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Breath's Length

by Roarke Menzies

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Breath's Length is a collection of solo, electroacoustic works that use amplified voice, mouth, and breath as primary sound sources to approach themes of mortality, mourning, catharsis, digital reembodiment, techno-utopianism, and the impulse to outlast one's own lifetime. The album's title track, and conceptual centerpiece, considers both the indeterminate length of a breath, and the indeterminate length of time one has left to breathe (i.e. to be alive), attempting to poetically extend each with technological assistance. The work builds from Steve Reich's notion of using "the human breath as the measure of musical duration." Each sung tone is held for one breath's length, recorded, looped, and overlaid, accreting into a heaving mass of sound – an audible sonic body that 'breathes' indefinitely.

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released June 1, 2017

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Roarke Menzies Brooklyn, New York

NYC-based musician and composer incorporating voice with audio tools and toys to craft deeply human, electronic music (or deeply electronic, human music).

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