Glock Revelation: Learning the Melody

Last night I had a simple and empowering experience. Instead of waiting around, while the Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir's new track "Preaching to the Choir" was being figured out by James and Eric, I decided to learn the header also, on the Glockenspiel.

It made me realize how much time I have been wasting because I thought of myself only as a drummer. This is a seriously huge revelation. Learning the melody gave me a deeper window into the form, and consequently intimacy and command were both amplified.

I might even get to play the Glock on the outro. YES!



Then after rehearsal you can really let your hair down.

Goldhamer

Of the things discussed after Animal's CD release party at the Beauty Shop with artist resident Laura Goldhamer: 

• silent drumming
• triggering lights vs. sounds
• computer access to notes between the notes 
• gear 
• electronic music
• the use of computer as a tool rather than an absolute
• enslavement to the computer
• freedom vs. structure 
• digital vs. analog
• the paralysis of the infinite
• digital photography as it relates to automatic weaponry and sloppiness
• t-switches in trains diesel engines and in audio equipment
• sound healing with speaker-triggered drums
• new age filtration
• community vs. individualism
• vesica piscus and the primal wound
• sounding circles
• group improvisation
• improvisation
• bow ties and the two ends of an infinity sign
• looping
• Zoe Keating
• centrioles
• mytosis
• cell duplication
• Harpoontang
•  The Evangenitals
• John Cage
• Merce Cunningham
• Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir
• Alvin Lucier
• Steve Reich
• Milford Graves as a law of nature and heartbeat master
• free jazz as a permission-concept for all music vs. free jazz the genre
• Marcel Duchamp's "I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste" as it relates to authentic genre hopping
• contact mics
• sub woofers
• recording the sounds of brainwaves
• oscillators and the patterns of frequency
• Gary Synder's "Axe Handles" 
• Billy Collins "Splitting Wood" 
• star formation within circles and squares
• centrisomes and moons
• video feedback and the Lord
• unity and diversity, not twoness
• overhead projections, animation
• digital projectors
• the evolution of technology and photography equipment
• quality
• the infinite of digital photography vs. the finite of old school photography
• hip hop
• vulnerability and strength together within blossoming of expression
• loop pedals used as a tool not as a parlor trick
• white as an expression of all color combined
• aperture and shutter speed in terms of video feedback
• sonic installation
• breath-ability of music
• language and allowance of silence in conversation and music
• volume pedals
• art of live accompaniment vs. computer-centric accompaniment
• allowance for variance in music
• allowance for intuition and assessment of the present moment vs. re-creation of music
• prayer through singing
• truly being motivated by love and creating what you want in spite of all circumstance.

Needless to say I love Laura Goldhamer completely. 

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