Beyond & Before

Short blog update (at least i'll try) :

• Exoseth has define new mainlines for our future collaboration. Check it here.
  
• Constantin has invited some friends to jam on the two improvisations we've made last week. A guitarist on the funkey one - that we shall maybe record again the three of us, and a flute player for the second one. Rehearsals will begin sometimes at the beginning of next month...
• François and i will work on Bridges this sunday. I've just finished to re-record the whole thing, except for the middle part wich we'll deal with together.

Eight Days A Week

Enough of my babbling, i suggest.
Let's get to the core of this project...

On monday, Constantin and i jammed on the two signposted improvisation that came out last time. A funky and a more spacey one, ranging from three to six minutes. I'm actually wasting more time at readjusting what has been played correctly with that damn old computer which seems delighted to systematically desynchronise what shouldn't ! Audio files will be on line soon.

As you can read it on Exoseth page, chances are that we will be directed on a more open form for the musical direction that should illustrate his poem. Based on pure sounds rather than written melodies. But first we must schedule a brainstorming to see what we really have at this moment.

Didn't received any news from the other collaborators lately, but that's fine with me... I just hope that the slower pace of the past month didn't changed their minds. They are all fair enough to give me the time that i need to work upon those things, so it's logically mutual.

Some kind of relief

Lately, i've been busy trying to get a job... All opportunities completely failed. But it didn't affect my motivation. Reasons for this sudden such are wrong, i know, but i feel somehow uncomfortable with the idea of being permanently in a depending position.

What's the point with the music then ? There is no point, except perhaps to make this blog a little more consistent with unappropriate thoughts. Anyway...

The latests REAL news regarding the MULTIPLY project are the following :

• i did retrieve the six improvisations i've done with Constantin two weeks ago. We played the week of my awful headache - remember ? - and it shows. Besides, recording devices were quite whimsical that day... To resynchronize stuff that was synchronized at first made me almost regret the old and more reliable magnetic tapes. So, nothing fascinating really on the whole but some sparse interesting moments or is it happy coincidences ? I'll wait for Constantin's opinion before considering moving forward.
• i don't know what the hell i did with the recorded drum part for the Derek Bailey tribute ! So, i'm unable to change it... Unless i start to record it again.
  
• i've found a melody for the instrumental upon wich Rival is supposed to slam. Again, the choice of notes, the choice of sounds vary from one person to another so i'm expecting to hear Rival's point of view on the present submission

I think it's a good thing for me to compel at one session every week.
I must admit that these last few weeks i got the feeling that the project might be too demanding for me, but most of the musicians involved told me there was no rush at all. Some kind of relief.

Beaucoup Fish

This is not April Fool's Day hoax... I'm virtually unable to retrieve files that has been recorded on my computer just because it handles a very old Operating System, under wich modern USB key don't run, and in the meantime i need to keep that old Windows98 of mine - not the safest i confess - just because the sound card i'm using isn't recognized by actual Operating Systems... Need i say more ?

That doesn't put an end to MULTIPLY. Not at all. But it's a serious pause tough. I need to find something to work it out as soon as possible.

Meanwhile, listening to the solo projects that some of my friends did wanted to share with me prior to any official release - i'm talking about Daniel Palomo Vinuesa and Benoît Fournier here - the fantastic precisions of their arrangements and their writing skills suddenly made me realize stronger than ever before that the actual obvious next step for me if i do want to improve my musical craft is to consider the compositional side of music. Lately, i've been too much relying on what could be easily described as "the magic of the moment". I'm not a musician. I just know one or two tricks. But i can't cheat anymore. Nothing to do with shame or whatsoever. It's just a question to be honest with myself.