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A Panoply of grey: for guitar and loop station.
Composed in 2022 for the Artist in Residence program at Falls Creek for guitar and loop station.
Sessile Conversations: music centered installation around the senses of plants
Sessile Conversations grew out of research into the sensory corollaries of human to plant – what is seeing like for plant compared to what is seeing like for humans and how can that be explored through music?
Re-imagining and Referencing: Depression Era Songs in new Compositions: “Spare a Candy Mountain Dime”.
I wanted to reference the emotional core of the song, the genre of the original song (Tin Pan Alley, Hilly Billy, Blues and Humorous/Novelty) and melodic/lyrical content. I have not reproduced large parts of the lyrical content, instead using fragments of the lyrics, sometimes more, sometimes, less and built a song around those fragments using my narrative guitar procedure, where all of the elements of the music are organized around story telling.
Narrative Guitar
In its most stripped back form, narrative guitar is just me and my guitar. It is me working at the intersection of storytelling and music.