Trick's key themes are largely love and loneliness, and its standout moment is My Hotel Room, which finds Kele's lusty vocals pressed against a minimalist soundtrack, his voice textured with the sleazy zeal of a man nestled between the crisp, clean sheets of a Holiday Inn executive suite.
Sufjan Stevens, a singer-songwriter with a taste for Minimalist arrangements, blends his voice and banjo into "We Were Here".
Ultimately, he hopes that a few dozen sentences will suffice to capture all the information needed to build a model that can then be used to mimic a real speaker.A more minimalist approach is called "voice transformation".
Like the static laments of the Gorecki symphony, "Morimur" is performed at the highest level, played by Christoph Poppen, a violinist, and sung by the Hilliard Ensemble, a minimalist chorus of four voices.
And though the Yorkshire minimalist only came to voices relatively late, his house style is an easy fit: those spacious progressions unfolding at what he describes as "a human rate"; that formula for evoking meaningful timelessness out of scrunchy new harmonies and tropes of old spirituality.
Freed from the austere jazz settings she favors, Ms. Krall's sharply accented, blues-embellished piano relaxed into a minimalist pop mode, and her voice took on a startling dramatic intensity.
At this concert he is singing night ragas with Mr. Harrison, a composer (and owner of Faust Harrison Pianos) who shares Mr. Riley's background, working with the Minimalist fountainhead La Monte Young and studying voice with the Indian raga singer Pandit Pran Nath.
In "Wintered Debts" whispery acoustic strumming morphs into dazed psychedelia, Queen-like vocal harmonies, a country shuffle and a minimalist haze of piano and voice; that's before the orchestra arrives, quivering and hovering, only to suddenly splice into a postscript like a Beach Boys ballad.
But instead of D.J.'s and writhing partyers, you'll find a mix of soccer moms, yuppies and beanie-and-flannel-wearing hipsters at minimalist wooden tables, straining their voices between bites of lengua tacos and tomato-braised octopus and sips of margaritas flavored with blood orange liqueur and hibiscus syrup.
In "Gra Agus Bas," Mr. O Lionaird's haunting, plaintive voice soared above chugging Minimalist patterns in the alluring score, woven together with high timbres, microtonal harmonies and complex polyrhythms.
