Glacial by Audrey Chen is a live recording of “unprocessed cello, voice and analog electronics”. The recording starts off with a repeating cello riff that raises and lowers in intensity, it lowers in intensity and is this accompanied by the sound of almost a single note on a bass guitar and as this comes in the cello notes start to change and the playing gets more and more intense. Beautiful vocals almost Bjork like then accompany the playing. I really enjoyed the end of the piece where it got more noisy and was surprised at how she got her instruments to sound that fuzzy without effects.
I was surprised by the modulation that she was able to do with her vocals without using processing, at parts of the recording it sounded as if she was using distortion and looping processing. This was inspiring for my final piece as it made me think of how I could use vocals and warp voices without processing.