My (2nd) oblique strategy (given to me when my name came up in the hat)was "Imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events" (the initial oblique strategy, given to me at the start of the project, never came into play); which was the initial inspiration for my track. Having started on several disconnected themes I came across a rhythm pattern (guitar & drums) that I decided to go with as a basis for the entire track. I improvised a bunch of chord changes using this rhythm, then edited the result into an overall structure for the piece.
As most of my playing experience in the last 4 years has been performing on NINJAM (an online interactive jamming application), I decided to make the entirety a kind of improvised jam based around the constantly moving chord structure (so I had to practice playing over the changes a few times). The last thing I added was the bass (my usual instrument when playing on NINJAM). I staged it to change direction every 16 or 32 bars (to keep to the theme); hence the title of the piece; it's a multi-layered jam sandwich.
The analog synth noises that come in and out of the track suggested to me the idea of a UFO, which goes rather well with the the track which follows this, submitted by the late (and wonderful) rudi. Which makes my inclusion of a voice sample of rudi, speaking to me, right at the end of the track even more apt.
credits
from HA HA TAPE 2,
released November 24, 2013
Credits:
rudi - voice and laughter at the end of the track from a recording I made at a CaB meet in Regent's Park three years ago.
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