T hic k Channel B l a c k Bourbon Fann:fare for Solo Voice
written and composed by
Bil Smith A commission by a close friend of John Cage who will remain an anonymous patron.
Principal artwork: Bil Smith Design: Zachariah Mattheus Printing: Bob Scott, Inkwell Solutions, Inc. Leather work: Kimberly McClure
Copyright Š 2012 Bil Smith. All rights reserved. The score may not be reproduced in whole or in part, in any form, except by reviewers for the public press, without written permission from the artist.
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bhemtah.
chesty voice
brance
booming voice
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strong voice
Performance Notes
strange voice
9
5
3
assumed voice
2
6
strong voice
basiliea 3
11
4
12
8
8
9
18
2
3
plies the woes
eo
craggy voice Whispered in bandit’s tones. Attack of each phoneme = armillary sphere followed by a false reasoning.
Flexed RUM
silver voice
Words created in separate and accidental forms captured in secret rooms of your syntactical library. penetrating voice
4
mystery voice
11
6
1
strong voice
seductive voice
Wispful and fervent. Followed by stammering inappropriate intervallic relationships between utterances; [fig.]
strident voice
hoarse voice
body relaxed, create verbal gestures of annoyance and grace. Then a Renaissance of perfect counterpoint.
strechis
accessible voice
With a severe stare, generate sounds imagined from yellow bits of eighty year old cartilage, bruised and torn, but created for an elegant cosmopolitan crowd of followers. seductive voice casting vote
penetrating voice mystery voice
Every attack dissolves with a vague shimmer to the voice, sustained and fainting to silence. With an unconscious irony, this passage followed by every crumb of affection and beauty. Pops, munching, [fig.]
strident voice mumble and sweeping melody. strong caw voice along with hoarse voice
cheerful voice
In a smoker’s voice; harsh, rude, cruel, wishing forgiveness for decades of alarms and excursions. Produce a testimonial to the swallow like, sped away high frequency shrills and theaters of sonic revelry
accessible voice
possible. Sculptured sighing; soapy , metallic crooning and sneeze a bit. seductive voice
wee small voice
sainted
casting vote
bleating voice Annoying and deceptful; make no friends. Encourage misbehavior and miscontent…sacrifice sound penetrating voice for utterances…but, sacrifice. Ceaseless problems of finance define your elastic fear. Your voice must mystery voice
respond to this call.
sharp voice
justified and convicted voic
arse
§§§ vye bostreist* FRooo The organ of revivification. HarnessedMin droplets of sound fading with breath. Old complexity meets new uy Monw estre... tone § strident voice
hoarse voice
[fig.]
complexity (i.e.”old complexity”) allows the performer {vocalist(s)} to free one’s self of constraint and disdain.
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wee smallaccessible voice voice
seductive voice
casting vote
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sharp voice
justified and convicted voic
5.5 3
2.25
8
voice of a stripper
2
1
False lower voice. Captured and contemptuous, inaccessible and forbidden to all others.
hushed voice
voice of reason wee small voice
rasping voice
Performed on datura stramonium. Slight irritation growing to harmonic elegance and smears of armored walls of fourths, stacked, and restacked with slight microtonal deficiencies. voice of a bear
sharp voice
voice of a bear
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N.9415 2 3 5
high, clear voice
6.69
jousting voice rested and reconstituted voice voice of a stripper
2
3
fremsun touch
voiced to oblivion and money
. . .. .. . .......... .....
voice of a bear
voice of a bear
Performance Notes cont.
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3
2
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23.15
27.98
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jousting voice rested and reconstituted voice 090909.778 55,8 3 5 221 3 5.9 9.840 49 8 9 voice of a stripper
09.09.
high, clear voice
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3
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3
12
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coarse voice justified and convicted voic
treist* FRooo Minuy Monwestre...
Trensom and thensome audio high, clear voice clear voice
Frozen and frail; young and naïve. eftre ˙
voice of a stripper
loud voice
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voice of reason
high voice voice of a bear
low voice
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.............. . .... ... . .. .. . . .. ..to.. oblivion .. .. .. . voiced . . ..leise..Stimme . {f}
justified and convicted voic
raue Stimme {f}
ostone § hatch
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and money
voice of a bear
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jousting voice rested and reconstituted voice voice of a stripper
tiefe Stimme {f}
high, clear voice
gravelly voice
3
low voice deep voice
In the voice of a Bull Mastiff’. Damp grumbling to unrestful barking. Boast of ghents de8 lights Trinity of Bhytigh umhelle Stimme {f}
voiced to oblivion and money
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11
9
soft voice
9
8
14
zarte Stimme {f}
16
nasty, fornicatious voice
3
6
9
dunkle Stimme {f}
6 voice deep
soft voice
14
chesty voice
3
2
6
brance
11
3
strong voice
4
12
8
8
craggy voice
silver voice
nasty, fornicatious voice
A testimony of suffering and impatience followed by a much desired distinction of supernatural order. Chilling and within a piercingly pleasant sonority of certain might. Cover the mouth with hand; cover the 16 9 3cover the head. eyes; cover the ears; 6 9
18
2
3
5
5
Through the lens of maximum order…not one of your parchment. Create verbal/vocal cabalistic signs as if a novice trying to decipher the undecipherable riddle. Coy, belying instruction.
6 strong voice
grelle Stimme {f}
Almost silent. Discreet and collected. In absolute control.
sharp voice
thin voice
innere Stimme {f}
inner voice inward voice voice within sound
strong voice
soft voice
sonore Stimme {f} ing voice
ing voice
weiche Stimme {f} barsche Stimme {f}
sharp voice
bebende Stimme {f} wavering voice quavering voice
penetrating voice
harsh voice
mystery voice
hoarse voice
Thee Clumber Spaniel speaks. Bellowing and brazen; yet ill-knowledged and simple. Lithe in voice, not belegte Stimme {f}
breathy strident voice
in body. Modest, never lavish, an exemplary specimen of elaborately coded messages. heisere Stimme {f}
[fig.]
husky voice
strident voice
strenge Stimme {f} stern voice
voice
accessible voice
Blaze sucking low pressure obsolescence like a seductive voice penetrating voice mystery voice
accessible voice
seductive voice casting vote
6
7
11
casting vote
Prophetic g 02.02
zorni ge Stim me {f}
Virus UNKNOWN
9
G G g raphiti of
final absorbtion 6
4
hoarse voice
Cries of Candaulism; penetrating and closely guarded for some time. We create and delight in this creation gri m mi ge
manifesting in shimmering Kentonian syntax filled with blizzards of sound sheets. Sing Bill Chase.
hoarse voice
ge
angry voice
sharp voice wee small voice
12
11
6with its horns
Treattasumsharp voice tombley moni7 enum nu
kaa haa bleating and bloating
10.5
Grr all of:ff Wee foau Zee bee
8
Concealed voices. Playing the role of the impersonator revealing six, seven , eight different personas; all minimal talents…but, highly differentiated.
This is from Yesterday….smooth and tactile. Convey falsehood, followed by conveyed truth. Judge, but be simultaneously frightened. Sing an inquiry of decree.
Like an angelic doctor from the office of compline.
Performance Notes cont. Creased and defrocked…a gaggle of priests, prostates on the wall, reciting Balboaic psalms to the pulpits of wicked sins; benedictions; …move the moment of ineffable splendor. Tune and be tuned as to your higher rattling; spew forth the beauty of monody and melody…
From the bold tripod, the bastion of strength, the vessel of sanctity and the canacle of wisdom, diminish your sonic permutations to a fragile spineless waif. Only to rebirth and shout to finish the passage.
With mystic ardor and strong pangs of uneasiness. Prayer like. Pray. Modulating murmurs lending to squelched , somber tones of undeterminable origin.
Embryonic, peaceful and dreamlike. An age when photography was favored in art. e S t i m m e
Apoptosi Alla Chromium
ptana
{ f }
Tem
Croth
querulous voice
{Allende Machato} s c h r i l l e
constrained voice
S t i m m e
strained vo
Opomini Desyata Alli Chromium
5
7
4
12
15 transferable vote frightened voice
The Sultan Pique
Your unattainable fervent dreams might fail to be performed in a defiant, nasal sonority.
{ f } shrillness harsh voice shrill voice
Steisi Alle Chromium {Donde Remade}
18 Vestjiges defeated by a “you can squeeze” Doctor Philistine Eternal
Puritan spirit contradicted and demanded. A stentorian and craggy voice…migrate slowly to a hushed tone.
human voice
outbide
bhemtah.
hushed voice
1 2
5 6 1.5
3
8 strange voice
stentorian voice scratchy voice artificial voice
77
4
3
2
14
booming voice Free yourself ever so gradually from any threshold of suspicious articulation of modal consonance.
12 16
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9
basiliea
80
Create a manufactory of sounds,assumed cries,voicecalls, inflections and articulations. plies the woes
impellus
to meo 4
11.11151 11
1661.99 90
87.09
16 5
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9
3
2
1
55,8
3
5
23.15 221
sound
innere Stimme {f}
waveringsonore voice quavering voice
harsh voice ing voice
ing voice
soft voice
sharp voice
sound
ing voice
sharp voice
husky voice
hoarse voice
zorni ge Stim me {f} gri m mi ge
A periscope leaves its secure vessel in a submarine; In a wrong hemisphere, the submarine’s crew responds with…
zorni ge Stim me {f}
audio high, clear voicege
hoarse voice
stern voice hoarse voice
gravelly voice
strenge Stimme {f}
strenge Stimme {f}
strenge Stimme {f}
hoarse voice
recapitulation of their actions…mimic their emotions.
heisere Stimme {f}
heisere Stimme {f}
heisere Stimme {f}
harsh voice
belegte Stimme {f}
belegte Stimme {f}
bebende hoarse voice Stimme {f}
cheerful voice
by2voice 5 8 8 9represented 43 2222 1 1 1and 1 1vocal 3 3 gestures. Former Jack gaggers unite in a belief of loss and decided
Tremedies of chest oklare Stimme {f} powder....profanes enormously hot
husky voice
hoarse voice
bebende Stimme {f}
bebende Stimme {f}
stern voice
belegte Stimme {f}
high voice
12
barsche Stimme {f}
stern voice
voice
breathy
voice
barsche Stimme {f}
Stimme {f}
weiche Stimme {f} husky voice
wavering voice quavering voice
3
breathy
ing voice
soft voice
harsh voice
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wavering voice quavering voice
coarse voice{f} voice sonore Stimme
zorni ge Stim me {f}
one qua
raue Stimme {f}
gri m mi ge
55
angry voice
helle Stimme {f}
b.98.09 9 ge
strechis
Guttural intonation depicting gardens of modest sounds…watering, growing, tilling,of plants, all
weiche Stimme {f}
barsche Stimme {f}
innere Stimme {f}
inner voice inward voice voice within harsh voice
ing voice
weiche Stimme {f} breathy
grelle Stimme {f}
sharp voice
As we drive past the favelas beyond the bodega we squeal in tribal tones…Aboriginal, uninitiated, yet
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58..064 33 6 444.09 sharp voice
thin voice
ing voice
soft voiceStimme grelle
inner voice inward voice voice within
1
sonore Stimme {f}
sound
sharp voice
6
innere Stimme {f}
inner voice inward voice voice within
thin voice
11
909
grelle Stimme {f}
sharp voice
thin voice
27.98
angry voice
gri m mi ge
clear voice
rter as trouble ge
hushed voice
laute Stimme {f}
loud voice
angry voice
leise Stimme {f}
43
low voice
8
low voice deep voice
2 12.9m7
OOP
4 37 268 190
N.9415 2 3 5
tiefe Stimme {f}
Equal anatomy
fremsun touch
6.69
ptana
Tem
Croth
querulous voice
m m e
Apoptosi Alla Chromium {Allende Machato} { f }
s c h r i l l e
constrained voice
Performance Notes cont. S t i m m e
shrillness harsh voice shrill voice
The Sultan Pique
{ f }
M i r a cu l o u sl y i l l uminated circular sounds. Blue cackling; various mottoes and brethren… ch a tte r i n g vo l u mes of sea licking gooseflesh sounds.
Steisi Alle Chromium {Donde Remade}
strained vo
Opomini Desyata Alli Chromium
Ga sp i n g , sn i ve l i ng, gasping pitches…attraction exerted on the two who fulfill the assignment.
7
5
15 transferable vote frightened voice
12
4 As a n y g o o d Fl uffer, pretend to perform in a tolling, loud din of disruption. Precise diction. Fr e e to r e i n ve n t and translate.
Th e m e d i u m , th e cavalo is penetrated by a weight training, tummystick; moaning, spinning, tw i r l i n g vo i ce s…and silence pervades.
Or d e r l y a r ti cu l ation; measured with a sense of great cadence. Produced with a divine i n h a l a ti o n a n d e xhalation like anxious breathing or the action of a bellows.
A deep breath…hold as long as possible…release a long luminous hiss of material residue. Chant and speak, waiting in ambush.
Sa ta n i c. Fr a u d u lent…migrating to sounds of eating and digestion in some form of druidic r i te . Th r e e d i sti nct voices occur in this passage, O ctavious, Mortacai and Beliverimer; all b r a n d s o f vo i ce , defined and delivered. You create these roles.
L i a ’s a d ve n tu r e with metals, metallaphones, and metallic resonances replicated and defined b y vo i ce a n d g e sture. En a cti n g a ch e mical wedding, sounds of faint black lead, cobalt blue distillations, rogue co p p e r a b l u ti o n s, lavender liquefactions…the sounds; the phonera; a stereoscopic orgy of m e n a g e r i e - l i ke performance heard only once; and forever forgotten. By relaxing the vocal co r d s, o b ta i n “ undertones” or “subtones,” which are produced an inverse overtone series. Al th o u g h th e o ct ave below is the most frequently used undertone, a twelfth below, and other l o w e r u n d e r to n es are also possible. In a r o a r i n g vo i ce: nerves, muscles, and twitches; a belly full on nano-metaphorical sounds e n a cte d i n th e body; eyes, spleens, penises and pancreases all capable of producing so n o r i fi c p h e n o mena; to be produced and not replicated in this passage.
Performance Notes cont. Sq u e e ze yo u r e ar with extreme and absurd pressure. Hold and continue pressure. Between o n e w a ve o f p a i n and the next, express your pain through sound; you have to count, because a s th e i n te r va l grows shorter , the moment approaches …
...
So u n d s a n d fr a gments of speech burst the banks of consciousness, washed away inhibitions a n d r o u ti n e s, brought about by nostalgia and fresh interests now suddenly vital and i r r e p l a ce a b l e , n ot unlike those of passionate lovemaking.
D r i ve u s to th e safe shores of various possible booms, in the discourse of time, as a shapeless m a ss w h o a n ti ci pated the great seducers of political power.
It i s m a d d e n i n g the way just the right amount of pastiche and exaggeration…hoses upon us a n d a fi n e ca ke topped by Christian martyrs who acquiesce in worship of grainy, waxing, h o w l - h o - h o w l i n g tones of labor and lust.
Tr u m p e ti n g i n a confluence of harmony and ecstasy…completely harmonic…soft; mutes; e ve n tu a l ca l m .
Rattling, crowing, keening being the outcome: believe in not an ideology, but an idiotology of cinemas of sounds…you are to replicate in perfect testimony…Oh, the howling, cracking, the putrid, skunky like bashing of perfect fifths. Sounds as such demoralized and debunked.
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thin voice
grelle Stimme {f}
sharp voice
innere Stimme {f}
inner voice inward voice voice within sound soft voice
sonore Stimme {f} ing voice
ing voice
weiche Stimme {f} barsche Stimme {f}
sharp voice
bebende Stimme {f} wavering voice quavering voice
harsh voice
belegte Stimme {f} breathy
heisere Stimme {f} husky voice
strenge Stimme {f} voice
stern voice
zorni ge Stim me {f} gri m mi ge
hoarse voice
hoarse voice
ge
angry voice
18 Vestjiges defeated by a “you can squeeze� Doctor Philistine Eternal
human voice
outbide
bhemtah.
hushed voice
1
2
5 6 1.5
3
8 strange voice
stentorian voice scratchy voice artificial voice
booming voice
77
4
3
2
14
12
16
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9
80
basiliea
assumed voice
plies the woes impellus
to meo 4
11
6
1
strechis
cheerful voice
Tremedies of chest opowder....profanes enormously hot one qua 55
b.98.09 9
rter as trouble 43
8
2 12.9m7
hushed voice
OOP
4 37 268 190
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6.69
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coarse voice
audio high, clear voice
klare Stimme {f}
clear voice
laute Stimme {f}
loud voice high voice
raue Stimme {f}
harsh voice
gravelly voice
leise Stimme {f} low voice
tiefe Stimme {f}
Equal anatomy
low voice deep voice
Boast of ghents delights Trinity of Bhytigh umhelle Stimme {f}
zarte Stimme {f}
soft voice
dunkle Stimme {f}
deep voice
soft voice
chesty voice
3
2
silver voice
6
11
brance 3
4
strong voice
12
8 craggy voice
8
9
18
2
3
5
5
strong voice
penetrating voice mystery voice
strident voice
hoarse voice
[fig.]
accessible voice
seductive voice
wee small voice
sharp voice
casting vote
strong voice
strident voice
Blaze sucking low pressure obsolescence like a Virus UNKNOWN penetrating voice mystery voice accessible voice
seductive voice casting vote
6
7
Prophetic g 11
02.02
9
G G g raphiti of
final absorbtion 6
4
sharp voice
12
11
6with its horns
Treattasumtombley moni7 enum nu
kaa haa bleating and bloating
10.5
Grr all of:ff Wee foau Zee bee
8
e
ptana
Tem
Croth
querulous voice
S t i m m e
Apoptosi Alla Chromium { f }
{Allende Machato} s c h r i l l e
constrained voice
S t i m m e
shrillness harsh voice shrill voice
Steisi Alle Chromium {Donde Remade}
strained vo
Opomini Desyata Alli Chromium
7
5
15 transferable vote frightened voice
12
4
The Sultan Pique
{ f }
justified and convicted voic
treist* FRooo Minuy Monwestre...
Trensom and thensome justified and convicted voic
ostone § hatch eftre ˙ be resona Deft leftdeflt
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.............. . .... ... . .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . .. .. . voice of a stripper
voice of reason
voice of a bear
e
voice of a bear
jousting voice rested and reconstituted voice voice of a stripper high, clear voice
3 voiced to oblivion and money
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9
8
14
16 nasty, fornicatious voice
6
3
6
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7
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8
3
12
5
7
Flexed RUM seductive voice
sainted vacuum
bleating voice
feather cluster
arsenal of expert monopolies
5.5 3
2.25
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9
11
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2
1
5
2
5
Flexed RUM
rasping voice
9
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