Snippet for band. Little black submarines

One person decided to face the audience, to try and make him stammer more. This was stammering as music. 

French composer Edgard Varese famously defined music simply as “organised sound”. I wonder if he would have seen stammering as music. It has all the basic elements: loudness, pitch, rhythm, tempo and reverb. Stammering as music, what do you think? Ridiculous idea or rebellious flavour? 

Miles Davis, the famous jazz trumpeter, described his improvisational technique in parallel to the way Picasso used a canvas. He said the most critical aspects of his work were not the objects themselves - the notes. Instead it was the space between them, the “air” that he placed between notes that was most important.  This got me thinking about blocks. What happens when we speak if we think of blocks as “air”? How might that transform our understanding of them? Can they be both absence and potential, a capacity for expression revealed?

Josh Walker

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