today i have continued orienting myself in gleetchlab for the purpose of learning how to improvise with recordings.
i'm looking for a new way of making music that feels ignites me. this is taking the form, so far, of a combination of song sketches (2 minute improvised 'songs'), field recordings and sounds from the workbench instrument. i have a sense that, if i were to offer music in a live performance context, i want to combine these in a greater 'arc' of story/song/sound.
i was inspired by a jane siberry concert hinemoana and i went to - in fact - we were able to go to two within a week which was great because we were able to see the extent to which she drew on her song/story material in different ways to create a 'greater whole' - a large story which was 'the concert' and was comprised of the smaller stories we could call 'her songs'.
i haven't known what these 2 minute sketch songs have been about apart from feeling like a case of writer's block ("what - you can't even stay the distance to finish a whole song anymore"?). but now i have a sense of wanting to play with them like cogs of a wheel - sticking different parts together to see how they work.
this what today's play has been about - i have used a guitar improvisation, a recording of the heater, and components of the two minute sketch called filling up.
i look forward to combining more than one song to see what eventuates - i just need to prepare the separate tracks.
for now i have these sketch examples:
1210 fillup sketch1 by christinewhite
ps. these were crudely recorded back through the speakers, still haven't refined this part of the process. good though as the birds decided to join in with this one.
1210 fillup sketch2 by christinewhite
1210 fillup sketch3 by christinewhite
2 comments:
These are amazing Chris. Please finish telling the 'big story.!
Keep doin' these, Chris, they're fantastic. Don't listen to those voices :-) Most interesting sound thing I've listened to in *ages*. Probably since the last thing you posted! x
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