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PIPE USER MANUAL
3. Try blowing into the microphone. By changing the angle and the amount of the airflow,
achieve different colors of noise.
4. Try blowing and singing at the same time, leaving just a small opening for the air. The
result should be a beautiful sound, like that of a synthesizer that has a VCO and VCF heavily
modulated by noise. Change the angle, loudness, lip shape, contact tightness and air pressure
to control the sound and go from pure noise to pure note.
5. Change the shape of your mouth and tongue position as if you were throat singing,
overtone singing or playing a mouth harp in order to achieve different voice timbres. Try
using the PIPE to enhance these techniques to the extreme. Also, try different unusual
tongue, lip and throat positions to see how it affects the sound.
6. With lips firm to ensure tight airproof contact with the microphone, try making percussive
sounds and clicks with your tongue and throat. Try pronouncing consonants. This way you
can discover many cool percussive sounds that can turn your voice into a drum set using
the PIPE algorithms. The contact microphone will enhance many unusual sounds that are
not usually picked up when a regular microphone is used for beatboxing. It will pay off using
various beatboxing techniques to take full advantage of the microphone.
7. Try singing while breathing in. Try singing a note and growling the letter ‘RRRR’. Try making
tonal sounds while vibrating your lips and tongue, instead of your vocal chords. Generally,
try other unusual ways of singing which are not typically used in music and in regular life.
8. Try pronouncing words or parts of words. Try singing and moving your mouth as if you
are pronouncing words at the same time.
9. Try cupping your hand around the microphone and pressing your lips to your hand instead
of directly to the microphone. This will create a resonance chamber that will change the
sound character. Your hand should form a tight ring and be as air-proof as possible.
10. Combine the described techniques into a unique and expressive vocal performance.
Imagine that your voice is a synthesizer and FX generator and you are in the process of
controlling the instrument by turning knobs and pressing buttons.
Basically, to uncover the full potential of the PIPE, you need to set aside all that you know
about conventional vocal techniques and start to experiment with your voice and the
instrument without any pre-conceived notions.