Speak to the beat on Spoken Wor(l)d

Peruvian Composer and aptly named traveller Phileas has gone around the world collecting recordings of the spoken voice in more than 30 languages

What makes his work different is the use of those recordings over an electropop beat, to produce a dance album released in July 2008.

The voices, speaking in their own language, are used as instruments, and the meaning of the words are less important than the intonation, voice qualities and phrase shapes of the speakers.

The dialect world calls the melodic contours of a language "prosody", and it's obvious that Phileas has tapped into this idea and extended it via his electronic studio.

The music is clever, catchy and, frankly, groovy. Catch a sample of the album on http://www.phileasworld.com/english/artist/index.html


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