Rhyzomic...

The internet is indeed a wonderful thing... Recently I wrote a review of some folksingers whom I went to see rather than going to The Fall gig in nearby Leicester the same night. I'd actually just started listening to The Fall again after a long hiatus – and more for the technical reason that I wanted to hear how Smith delivered his lyrics in the context of the band's music. I am unable to sing any more so was pondering if I could recite or speak words over music and, fired by this re-exposure to MES, tried it out on a couple of recordings – which didn't turn out too badly.

My future as a rapper is now secured.

In the process of re-entering MES's wild and wonderful world for tangental reasons, I fell back into his muse with a vengeance – being someone prone to enthusiams that border on the recklessly compulsive – and have been playing Fall stuff on and off for the last couple of weeks.
During this period, just at the time when I was about to re-launch my blog, some kind comments arrived, firstly from Betty, then Anthony – whose blogs I now enjoy and on which I now intermittently impose my own comments.

One of the links between us was The Fall... so it goes round. Weirdly, the absence of The Fall – in my not-going to their gig – suddenly caused a presence of them... or something equally philosophical. And new connections... and new inspirations...

One is almost tempted to say 'rhyzomic' – well, I am and I just have, so there...

Onwards from this... Betty sent me a row of musical notes to improvise over... I played them on my guitar and then started to wonder what they would sound like in a longer orchestration – so I took the notes, created a theme from them, reversed them and created a mirror theme – both very short – and underpinned it with a bass, using G as a tonal centre, then A, then Bflat and moved between these three centres as a couple of samples and some piano clusters generated from the same row of notes were added. She asked me to end on a random chord – so I did – and repeated it for luck.

Here's a preliminary mix – moody and mysterious...

A song generated by the Internet, uploaded and available for download – in a couple of hours...

A long way from The Fall -and folksingers...

The internet is indeed a wonderful thing... to take a line from Olson – 'The figure of Outwards'...

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