August 2, 2008 – 11:41 pm
Instrument Building!
One of our favorite aspects of this project (and of many others we do) is having the chance to create new sounds by building and finding instruments. We are by no means experts at it, and our methods are usually very unscientific (a lot of trial and error through listening). Nor are we remotely inventing the concept: putting aside the way musical cultures like those in Africa find utility in everyday objects, even in western music there was an explosion of wacky instrument building in the 20th century. Read More »
Interviews
So it turns out that creating a bunch of new music for train stations is a pretty time consuming process! Over the next couple of days, we’re going to to catalogue some of the wonderful parts of this process that have lead up to where we are now, just a week and a half before the show. Read More »
Films for Our Project
Jenise Treuting, our collaborator on amid the noise (also Jason’s sister and official namer of So Percussion!) will be in Vermont this summer with us. She’ll be integrating film of trains in Japan - where she lives and works - with footage that is taken in VT. We asked to her talk a bit about some of the work she’s done with us already:
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ITEMS WANTED
So Percussion is looking for some items to make cool sounds for Music for Trains:
oil drums (empty)
bellows
bicycle pumps
accordian
bicycle wheels
toy trains
large rolls or pieces of paper
old TV’s
cassette players or old radios or old record players
If you have any of the items that you would let the guys use during their summer residency, comment here or email sara@vermontperformancelab.com.
Thanks!
Music & Trains
When So Percussion was first approached about coming up to Southern Vermont during the summer, we almost didn’t need to hear what it was for. Since being in residence at the Yellow Barn Festival in 2004, we were bound and determined to find any excuse to get back to the Brattleboro Bookstores and Putney’s Front Porch for any length of time. Read More »
The members of So Percussion are interested in recordings of your train stories and the sounds of Brattleboro and Bellows Falls.
Upload your mp3s to a Web site and give us a link by adding a comment at the bottom of the page.
