The Picture on Yesterday’s Post

A short reflection on the image I included with yesterday’s post about the Ross-Goodin get together. The picture of a flock of birds in flight I made one morning when I was walking by the local hospital and saw the flock circling a tower of the hospital. They kept going round and round, landing briefly and off again each time returning to formation. I grabbed the image via my iPad camera.

The feeling of that scene as well as the image has seemed to become the theme in my naming of tracks for the upcoming RPM Challenge release, Burst from the Sky, Take Flight. The title is working but thinking of it being. Let me know in a comment if you like or ‘like it’ .

Meeting at 505

Composer/guitarist James Ross and I got together for our 4th improvisational set today. Though preparing for more electronics and looping, James greeting me with his Chinese Zhongruan lute-like 4 stringed instrument and suggested an acoustic only session. We recorded for approximately two hours with some great textures and variance.

Here’s the first 4 minutes of our beginnings.
Meeting at 505

This month I’m working on a cd of my music as participation in the RPM Challenge. The project started out solo as a return to the guitar. I recently expanded and invited occasional collaborativer world drummer Will Romano to join me on some of the pieces. With the energy from today I will include some of the Ross-Goodin work and am toying with inviting Will to add to one of those tracks.

The working title for the soon to be released RPM cd is Burst from the Sky, Take Flight.

Next podcast

While on a I roll this AM I meant to mention in the previous post but Paul Muller and I are working on our next podcast featuring the music of composer Steve Moshier. This episode should be published sometime in March.

In the interim give a listen to our last episode which featured the music of micro tonality Peter Thoegersen. This cast is on Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/jimgoodinpaulmuller/jim-goodin-paul-muller-podcast#share, come follow us.

RPM Challenge progress, truss rod challenge

I’m making good progress on my release for the February RPM Challenge. I’m doing a long overdue guitar based record with so far a mix of 12 and 6 string improvisations and a couple of wild hares. I have around 8 pieces done and hope to do a couple more before packaging. This will both a physical CD and online distribution through Bandcamp.

One issue that is fighting me a bit is I’m using a Fender 12 I was given several years ago. Though the neck is not great it was settled enough to begin the project however I’ve had some drift. I tried a neck tweak a couple of times of the truss rod but so far not there.

This records has spurned my interest in working with the 12 string so probably another instrument is on the radar.

Tentative title will be Burst from the Sky, Take Flight.

Later…

New music podcast recently published

Online music colleague Paul Muller and I kicked off a new podcast for the year. This episode features the music of micro tonal, poly tempic composer, drummer, doctoral candidate in composition, Peter Thoegersen.

This one hour plus cast, published this last weekend Feb 4th 2012, was quite innovative for Paul and I to produce in that we plus guest commentator Chris Vaisvil we’re all live to hard disc recording via Skype.

Check out the cast on Soundcloud at http://soundcloud.com/jimgoodinpaulmuller/jim-goodin-paul-muller-podcast#share.

Next episode slated for sometime in March will feature experimental composer and leader of the Lizard Skin Ensemble, Steve Moshier.

RPM Challenge 2012

I’m way behind updating this page but that doesn’t mean my music hasn’t been flowing and inactive, quite contrary. I will say over last year I’ve been launching a new direction in mobile app development and in Oct. released my first app for Apple devices. For info on that visit my page woodandwireware.wordpress.com.

On the music front for last several years I have experimented with a number of instruments in my work with many being fretless. In recent weeks I have been experiencing a return to the solo fretted guitar, a foundation I pursued for much of my musical adult life. I’m playing a lot of 12 string guitar currently and am participating this month in the RPM Challenge an online event that celebrates the spirit of encouraging musicians to release a cd of their work all done and produced in the month of February. I have been part of this event since 2007.

I’m excited about the prices and sound that at coming together for this record, it’s been a while since I hav put out a focused body of work and I’m excited about doing that.

Stay tuned for news on this new release.

Featured in SoundCloud Post-Whatever group

A track titled Grapes of Wrath from my recent NinJam collaboration with Steve Moyes was added to the Post-Whatever SoundCloud group.

Steve and I, musical collaborators since meeting via the ReUse project, a CD I produced for the CT-Collective online community, are part of the band Digitsignal. Steve lives in England and we have recently completed two NinJam sessions with the first yielding a three track EP titled Growing Towards the Sun, available on Bandcamp.