Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

9/20/2005                     On the advent of cell phone video: Is it a new medium? How does it affect perception?  [Musing On Music Mostly LLM: Prompt: " Discuss the evolution of film and video and its effect on perception "]      9/20/2016             What all musicians should love is the process, both at compositional and performance levels. Sometimes I love the potential in ideas that I get, even if the first demos don’t fully express or resolve them. If all I get is a nice set of changes, I feel a sense of satisfaction and/or relief that the muse is still there.             9/20/2017             Orange Peel, 19 x 25 inches, acrylic on paper with iridescent copper patina. (Third in the ‘Leaf’ series (Goldleaf, Silverleaf). Copper patina makes the work bright and pastel in sunlight and darker and dramatic...

Very often when I'm taking photographs of architecture I take note of the interstitial space between buildings (or sculptures), and how they frame the sky to the edges of the photograph.   In 2015, I experimented by cutting the shapes on a laser cutter with translucent blue Plexiglas. The next phase of the project will involve mounting them within frames. In certain ways, they are an homage to Joseph Cornell’s cut paper silhouettes as in “Varietes de Mineralogie”  or the silhouettes in the Ledger Book of William Bache . In terms of human universals they are a "classification of space"  *** Prototypes with 4 blue LEDs powered by 2 AA batteries. Since they draw so little power, they can stay lit for months, although they progressively fade, which is an interesting "happy accident". A "sunset" frame would be interesting.    VIEW MORE IMAGES Also see Architectural Deconstruction If you would like to follow this project, please subscribe to my Mailing Lis...

  DGDG is an interesting tuning to experiment with. You could view it as an "Open G" for bass (or G5), or as a combination of bass and cello tunings, or a "cello sandwich" with fifths bookended by fourths, or as "Drop D-G").  It has a nice movable major 7th chord using a combination of fretted notes and natural harmonics (in this case alternating a major third apart), and demonstrates how you can use alternate tunings to generate song ideas, even on a bass. I probably would not have discovered the two oscillating chords on other instruments. Once I start to track up an idea it starts to change. I had used it for a heavier proggy arrangement, using strumming, which can work well as rhythm guitar parts. What started as delicate noodling while watching a movie turned into something much heavier with some added synth atmospheres.  Lead Sheet (Tab)

  A new piece in DGDG tuning for 2 basses, one playing the melody and harmonics and the other a "bass" part. Both should be played in this tuning, but it can be played in standard tuning. New Churches by meta4s

                        Next in the series of orchestral miniatures. Astrolabe No. 19 by meta4s