getting more infinite by the day

Thankyou to everyone who came to the rehearsal last night and the creative living centre on Tuesday.

Yesterday those who braved the harsh weather met at the Sally and we rehearsed in the Interactive Arts studio again.
Instruments were limited to tin cans, a ukelele, bicycle wheel, the little frying pan gong, jaw harp, harmonicas, masking tape, voice and anything that could make a noise. We recorded some little improvised ditties onto the computer, though the microphone wasn't as good as the last one.



We then spread out over the rest of the studio; some in the meeting space, the rest of us at different points further away, with the dictaphone near the Ukelele and the computer and microphone near the tin cans. What I could hear while playing was very different from what I heard on the two recordings. I'm not going to put the recordings online this time because they are of such bad quality and maybe with a better piece of music it would sound better.
After flat refusals to go and experiment on the staircase we did some overdubbing of recordings from last week. Doing that started the rehearsal onto a vein akin to a night at Bedlam, music turning more into shamanic rituals and we were on our way to getting into trances. Brian's 'bass' voice did overpower the recording somewhat though. here it is for comedy value. should get some kazoos.



it does sound pretty silly, but it is the next step, moving music from one mood and direction to another.


This week was the first session at the Creative Living Centre, and it didn't go that well, but it was a learning experience, unfortunately nobody else could come with me, so already the main element of the project was missing, in the end we just banged along to a CD, which was dissappointing, but means I'm more prepared now and I have more of an idea about how to work. I felt a little patronising to the members, and I didn't explain what it was I'm aiming to do, curse being timid. If there is a next time, I'll put some of the recordings made from our rehearsals and bang along to them, and record what happens there, and then somehow overdub that with the members, Also hopefully I'll have other musicians to work with too.