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Oblique House, 22/09/05 (autumn equinox)

by: Children of the Drone

MRW

Publication date: 2005-09-22 00:00:00

Usage: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

[If you're unfamiliar with Children of the Drone, the series of compilations will provide a better overview than these individual sessions, which can be quite 'unrepresentative'.]

Improvised music, recorded around a fire outside Oblique House, Exeter on 22/09/05.

Notes

John - acoustic guitar, bouzouki (incl. slide bouzouki), mandolin, acoustic bass guitar, voice
Keith - acoustic bass guitar, mandola
James T - keyboard, poetry, percussion, water
Melski - acoustic guitar, voice, percussion, flute, Tibetan bowl, poetry
Henry - percussion
Matthew W - saz, balalaika, percussion
Vicky - conversation, camera noises
Morris - "vocals"

birds eye view of Autumn equinox Drone

clockwise - James (stooping over water bucket), Melski, Henry, me, Keith, John
This was outside around a small fire in the garden behind Oblique House - the third year in a row that we've had an autumn equinox session. Two years ago we were outside with Julia Barclay, a visiting performance artist, reading cut-up texts and bits of Joyce's Ulysses. A little bit of that session shows up here. That was also the debut session for Morris, the newly resident kitten who added to the sonic environment by scurrying about madly in the undergrowth, as well as trying to play Philip's psaltery. Last year Morris was showing off jumping about on a keyboard, playing atonal clusters. This time he contributes (rather tortured) vocals on track 3 (in conjunction with the neighbourhood cat he was confronting at the time).

This was almost entirely acoustic, apart from the (rather incongruous, next to a fire) Casio keyboard. At the time we thought the last piece was going to include the actual moment of equinox (a precise astronomical event which occured at 22:23 GMT), but we forgot to take Daylight Savings Time into account, so it was in fact an hour later.

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