‘We’ve never heard music like this before’
mainA mini-doc on the indefinable vocal group, Roomful of Teeth.
Worth nine minutes of your time.
A mini-doc on the indefinable vocal group, Roomful of Teeth.
Worth nine minutes of your time.
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sounds like Philip Glass stuffmusic.
I respect what these musicians are doing…even though, after buying and listening to one of their albums, I hope never to hear their music again in my life.
Not worth nine minutes. These vocal startups, while often admirable in intent, are vanity projects for conductors. They aren’t doing anything that various Europeans radio choruses are doing with infinitely greater resources.
Well, this particular group has no conductor, so if it’s a vanity project, it’s a vanity project for all of them together – and it’s as much of a vanity project as any string quartet or woodwind quintet or percussion quartet or any other chamber group is for its members.
And the composers who write for this group are writing for that small number of singers, usually with a solo voice on each part, rather than for the 40 voices or so of a European radio choir, just as the composers who write pieces for string quartet or woodwind quintet, etc., are deliberately not writing for the “infinitely greater resources” of a symphony orchestra.
While I don’t share Respect’s opinion in this case (Is an ensemble still a “startup” after the better part of a decade??), they technically do have a conductor… http://www.roomfulofteeth.org/brad-wells-1/
Heard them in Denver before a fairly packed house and they were phenomenal. And Denver isn’t the most musically progressive town. It’s obvious that “Respect” above doesn’t know much about this group.
Caroline Shaw, one of their members, won the Pulitzer Prize recently.
That’s right. I forgot to mention that. Quite an outstanding group.