20191125 Rehearsal 12 Full Run Through

Here there is no supportive trunk that gives rise to leaves and branches. The roots of a tree are foundational, compositional, and only lead to the tree above. As for grass, who can say where the beginning is? True, grass only grows more grass. It doesn’t sprout candy canes, printers, or clouds of gas from its roots. A limitation perhaps, but true of both plants and music. Once it has taken root its rhizomes spread in many directions. Grass creatively connects the sun to the nutrients in the soil. Its form emerges from the many relationships between grass and garden. Care taken in a particular way will encourage an area to flourish. An improviser providing enough nutritious fertilizer to the compositional soil could encourage a new area to emerge, and with a busy group of gardeners, a lawn begins to grow. Managing this growth can be a challenge. How can so few improvisers monitor and nourish this ever-increasing lawn so that it might become worthy of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown? The composer-gardener proposes routes for striations in the soil that irrigate specific areas of ground, instigating growth in certain ways. We have spent many weeks in dialogue about how the water will run, where it might flow, and where it might create pools. 

The band:

J.Y. Lee – Alto

Steve Cournane – Drums, Percussion

Crystal Choi – Piano, Wurlitzer

Callum Passells – Reeds, Synthesisers

Micheal Howell – Guitar

Eamon Edmundson-Wells – Double bass

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