Expanding upon the ideas I was working on the other day, I’ve been playing with more instrument + field recording manipulations. The last one came out rather nicely, and might stand up well enough by itself. This time it’s a bit more abstract, slight similarities with my side of the Oncoming Storm split with Noisesurfer, so I think it’ll need more work. I’ve decided I can’t just leave stuff at ‘good enough’, I want to make the tracks as good as possible, keep working on them until they’re better than I imagined they would be. So live, acoustic instrumentation will be added at some point in the future, probably when I have it around me. I might split the longform track into sections, too, parts 1-4 or whatever. It’s a nice way to be working, as it’s currently entirely improvised, which comes as a complete contrast to my experiments with composing using twelve tone serial techniques. That isn’t doing much for me or my mood at the moment, so I’ve put those on the back burner and I’m considering other ideas currently. I’ll return to them at a later date. I’d really like to get more instruments, and get the instruments I own back with me – it’ll be nice to write for acoustic instruments after such a long time of in-computer sounds. I always used to put a huge array of sounds and instruments on my music back in the day, I want to get back to that process again. A mixture of computer manipulation and live performance is probably the most enjoyable way to work for me.
Stuff I have been enjoying recently:
Xedh – Vinduskarm
Max Richter – Songs from Before
Deaf Center – Pale Ravine
Gavin Bryars – Piano works
Sibelius – Symphonies 2 & 4
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