Costis Drygianakis: Notebooks

Voices. Public voices, private voices, narrations, exclamations, whispers, announcements, news, lectures, lessons, schools, shouts, sermons, chit chat, everything, anything. Voices speaking and voices singing, voices dictating and voices begging, voices in proximity and voices through the loudspeaker, voices recorded and voices alive, voices resonating and voices reverberating, voices travelling through time, voices mutated through the electronic media. Voices approached by ethnographers, voices exposed in museums. Voices that assume their listeners. Voices that carry both meanings and sentiments. Can all these city voices be used in musical composition? How can they be reconstructed, and if reconstructed, what exactly they give to the listener? This is not scientific research, though it has made use of the research, as well. This is a composer’s view.