Jesse and I are engaged in an on-going project to explore the interfaces of written and musical languages. To experiment with merging these disparate vocabularies in various ways. To follow the outcomes, and reach further.

I’ve selected these two particular pieces from the hour long performance, as I see them representing opposite ends of the current spectrum of our work.

The first selection, famine, I would describe as a traditional kind of spoken word and music. It is an integral whole certainly, but is traditional in the sense that the word and musical components maintain a clear sense of their own identities and roots.

The second piece is called frame-shift and in it the two component vocabularies become more fluid, and suggest (to me) that a unique synthesis of these two creative expressions may be possible.

In addition, I’ve included a short intro clip in which Jesse and I speak briefly about our joint creative process.

Intro

famine

Jesse Canterbury - bass clarinet, Kayt Hoch - spoken word

frame-shift

Kayt Hoch - voice, Jesse Canterbury - bass & soprano clarinets, soprano clarinet prepared without mouthpiece and played by blowing across the barrel

All recorded live at Gallery 1412 in Seattle, 19 July 2008.

In case you care, no effects were used live or after the fact. Kayt is amplified using Shure SM86 mics, Jesse is playing un-amplified, and the gig was recorded with a Zoom H4 using its on-board mics.

All content is copyrighted 2008 Kayt Hoch & Jesse Canterbury, rights reserved. Contact Kayt if you are interested in using any of the work, or if you are interested in proposing a collaboration.

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