Landscape exercise:Prepared piano

 On the 13th March I booked recording studio 2 with fellow student Allister in order to get our head around the recording studio setup and pro tools. We decided to place a series of different microphones at various places around the studio and had some fun playing around with some basic prepared piano ideas i.e. putting bits of metal on the strings, hand dampening and finger plucking. With this recording I constructed a piece within pro tools that utilises sonic manipulations like reverse, speed changes, filtering, reverbs and delays.  I have recently placed  a series of photos I took in 2015 out near Bathurst NSW with this music and it is kind of effective. Feels a bit Picnic at Hanging rock. Spooky and mysterious without being overtly creepy-something that Weir does so effectively , a mood that doesn't spell itself out to you. As opposed to that sort of Lynchian energy that twists things around so much more disturbingly.....with Tarkovsky you get that subtle reframing of the normal that just goes deeper and deeper into somewhere transcendent.....the views of the forest and fields in Mirror for instance. The music in this landscape exercise helps to create sense of distance and strangeness....if I get a chance I would like to come back and edit this clip in a stronger way