Vocal Production Notes
to the KyPoetry recording of the poem, Poets And Pasties, written by Kylyra
Poets And PastiesSit back. Sink your mind Into us; Tonight we are the main course. Savour Our words, The meat and potatoes Of our souls. Enjoy our vegetable Voices, Cleaned Prepped And cubed For easy digestion. The gravy ambience Of good friends And good poetry Will add the right warmth To the evening. And our flaky crust? Take a bow Gary, Amanda, and Andy! |
I used seven vocal tracks on this piece. The main track uses my standard room reverb and is centre panned. The title is spoken without background, allowing it to stand as an audio introduction to my work. Two side voices were used in this poem as a chorus effect. During: Savour Our words they are used to make mouth noises. One voice does a Hannibal Lecter sound to add an additional humourous aspect to linking the idea of a poet's words to food. The side voices take up the chant 'Be the carrot' on: Enjoy our vegetable Voices; and are heard again, laughing at the end of the piece. Four punch tracks were used to accommodate the different effects used on lines. The first is a ping-pong delay on the opening line 'Sit back'. This was done to audibly pull the audience back into their seats. The other three punch tracks were run on the words 'cleaned', 'prepped' and 'cubed' in the stanza: Enjoy our vegetable Voices, Cleaned Prepped And cubed For easy digestion. I did this to add an audio push to these three culinary terms. Since each term involves a unique action in the kitchen, I chose to use a unique effect for each word. |
