Arctic Project
I've embarked on a long-term, primarily solo project composing a framework for music to be fully realized in live improvisations, accompanying myself by loop sequencer. I'll start posting bits of that project here.
The music is inspired by:
• tales of polar exploration and (mis)adventure;
• real and imagined polar environments & soundscapes (imperiled now by anthropogenic climate change);
• arctic cultures, and clashes & exchanges on the frontier; and particularly by
• Dan Simmons' 2007 novel, The Terror, which weaves together these themes and more (including supernatural mythic elements) in its imagined fate for the lost Franklin expedition to navigate a Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century — call my project musical fan fiction if you like (or fictional fan music, or fanatical musical fiction...); and finally by
• the prospect of my own parallel exploration of the violoncello's versatility in evoking it all.
Far out, Farley Mowat!
The music is inspired by:
• tales of polar exploration and (mis)adventure;
• real and imagined polar environments & soundscapes (imperiled now by anthropogenic climate change);
• arctic cultures, and clashes & exchanges on the frontier; and particularly by
• Dan Simmons' 2007 novel, The Terror, which weaves together these themes and more (including supernatural mythic elements) in its imagined fate for the lost Franklin expedition to navigate a Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century — call my project musical fan fiction if you like (or fictional fan music, or fanatical musical fiction...); and finally by
• the prospect of my own parallel exploration of the violoncello's versatility in evoking it all.
Far out, Farley Mowat!
