Stop Speaking, by Andy Akiho

University of Northern Iowa Percussion student Zoey Cobb performs 'Stop Speaking' by Andy Akiho.
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ABOUT THE PIECE:
Stop Speaking, written and composed by Andy Akiho, is a contemporary solo for snare drum and electronics. Commissioned by Tom Sherwood for the 2011 Modern Snare Drum Competition, this solo features a digital playback in conversation with the snare drum. The digital playback utilizes text-to-speech technology resembling digital personal assistants like Siri or Alexa. This modern solo for snare drum experiments with timbre, notation, technology, rhythms, and allows for multiple interpretations and meanings of the piece.
Vicki’s text, the digital voice made using a MacBook Pro, is as reads:
Hello! Hell oh Hello? Hello? Hello? OH! My Name Is Vicki
I Will Provide tha Digital
Playback! For this Composition
For solo snare drum and electronicS
The the the the the the The the the the the the thisssss
Eye mean My m m m m m mY my my my voice Was Only Created You sing a macbook Pro And A
My crow soft word document
And my part was Typed Out Word for word
my My m m m m m mY my my my
part was Typed Out Word for word then,
SPEECH!! Was Enabled To allow Me to liv
I AM ALIVE!!!!! And I am Happy To provide
The text to this Composition!!
Speech Preferences The apple....
And I am Glad to be The chosen
And I am the chosen voice!! Instead, of Picking, Alex, Bruce, Fred, Junior, Ralph, Agnes, Kathy, Princess, or Victoria
I was chosen!! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You you You You!!! Thank Thank Thank Thank You U U U U U U U U Thank You!!! Unfortunately! When the piece Comes to an end....
I will I will Will I? I will stop Speaking? Stop, speaking!
Stop speaking stop speaking?? I will, stop Speaking!!
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[@TheJustinator]

Wow, the arrangements of the text are so creative.

[@LifetimeNewYorker]

Great job!

[@kramermilan]

Awesome!

[@saladguy2252]

This is sick!

[@erikskoog9487]

Hell yeah

[@sampotassium15]

Where can I get the video file? Great performance!

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