forces in motion

i've been admiring, and talking/wanting to collaborate with Joseph Benzola for over 10 years now, and just recently we've finally both settled in and tried to get it going before there's nothing left to do but rattle canes at each other!

anyway, here's the first piece-----Forces in Motion----as a work in progress for anybody who might be interested:

http://tinyurl.com/yzketsa

FWiW, Joe's been a longtime internet friend, and if there's anything here that seems remotely interesting, then please, check Joe's own solo music if you can find it anywhere, because it's great. A very unique (to him) mix of an improvisers soul with a DIY home studio composer.....he tends to favor unfolding arch form with a penchant for density and a multi-layered pulse, but always seem to pull some new rabbit out of that hat too......great, great stuff.

Like me, Joe seems to kind of move it fits of motivation and productivity and sudden fits of indignation where all Benzola sites and activity disappears......so for my part i'm mostly just glad to see Joe up and enthused again about music making, and that in itself makes this project special for me
Ps-----------But you ask.......swell, but where are the microtones man? Well, the last solo is fretless guitar with the open strings micro-tuned and played with a lap steel bullet slide. Try to imagine you had a harmonica that you could tune each hole to any note you desired on the fly, and then ran it thru a semi-unstable super-distorted ,super-compressed, formant-rich amp/device setting.....that's kind of what's going on there where the bullet slide sits in for putting a breath through the harmonic left-to-right and right-to-left........it's kind of the magic of technology and strategy over the magic of innate skills........kind of like Thanos giving Odin a good go!

I like that! -C.

At 04:06 PM 10/24/2009, you wrote:
>i've been admiring, and talking/wanting to collaborate with Joseph
>Benzola for over 10 years now, and just recently we've finally both
>settled in and tried to get it going before there's nothing left to do
>but rattle canes at each other!
>
>anyway, here's the first piece-----Forces in Motion----as a work in
>progress for anybody who might be interested:
>
>http://tinyurl.com/yzketsa
>
>FWiW, Joe's been a longtime internet friend, and if there's anything
>here that seems remotely interesting, then please, check Joe's own
>solo music if you can find it anywhere, because it's great. A very
>unique (to him) mix of an improvisers soul with a DIY home studio
>composer.....he tends to favor unfolding arch form with a penchant for
>density and a multi-layered pulse, but always seem to pull some new
>rabbit out of that hat too......great, great stuff.
>
>Like me, Joe seems to kind of move it fits of motivation and
>productivity and sudden fits of indignation where all Benzola sites
>and activity disappears......so for my part i'm mostly just glad to
>see Joe up and enthused again about music making, and that in itself
>makes this project special for me
>Ps-----------But you ask.......swell, but where are the microtones
>man? Well, the last solo is fretless guitar with the open strings
>micro-tuned and played with a lap steel bullet slide. Try to imagine
>you had a harmonica that you could tune each hole to any note you
>desired on the fly, and then ran it thru a semi-unstable
>super-distorted ,super-compressed, formant-rich amp/device
>setting.....that's kind of what's going on there where the bullet
>slide sits in for putting a breath through the harmonic left-to-right
>and right-to-left........it's kind of the magic of technology and
>strategy over the magic of innate skills........kind of like Thanos
>giving Odin a good go!
>
>