Re: creativity creativity

[Jeff Yost <yostie@ezworks.net>]

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jeff

rich wrote:
> 
> >1. graphs
> >    -when I feel limited in a particular piece I'll often work from a 
>graph.
> >for instance, my ambient project used to play a chart of stock market
> >returns over the past 50 years.  very fun!  we would "notate" the graph 
>with
> >colors for moods (blue=sad, red=intense, green=layered, etc) and 
>indicate
> >how long (length of time) each section would roughly take.  some great
> >results with this one.
> 
> I had a couple of interesting performances a few years ago based on this
> idea.  The performance was called Kaballah Clocks and it was a half hour
> piece, based tonally on the 10 'stations' of the mystical Kaballah.  Each
> station has a 'color' associated with it.  Color resonates at a certain
> light frequency, and we associated those (angstrom?) frequencies with Hz
> frequencies of sound, so each 'station' had a tonal drone that we
> improvised within.  Each member of the ensemble had a clock in front of
> them and we played in each 'station' for 3 minutes, and then mutated to 
>the
> next, and to the next, culminating at the top station of the Kaballah,
> associated with Brilliant White light.
> 
> Definitely a noisy piece, but what a crescendo!  We were purely
> improvising, and made no grandiose pretensions about how good the piece 
>was
> going to be.  Afterwards, though, we had people coming up and saying how
> amazing it was, and that they had drifted off into some state of 
>meditation
> during the piece, even though we had not introduced it in any way...it 
>just
> was the end of our set.
> 
> Super fun and musically/experimentally/spiritually rewarding
> 
> rich