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Air / Breath-Based

Breath noise

Open stream of air though the instrument body

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Vocal / Formant

Humming while playing

Fundamental tone on saxophone and sung pith, produce multiple pitches and timbers in th same time

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Standart multiphonics

Traditional fingers variations producing two or more audible pitches simultaneously

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Percussive / Mechanical

Pitched slap tongue

Pitched, sharp percussive 'pop' created by pulling the tongue off the reed

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Modulatory / Flutter

Standart flutter

Fast tongue trill while blowing, producing a buzzy, grainy sounds

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Prepared / Muted

Mutes

Case 1: metal bottle. Modifies resonances, change overtones consistency and create frequency filter

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Air / Breath-Based

Static air sound

Comressed airy, noisy sound though the instrument body

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Vocal / Formant

Overtone singing in saxophone

Partials of overtones from singing interacting with saxophone pitches and produce unstable polyphony

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Noise-based multiphonics

Dissonant, unstable clusters with significant air noise and overtons resonances

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Percussive / Mechanical

Unpitched slap tongue

A softer, percussive and unpitched variant of the slap tongue

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Modulatory / Flutter

Throat flutter / growl

Fluttering created in the throat, producing unstable and distorted sounds

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Prepared / Muted

Playing into resonant surfaces

Playing into the walls, drum instruments, glass or water to produce radical timbral transformations Case 1: Floor tom

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Modulatory / Flutter

Air flutter

Quiet flutter tongue, mostly air with subtle variations

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Prepared / Muted

Detached components

Detach or use extra components of saxophone for sound transformations

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Air / Breath-Based

Inhale/exhale

Using breath both inward and outward to create dynamic airy texture

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Vocal / Formant

Oral cavity shaping

Modifying tone color by changing the shape of the mouth, tongue and throat follow vocal principles

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Dynamic mutiphonics

Controled embouchure transitions between partials within a specific multiphonics

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Percussive / Mechanical

Open slap tongue (tongue ram)

Forceful burst of air into the mouthpiece, pulling the tongue and lips off the reed. Create loud and deep "thump" slap.

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Modulatory / Flutter

Multiphonic flutter

Flutter combined with multiphonic fingering for unstable, distorted noise clusters

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Percussive / Mechanical

Slap tongue attack

A note initiated with a slap-tongue attack instead of normal tonguing, the slap resolving into a regular sustained tone rather than remaining percussive or resonant on its own

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Air / Breath-Based

Diaphragm rhythmical variations

Creating rhythm, controlling pressure, and dividing the air stream using the diaphragm, without tongue articulation

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Vocal / Formant

Rapid voice-tone switching

Rapidly switching between sung voice and saxophone tones in quick succession. The fast alteration creates the illusion of a two contrast voices or double sounding

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Harmonic filtering

Manipulating oral cavity and embouchure to emphaise specific overtones and create dynamical harmonical sound filtering in real time

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Modulatory / Flutter

Overblown flutter

Sharp, noisy overtones bitting created by pushing air past embouchure limits

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Percussive / Mechanical

Open-tube slap

Short, percussive and airy attack, similar to flute-like slap tongue

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Air / Breath-Based

Oral cavity / mouth shaping

Modifying mouth, tongue position, and oral space to influence air tone form and volume

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Vocal / Formant

Fluttered vocal resonance

Singing into the horn with a tongue flutter added to the voice, while changing fingerings shapes the pitch and timbre of the fluttered voice through the instrument's resonance

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Growl + overtone fusion

Adding vocalisation to randomly and unpredictable reinforece overtones partials to produce floating and unstable sound

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Modulatory / Flutter

Embouchure vibrato

Controled pitch modulation throught jaw movement or lip pressure

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Percussive / Mechanical

Muliphonic slap

Sharp percussive onset followed by complex, noisy multiphonic resonance

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Air / Breath-Based

Distance from mouthpiece

Continuously blowing air while varying proximity to the mouthpiece and reed, to shape timbral differences in airflow noise

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Voice multiphonics

Playing and singing different tones generate complex beating or ring modulations to standart multiphonicas sound

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Reed pressure harmonics

Placing the lower teeth directly on the reed to produce extremly high pitch harmonics

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Modulatory / Flutter

Reed pressure flutter

High pitched, screaming and distorted sound with low teeth on the reed and fast tongue trill.

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Percussive / Mechanical

Key clicks

Audible clicking from pressing and releasing keys. Create dry, metal, mechanical tapping sounds and textures.

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Air / Breath-Based

Gurgling / bubbling

Blowing air through saliva or water inside the mouthpiece to create a granular, crackling sound textures

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Overtone glissando

Fast, gliding transitions between registers and specific tones

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Modulatory / Flutter

Flutter trumpet embouchure

Flutter tongue added trumpet embouchure tones, roughering it into a open, distorted and buzzy sound textures

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Percussive / Mechanical

The saxophone body tapping / touching

Tappingand touching the saxophone body or bell with fingers or objects to create creaking, scratching and mechanical sound textures

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Air / Breath-Based

Flute embouchure

Blowing across the open end of the neck (no mouthpiece) to create breathy, flute-like sounds

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Tone splitting

Embouchure-based tearing when fundamental tone's pitch breaks into multiple partials, overtones and harmonics

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Modulatory / Flutter

Double trill / double tremolo

Rapid alternation between two pairs of notes rather than a single pair, four pitches cycling in fast, tight succession, creating a denser, more complex trill texture than a standard trill

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Percussive / Mechanical

Neck-end tongue pop

Producing a percussive, short pop at the neck openning (without mouthpiece) with horn resonance

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Air / Breath-Based

Subtone

Soft, low volume tone rich in air content

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Multiphonics / Harmonics

Neck multiphonics

Multiphonics produced by playing on the detached neck (with mouthpiece) producing dry and feeble multiphonics

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Percussive / Mechanical

Neck lip-clik (p-clik)

Lips buzz directly against the open end of the neck, without a mouthpiece, producing a soft, "P" sound-like click, electrical click-like sounds

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Air / Breath-Based

Breath-tongue damping

Blocking the airflow with the tongue, ranging from a soft, gradual taper to an abrupt, complete cutoff, depending on the speed and pressure of the tongue's closure

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Percussive / Mechanical

Reed tapping

Tapping the reed directly with a fingernail while pressing keys to shape a resonant pitch, producing dry, soft percussive sounds

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Air / Breath-Based

Sighs / hisses / whispers / chitter

Human-inspired airy, soft sounds mixed with breath

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Percussive / Mechanical

Beard friction texture

The reed is drawn against the grain of a beard, producing a soft, scratchy, textured sound similar to a vinyl surface noise

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Air / Breath-Based

Whistling to neck

Whistling directed into the open end of the neck, the whistled pitch blends with the air and resonance of the saxophone, producing a hybrid tone rather than a pure whistle

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Air / Breath-Based

Mouthpiece-only / neck-only air

Blowing through only the mouthpiece or only the neck (separated from the rest of the instrument) to produce an airy sound with varying volume and fullness/body

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Air / Breath-Based

Trumpet (Brass) embouchure

Lips buzz directly against the open end of the neck, without a mouthpiece, producing a pitched, brassy horn-like tone, mixed with a substantial amount of breath noise, rather than a clean, pure brass sound.

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Air / Breath-Based

Interference hiss

Blowing with strong pressure directly into the open end of the neck. Producing a dirty, noisy texture resembling electronic inerference.

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Air / Breath-Based

Reed resonances

Producing a quiet, high-pitched airy sound through indirect resonances

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Air / Breath-Based

Air-tone blend (half-air tone)

Producing a hybrid, uncomressed, airy pithed resonances rather than a clear saxophone tone

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