One of the most capable and unusual voices on the planet, German sound artist and vocalist Ute Wasserrmann emulates the most baffling of bird songs in 10 unique performances using seemingly impossible vocal technique that morphs aviary exclamation with alien and indescribable utterance, performed along with a vast collection of bird whistles; strange indeed!
"Multiphonic trills and yodels, loops of ululations, sudden percussive outburst, warbling glissandi. Ute masks her voice with bird whistles creating a hybrid vocal persona with sculptural, oscillating, swirling tone-colours. The vocal sounds seem to be disconnected from the human voice dissolving into the sounds of birds, of machines, of electronics, of fragmented language."
"Ute Wassermann's vocal practice is so unique and specialized that it seems to challenge our ability to understand it's sounds as vocal." --Aaron Cassidy, Noise in and as Music, University of Huddersfield Press, 2013
"Wassermann sings as a bird, rather than like one. And as philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari point out in A Thousand Plateaus, 'Becoming is never imitating ... The Wassermann soundworld takes form within waveflows and fluctuating particles."-Julian Cowley, Outer Limits Review, CD review radio tweet, The Wire, March 2016