 (“What Happened”), I made several versions which adapted to the technology I was developing. This version is performed with the lady’s glove, the hand stealing my voice. Sumner Carnahan’s text seems to naturally lend itself to the possibilities for disintegration v...

Credits

Voice, lady’s glove, Mac Powerbook 180 with MAX software, Yamaha TG77, Peavey SP Sampler, IVL Pitch-midi Release: Dangerous Women: Early Works 1985-2005 What Happened was released on “Imaginary Landscapes “ (Elektra, 1989) and The Time is Now (Frog Peak Music, 1983) Side Note: A subsequent version, “What Happened III”, was created with the lady’s glove controlling the voice and music in real time as well as the video which ran “Imagine”, the live video software developed by Steina Vasulka and Tom Demeyer at Steim Institute, 1996.

  • Electronic
  • 1993
  • Stereo
  • Track curated by:

    ZKM Karlsruhe