Before
I began listening to this tape, I read that the songs on it were
improvised. I fully support the idea of
having improvised music, as far as not performing it in concert and re-creating
it on that level. It’s kind of funny
when you think about music in that way isn’t it?
Nearly
any other art form you can name doesn’t require repeat performances. Sure, there is the theater, but not
movies. I could never imagine someone
going on a book tour and having to show the crowd how they wrote their latest
novel. You’d hear things like, “Ohh, he’s
about to go into the cliffhanger before Chapter 6!! Get your lighters in the air, people!!”
Maybe
those mediums also aren’t improvised in the sense that movies have many takes
and books have drafts (I assume but wouldn’t know because I’m a One Take
Wonder) but what about painting? You can
erase things to an extent, but sometimes it’s just improvising.
No
matter what all of those paragraphs might have rambled about, I do like the
idea of having a piece of music that is finite in the sense that you say, “Here
it is recorded, listen to it” and then don’t attempt to recreate it live.
It
reminds me of how photographs catch those split seconds in time.
In any
event, this is experimental; electronic to an extent instrumental music but the
fact that it’s being made up as it goes is just impressive to me. There
are distorted waves and synth. It has
many of the same characteristics as its fellow genre friends, but there does
seem to be a bit more guitar work in here than expected.
The
guitar riffs are actually nice for something that was practiced and recorded
over several takes in a studio, so the fact that this was so spontaneous
continues to blow my mind.
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