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Seeing with the Voice
Athanas Gounov
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Duration: 47:14
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Tracks
Dedication; Rubik's Cobra; The Why-Go-By Dance; Years Later: The Class Reunion; Will One Life Be Enough?; Vettere; Slightly Diverging POVs; Fiddling with My Banjo; Seeing with the Voice; Yes, Teach Me, Please; Epilogue: Virginity
Personnel
Athanas Gounov
piano and vocalsAlbum Description
Seeing with the Voice is the debut full-length album by VOCODER MAN (a longtime artistic alias of Athanas Gounov), an eleven-track exploration of the human voice as both instrument and source of musical expression. Its non-lexical, paralinguistic vocals evoke the sounds and inflections of language without forming intelligible words. Modern jazz and fusion provide the album’s underlying musical language, while its compositions roam freely across a plethora of influences, including Afro- and EDM-inflected world music, classical and symphonic elements, and even reflective, 1980s-inspired country and pop.
The arrangements are equally expansive: a jazz-fusion core of keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar and drums is joined by saxophone and trumpet, while a string quartet is woven into every track, occasionally expanding into a full symphony orchestra.
Each track incorporates the artist’s original vocoder performances and musical ideas, which serve as the starting point for AI-generated ensemble developments. Through careful curation, editing and mastering, the artist brings these human and AI-generated elements together in a diverse musical work exploring the boundaries between voice, language, composition and technology.
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