I’m not sure how frequently I’ll post videos of beats (in various stages of development) but when I do post them, they’ll be added to the playlist I’ve started at YouTube.
Month: July 2016
Inspiration: Composition 23b
Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, & Mike Reed, “Composition 23b,” Artifacts, 2015.
Sō Percussion: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”
Summertime
Sonny Rollins (Quintet with Coleman Hawkins), “Summertime,” Sonny Meets Hawk!, 1963.
Inspiration: Happiness
Abdul Wadud, “Happiness,” By Myself: Solo Cello, 1977.
“I hear the ‘Cello’ as being percussive, chordal, linear, in a group improvisation context, and capable of many effects. In short I hear it as an ‘instrument,’ and not as the ‘accustomed sweet sounding instrument’ which tends to stifle a whole new world of music.”