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November 11, 2004
Collaboration and The Exquiste Corpse
This is my good friend Oscar Guerrero up at my band-room last Sunday. We played in a band together about 10 years ago and haven't really played any music together since. While our musical tastes and interests certainly overlap we're also both interested in quite different things. We got together on Sunday specifically to do some recording (The Hi-Aces still don't have a drummer and I've been itching to do 'something').
I'd been thinking about the surrealist 'Exquisite Corpse' game for a while in relation to my topic . . . when I was young my friends and I would draw superheroes and monsters and shit like that. So, basically because we only had one set of headphones, Oscar and I kind of did the same thing in terms of constructing a piece of music. It wasn't quite the same as we weren't doing it 'blind' as such, but rather I'd record a bit, pass it over to Oscar, he'd record a bit, etc etc.
The result was certainly something 'unexpected' though. I played my usual twangy-surf-country stuff, but Oscar put in this really low-dirty-muffled guitar sound with a kind of rhythym I would never have come up with. While I was surprised, I certainly didn't scare myself at any point though . . . I guess I quite liked the result.
I'm interested in trying to define whether it is 'scaring' myself exactly that I'm interested in. I guess the term 'unexpected' contains the 'scare' but not everything that's unexpected is scary . . . do I want to be surprised or scared?
Posted by Luke Wood at November 11, 2004 12:51 PM