Looking for a musical partner

[Eftsoon]

Is anyone interested in working on an abstract/experimental music project with me?

If you're interested I will send over some song drafts - they're all skin and bone at the moment so I wont be posting them for public consumption lol. Wait for the flesh to come.

I generate songs quite easily, but I find it hard to commit to an idea and see it through. Lately I've had a rush of inspiration, but I haven't seen the fruit of that yet.

I make a really wide range of stuff. At the moment it's just me on my guitar. I draw on latin American music, folk, jazz and left-field rock and pop styles. The latin stuff is usually rhythmic inflection.My harmonies draw on a lot of hard bop stuff and modal stuff. The melodies tend to get fairly spun out too, which is where the folk comes in.

I try (with varying degrees of success) to make music that glorifies God architecturally and intentionally. Cathedrals are designed to charge the senses. A mediaeval peasant seeing a cathedral would have been brought to their knees from the sheer scale and grandeur. We can't possibly appreciate that today. I feel that we are probably emotionally stunted in comparison to our forbears. At the same time, a cathedral is a space designed for worship and praise.

For me the structure and internal design of a song glorify God just as much as the heart and soul that goes into the worship itself. This is something that was appreciated in Mediaeval/Rennaissance times. I feel like Coltrane had a hold of this too. BTW Love Supreme is , for me, the ultimate in terms of music making

I'm looking for someone who shares the same approach to making as I do. This is really essential. I really want to find someone who has a theology of art making. I don't mean that you need to have a thesis and a whole line of eloquence on the topic. I just want to find someone who has ideas about this sort of thing.

Sorry if I come off as 'full of it' - I've tried to work with people who don't share this, and it never seems to work.

 

[Aia Valles]

First of all I don't have any idea about theology of art making, but I'm into music, playing a guitar, singing and composing ( which I've not finished)

And I honestly see myself through you, that goal to glorify God with music and For His people to feel deep in their hearts that God love's them. People will gonna have a fresh encounter with Jesus once they'll hear it.

Keep Singing for God!!

 

[Eftsoon]

First of all I don't have any idea about theology of art making, but I'm into music, playing a guitar, singing and composing ( which I've not finished)

And I honestly see myself through you, that goal to glorify God with music and For His people to feel deep in their hearts that God love's them. People will gonna have a fresh encounter with Jesus once they'll hear it.

Keep Singing for God!!

Hi Aia and welcome Yes absolutely, I really want to see people experience and encounter something new and fresh.

 

[Davy]

I'm retired, played guitar for around 40 years, have a certificate from Berklee (Boston) School of Music in Composition for Film and TV, and at present study with M.I.T.A. (Musical Interval Theory Academy). About all I do now is try to write orchestral pieces for submitting to music libraries.

I studied music theory for years, used Peter Alexander's freshman-sophmore Harmony texts. Then I studied Jazz from various book sources after that. At one time I was able to play Jazz chord melody style on my guitar, until arthritis set in. So now it's just writing in Finale, or StaffPad and using Cubase.

M.I.T.A. has become my goto 'thing' that I've looked for a long time. I'm no longer interested in writings simple songs, nor Jazz tunes, etc. Those things aren't enough to 'feed' my artistic itch. With interval theory, you learn to use all 12 notes of the Major scale, not just the 7 notes only. Diatonic theory is still used, but thinking in intervals covers a much wider range of possibilities.