100 people talking all at the same time

Writing of experiments I thought of another project track for the SoundXperiments project: recording 100 people speaking and then picking out a rhythmic part of what they say and then overlaying those rhythmic part over and after each other to achieve a kind of nonsense wave sequence of 100 people talking all at the same time.

Perhaps it has been done before - as an art piece but not as a musical piece. A minor change perhaps but a tangible one. Of course what the people speak about will be an important thing. Perhaps asking them about the time that they discovered the most astonishing or beautiful event or person or thing to date. Or a great life changing experience.

I guess it comes from that common phrase about something being like '100 people all talking at once'. Usually referring to a busy situation where you just can't hear anything or the situation is just confusing.

I hope to turn it in to something good..

Of course 'It's going to rain' and other phase recordings by Steve Reich probably forerun this, but I hope that I can get a different effect.

It will certainly be a challenge.