Day 42
Some days the music just pours out I can barely contain it. The air seems to resonate brighter and reflects in such a way that to produce sound is effortless. It is also reckless, wild, raw with reaches in many genres, feels and times. There is groove but it is suggested rather than pounding. Same with melody and rhythm, I am merely suggesting these components and offering the listeners to piece together what they want or allow. The full experience is to immerse oneself in the main chamber along side me while I play and allow the sounds to engulf. Like any music, a good pair of over the ear headphones is always an intimate sonic treat.
I will share some sounds from the day. One is an extension to a piece that came out of last week. I am imagining a larger work here, an opening sonata, a slow movement, a minuet and a closing rondo... I have never composed anything to strict form but I am excited to see where this music will take me. The juxtaposition is that I am using my entire life of studies and turning it upside and finding a primal approach to the guitar that is almost anti-technical. I came up with a term the other day, "micro dronal" that covers some of the sounds I am after. Finding micro tones, notes in-between the standard 12 note set of western music and the drone coming from steady bass notes around a single mode that is mostly determined by the tuning I am using. Last I checked there are about 15 different tunings I explore on a regular basis and feel versed enough in to present works in.
Educate! A school bus observed from the obscura.