March 30ths

3/30/1999

 

3/30/2006

Old Cal's, Wells and Van Buren

There is a small window to the right of the entrance which had a "blues shrine" in it with a broken guitar and a Sinatra record. There was a story behind this I'm sure, and we'll never know it. 

3/30/2021

Music For Photographs--a Robert Frank  

Route 285 is a north-south state road in New Mexico that's mostly a barren landscape and is in the vicinity of Area 51, and I wanted to incorporate that "vibe". At the end, I shift from Eb Major to Eb Minor which I think works well with the vibe of the photo, and the dark cloud at the end of the road and some rain falling from it. I thought it was perfect for the end--moving from a light pentatonic melody as a foreground element shifting abruptly to the minor mode with found audio elements. 

Red Room Mississippi was actually a re-working of an older song and video called Vintage Smoking, a Phrygian blues in G minor transcribed into notation which I then used as the form. The original was really kind of organic which had started with a simple blues bass line following the same rhythm of the kick. The new version has tremolo guitar and some organ which was a binaural composite of the original organ part and another one that was basically a drone.