va - poetry and chaos (chmafu nocords)

again we are in touch with chmafu nocords, label that was presented with their releases some issue ago. here we have their latest release. this is highly conceptual release. maybe even not (so) musical in common sense of word musically. of course is about sound and even music, but its rather about voice and its manipulation. what is all about? this project is consisted of several levels of developing. first maru, the owner of chmafu nocords asked several artists from different countries that speaks different languages to provide vocal samples. samples should be recordings of one or several sentences of artists favorite book but strictly on their native language. so reading samples are on italian (guignol dangereux), japanese (kazuya ishigami), macedonian (every kid on speed), turkish (erdem helvacioglu), french (pyo.), german (maru), english (andrew duke, massaccesi, kim cascone) and of course many others… no other sound source of any kind is allowed, just editing and processing. second part of the project is about producing pieces using provided samples. every artist choose samples and edit them in his own way without using any other sound source. works are here on this release. they vary between glitchy cut up pieces from male and female voices to high and low pitched voices on different languages. about this project there were guidelines but no rules and it's a result of an attempt to live and work together in an anarchistic organized network which shows maru's anarchistic orientation. this projects spontaneously shows not just that voice, as singing, is most powerful and beautiful instrument but also that it can be used as sound source for producing sound and music. packaged in dvd cover and with interesting design this release presents chmafu nocords as really serious label. the cd contains the first pieces made for this project. more pieces can be found on the site on aderss that is available just for those who will get the cd. also if you are interested in first step of the work, voice samples can be downloaded at http://chmafu.mur.at/voices//voices.html. and at the end, this project is still in progress, so if someone is interested in participating should contact chmafu@nocords.net.