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15 voices, 15 languages, 15 sound compositions. Always the same textmaterials are used to extract speech rhythms, speech melodies or simplysounds and to recombine them creating new musical structures. The title"bestimmung new york" is a game of words and also conveys the meanings"atmosphere" (german = stimmung) and "vocalization". The 15 voice piecespresented here consist exclusively of voice recordings of New Yorkersspeaking the same words and phrases in their respective mother tongue. Thethree to five minutes long "voice sculptures" emerge from the individualsound character of the respective voices, the influence of rhythmic andmelodic textures, as well as the associative and reductionist assemblageand modification of the composer.