recording together and we were finally going to embark
on our musical explorations.
During the first month, Tim and I spend music time traveling around the Pacific Northwest. We were searching our magical sounds and making ourselves available for musical synchronicities that would be the basis of the sound library we would draw from in the months to follow. The most difficult aspect of our odyssey was the realization that very few "acoustic windows" of opportunity exist that aren't smudged, smeared, streaked, or stained by man made gadgets. Boats, cars, jet skies, and planes, to name a few made it almost impossible to make continuous recordings for more than 15 minutes.
We learned to adjust and let nature take us in her arms. We soon found that music could be made with almost any object as long as it was approached with a childlike imagination. The variety of activities we found ourselves doing to create unique sounds was exhilarating. Glacial streams, an old abandon water storage tank, the woodstove in the cabin, a motorcycle manifold, and the spokes of a mountain bike, and recording hand rhythms in water all provided opportunity for improvisation.
We hope that these recordings will in some way touch you in the way we were touched creating them.
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