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Erin Gee
12+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposerusamericanUnited States
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In January 2014, Erin Gee was cited by Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, as a member of the short list of the most influential composer-vocalists of the 21st century and since then has been awarded the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Bogliasco Fellowship. This marks a turning point in the trajectory of international recognition through the performance of her series of compositions entitled Mouthpieces, which uses non-traditional vocal techniques, devoid of semantic language, to construct intricate and subtle patterns of a diverse array of vocal sounds. In the Mouthpieces, the voice is used as an instrument of sound production rather than as a vehicle of identity. Linguistic meaning is not the voice’s goal. The construction of the vocal text is often based on linguistic structure—vowel-consonant formation and the principle of the allophone—and is relatively quiet, with a high percentage of breath. The Mouthpieces began as solo vocal works, devoid of semantic text or language and notated with the International Phonetic Alphabet. In the Mouthpiece series, the voice is used as an instrument of sound production rather than as a vehicle of identity. The series began as one piece for solo voice in 2000, which she began performing as a graduate student, and has grown to over 30 works for orchestra, opera, vocal ensemble, large chamber ensemble and string quartet, which have been performed internationally with some of the top ense
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Yamaguchi Mouthpiece
1342Mouthpiece I
763Mouthpiece IX, Pt. 1
534Sleep, Scene 7: Transparency [Excerpts Arr. for 6 Voices]
465Mouthpiece: Segment of the 3rd Letter
416Mouthpiece IX, Pt. 2
407Mouthpiece VII
408Mouthpiece X
389Sleep, Scene 4: Abyss [Excerpts Arr. for 6 Voices]
3610Sleep, Scene 10: The Fourth Letter [Excerpts Arr. for 6 Voices]
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