I was commissioned by the artist Gyan Rander* to put together a soundtrack for his film "Do you want solutions or do you want support?"

The work is a subtitled video slide lecture - ‘Loose Associations, Wretched ’20′ - narrated in the vocal style of Miss Othmar (the trombone voiced teacher from the Peanuts comic strip).

Working with my pal Pip Cartwright - an experimental trombonist - we deconstructed the original 'Othmar' character sound to work out both how it was produced, and to push it's method of mimicking speech even further: from copying a general speech pattern, right down to the intonation of individual syllables.

Gyan had recorded a placeholder VO, so we then set about faithfully recreating his vocal delivery and speech pattern In trombone form.
And went a bit nuts in the process.

Shown below - a short excerpt of the 1hr 20min long piece.

Thanks Gyan

Film and script: The Artist
Sound: Wevie / Al Boorman, Pip Cartwright

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent