#vocal-technique

#vocal-technique

A teenage Björk, in defiance of her stuffy music schooling, had studied not only Cage but also the radical turn-of-the-century composer Arnold Schoenberg, whose early operas developed a voice that flickered, glissando-style, between boisterous singing and speech. Schoenberg called the technique sprechstimme, but when you hear it performed now-even if not in Björk's own, meagerly bootlegged rendition of his Pierrot Lunaire-the style has arrived in the timeless preserve of the Björkian.