Alex Day 12 Continuous writing

Day 12 or 7 or 2
Scott chair
Alex document
System
Preference
Safari
Scrolling
My camera
Is it anything like that?
A bit horrible
All you need is a cable
Hahaha
Concentration
Get it up on cd
Hahaha
No charger
Step forward
I am the chair
Wendy has volunteered to be the table
The leader?
Organic road
Half an hour
Rest of the day
Usually this starts after lunch
Two questions
Stiff fixing?
Clear yourself form the sound
Translate to movement
Loop structure
As simple as that
Sound photo
Yeah…not sure
Long process of developing
Fixed, no stiffy
I would like to have a go at some point today
Clear task
Linked?
Make it more fluid=space for silence?
Loop the stillness
A good thing
Music and the mind
Rhythm
(wendy reads from a book she’s brought)
Non repetitive
Increases errors
It makes scott think
Interesting
There was some talk
A very written thing
First week
Different emphasis
Soft movement thing
I thought of something I could try
The question of reading
Noise based behaviour
Mesmerizing
Better tomorrow
With a text
Off on a tangent
Getting frustrated without the possibility of not churning out
I, personally, wouldn’t mind
Part of the joy
Tomorrow
Text
Yes
Quite complicated
Content
Language
It depends on a lot more things
I can do it today
Grrr pounce grrr
Spinning text
We need a dramaturg
Val has volunteered to keep an eye (“I”)
There is immediacy about knowing who Shakespeare really was
(a couple of minutes pause)
(I can hear the planes fly by…)
Getting attached to the statement, or not
The purpose of looping
A continuing moment
Childish excitement
It plays with your memory
The other way
Repetition is everywhere
Unison negates the individual
It is complex because two people are doing it
Why do we use twenty, then?
So people can see it from far away
It funnels bits of you
Replicate
Amplify
Video
A binary replica of an event
Maybe
Yeah
(pause)
Motion capture stuff
Does it begin to fade?
No
The second becomes the first, in a way
I am always sent back in time
It is asking me to remember
Is that less true than something else?Not very far away from trauma..
The individual construing the meaning through pattern recognition
Wendy recalls a story about yonder
Scary kids’ story
Homing
Mommy
Daddy
Mommy
Daddy
Hahaha
Hello darling,
10 second hug
Do you want to try it?
If there is a foundation to come back to, you can take off
Director
Authority
I needed
Freaked out
God, yeah…
Oh fuck (it’s ok)
Some people you are familiar with
2 seconds reincarnation
Cast a judgment
You can blame me if you like
Framework
Music
Polish guy looped something
Trapeze blob
Slightly moving
Striking
Not what it seems to be
Set
Loop
Set picture
Time
Clear connection
Yesterday
What is more important?As well
What has happened before?
Understanding
History
Forms I’ve had access to
Popular music forms
Accumulation
How do I make something?
I don t know what that is
The scale
Many ways to break up an octave
Habit
Whole tones and half tones
Distance between two sounds
Pitch
Frequency
Devise
Do you?
I could apply them in a different way, choreographically
I have a friend
Acoustic sciences
Respond
Acoustical properties
The sound of the sound
The sound of dust
Very interesting
The matter hits the surface of the ear drum
This is not ether
Transpire
Proximity
Moving particles
Pushing matter
Very different
Images
Terms
Clocked very quickly
Since we’re talking…
Very discursive
East- West sound recording differences
Making explicit the process
Fragments
Something interesting starts to happen
Choice making process
Can you?At the moment, I am?
Simultaneously it would be inexact
You pull out segments
Pum, pum, to make into a phrase
16 minute loop
Perception
Playing with the nature of…
Do you know what I mean?and you still have another one
My name is val
And tina
But halfway through
Destroying the loop by looping other loops
A linear sentence
Good instincts stacked up on top of each other
It’s easier to loop yourself
Stuttering
Hovering
Willingly looped or not
Engineering
Making quilt out of someone else’s bits
Used to be…
The precedent
Benchmark
Hearing
Our expectation
Set back
Stand forward
I think it’s great
You know, the Doors
It’s different timing
A click track
I’m all for it
Somebody suggested to spin John Lennon around, digitally
Your turn
My turn
Sillier version
Folk dance
I leap in and do mine
Members of the group
On the stage
Big abstract dance pieces
Is that music a fixed artifact?
In the traditional sense
A CD doesn’t make choices
Choices have been made
Skip in the dance as well
DJ culture
Hahaha
Proposition
The nature of a loop
We’ve been talking all around it for hours
It was amazing
Wonderful
Actually decision making
This sense of group
Really, really nice
The music fucked up
And’
They carried on
It was interesting
It was made explicit
Survive a circumstance
Mistake
Failure
I really like
A consensus of semantics
The technology failed
That’s what I like
Improvise
Human beings
Not always pretty
Shabby bow
It’s us
Interesting stuff
The grand national went wrong
Somebody won; or did they?
I was watching TV
It went on for a long time
I don’t know
Then, they didn’t want to run again
It was more fun.
Step up.
Time
Today
Prepared something
11:45
Warm up
Ok
Consensus
Ok.
PK
Would like to loop herself
If it’s too easy…
Everyone piss off
And guess
Do we win anything?
Open strings
So you are not allowed to look at my feet
No
Not necessarily
Mi sol sol la x 10 +pizz+octave g+ fourth+a re! +A si! Re2 mi si re si re mi3 miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifsharp
La
La sol si
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Re4
La
Harmonic mi re mi si
Solsolsolsolsol
Solsolsolsolsol
Csharp4
Gliss fsharpg~~~~~~~~~~~
Fade out
Sol
The end
Wake up
Feeled
Felt
The low was insistent
A tone that kept being exactly like it was
Did it capture it?
To be honest
It was looping, but live
In addition
Added
That’s what I thought
She’s playing with us
There was a turn
Like someone who keeps saying something, over and over again (trauma)
Pre-composed
I have a problem with fixing
Every layer which is added it opens again
If the task was to accompany a dancer, would it be…?
A complete event
Theoretically
I agree with you
However
I want to theorise
If it’s your job to fix it
Are you flexible?
It becomes an organism
I am not proposing a value
Satisfaction
I can turn it off
I can
Slightly different
If there is a chord attached to my instrument…
In another way
Absolutely
Huge hassle
Sometimes
Too many limitations
Maybe that’s just a limitation for me
A kit
I am not saying that at all
It’s up to them
Details
A directional thing about that
Really weird
Where the speakers are
As loud as I could
Kill the source
I didn’t count
I didn’t care
So many questions come to mind..
2 second loop
2 days ago
16 minutes
2 second loop
45 second loop
How long does it take me to identify a repetition?
Irritating
Merge
Bury where it is
One chord
There were moments
1 second tremolo
Random
Quite happy
Make a point
A different task
I thought it was on the verge
Pretending to be responsive
Aliveness
A slight meaning factor of why you use loops
The rules of the game
Fantastic
Great
Shake
And
Bake
Scoop the midrange
Free the register
Does it sound like a mush?Surely
We can’t
Really
This now
That then
Questions of redundancy
Is this a process?
Whatever you did just now…
Many approaches
Is that your question?
Set the loop which is very clear
Almost reversing the task which I just did
Let it play for four
Nieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 2 3 4
Least explicit as possible
The looping is actually a machine…
Spread it to the people
The product wouldn’t t be different
In some aspect
Kind of
Doesn’t allow
Human error
Recording
Live event
Studio technology
Middle register is cramping again
That’s DJ’s do
Explicit choices
Explicit structures
Captures this breathiness
It was actually irritating
Capture and remove error
A document of a human
I am talking visually
I went to see her live
Tingtingtingtingting tuk tik
Bob Dylan going electric
Chop the cables
Golden boy
Everybody’s hero
Blahblahblah
Drum machines
Bent out of shape
This just goes on and on and on and on…
Music concrete
It would be impossible
I might try it
Smiling as well
No
This duration thing is interesting
I know that I can’t really remember what I was playing
Hahaha
Hihihi
Mi sol sol la x 8+octave sol+singing+laughing+tremolo+everyone is almost joining+ singing+ gliss+charlotte’s feet+ I can hear my computer+thirds+fifths+10+tremolo+great+interesting
The mid range is fine now
What the fuck are you trying to do here?
Quite amusing
Multi-tasking
Polyphonic
Val and her epilator band
One woman band
The struggle
To form the shape of the score you want to create…
It wasn’t any less a piece of music
The family
Sharing
Where are all those other parts?
It makes me imagine
I enjoyed the vulnerability
You can’t recall
She couldn’t recall
The point of giving up
You couldn’t find another loop within yourself
Much less
At least 10
At least 15
Those people
Overtones with the voice
Limits
It’s ok with me
I am hungry
I am fucking hungry
Without taking the piss out of yourself
Try it
Lunch
Scott still chair
Wendy still table
Where were we?
Where are we?
Hula hoop
I am quite happy to let somebody else decide
It is always hard right after lunch
Always slightly vague
Notion
Simple level
Music
Dancing
Reading
Two individuals
In space
Reading
Participating
Can we just go out here?
I need to go to the toilet. I will play my guitar
Mmm
Mmm
Got it
Good
That’s all what I really want to do
Little dog named pussy
Hahaha
Darren and Val are fooling around
Hahaha
So good
So god
So simple
Let’s form a band
Well…
How boring, everyone stopped smoking.
We talked earlier about
We treat the space like a proscenium
We focus on the space
Imagine
Don’t be precious
Close your eyes
Achieve a stillness
Relationship
In relationship
Listen to each other and move to a next stillness together
(No, I mean no, she says outside in the garden)
End
Throat clearing
Purpose
Discover
My own answer
(Get over here, she screams outside)
Darren closes the window, obviously disturbed by the noise
(Not without me, the children playfully scream outside, still)
(A plane, an ice cream truck…I’ve started, I’ve got it, the seconds racing by)
And
Silence as a measuring unit
And
End
Shut up,please!
End (for now)
A single image
Mmm
shifted_
My event
How many measures?The idea of moving
Changed
It’s a great question
Do you imagine something?
Kind of idea
You can track
Yourself
Through measures
Come out of the space
That’s possible
A kit
A set of tools
Replace
People from here
People form there
This here
That there
Any number
Outside
Original task
Observe from different locations
Are you still documenting alex?
A strong pen
A strong line
I’ll help you carry on
Lean on me
Mickey Mousing the pause
I am confused
I am not
Is it clear?
One thing
One space
One task
One
Are you doing this task?
We are the children
Uncle deng
5 more minutes
Sadiq
Taking things away
Allow to happen rather than make (additively) happen
Blow the egg
In comes Jesus
But god wasn’t finished yet
The space between two notes defines the value of the notes
I was thinking
An exercise
4,3,2,1
My name is wendy
My name is wendy
Gaps counted
Games
Controlled experiments
What is meant?
What is said?
Once you begin
It set an expectation
I keep wanting to stop as an example
Interest in space
It changes everything
Again
It’s begun
It indicates something
Response
How to begin?
A chicken and an egg
Blow the egg
In comes Jesus
Notice an end
Your measure
Organizing
Anticipation
Ruth
Moment
Ellen was counting time
We were somewhere else
Two people
One space
All sorts of things are firing
How do I organize my senses?
How do I do a single thing?Impatient
Find a way
Stimulating
Imagination
Work
I like
To keep remembering
Disappear
Fade out
Pre-imagined
I wonder what that is.
How do you begin?
Anything
Slipping into rather than
If not more than
A question
The self
The action
To articulate
Practically
As a description of that process
Just go
Other times
The other side of that same coin
I have to let go
Desire
Predictability
Aliveness
A word
Wrong-foot
A word
Your-self
Conscious
React
Bomb
I like the idea of being ready to fulfill one’s desire
Having the skill
Palate of choices
I can’t
I am going away
To paint
I don’t know if that makes any sense…
I, I, I, not out, of…
Fear
Doesn’t work
It’s not gonna’ work
Getting the feedback
Happy?
I think that is visible on you, from the outside, I mean
Without being personal
Reflecting
That state
An approach
The visible task
Something I can relate to
Circumstance
Laboratory
In the future
Very practical
You might surprise yourself
In the mean time
Bon courage
He didn’t enjoy playing anymore
Confident
Respect
Made him feel
A sort of respect
Hahaha
You do a roll
What is the myth?
Humidity
Heat
He quit
A constantly changing pitch
But, it’s amazing
Your fingers
Always something to be scared of
I guess
I apologize
Responsibility
Having something
Engaging with it
Constantly
Self-conscious
Sub-conscious
What to do?That thing of…
Surviving circumstances
Just surviving
Sorry.
You don’t need to apologize.
Pause
Gap
A bit of last week
Disallowing
A bit boring
In terms of words
Generating them would be something of an interest to me
I love words
Barriers
Maybe
Ages ago
There is something in that
Go out
Holding
Another yonder idea
Do you remember?
Arousal
Snippet
How can we do this in movement terms?
Doing it
Not wondering
Curious
Editing
Self-edit
Self-edit
Rely
It could be anything
Beckett
Endgame
Anything really
At least we know now.