Mudcat Healing Light Enema

Okay then, myself inspired by Crow Sister's poetic turn of phrase, it struck me that this would make the perfect title of a piece of music I've been working on as part of my Blod-Monath sessions - but when I thought about it further, I realised that the title was so good it demanded a whole new piece, so this is what I've been doing for most of the day.

The first stage was a solo ante-folk improv on my violin - with a D / A drone on the Shruti box, but essentially arhythmic & non-tonal. The second stage was to pick up the underlying groove of the thing with a lo-D doromb (= Hungarian Jew's Harp) - and the third stage was to add a further instrumental improv on a very old Clarke C whistle using both conventional and extended harmonic fingering. The fourth stage was to add the drum part in emphasis of the doromb groove - this I did using a large Moroccan snared frame-drum bendir (my pigeon drum on account of the fact a pigeon once died in it) played simultaneously with a bird whistle, ankle & animal bells. The penultimate stage was to mix this to Sound Forge as a Wav file, before the final stage, which was to process the entire piece in my Tertius Auris Drone Space setting of Ableton Live in which two tracks are played pure whilst a third is subject to various soft-filters (including OhmyGod) in real time.

Earlier on in this thread our Infallible Pontiff said I assume that both of you are accomplished musicians. I must point out that I've never once thought of myself as a musician, rather a vagabondian storyteller seduced by notions of Sound Magic, Unholy Racket, Joyful Noise and No-Age Happy Wandering. In this piece my concerns are with Shamanistic Healing Beauty; a sort of Shaman Heal Thyself piece of what usually gets dismissed as self-indulgence but which is, in actual fact, about forgetting about self entirely and becoming a medium for another level of musical possibility, Tao and process.

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Mudcat Healing Light Enema

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