Sunday, March 15, 2020

Starting Ideas For Form & Substance Of Some New Music

The last collection of songs written were for The Prayer & Profanity of HOWARD COWARD (2017-2019).

To make new music, new recorded music.

Some ideas to explore are as follows:

    - Communication through META-DATA 
I find personal/emotional experiences revealed through / described by metadata is particularly powerful. I think the cold quality of the medium allows for the observer to fill in the gaps with their imaginations/revelations and makes the understanding more personal.

    - An absence of repetition / irregularity 
I want to explore more constant change and development / quicker flow, to remove the security of known land.

    - Vitality 
Having a pre-disposition to depression in my work, I want to explore my love for the vitality in life and its impermanence.

     - No starting / no stopping 
In response to the experience of on-going - out from a time that is hazy to recall, into a time that is hazy, no stop, no start. Constant expression. The human body just curtains opening for a moment, picking up a view for a while, and when closed, the life is not stopped or started.

    - Reference speech writing techniques  
Look to explore rhetorical techniques in delivering messages.

    - No ‘i’ / ‘i’s  
Seeking to look beyond the description of egos and personal viewpoints to a wider, more broad language that evokes the archetypal, the transferable, multi-purpose.

    - Focus On Transition / CHANGE 
The object is secondary to the change of it, or the situation is it in.

    - Imagine new words 
Try to find ways to get to see unseen colours, hear unheard sounds.

     - Existing words performed beyond articulation
Playing more with the idea of negative space, there’s something about removing part of communication, that leads the listener to have to fill in the blanks, or work more actively to understand. There’s a vulnerability to a voice that is seemingly hindered in its attempt to communicate, likewise a vulnerability in a voice that has no self-    awareness that it does not concern itself with the others ability to understand it.

     - Minimal Percussion Set 
Interested to play further with marbles, snooker ball sounds, and chopsticks on strings.



 - c. h., 15th March 2020

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