Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project
Date: 10/06/2015
Location: Main performance hall at Chief Sealth International High School. Seattle, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Notes:
This improvisation documents quarter tone fingerings threaded/interrupted by multiphonics, exploring the beauty of this large room through the intersection of timbre and reverberation.
The image “Hands and Face” accompanying today’s post by David Deahl.
Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project
Date: 10/05/2015
Location: Discovery Park. Seattle, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Notes:
This piece documents my first trip to Discovery Park, one of Seattleâs treasured recreational areas. I have a new student that lives near the entrance, and I arrived a half hour early to their home. I took the opportunity to walk into the woods some distance in search of an improvisation to offer itself to me.
The image “Woven Fabric Samples (1968)” accompanying today’s post by Anni Albers.
Neil Welch Continuous Resonance Solo Project
Date: 10/02/2015
Location: Childhood home in Edmonds, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Notes:
This improvisation utilized primarily a single fingering which I altered by opening and closing keys in the right hand stack. This created interruptions in the air flow that intersected with pitch clusters, then carrying through the breaks to create their own clusters and overtone colors.
The image “Untitled” accompanying today’s post by Sonia Delaunay-Terk.
Neil Welch, Continuous Resonance Solo Saxophone Project
Date: 09/29/2015
Location: Performance Hall at Chief Sealth High School. Seattle, WA
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Notes:
This is a joyous, folk-dance piece in Db major with percussive slap-tonguing accompaniment, recorded early in the morning before beginning the dayâs teaching.
The image “Panel” (early-mid-20th Century) accompanying today’s post by the Tutsi peoples.
Neil Welch, Continuous Resonance Solo Saxophone Project
Date: 09/28/2015
Location: Practice Room B at SWHS
Instrument: Tenor saxophone
Notes:
The image “Alpha-Pi” (1960) accompanying today’s post by Morris Louis
