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Status: Single
City: CHICAGO
State: Illinois
Country: US
Signup Date: 3/19/2005
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 

I am a Chicagoan in seek of fellow ABSURDIST SONGWRITERS interested in:

CO-WRITING AVANT-GARDE POP MONSTROCITIES
thru such techniques as:

. . . randomly generating song elements from dice, playing cards, divination, etc.
. . . setting others' words to music - writing words to others' music (& vice versa).
. . . cutting up lyrics & song elements to recombine them in surprising ways.
. . . intuitive / "automatic" techniques of composition.
. . . constrained poetry (eg. palindromes, writing without the letter "e", etc.).
. . . writing songs/poems using surrealist techniques such as writing two lines & concealing the first, then giving the other person the page & having him/her do the same thing.
. . . converting non-musical phenomena into sound.

CREATING EAR-BENDING EXPERIMENTAL RECORDINGS
thru such techniques as:

. . . collecting sounds to use in unique ways.
. . . cutting up sounds randomly & reassembling them.
. . . separately recording different tracks to go with the same backing track & playing them together.
. . . improvising multi-layered pop songs from the ground up.

PERFORMING LIVE SHOWS
on the street, at open mics, at clubs
which feature (for example):

. . . group improvisation outside of "stylistic" limitations.
. . . live chance recombination of prepared material.
. . . live performance of musical "games".
. . . creating & performing on multiple instruments, including assemblages from "non-musical" paraphernalia, i.e. junk.
. . . mythical storytelling elements.
. . . dramatic (operatic!) elements such as costumes, characters & plots.
. . . performing absurdist rituals that involve the audience & players in unpredictable ways.

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I'm not talking about a jam band or a free jazz combo.  I'm talking about a vehicle of super-musical chaos worship.

I'm ready to try anything, & I'm looking for other people who are, too - People who revel in PARADOX - People who say nothing is true & everything is permitted - People who, in the area of making noise, are simultaneously RIDICULOUSLY SERIOUS & SERIOUSLY RIDICULOUS.

If some of what I've described excites you, then let's get together & see what we can do.

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Contact: Andrew
315 657 6839
gtrpkt AT yahoo DOT com
http://www.myspace.com/nodalnim

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Elisabeth Blair

 
Hey, Patrick and I are going to be performing a song tonight he wrote. The only text is that which was taken from a sign in Bridgeport that he thought was funny.

Also, myself and some of my friends in The Giving Tree Band (www.myspace.com/thegivingtreeband.com) are about to embark on an experiment whereby I find a set of lyrics online (I'm working on this) - probably gathered from a really obscure traditional song, or a translated obscure foreign traditional song, or possibly a really amateur poem from an anthology of amateur poems I have, and we each write music to go with the lyrics. Then we see how it all turns out - how different or similar the songs are, etc. And it would show off our styles. We wouldn't have an absurdist approach, exactly - we'd be trying to write in each of our unique styles, but that's fine I think - you can approach it in your own style!
If you want to do it too I will send you the lyrics once I find good ones.

Cheers,
Elisabeth

 
Posted by Elisabeth Blair on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 5:54 PM
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Elisabeth Blair

 
whoops, scratch that band web address, it's of course without the ".com" - it's a myspace address. :) 
 
Posted by Elisabeth Blair on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 5:55 PM
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