about
this website:
The current purpose of this mini-site is to
provide a testing ground for work in progress on 'Songs
of Garden Guitars'. As the material is updated, friends
and colleagues will be invited to listen to these pieces
(four in total) and give their response. Placing of material
here manifests a second stage in the development of this
work, the first stage being the recording, composition and
testing of ideas in a determinedly 'offline' mode. Accordingly,
there will always be more material being worked on than
is presented here. Begun 1st April 2011, the initial pattern
of working is listed on my blog: http://pralbum.blogspot.com/2012/04/diary-of-work-on-sogg.html
The likely outcome for this material is a CD ROM release
containing music and text but I thought it might be useful
to model some webpages here to help plan out the presentation
of this material both in terms of text and visual ideas.
about this work:
It is my intention
to take inspiration from the structure of birdsong (i.e.
how it is performed rather than necessarily the sound of
it) to produce a set of indeterminate pieces that are formed
largely from guitar improvisations. In so doing I want produce
a particular aesthetic experience - one that encourages
'close' listening - and also explore the possibilities of
structuring Parallel Music (q.v.) in effective, creative ways.
None of the work here is tied too closely to any particular
study of birds or birdsong -but future works could be. The
focus is on guitar improv - with 'birds as ideas' rather
than 'birds as species'.
N.B. I sometimes refer to 'Gtr Brds' or 'Brd Gtrs' when
I discuss making these pieces; these phrases allude to a
poetic rather than mimetic practice. In this sense, 'a bird
made out of guitars' and a 'guitar made out of birds' are
closer in meaning than logic would suggest...
Clicking on the image on the right allows you to see
an interactive notebook showing some of the genesis of this
work. This, too, is a work-in-progress > |
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