Possible approaches to improvisation

-Throw a rock through the window of your:

expectations

likes, dislikes

understandings

philopohies

ideas

concepts

memories

mind set

mind field

mindfeild

thought parents

thought children

practiced patterns

pitter patterns

ponder patterns

pain pots

pill poisins

let yourself understand chaos if you see it

Sound Music Generator

I was checking out this great wind acitivated musical instrument: 

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-beach.html 

I become the suit man

Paul Moeller from Technomania circus shot this great example of a suit composition.  This one is called, "wired". Watching this video shows an intersting compositional appoach that the "suit idea" is best suited for (questionable puns notwithstanding).  It is the following cyclical realtionship as composition generator:

 The movement of the player causes the sound, then the sound influences the movement of the player, the movement of the player causes the sound, then the sound influences the movement of the player, etc.

The player in this video is tighly linked to the sound and the sound is tightly linked to the actions of the player.

It is that relationship that my work wih the suit is exploring.

Thanks Paul!

The video:

It's about Whirring through space

Jonathan Piper's picture on "The Garage Gig" page of me whirring in a semi-here/semi not-here moment inspired this reflection.  The image gets at what it is like to be behind the controls of the 'sound suit'.  In one sense, I am very clear on what I am going to do (I am "here"), but I am also in between knowing what I am going to do, and not knowing (the "not-here").  The image also gets at what it is like to hear what is going on while gesturing: the sound picture is aslo whirring; here, not-here, or not-quite-here- arriving just as the physical gesture arrives...sometimes as a sudden calm where sound and gesture are in the "not-here", and I am in the eye of a moment; the focus of the lens... then slamming together ,"here", like wavecrests, the photo is that moment.  Thank you Jonathan!

The sound suit as spontaneous soundtrack generator for performer

As I watch footage of sound suit performances I have noticed that the sounds that come out work as a soundtrack to the movements that are necessary to create them.  So far, I have been purely motivated by wanting to make interesting sound compositions: To get an impulse to make a sound, then move.  

 I wonder what would result if I am motivated to make an interesting movement sequence first: move, then see what sound results.  From this perspective it is a movement piece where the score and the choreography happen simultaneously. We shall see...