Framework for hyperlocal media piece will be placed here. So not to use up too much of your time this is what I think we should do:
1. I’ll revise what we spoke about last time. Something about writing a piece for a one man band (Andy is up for being that person). I’ll listen back to conversation and summarise (here) later.
2. How many interactions/sessions would you like? 4-6? Online and offline?
3. We spoke about lyrics being written, anyone up for that? How many verses? Do we follow a verse/chorus framework?
4. We spoke about people being able to interact via social media # hashtag whatever we decided #hyperlocalmediamusic
5. We spoke about a performance happening around BCU
Hey there lovelies! Here’s the page for us to share findings.
Context:
Task 1: Please introduce yourself and what you’d be interested in contributing to the project to the gang.
Task 2: Please share your top 5 tracks which must include orchestral arrangers (soul/jazz/RnB/pop of 60/70s). What do you love about the sound? What do you think are the signature elements of the music you’ve selected that we should take note of for our collaborative piece?
Deadline: 28th September.
Best wishes,
Bobbie
Alfonso, I’m listening to music by Thom Bell on your recommendation, he has an interesting story too! I wonder what he does now? Would love to see these scores, how do I access them, record labels?
Lord ha mercy this as well:
Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)” – The Delfonics – starts with french horn and glockenspiel! That brass!!
Read this interview about his collaboration with Johnny Mathis on the track ‘Coming Home” and this stood out:
“Musically, Bell fashioned an arrangement that further amplified the visual cues in Creed’s narrative. “I intended to meet the obligations of the lyrics of what he’s saying,” he explains. “It’s got to match. If the arrangement does not fit, I’m not ashamed to throw it in the trash. Just because I wrote it doesn’t mean it has to be in there.” Each musical component on “I’m Coming Home” painted a vivid scene: the interplay between the bass and drums summoned a train’s chugging rhythm on the tracks while the strings evoked rolling landscapes glimpsed from a passenger’s window. The soft horns simulated a distant train whistle heralding Mathis’ arrival.”
Mission to the Land of Misplaced Words: “Shebeen Sounds” Shebeen Sounds research period will collect, via audio and photographs, folk songs, music and the associated memories that accompany them. The audio will form the basis of a soundscape that is played throughout the public residency and the images will form part of the visual projections culminating in May 2016.
For Birmingham Heritage Week, as a Data Thief, I curated the launch of Shebeen Sounds, an experimental research project exploring the memories which reside in self-proclaimed cultural spaces, or “shebeens”, around Birmingham. We are going to work with Afro-Caribbean, Polish, Bangladeshi and Congolese communities to research and learn about their shebeen spaces. In May next year we will turn our findings into a piece of immersive sound and art.
At the launch event, Shebeen Kings and Queens Caroline, Ken and Ian, told our guests about the project over Congolese tea, curry goat and rice and Polish cake. I created pink noise for the memory collection room which was interspersed with cosmic themed DJ sets played by Gary and I. The aim was to immerse our guests into a chilled vibe to ease their memories being collected by Mission//Misplaced captain Gaylene Gould.
Here are some pictures from our launch event at Vivid Projects, taken by Marcin Szymczak.
3 . Although my roman catholic days ended with secondary education (I have BIG problems with the church’s views on homosexuality, abortion etc.), I found this news story quite moving. Watching the pope pull up in a rather humble blue ford focus, to bless a disabled woman tweaked the old heart strings. There was no media, no agenda to him stopping the car, I just saw a man using his position to genuinely care for people. That moved me.
Feeling the spacey chords, simple harmonies & goosebumps at the start.
I’d tailor the vocal line, some tuning issues. I like the low sustained notes sung at the beginning. Like the vibe though.
