Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

  Hiroshi Sugimoto, Boden Sea, Uttwil, 1993 Some fun taking the harmonic riff from the F-Ab-C-F bass piece and expanding it out to piano/choir, with added sections.   Sea Of Horizontals by meta4s

Something seasonal and topical. I thought I'd re-tool an old idea with a march feel and perhaps male choir. It has chords, but the melody implies them.     

  From Keith Haring's diary, February 18th 1989. It's also a song of 2 Dorians: B Dorian and E Dorian. 

  The tunings book eventually had only 15 tunings as many were very similar, but I have discovered some new ones that have some use. Like open tunings on guitar (Open G, Open A), you can tune a bass to a chord as well, not so much for its ease of fingering, but for the natural harmonics combined with fretted notes. Obviously, the barred natural harmonics at any fret produce a minor triad.    What I like to do with a new tuning is leave it in that tuning for quite a while and see what I can find. There's always some interesting intervalic relationships that you can discover.   

  Sometimes I'll take a pre-existing piece of music and arrange it for strings or other ensembles. This is adapted from Srinagar 1948 : AI-generated versions with a garbled 5/8: