Meyer Hirsch is an exceptional influence on my sense of what it means to dive into the experimental field and attempt "to swim". The experimental milieu, as other experimenters have experienced, is a "terror" (but an interesting if not fun…
Apr 16 2021
Ripping them a new one with electricity
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2011 AT 9:07PM
I really enjoyed playing the material with electric guitar and effects at Brick by Brick last Sunday. I think it got out to the audience. When I played with the league of Crafty Guitarists,…
Apr 16 2021
You are the instrument
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 AT 9:24PM
Trey Gunn posted this video of a great Jazz pianist describing how your instrument is an illusion. How your internal process is the thing that is really happening. I have experienced where the notes…
Apr 16 2021
Possible approaches to improvisation
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2011 AT 1:22PM
-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…
Apr 16 2021
It's about whirring though space
30, 2011 AT 8:33PM
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'.…
Apr 16 2021
I become the suit man
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011 AT 12:47PM
Paul Moeller from Technomania circus shot this great example of a suit composition. This one is called, "wired". Watching this video shows an interesting compositional approach that the "suit idea" is best suited for…
Apr 16 2021
Watching musicians with great listening ability
THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 AT 9:17PM
I went to hear the jazz group Road Work Ahead. Bill Mays- Piano, Bob Plank- Drums, Peter Sprague- Guitar, Bob Magnusson- Bass. They played Jazz arrangements of some popular stuff and mostly originals. The…
Apr 16 2021
The sound suit as spontaneous soundtrack generator for performer
TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011 AT 9:27PM
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…
Apr 16 2021
Creating a guitar suit
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2011 AT 4:26PM
I am working on the guitar suit that I will be using next Saturday, 1/22/2011 at the second annual San Diego Experimental guitar show. I will create multi-timbral sound clusters (sound clouds if you…