SESSION 2.7: The Extranormal Voice and Vocal Improvisation
With Michael Edward Edgerton
Arts and Culture Centre MMAP Gallery (2nd Floor, above MMAP offices)
Friday, June 17th from 7:30pm-9:30pm
Join us for an evening of music and discussion with composer, vocalist, and improviser Michael Edward Edgerton. Edgerton joins us all the way from Guangxi Arts University in Nanning China for an evening of discussion of extended vocal techniques in composed and improvised music. Edgerton is the author of The 21st-century Voice. Contemporary and Traditional Extra-Normal Voice. He is an award-winning and critically acclaimed composer whose music has been performed all over the world. He is especially known for his work with contemporary voice and desynchronized sound production in composition. Michael is also involved with research on music that often involves the tools of voice science, acoustics and perception that has been published in scholarly journals and books. For more information on his work see: https://michaeledwardedgerton.wordpress.com/