| Composition Year | 1987 ca. |
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Contents |
| Work Title | Meqanicel |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Drehmer, Earl Richard |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IED 87 |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1987 ca. |
| First Performance. | 2011/07/04 |
| First Publication. | 2011 |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 9.3 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | mouth samples, eectronic music |
This is the 2nd piece in the series composed using mouth sounds. I intentionally spelled Mechanical wrong. All the pieces in this series have odd titles spelled all kinds of ways.
Meqanicel began with the sound effects I created for a childrens' church "time machine" skit.
On my Ensoniq EPS I sampled 8 sounds made by my mouth (whistle, hum, wind, etc.). Then I altered them through various electronic techniques (filters, LFOs, loops, envelopes, etc.) and created a set of 8 instruments with multiple patches and mod wheel available to alter them live and intuitively. I then created these works with the fanciful titles, mostly in 8 tracks, with 1 or more of these sounds per composition. I explored what could be done to use the EPS as an instrument and not just a sequencer. One friend calls these samples "extended vocal techniques". Some of these pieces use samples not of my own making. Some of them were composed directly on the EPS. Others were composed on the computer using Finale and performed through the synthesizer via MIDI, so they have an actual score with patch, mod wheel, pitch wheel, and other expressions inserted, performed by settings and graphics.
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