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I’ve written about my project of recording 100 “Brooklyn Walking Songs” from melodies that came to me while hiking on the sidewalks and streets of my Park Slope neighborhood. Terminating the collection at the one hundred mark didn’t stop the melodies from coming (as I noted when writing about “Pliny’s Natural History” where, as an alternative approach, I dumped in a bunch of new melodies into one sprawling work).
So, while trying to figure out what to do with these melodies that keep coming to me during the act of walking around the city, I started throwing them in a sketchbook file titled “Street Songs,” where they develop as “come what may.”
Lately, I often seem to be combining piano-ish melodies, drums (mostly using Garageband loops) and sound effects (also mostly through GB loops or keyboard-produced things, although some sounds have been collected from the very streets I’ve been walking). It’s been kind of nice to work without any specific focus. I just try to go with the flow of a creative current moment, letting it sweep me along.
The drawback is nothing ever seems to be finished. And by aiming at no target, I am having a hard time evaluating my performance, so I havn't posted any of this work, until now, with “Street Song No. 23,” which seems to be more or less representative of what’s been pouring out of me in the past few months.
Any feedback is, as always, appreciated.
I didn't know what category to stick this into, so any suggestions about that would also be welcomed.
So, while trying to figure out what to do with these melodies that keep coming to me during the act of walking around the city, I started throwing them in a sketchbook file titled “Street Songs,” where they develop as “come what may.”
Lately, I often seem to be combining piano-ish melodies, drums (mostly using Garageband loops) and sound effects (also mostly through GB loops or keyboard-produced things, although some sounds have been collected from the very streets I’ve been walking). It’s been kind of nice to work without any specific focus. I just try to go with the flow of a creative current moment, letting it sweep me along.
The drawback is nothing ever seems to be finished. And by aiming at no target, I am having a hard time evaluating my performance, so I havn't posted any of this work, until now, with “Street Song No. 23,” which seems to be more or less representative of what’s been pouring out of me in the past few months.
Any feedback is, as always, appreciated.
I didn't know what category to stick this into, so any suggestions about that would also be welcomed.
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and I love what you're doing with them. This is a wonderful composition - full of humor and intelligence. Great to hear ideas expressed so purely and joyously. Park Slope as the midway - our own Fellini film - cool.