Improvisation

It has later been used in an exercise to learn how this sequencer works. Cutting and pasting and a little bit of volume automation. Working on extension, pulse and repetition.

Edit

So day one on this break and a first offering to the circle. And my first attempts with Apple Logic – I installed before I left home. I haven’t looked into learning how it works yet; i just opened it, added a track and pressed record. It seemed to work without me even looking at the setup so I decided to simply record a piece.

This is an improvisation of three instruments. I have first recorded a Piano track, then while listening to it back, recorded a percussion track, then a guitar track. Each track recorded with the laptop’s mic, then without adjustment, exported using the ‘bounce’ button. At this level – very simple. The drums are Steve’s lovely kit played delicately with my hands. The guitar is an archtop electric without amplification. The Piano is the front room’s upright.

The layered improvisations started with the enjoyment of holding chords on the piano until the sounds died to nothing. A comment I read a few years back has repeated in my thoughts while considering the properties of different instruments and how you naturally work with them as a player: The idea was that the guitar is a blues instrument because the notes die out so quickly. It is tragic.

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