Voices

1. Voices is an ecclectic psychedelic improvisation free-form art/music/performance project sprouting out of Berkeley/Oakland, CA consisting of the collaborative efforts of Travis Wyche and Alejandro Magana. What started out as a couple of friends getting together to elevate minds and disseminate sounds in a moldy Oakland basement quickly evolved into a solidified ritual for melding and extruding complimentary abstract ideals through sound. The band uses a wide variety of instrumentation, early on consisting of simple layering of guitars, bass, and piano, and then gradually expanding to include a drumset split between the musicians, homemade oscillators and sequencers, homemade microphones and amplification systems, stringed instruments such as dulcimers, kotos, and modified autoharps, lo-tech recording devices from 2bit samplers too reel-to-reel recorders, and a humble array of reverberation, delay, and echo effects. The band is prolific in it's output, though sadly many of the recordings have never seen the light of day outside of a small circle of friends. The music itself oscillates between enthused modes of movement by emulating oceanic currents, flowing air streams, shimmering copper, whale and bird song, and other meta-scaled natural phenomenon, as well as more deffinite and recognizable musical influences from jazz, folk, avant-garde electronic compositions, krautrock, and candy pop.