| Composition Year | 2006 ca. |
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| Genre Categories | Pieces; For electronic sounds; Scores featuring electronic sounds; For 1 player |
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Pseudotonal (2023/12/17)
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| Work Title | WhatenZHeckenZ |
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| Composer | Drehmer, Earl Richard |
| I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IED 108 |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 2006 ca. |
| First Publication. | 2023 |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 5.6 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | EPS sampled mouth sounds ZZZZ Hum, Whistle Hum, Breathe In, Whistle Sustained, Voice Sustained (or General MIDI instruments Acoustic Piano, Honky-tonk Piano, Tubular Bells, Electric Guitar (clean), and Brass Section). |
| Extra Information | improvized in Finale |
The title is a play on sounding German and means "What in the Heck". Musically speaking, this piece was composed using Finale software, controlling my Ensoniq EPS via MIDI cables. I had sampled 8 short sounds that I made with my mouth. In this piece I used 5 of them: sustained voice (singing); humming while whistling; vocalizing while breathing in; breathing in; and sustained z sound. For each of these samples I used the EPS to loop the end of the sound so it could be sustained indefinitely. For each of these sounds I created an instrument in the EPS that contained 4 different "patches" and "pressure" that are manipulations of the original sample. The EPS has a pitch wheel and a mod wheel. I made use of the mod wheel to also alter parameters that are applied to the sounds (low frequency oscillator, frequency modulation, position of the loop, etc.) I made use of these as well as of the patches by programming Finale to send MIDI requests to the EPS. I discovered that these instruments would produce a wide variety of sound-effects depending upon the pitch and pressure, as well as the mod wheel. And, I created graphics in Finale to manipulate MIDI data over time.
I have also included a recording made playing General MIDI instruments Acoustic Piano, Honky-tonk Piano, Tubular Bells, Electric Guitar (clean), and Brass Section.
