I had my first meeting with Milo and discussed my ideas so far. Which isn’t set in stone and I do believe the creation process will guide me to something. At the moment for the first hand in I want to do an EP. Sampling music and creating something to do with my Brazilian heritage, and thinking of music or recordings as a more fluid thing and not a defined set-in-stone premise.
I wrote down some quick ideas during the lecture beforehand that inspired my work.
Cinematic
Field recordings
Sampling performances and jams,
Drum machine, Alexis, Lin Drum?
Minimalism,
Anthropocene
Lo-fi
Mixing and recording
4 track tape machine experiments, pitching and making a song on it
Reel to tell Yamaha in the performance lab
Record drums, through the equipment in the performance lab, Audient desk? Percussive sounds, claps, random sounds click pops
SP303 make beats on it, SP404 MK2
Microphone selection is important,
Sonic aesthetic.
I was considering the idea very much of recording to be just as important as the creation. And what recording techniques can offer us in terms of sonic aesthetics and consider that right at the start. I want to record on cassette and digital of course. But to consider the idea of minimalism within my work and to reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed by DAWs and other modern mediums. But rather combine a few. I just want to create and see what happens if I create with samples and rap as the main vessel. Using field recordings to create a cinematic feeling towards the EP and then incorporate that within my ideas.
I also spoke about recording instruments and friends/jams. Recording drums, keys, and saxophone. All in the university as well as using the Audient desk as a tool to escape this digital screen working mode. Milo advised me to start small and then work my way up which is my idea as well. I’m going to start with smaller instruments. I think I should also think about what I want from the recordings and how to best situate myself ready for it. Do I want to prepare drum loops for others to play? Or do I want to do sessions of recording and producing with my friends/musicians?
I think these are ideas I’m going to explore this week and for next week record something in the studio and make sure it’s all booked in.
I’m waiting back for the notes from the meeting as I’m not sure 100% if this is everything we discussed.
I also continued my idea to state that this original EP will lead onto an Album in the final portfolio hand in and the other portfolio would be a piece similar to sonic journalism with field recording practice being the centre of it. A continuation of my last hand in titled “Listening to the Thames”