Entry 14: Charles Dodge – He Destroyed Her Image

While this piece is all in a single line, the various manipulations of the voice setup a complex ebb and flow in the line.
Dodge uses the timbre and textural variances in a way that fluxuates the sense of time, and his flow and direction with the text also help him realize this manipulation of time. I really like how Dodge mirrors and mimics the gestures in the piece, and I was really intrigued in how he derived motives out the rhythms of his text. By creating multiple voice timbres, Dodge sets up multiple layers of time and a sense of a man having a conversation with himself. The manipulations of the voice phonations are key in the majority of these effects and with this Dodge creates a good deal of contrast within a single line. The frantic varitions of the speech push the sense of time forward and Dodge creates many circular gestures out of this which really push the piece forward. I also like his placement of silence in the piece and for that matter Dodge’s dictation of the flow and direction in the piece is very well done. The manner in which Dodge builds momentum with text and expands on it with the voice sounds is very crafty and like how the text is still identifiable through the distroted voice ideas. The is a great continuity throughout the piece in regards to the shapes of his lines, and the mimicing quality between the lines strengthens this continuity. I really like what he is doing with this piece, and the variation with the ideas creates a strong thread in the piece.

~ by mathiasc on October 26, 2007.