Ten Thousand Ways Of The Voice – The Daily Vocal Discharges Of Rene Kita
11.28.16 by Mike Haley

The average person will sleep for 229,961 hours in their lifetime. Europeans eat about 46 pounds of apples annually. And, according to extremely reputable Fart Facts site, an average person farts 14 times a day. In addition to those sleep/eat/toot routines, Rene Kita has thrown an additional activity into his daily groove; Recording one-minute long vocal tracks.

Starting back on September 15th, 2015 Rene Kita has practiced the daily ritual of recording weirdo vocal contortions and distortions with the goal of creating 10,000 tracks in all. A lofty target Kita would hit in his 80’s. “I’m a native of Turku, Finland. That’s the southwest coast.” Rene said over email “Our winters are dark and the streets are paved with ice. So we stay indoors and make crazy music.” This particular crazy music, described by Rene as “anti-meditative and anti-ambient”, consists of restless murmurs, anxious loops, and slippery sloshes with the help of Schism Tracker and ADHD. “Sitting still for two minutes is just about impossible, haven’t tried recently, though. This is more like nervous twitch music. If it makes people uncomfortable it works as designed.”

Kita has soaked in inspiration from all sorts of influences for this undertaking, from the German new wave he listened to as a teen, to Japanese Kabuki Theater, to Cathy Berberian singing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III, and every 60 second lump is being archived digitally and released in one hour chunks (here, here, here, here). Twenty two of them found their way onto a split cassette with Synaplop, an alter ego of Kita, on the Lal Lal Lal label. The split is an edition of 50 copies and only available through Discogs.