This is an hour long improvisation performed at Salon de Refuses, an exhibition of artworks not accepted to the RA Summer Exhibition, London. Hosted by Happenstance Art and Framing.
I was using a set of delay times i had preset into my pedals.. using 3 tempos, 80bpm, 96bpm and 128bpm. these tempos converge on 3.750s. in 5 beats, 6 beats and 8 beats respectively. I create a matrix of vocal texture that cycle round each other by moving around my preset fractions of the tempos each of the 3 pedals i was using could converge or be in polyrhythm.
From my solipsistic working with verbal and non-verbal looping I have experienced a form of meditation as I create sonic patterns that grow out of each other. As an eternalist I am constantly in the past, the present and the future whilst improvising, as I sing along with what I have just sung and imagine the notes I want to hear next.
This track was used in ‘The Killing$ of Tony Blair’ movie by George Galloway. I chose the name ‘Elegy’ because it features as a juxtaposition to some barbaric scenes of warfare.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3489996/soundtrack/