Credits
- Compositie, arrangement en opname: Marco Raaphorst
- Stem: Tom America
- Foto: Conno van Wijk
KlankBeeld Raaphorst: Macht van de Stem
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"Most of what ends up in my essays I only thought of when I sat down to write them. That's why I write them." - Paul Graham
ik zweer bij tekst. een woord met een klank heeft lading. wit is daar een voorbeeld van. denk ik.
(mooi gemaakt, M!)
I love the way that language is so much better than I imagine language to be–
particularly when it arises from my own inexcusable limitations.
Of course, I did not know what “stem” meant, so I assumed it meant “sample”.
“Macht van de Stem”, I imagined, must be “worked from a sample”.
In my imagination, Tom America was a horn player, although I suppose he could also have been a pianist.
but the power is in the voice, isn’t it? The power is always in the voice.
Lately I think about how hard it is to use a voice in a song. I love to work spoken word sections into music–but to paint a picture with words is so much harder than to paint a picture with sounds.
Yet both are so delightful to try to do.
Prachtig.
I really like Gurdonark’s interpretation of what he thought the words meant.