08/24/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project

Date: 08/24/2015
Location: A bathroom in a condo complex. Newport, OR
Instrument: Tenor saxophone

Notes:

My family is one vacation this week, spending time together in Newport, OR. This brief improvisation was recorded in the bathroom inside the condo we rented for the week. Outside the weather had turned South and it began raining and blowing hard.

The image accompanying today’s post was taken while on a bicycle ride shortly before recording this piece.

08/20/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project

Date: 08/20/2015
Location: Practice Room B at South Whidbey High School. Langley, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone

Notes:

The image “La remission des chutes” (2012) accompanying today’s post by Alain Huck.

08/17/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project

Date: 08/17/2015
Location: Beneath a overpass on a highway leading to Whittier, Alaska
Instrument: Soprano saxophone

Notes:

This morning, just hours before leaving Alaska, I drove on a long stretch of coastal highway before turning East on a mountain highway. I eventually stopped to view a glacier from the road. It was raining hard, and I walked down a path which said âSalmon Viewing Ahead.â I was amazed to find a creek running beneath the overpass above, and in it were majestic, spawning salmon that filled the water. This creek met with the sea just a few miles East, and the salmon were on route towards fulfilling their life cycle. I recorded this improvisation beneath the overpass while watching the salmon jump, squiggle and fight up the creek.

The image accompanying today’s post was taken beside the creek.

08/16/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project

Date: 08/16/2015
Location: Outside Denali National Park, Alaska
Instrument: Soprano saxophone

Notes:

This weekend on very short notice I decided to purchase plane tickets to Alaska. Among many extraordinary locations, I was fortunate to visit Denali National Park, one of the great wonders of this world. This improvisation was recorded beside railroad tracks just outside the park. I was wandering in the woods in search of a place to record, when off in the distance I heard a train leaving the station. I remembered seeing the tracks some distance back and quickly ran to an open location beside the tracks, and then began recording just moments before the train slowly passed by me. A few minutes after the trainâs passing, the quiet jingle of bells can be heard in the audio. These were bear bells strapped to the packs of backpackers that walked by me as I was recording.

The image accompanying today’s post was taken beside the tracks where I recorded.

08/13/2015 Continuous Resonance Solo Improvisation

Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project

Date: 08/13/2015
Location: Acadia burial lawn in Lake City. Seattle, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone

Notes:

On my short drive home after finishing my final lesson for the day, I felt compelled to stop and record at this cemetery. The lawn spans two full city blocks and is easily as wide. This is a massive, for-profit cemetery sandwiched between businesses and residential areas. Busses and cars can be heard nearby, as can a set of wind chimes high up in a tree beside me.

The image accompanying today’s post shows my perspective within the graveyard facing East towards the afternoon surface road commute.