Lee Barry Composition Diary

  An Ed Ruscha Gas Station Inspired by Beck. The re-title was inspired by “spooning” the intersection of Crilly and Willow in the Old Town neighborhood in Chicago. “Crilly Willow”—I thought--that’s an interesting title for a piece of music--then I began to play around with the words, dropping the "W" for the Spanish spelling, and voila, the name of a character. Cheesy MIDI Recording   Guitar instrumental:   *** The renditioned AI Version:

Bass 1 going through an octaver and the “lead bass” is played through a distortion pedal.

Harmonic loop with Tab. 

Tuning: Eb-F-Eb-F The melody is played on the 1st string with the harmonics on the strings below it.  What is fingered as minor third double stops on strings 1 and 2 in standard tuning are unisons in this tuning and using hammer-ons gives it somewhat of an Irish feel. The "score" with TAB:   A cheesy audio file from Finale:     

The beginnings of a new song done the really old-fashioned way with chords and melody written on a staff (and a parenthetical title).

A tune written in Eb-A-C-F#, a diminished chord. Its sonority is mostly diminished. Includes bass tab.   Video:      

The bass line: The videos:    From 2011:

Virga by Lee Barry       You gave me strength In times of need Love’s mean­ing is our own It's always shown But never known Finding each other  By keeping to ourselves We searched We found A place  In mind Before that was forever blind We act We’re brave We cared For days In each We found A better way In a place that no one knows Where no one seemed to care A misplaced desire The real world of love Not the one we knew before Grieving in Grieving  out A song no one sang We sing it now today As if to say It was something we always knew We searched We found A place  In mind Before that was forever blind We act We’re brave We cared For days In each We found A better way In a place that no one knows Where no one seemed to care A misplaced desire The real world of love Not the one we knew before

A still-life video (see below) taken through a translucent box, with internal lighting effects.  A framed still: 4x6 in 8x10 See More Stills    #2020 #blur #soft

The early sketches (1991-1992), pre-computer. digital engraving/Finale. 

Cognates, 8x10 inches, acrylic on cardboard, framed and matted (11x14) $100 #2015

[View Larger] Autolands, 24x4 inches (7200x1200 pixels) digital print. Request a Print Visual art for a  crab canon to be rapped/chanted backward and forwards, lines 1-8, and 8-1 with set rhythms. The text is one long line across the image, with a mirror point in the center. The race, the pace In a carapace Crossing lines in the landscape Ecotones of the auto zone We draw the lines on the land we own Going through as emotions drone The back and forth for ways unknown It's not a road--It's a palindrome The back and forth for ways unknown Going through as emotions drone We draw the lines on the land we own Ecotones of the auto zone Crossing lines in the landscape In a carapace The pace, the race Stills from the music video : *** Another step in the process in the evolution of an idea. The "parentage" of this is actually the solo piano piece on "Rifts". With continuous transformations across various disciplines, you could probably work off one idea (a one-ce...

A crab canon to be rapped/chanted backward and forwards, lines 1-8, and 8-1 with these set rhythms. One pitch or a chord can be used as well. As the original Autolands was in Gb Lydian, the use of characteristic interval (#4, Gb-C) would be recommended. If three, Gb-C-F. If SATB, Gb-C-F-Bb.    

A possible orchestration with marimbas: Autolands by meta4s   The original piano piece:     Rifts by Lee Barry