03/30/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

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Date: 03/30/2015
Location: A park in San Francisco, CA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone

Notes:

This weekend I’m visiting my brother in San Francisco. I snuck out of the apartment early this morning to practice in a nearby park, which was located in the Haight neihborhood. The location I chose was beneath a few large, drooping trees with a bike path directly behind me.

The morning light shone down through the trees and by 7am the day was already at a comfortable temperature. Two homeless men slept on a bench near me. A father patiently helped his son learn to ride a bicycle in the grass. Cars moved swiftly by in a 4-lane street. The city began to take on its own chaotic, swirling energy with indeterminate experiences for me to hear–yelling, talking, and plane noise overhead. But there were more determinate factors–endless cyclists passing by, chatting couples with cups of coffee, and wind in the trees. I contriubuted to the sound tapestry of this great city on this bright morning.

The image “Neptune’s Net, 2013” accompanying today’s post by Mary Weatherford

03/22/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch, Continuous Resonance Solo Saxophone Project
Date: 03/22/2015
Location: Home studio in Clinton, WA (Whidbey Island)
Instrument: Tenor saxophone

Notes:

Today is leave my home on Whidbey Island. My house is still staged with furniture, art, towels, and other human needs to sell it. Some are my own and others were placed by a realtor with an eye for staging life that someone else might find appealing in what is really a damn near empty house.

In this improvisation I wanted to capture a point of transition–a house without the bodies to make it a home–sounds to resonate the silence to come. I may have other opportunities yet to record here before it’s said and done, but today I moved on mentally and physically.

The image “Family History” (2006) accompanying today’s post by Gillian Wearing.