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recorded at Roger Corman’s film studio c.1986/7 in Venice, CA.
on a Teac 4-track 1/4 in. “r to r” machine one Saturday morning.
i used a passive DeArmand vol. (heel/toe) tone (side to side) foot 
pedal and a Roland SDE3000 and ART 01A digital reverb (yeah, 
i know). the low sonorities were produced by threading small pieces
of metal between the lower strings and setting the whole mass into
vibration fading up w/ the pedal. the bending was achieved w/the 
Roland set to a very slow mod. rate at shallow depth. also used 
were a piece of beveled glass and a Shure MPE56 golf ball mic. 
i’d purchased at age 15 in Milwaukee, WI. from Zeb Billings Music 
Store.  the title, which you hear me saying over and over with slight
variations refers to something of a rather personal nature which i’m 
not comfortable sharing, as it involves someone besides moi.
rc

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“Waiting for Anything” music written by rick cox and performed by rick cox; elec. gtr., Marty Walker; clar. Dave Hatt; pipe organ. words written and spoken by Read Miller. performed Aug. or Sept. 1981 in the Chapel of the University of Redlands, CA.

“Waiting for Anything”

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improvisation with electric guitar c.2019 with over-dub by Arvé Henriksen some few years later.

Cox Mix 0021 edit arve 1.0.wav

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this was “improvised”* way back in the first half of the 90’s 
when i was living in what i refer to as “the black studio” in 
culver city. black because it had previously been an actor’s
workshop/theater and was painted black in it’s entirety on 
one half, which was also raised bout 6 inches higher than
the other half. i lived in this space for 8 and 1/2 years. it had
no kitchen & no shower. i’d joined a gym a short drive away 
where i could both workout and shower. i got a lot of work 
done in this space, scoring low budget films and especially 
progressing the system i’d invented for improvising over changes
(or not) using small interval groups in combinations to create 
whatever harmony desired. this was in fact quite a step up from
my previous accommodations at the Roger Corman Studio in
Venice where i’d lived the 2 years B4 this place. at least it had 
a toilet and small b.r. sink! 
* it was improvised at first, then after the various sections had
become “codified” was sequenced. i didn’t think much about it
after that time as it wasn’t really representative of anything which
i was doing, but i recently ran across it on one of the hundreds of
DAT recordings made in this place, and it kind of “struck a chord”
w/in me, and i’ve found myself going back to it time and again, as 
it seems to hold a certain “sway” over me.
it never had a title, until just quite recently when i extrapolated one
from a phrase i heard on a video about “the great attractor” in our 
UNIVERSE.

rick cox

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