Charles Spearin's The Happiness Project

Uses cadences/ prosody of individual's speech to set melodies of these pieces. As a psycholinguist, I find it quite interesting but, I think he pulls it off musically better than most 'conceptual art'

All of the melodies on this album are the melodies of every day life.

Discuss.

Listen here

I love melodies transcribed from speech & this one sounds particularly accessible. speech is microtonal & so you have a lot of room to move within half-steps when choosing the melody, and this guy's purposefully going for consonant / tonal / happy

precedents

Scott Johnson - John Somebody
Paul DeMarinis - Music As A Second Language
Steve Reich - Different Trains / City Life
Rene Lussier - Le tresor de la langue < this one's a real masterpiece

I was aware of the Steve Reich composition, but thank you for the Lussier and others.

well there's also this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nlwwFZdXck