24 – Altiplana
October 2, 2011
Here’s a piece from when I first started making music again after a 9 year gap in 2003… at this point I was still deliberately trying to please people but tucked this piece away at the back of an album under my pseudonym Lex Nasa.
In hindsight it seems like a bridge between the indie 80s and 90s and what I’m doing now, whilst kind of obvious, it does reveal some kind of future intent, even if that intent at the time was to be a trip-hop Steve Reich.
The purpose of this blog is not to edify me, it’s somewhere to share the things I’ve done that I like, regardless of whether they contribute to a positive perception of me or not. Dirty laundry, skeletons in closets, badgers in gloves.
I’ve made some truly awful music over the years but I think this piece has some merit.
23 – Water Mark/Margin
October 2, 2011
Here I selected and edited other people’s music for a contemporary dance performance for the first time. The choreographer is my long time collaborator John Utans and the company is the Beijing Dance Academy. I did this a couple of years ago.
I haven’t obtained permission for any of the music here for this blog but I think I’ve done them justice. If you want to know the names of individual tracks, email me. Enjoy! The starting song is not as obvious as it initially seems.
