To me most of Paul Dutton’s compositions are sounds of things. For an example in M’s ‘n’ O’s it sound like he is a car or a motorcycle accelerating (http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Dutton.php track 20). From listening to other sound artist that’s whats what makes his work unique because these other sound artists don’t do compositions like that. There is this video I watched of one of his work. I am not going to lie at first I was confused and thought that it was stupid what he was doing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCaCHyj4ozk). Then I actually studied what he was doing and made me think. What is this composition about? And how does he make those sounds with his mouth? I looked closely at his mouth and I realized that he he uses teeth to kind of cut the sound to make it choppy. Also you can see Paul Dutton actually forming certain sounds with his facial expressions. Another sound artist is Jaap Blonc, look closely! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNL8-FdG-k). What Paul Dutton says he does with his face is “I use a lot of effects that don’t involve voice at all, such as tongue pops and other mouth percussion and forced-air effects at the lips and the nose.”(http://www.allmusic.com/artist/paul-dutton-mn0001539928/biography). That’s just proves he uses his whole face and mouth just to make his noises. After what Paul Dutton described, this it made me realize how hard it is to make a sound composition.
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