Xperimentus: Project Datasheet

Author: Krispen Hartung / info@krispenhartung.com / 208-724-5603
Xperimentus CD Page: http://www.krispenhartung.com/xperimentus

The idea of a mistake is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is. - John Cage

Improvisation: The art of thinking and performing music simultaneously. - Grove Dictionary of Music (1954)

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music - Aldous Huxley

Do not fear mistakes. There are none - Miles Davis

Many western musicians are fabulously skilled at playing black dots on a printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. The real story of improvisation is spontaneous expression, and is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about the technique. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

TAKE AN OBJECT

DO SOMETHING TO IT

DO SOMETHING ELSE TO IT

- Jasper Johns

Table of Contents

Krispen Hartung & Friends: Xperimentus. 1

Table of Contents. 1

Progress “Dashboard” 2

Project/CD Title. 2

Project Overview. 3

Project Resources / Contact Info / Web Sites. 3

Sound Engineering, CD Design, Production. 4

Project Schedule. 4

Composition Parameters. 4

Menu of Duo Composition Approaches. 6

APPROACH A(i) – “Soundscapes/Textures on Top of Single Note Melody” 6

APPROACH A(ii) - Reverse order of players in A(i) 6

APPROACH B(i) – “Single Note Melody on top of Soundscapes/Textures” 6

APPROACH B(ii) – Reverse order of players in B(i) 6

APPROACH C(i) – “Single Notes on top of Single Notes” 6

APPROACH C(ii) – Reverse order of players in C(i) 6

APPROACH D – “Series of Stand-Alone Looped Parts without Background” 6

APPROACH E(i) – “Complete Dual/Parallel Parts (Tonal center known only, not the first part)” 6

APPROACH E(ii) – “Complete Dual/Parallel Parts (First parts heard)” 6

APPROACH F – “Call and Response” (traditional method of trading off solos and melodic phrases over a foundation of chords, textures, etc) 7

APPROACH G(i) – “Group Cacophony” 7

APPROACH G(ii) – “Group Cacophony –Mixed and Processed” 7

Player/Approach Matrix. 7

Approach/Duo Recording Sequences. 7

Compositional Modes of Feel and Moods. 8

Recording/Internet Collaboration Technology. 9

Appendix A (Genre Descriptions) 10

Appendix B (Examples of Experimental, Avant-Garde, and Improvisational Music) 11

Progress “Dashboard”

Note: Some songs will have only 2 parts, others more. N/A is used in columns for duo songs that do not have that additional part

Approach Selected?

First Part Complete?

Second Part Complete?