Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project, A short film by Christopher Mills.
Charles Spearin - Anna, The Happiness Project
“I wanted to see if I could blur the line between speaking and singing, and write music based on these accidental melodies. So, I had some musician friends play these neighborhood melodies as close as they could on different instruments (the tenor saxophone as Mrs. Morris, the harp as Marissa, etc.) and then I arranged them as if they were songs.” The Happiness Project
THE HAPPINESS PROJECT
Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, KC Accidental, Broken Social Scene) interviews people about what makes them happy and then takes the pitches of their voices and turns them into music.
“Charles’ experiment with sound was especially moving when he created a piece using the voice of a deaf woman who’d had a microchip inserted into her brain so that she could finally speak and hear through vibrations in her body: ‘All of a sudden I felt my body moving the sound.’” -via
