Westward Listening
Channel: Prismatic Cosmitive
Date: 2020-04-06

Drums — G. Calvin Weston
Guitar & Bass — 5-Track


 This is one of two pieces based on an improvised drum track sent to me by G. Calvin Weston. We've never met or communicated prior to this.
 For the piece called “Westward Chance”, I played the bass track & then the guitar track without listening to GCW’s drums. I had not heard them at all yet, & I did not listen to them while I recorded. I noted that his improvised drum track was 3 minutes 51 seconds long, & I recorded a bass improv at that length (actually two; I used the second one) & a guitar improv at that length, then placed them on top of GCW’s drums. THEN I listened. The result (with some EQ & compression) is what you hear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrBTCvDDY_8
 Then I recorded the piece called “Westward Listening”. For this one I took a more standard approach — listening to GCW’s drums in my headphones while improvising on bass, then guitar. (I did not listen to the bass while I played the guitar part… But I pretty much knew what it was doing :) 
 I guess if I wanted to get really deep I could mix the “Listening” bassline with the “Chance” guitarprov, & vice versa, & probably some other combinations… We’ll see! Not going to make videos for them if I do tho…
 The footage for both videos came from a walk on the beach near our house, the same day I recorded my parts (GCW did his the night before in Philadelphia & sent them to me here in Washington State). I’m told there were orcas nearby, & though I did not see them, I thought of them while playing my guitar & bass parts.
 For the “Chance” video, I did all the edits (to a length of 3:51, natch!) before adding the audio or watching any of the result beyond whatever bit I was working on. It syncs up pretty nice tho I think.
 Enjoy!
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