"It's Complicated" https://youtu.be/ff_C-tb-uAY VIDEO http://www.alansondheim.org/ZDandL.jpg Azure Carter, songs, voice, photography "Immortality," "Bleak Song," "Ridge" Edward Schneider, alto sax, Zoom recording Alan Sondheim, oud, gambus, hasapi, sung lisu, clarinet, viola, violin, chromatic harmonica Ok, this was incredibly complicated to edit and play. For myself, I wanted to experiment with fretless string instruments; my intonation and hearing has never been good with intervals. So I slid from one to another. The gambus and sung lisu are quite old, and were repaired by Rachel Rosenkrantz. The oud is amazing, by Maurice Shehata. The violin is a relic from most likely 19th-century France. The viola is 1940s. The clarinet is late (?) Albert system C. So I gave myself a task, this. The songs are Azure's and two are recent. Edward was in Minneapolis on Zoom and ran the Zoom. He recorded sax separately. His sax playing is brilliant; it weaves in and out and is always both precise and challenging. I recorded with old Zooms, H4n and H2n, edited in Premiere and Audition. Sound was leaking all over; the environments were active; we had small speakers at our end which bled; the sax bled, my instruments bled, melange/bouquet of interferences and continuities. I love the result. Forgot to mention the bow was a short salt-and- pepper haired one, thanks to Dennis McCarten at McCarten violins. To be honest I don't know what got into me. Edward's playing is brilliant, as are Azure's songs and singing. I felt like a noisy conductor. The murky video is designed to cover up our dear losses of clarity. The final editing took about eleven hours, including rendering which was about six. The more you hear the less you know; the less your hear the more you know. So this breaks down barriers of clarity, placing them with other barriers of clarity. The video is three layers. I felt I was drowning in editing, but the surface of intensities and coagulations came through, if not bright, then clear; if not clear, then bright. Enjoy. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
