sort of prank calling myself
july 18th, 2002
similar to capturing her ideas on the handheld, i decided two nights ago to do the same thing with my four track for some of the musical segments. i set up a microphone and let the mini disc roll for about thirty five minutes both nights and then just noodled and sang out whatever came to me at the moment. on tuesday i went back and listened and marked certain segments to either use or expand on down the line. it’s kind of a liberating way to create because there really aren’t any borders around anything yet. it’ s like prank calling when you don’t know or care who you’re going to get.
so now that i’m going, i keep thinking about doing some kind of progression between raw to polished, and/or acoustic to synthesized, or something with a timeline effect. and i overheard someone talking about how todays younger generation is living in a totally synthesized generation. and that includes music especially what’ s toping the pop charts now a days. i’m just rambling here about the ideas i’m shuffling through, maybe to influence what i end up doing.
oh yeah, i thought this was a pretty cool picture, john lennon smoking, glasses, white gloves, what more do you want? almost looks synthesized doesn’t it?