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Re: creativity creativity
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jeff
rich wrote:
>
> >1. graphs
> > -when I feel limited in a particular piece I'll often work from a
>graph.
> >for instance, my ambient project used to play a chart of stock market
> >returns over the past 50 years. very fun! we would "notate" the graph
>with
> >colors for moods (blue=sad, red=intense, green=layered, etc) and
>indicate
> >how long (length of time) each section would roughly take. some great
> >results with this one.
>
> I had a couple of interesting performances a few years ago based on this
> idea. The performance was called Kaballah Clocks and it was a half hour
> piece, based tonally on the 10 'stations' of the mystical Kaballah. Each
> station has a 'color' associated with it. Color resonates at a certain
> light frequency, and we associated those (angstrom?) frequencies with Hz
> frequencies of sound, so each 'station' had a tonal drone that we
> improvised within. Each member of the ensemble had a clock in front of
> them and we played in each 'station' for 3 minutes, and then mutated to
>the
> next, and to the next, culminating at the top station of the Kaballah,
> associated with Brilliant White light.
>
> Definitely a noisy piece, but what a crescendo! We were purely
> improvising, and made no grandiose pretensions about how good the piece
>was
> going to be. Afterwards, though, we had people coming up and saying how
> amazing it was, and that they had drifted off into some state of
>meditation
> during the piece, even though we had not introduced it in any way...it
>just
> was the end of our set.
>
> Super fun and musically/experimentally/spiritually rewarding
>
> rich