Tweeg
Last night I saw Tweeg play live at Webster University. He was travelling across the country, and has a friend here, and they decided to play a set together.
What the music consists of is a Mac G3, a microphone, a small mixer, and custom software developed by Jim (Tweeg). Kate sings, or just makes sounds into the mic, smacking sounds, slurping, hooting, etc. Jim’s software samples the sounds into buffers, where he grabs snippets, sends them into delay loops and effects loops, and makes music out of it.
At first you just hear Kate, making soft single notes, and then you start to hear things she had already sung, and then sounds that you could scarcely imagine actually originated in her voice (though they did), until a pulsing soundfield emerges, haunting and hypnotizing. I bought his CD, and chatted with him quite a bit during the little intermission. It was a very intimate little performance, as there were only about 12-15 people there in the small recital hall, so everyone was close enough to see and hear everything. A very nice little performance indeed.
Saturday 31 Aug 2002 | Sam | Uncategorized