I’ve been avoiding writing in this blog lately, after I slipped off the monthlong challenge I’d set for myself/V set for me. I think my practice did develop during the two or so weeks I did manage, and in an intensive way, so I’m hoping I can pull myself together and restart that work soon (today maybe…), but in the meantime life goes on and much is happening that is exciting and wonderful! I’m busy planning for my travel and interviews in Europe, and later this week is the Rogue Three album launch (finally! exciting!). Week before last I was in Melbourne, and played Make It Up Club with Miyama and Ryan, and presented at the AJIRN conference, which was well received. Plenty of other exciting work to be done, like working on Rebecca Saunders’ Bite for solo bass flute and maybe making an article out of the AJIRN presentation and submitting it for publication. And L and I are playing a set alongside Nicole on the weekend, then giving a presentation at BFU “in defence of difficult music” Wednesday week.
Anyway, here’s some great listening I was alerted to thanks to Elisabeth sharing a review in The Wire on fb. Shorter, more stylistically contained tracks – this is also how we approached recording for Rogue Three. Really fun stuff! I’m not sure how I’m going to work with recordings for my dissertation. Probably I think I’ll write a brief profile of a selection of artists, and include a description/brief analysis of some of their main recorded works. A kind of literature review, but done retrospectively to the philosophical work I’ve been developing, applying it to what I’m hearing. It would also be great to document certain performances that I attend. Need to think more on this.
stay and make kin 