#3546: Yodels and Hockets

For this New Sounds, listen to music involving yodeling, (the abrupt change of pitch in a voice during a single note) and hockets. Hocketing is a rhythmic technique where you take two or more musicians and split up the melody between them so that one note, pitch, (or chord) sounds while the other rests.  Listen to music by Merrill Garbus, aka TuneYards, performed by her and some performed by the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth.  Also, from vocal innovator, conductor, and improviser Bobby McFerrin, hear one of his Circle Songs. Then, hear from the late Camerounian guitarist, novelist, singer, flutist, percussionist, and musicologist Francis Bebey, in a piece where he alternates falsetto vocals with a tiny, single note, bamboo flute,” to create a hocket.  Plus, music from Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble, and from Zap Mama (Belgian artist Marie Daulne) as well.

PROGRAM #3546–Yodels and Hockets  (First aired on 12/17/2013)