Here it is an example of a musical piece
executed by the group “vocal sampling”; this song is titled “La negra Tomasa”,
you can tell that this piece is executed only with human voice, even the
percussion instruments are simulated with the voice. Following this example, I
want to share this reflection:
In its most primitive beginnings it is
estimated that the music was exclusively vocal, without the utilization of any
instruments. Until now it has not been possible to determined if primitive
singing was born out of the necessity to communicate from large distances or if
it was born out of the necessity of using a different intonation to communicate
with their gods; to say a pray or to thank them. As we all know, all
instruments at their beginning had an strictly vocal behavior (some even
doubled the voice), but with the passing of centuries, musical instruments were
slowly acquiring a bigger protagonism thanks to the sophisticated techniques
developed throughout the years. Nowadays, the sophistication level in the
confection of the musical instruments is total.
So, after all the above mentioned, I think it
is at least a bit ironic that in this era, we are thinking that the voice
should be the one imitating the instruments, when in fact since the beginnings
of music it has always been the other way around.
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