[NewMusic] a little bit of everything

[Amar]

(hopefully this isn't sausage material)

PG wrote:
> I started out by composing about 38 sketches, just melodies that I would
> start - sometimes finish, sometimes not. I wrote most of them while
> watching Antonioni's LaAventura, L'Eclisse, and Red Desert with the
> sound off.

LaAventura is one of my favorite films, I would curious to see and (with
your blessing) interpret some of the sketches it inspired.

  -Amar


> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of andrew wilshusen
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] a little bit of everything
>
> i have taken to notating my roughly composed drum
> solos by drawing little sketches of what i want done
> in the sort of style that i want it done in.  for
> instance, if i want to rub brushes violently on a oven
> grate, i'll draw a simple sketch of brushes being
> rubbed violently on an oven grate.  doubt that helps,
> but....
>
> PG:
> Cool. I have been trying to get away from graphic notation in this
> particular series of pieces. But of course, I salute you - carry on,
> keep writing.
>
> I started out by composing about 38 sketches, just melodies that I would
> start - sometimes finish, sometimes not. I wrote most of them while
> watching Antonioni's LaAventura, L'Eclisse, and Red Desert with the
> sound off.
>
> Then I started to flush them out. I knew I was writing for saxophone,
> bass, drums. I know - tired ensemble concept, but I entered this trying
> to do something different. Who knows if that is possible at this point.
> But I've had fun trying to play with where the voice is in the ensemble,
> and it's also been a series of pieces where I've been trying to
> challenge my overall rhythmic concept.
>
> I rehearsed the tunes tonight with Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason Levis, who
> were reading them down better than I was (you write stuff without
> playing it, and then all of a sudden you have to play it - yikes!). I
> flushed out about 9 of them, and we read through those - a lot of the
> things were similar - I suppose I didn't flush out melodies with enough
> variation, so I'm going back and work on the other sketches and try to
> come up with 10 pieces out of the total number of sketches. It should
> work, there's a lot of material to choose from. I started thinking I
> would write more than I would use - I literally wrote every melody that
> jumped into my head while I was watching those films. It's been a cool
> project so far.
>
> I'll be in Portland during the last week of March with Torsten and Dylan
> - I think we play Tuesday or Wednesday that week - still waiting to find
> out - I hope I see you while I'm up there Andrew!
>
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