This time it took me longer to find a starting point that I could work from. I decided I wanted to break the utterances down further into mostly syllables, or rather "phonemes" since we're spoken not written.
I did that and got some great sounds out of the voices, but after that I got jammed. There were plenty of nice "melody" bits, and plenty of lovely percussive sounds, it was just that however I put the latter together it came out like somebody playing with a drum machine and failing to grasp the hotel room trashing aspect of rock and roll.
And so things stood for a few days...
And then I remembered my clarinet lessons. A lot of clarinet music is "swing" (which means splitting each beat into 2/3 and 1/3 instead of two equal parts) and a lot of clarinet studies use cool time signatures...
So I tried 5/4 (swing) and behold... the whole thing started to work...
Cast
Bo Meson - Solo human voice
Rosemary Badcoe - First percussive and "Daa"
Angela van Son - Second percussive, "Hey!" and freaky laughter
Milo van Eerd - Special effects
Shouted interruption appears by kind permission of Mark Hurdiss.
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