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The outer reaches of the human voice
Explore the outer reaches of the human voice with this incredibly unique world of cutting-edge textures, rhythms and evolving drones. Curated and produced by composer and sound artist Lea Bertucci, this powerful tool captures the radical visceral vocalisations of herself and three renowned pioneers of the avant-garde — Audrey Chen, Cansu Tanrikulu & Phil Minton. From earth-shaking bass drones to window-shattering sound effects, whispers, rhythmic clicks and glissandi to haunting multiphonic choirs; these alien-like instruments will hum, hiss, heckle and haunt to create immediate tension, atmosphere, horror and beauty — a wealth of delights and terrors for any experimental producer, beatmaker or film composer.
The plugin’s radically transformative processed signal and in-built controls take the organic sounds to new sonic realms to create complex otherworldly synth textures, rhythms and sound effects beyond your wildest dreams — designed to inspire and breathe new life into your compositions.
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- Compatible with NKS
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Spitfire Audio App required
Listen to Lea Bertucci — Xtended Vox
Wisteria Whispers - Louis Rugg
House On Fire - Oliver Patrice Weder
Haunt - Madison Willing
Trailer Music - CAIROXVI
Unsettled - Leo Wyatt
Visceral vocalisations
Expand your sound palette with 49 original presets, bursting with invention — ideal for creating cinematic trailer music and non-diegetic sound FX, particularly for horror or sci-fi, or adding texture, atmosphere and a distinctly human element to any genre of music. Xtended Vox captures the unique voices and sonic vocabularies of Lea Bertucci and three acclaimed vocal artists, stretching across varying generations and geographies and melding free improvisation with formalised composition.
The original vocal recordings have been taken to new sonic dimensions using warped using multiple outboard and digital processing techniques, accessible via the dynamics fader — cycle through layers of varying processing, each unique to each individual preset. The library encompasses the most radical and eccentric of vocal techniques, from visceral throat singing to alien nasal sounds; from the most fragile of whispers and birdsong-like whistles to lip trills, yodels, shrieks and ululations — pushing the boundaries of what can be done with contemporary voice.
Features
- Presented in Spitfire Audio's award-winning dedicated plugin
- Features experimental vocal techniques created by four avant-garde vocalists, warped using multiple outboard, tape and digital processing techniques
- Designed for contemporary cinematic scoring and anyone looking to create interesting textures and atmospheres
- The radically transformative processed signal allows you to cycle through different layers of processing and fade every texture into a new dimension
- ~2.5GB
- NKS compatible
Presets (49)
- Audrey Chen (14)
- Cansu Tanrikulu (13)
- Lea Bertucci (6)
- Phil Minton (16)
Controls (8)
- Expression – Adjust the level of the technique
- Dynamics – Move between layers of varying processing or dynamic layers, specific to each preset
- Reverb – Choose between seven bespoke reverbs, from Kiln to Church Balcony
- Start point — Move the dial to start at a random point within the performance – higher values increase the range of randomness. Useful for delving deeper into long samples or adding variation to repeated notes
- Attack
- Decay
- Sustain
- Release
A wild, untamed, and visceral collection of sounds that can only be produced with the world’s most versatile instrument, the human voice. Lea has created a little world that is both haunting and exotic, a gift to all composers hoping to paint with an entirely new palette.
Eric Whitacre - Composer
Xtended Vox
Following Bertucci’s acclaimed sample library and record release in 2020, Acoustic Shadows, Bertucci returns with her new EP,Xtended Vox.The EP features the same vocal artists as the sample library — Audrey Chen, Phil Minton and Cansu Tanrikulu — as well as Ben Vida, collaborating with Bertucci on the first single, Tulsa. Bertucci describes the compilation as “deeply human music” — celebrating the voice as the first and only innate instrument and bringing it into a contemporary context, with diverse and contrasting approaches from each of the collaborators.
Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci is a New York-based experimental musician, composer and performer whose work explores relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. Bertucci’s approach to music is marked by dense masses of sustained dissonance and a fascination with the sonic substance of common experience. Her work spans over a decade, with 8 full-length solo albums and a number of collaborative projects. In 2018 and 2019, she released solo albums Metal Aether and Resonant Field on NNA Tapes, and has since gone on to found her own label, Cibachrome Editions, with 2021’s A Visible Length of Light as the inaugural release followed by 2022’s Murmurations, a duo with composer, improviser and artist Ben Vida. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates spatialized speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology. In recent years, her projects have expanded toward site-specific and spatially aware projects that initiate new access points to architecture.
This release follows her highly acclaimed 2020 release, Acoustic Shadows — a sample library and record which received praise as Boomkat’s top 5 albums of the year, and The Guardian’s contemporary album of the month.
Audrey Chen
The second generation Chinese / Taiwanese- American musician specialises in the cello, voice and occasional analog electronics. Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and completely unprocessed, with an extremely personal and visceral approach to music creation.
Cansu Tanrıkulu
A multimedia artist, composer and vocal improviser based in Berlin, Tanrikulu is one of the busiest young voices in the European Creative Music Scene, leading multiple bands, including PILED UP by Tanrıkulu, Melez, MeoW, Tanrıkulu/Cohen/Delius and Last Chance to Misbehave. Her elastic singing, wide stylistic vocabulary and far-reaching approach to melody and text-based improvisation have made her an in-demand vocalist in multiple genres, actively performing at several renowned European jazz festivals. As a composer and a conceptual thinker, Tanrıkulu’s initial instinct is to frame topics that are hard to imagine as musical entities and work with exceptional creative personalities.
Phil Minton
A UK-based pioneer of the avant-garde. From the early 60s, Minton played trumpet and sang in The Mike Westbrook band, going on to work as an improvising singer in groups, choirs, orchestras and other contexts, all over the world. His Feral Choir, where he voice-conducts workshops and concerts for anyone who wants to sing, has performed in over twenty countries, and composers have since written pieces that employ his extended vocal techniques and improvisations. He now sings as part of a quartet with Veryan Weston, Roger Turner and John Butcher.
What's Included
Presets
Audrey Chen (14)
Clicks and noises, trills, yodels
- Air Shh
- Clicks Sweep
- Exhales
- Gibberish
- Glottal and Clicks
- Lip Trills
- Low Undulations
- Modulating Clicks
- Pitched Mmm
- Pitched Yodel
- Pursed Lips
- Random Tss
- Clicks and Noises
- Pitched Lip Trills
Cansu Tanrikulu (13)
Birdsong, clicks, multiphonic, tongue rolls, whispers, shouts, gulps
- Birdsong
- Clicks
- Electronics 1
- Electronics 2
- Multiphonic Exhales
- Pitched Bouncy Castle
- Pitched Chest Pound
- Tongue Roll
- Whispered Sibilants
- Gulps
- Oyee
- Quick Gliss Vowels
- Whistles
Lea Bertucci (6)
Warped ahhs, whispers, falls - warped through a reel to reel tape machine
- Aah and Mmm Warp
- Consonants
- Suraloo & Word Salad
- Aah Warp
- Ess Whisper
- Whoa Falls
Phil Minton (16)
Whistles, deep demonic throat effects, rises and falls, percussive sounds
- Bel Canto Gliss
- Distorted Sub
- Explosive Rewind
- Hard Gliss
- Multiphonics
- Soft Gliss
- Soft Tonal Modulation
- Soft Yodel
- Throat Rhythms (Tempo Synced)
- Tonal Pad
- Whistles
- Wild Air
- Grendel
- Percussion
- Throat Scary
- Whistles
Testimonials
This library is very unique and inspiring, and the effects slider was fantastic — it kept surprising me...
Mark Korven - Composer for The Lighthouse, The Witch
FAQs
How do I add this library into Kontakt?
You don’t! Xtended Vox is a dedicated, free to use plugin available as VST2, VST3, AAX and AU, so it can be used directly in your favourite DAW.
What software will I need to install?
You will only need the Spitfire Audio App which you can download here.
What software will I need to run this library?
We provide a VST2, VST3, AAX and an AU, so as long as your chosen DAW supports one of those plugin formats, you’re good to go.