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Quiet actions sequence - Song right here with me

by Song Research

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Breath, noise and voice.

Quiet actions, ecstatic responses.

Immediate song in response to traffic in central Cambridge. Melody derived from embodied sense of pitch and timbre of engine sounds, and rhythm derived from velocity of vehicles and walking pace. Everything started and modulated by noise.

Proximate sounds preceding the song idea. Ecstatic autophony is the state in which I begin making songs.

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Realising little ecstasies of self-sounding, I materialise the invisible impossible.

Origins of a song, or Song, may be demonstrated by artists *doing*, whether by being figured recording audio or writing words. Song origins are often said to be inspired by a particular place, or by a memorable song / performance.

I've always experienced songs as physical objects forming within me, and when I make a song it's prompted by proximate sounds with which I vibrate, and which tune me into timbral and melodical memories of particular sounds and songs. A very effective archival retrieval mechanism. Oftentimes the proximate sound is an immediately clear but imperfect, memorised artifactual playback / self-performance of a song that I have responded strongly to emotionally.

The physical objects that I make are successful for me when they match the spatiality / feeling of the object as experienced. For me, intent of making is activation and realisation of embodied responses. Ecstatic autophony. Spontaneous virtuosity, like an animal's.

This is not as poetic as saying I'm inspired by a wondrous place, and it doesn't show off my keen knowledge of music which I apply intentionally before the fact. I am full of intent, just not the kind that is easily written about or easily understood.

My research brings us a little bit closer to the truth of the origins of song.

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released August 5, 2019
N Palmer

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See also: nielx.bandcamp.com; Fire Dept; Wild Billy Childish & The Spartan Dreggs.

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