Oh, I forgot to mention… I made new music.
Like most of my output in the past year (I promise to exercise some self-motivation soon) it’s the result of a task in the Recording Collective. The idea was that each musical part or instrument could only play one note at a time, thus suggesting a layered approach.
serialism with a fairly obvious King Crimson (early 80s period) influence thrown in as well.
I started off with the insistent 16-note pattern you hear first… the main guitar panned to the left plays that throughout. The main guitar to the right does the same, but with one slight difference… its pattern is in 17/16 time and has one extra note tagged onto the end. Playing their parts consistently, the two guitars align ever 16 passes of the four-bar phrase, meaning that you get a whole load of unexpected counterpoints in between. The other guitar and bass parts are all playing sections of the tone row, in different registers and speeds.