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number none
Chris and I have named our inexperienced musical duo "Number None."
We got together and played on Monday and Thursday this week. Both sessions went well. On Monday we focused on playing over background drones generated by the laptop. Thursday we mostly put the laptop away in favor of testing out our new acquisition: a violin (which we purchased in a shady back-room deal, believe it or not).
I felt that Thursday was the more promising session. When we began improvising last year, our improvisations were marred by their meandering nature, their failure to develop interestingly through time. On Thursday, we improvised a handful of songs that seemed to have discrete segments. For the first time, I felt like we could hear when a song needed to change direction, and that we had enough rudimentary versatility to enact those necessary changes.
Here are playlists, in case anyone's all that interested:
Monday | | The Reorganization of Work | Octave Cat, thumb piano, laptop loop | The Blooddrinking Ones | Octave Cat, gong, bells, wineglass, voice, acoustic guitar | Feldspar | Octave Cat, drum, laptop loop | Thursday | | The Inconveniences of the New York Summer Season | metals, violin, laptop loop, harmonica | Skeletal Inconveniences of the New York Summer Season | metals, violin | A Dead Man | wineglasses, violin | In A Quiet Mood | voice, acoustic guitar, violin | We're the Only Ones Who Admit It | violin, Octave Cat | Bedraggled-Looking Girls | voice, Octave Cat, guitar | Such Images Are Often Playful | bowed acoustic guitar, Octave Cat, laptop |
At some point, we may convert some of this material to MP3s and make it available from this site. Stay tuned.
Tonight I'll be going out and seeing Dave Pajo, aka Papa M; one of my favorite bands, Town and Country, will be opening. Labels: number_none, personal |
Friday, January 25, 2002
8:47 PM
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