Wednesday, April 13, 2005
If You See Someone, Say Something.
[A picture of Corey headed uptown]
I realize that my recent postings seem disenchanted and negative, so I’m shifting gears to something a little more upbeat.
One of the pieces I'm working on right now is Born and Raised - a song cycle for amplified flute, amplified vocals, and electronic instruments, commissioned by Margaret Lancaster and performed by her (flute and vocals) + yours truly (vocals and electronics).
The piece is still in-progress, and Margaret and I are having a lot of fun working together. Both of us have the vocabulary of traditional training, but we are also comfortable exploring atypical approaches to notation, performance, and interpretation, so Born and Raised incorporates what I hope are novel and interesting modes of performance.
I admit that I’m probably not doing anything wholly new, but what might be familiar territory for others may be unfamiliar territory for me. It has been my experience that when people are confronted with something unfamiliar, they either dismiss it or find idiosyncratic ways of dealing with it. The idiosyncracies can produce fascinating results.
By way of illustration, I present scores and mp3s of “Eulogy” and “Thoroughbred Girl in a Bastard World” – two songs from Born and Raised (still a work-in-progress) for your entertainment (click here).
My questions to interested readers and listeners are:
In what ways have you explored "unfamiliar territory" in your own work? What were the results?
(I realize the creative process itself could be considered "unfamiliar territory," but I'm interested in specific challenges or specific problems. I hope this is clear.)
posted by Corey Dargel
6:12 PM
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