Background Sketch For Cancer (UPDATED)
Image: an aging clown putting on his makeup, becomes enchanted by the moon outside his window.
Musical thoughts: Sparse percussion and remembered fragments of old music gradually coalesce into a texture of whimsical rapture, enveloping the accompanying line to the melody (the melody reversed) as played on glockenspiel. Echoes of Pierrot.
Here’s a sample of what I have been toying with as the background to our live performance:
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[...] Erik will be triggering samples of triangles and other tinkly things that appear later in the beat layer. Below is a mock up with two loops of the melody: the first iteration is alto sax, reverse alto [...]