The HD-Audio Challenge II

[David A]

I happened to stumble across this today, a YouTube clip of the "Slide" track mentioned by David A.  It is not exactly pleasant to listen to, but the "in your ear" intermodulation effect is interesting. (and captured nicely by a low bit rate YouTube clip)

https://youtu.be/fH3nXdRZtbM?list=OLAK5u...qCn5p2SmEA

It is available on Tidal as a 44.1/16 stream on the album "Our Lady of Late"..

In her earlier recordings such as this one Meredith Monk explored a number of "interesting" techniques besides this intermodulation effect, including the African "click singing" technique originally heard by most of us old enough to remember on Miriam Makeba's recordings, and also overtone singing. I think if you want to find an artist who has explored what can be achieved with the voice, either a single voice or a group of voices, Monk is someone you should listen to but the vocal sounds on some material, especially in her earlier recordings, are not always pleasant and her musical style is definitely rooted in the avant grade classical traditions of the last half of the 20th century which is also not to everyone's taste. I like her music but I don't play it often and I play her later music more often than I play her earlier music such as this album.