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Unforeseen Consequences Vol. 2

by Steve Layton & ImprovFriday

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Sirènes 04:55
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Cracks 07:39
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Bali Hai 04:41
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about

Since early 2009, various musicians around the world have checked in weekly at a web site known as ImprovFriday (improvfriday.ning.com). From Thursday afternoon (US Pacific time) through Saturday evening, any and all are free to share newly composed or improvised tracks, hear each other’s work, discuss and connect.

Part of my own working style these past 30 years is the mash-up, remix, or audio collage. Never being much of a live performer, averse to microphones and limited in the equipment I could call my “studio,” I’ve often resorted to integrating (or sometimes, dissembling) others’ recorded music and sound into newly composed pieces of my own.

Improvisation is often performed solo, but just as often as a group venture. At ImprovFriday we had many great solo tracks being offered up; yet many times I’d be struck by how sympathetic this artist’s track was with another’s, and would imagine how wonderful if the distance between us became immaterial and these two, three or four could be playing in the same space and time. And well, given that we were dealing with recordings, why not? By using my own expertise I could bring the individual tracks together, bring people into the same “room” as it were, and create wholly new and convincing works in the process.

A very few of these tracks were altered in any drastic way, which is why I don‘t think of them as “remixes;” rather, most of the tracks heard here are left largely intact, simply laid over and against one another, with just some fades and general spatial processing applied (all of the mash-ups were made using only Adobe Audition as my “instrument“). To me the process is much closer to ikebana -- the Japanese art of flower-arranging. There’s an abstract element of storytelling at work, too, though the specific story told by the title came only after the piece was finished.

In the spirit of the improvisation that so many of these tracks were first performed and recorded in, I chose to work only with tracks offered up during that particular session, and I also chose to try and create each new mash-up within the span of a half-hour to and hour, no more, from the selection of source tracks to the posting of the final mix. I wanted to give a sense of coherence and real interplay, but also to leave as much of their individual voices and free spirits intact as well.

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to these wonderful musicians (all now friends); in the end, whatever I've been able to do here is only made possible by the creativity and musicianship that each of them has shown and shared.

-- Steve Layton / Pompano Beach, FL / March 2011

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released March 15, 2011

Featuring:

Steve Moyes (UK), Bruce Hamilton (WA), Steve Moshier (CA), Peter Thörn (SE), Roger Sundström (SE), Lee Noyes (NZ), J.C. Combs (WA), Jérôme Poirier (FR), Richard Sanderson (UK), Kavin Allenson (TX), Norbert Oldani (NY), Shane W. Cadman (CA), Adam Kondor (HU), Paul Muller (CA), Kenneth Palmer (MO), Andrew McCance (UK), Jeff Duke (FL), Steve Layton (TX), Benjamin Smith (NJ), David Perreko (ES), Greg Hooper (AU), John Asta (NY), Tom Izzo (CT), Paul Hertz (IA), Jim Goodin (NY), Phil Hargreaves (UK), Johnny & Faith Porto (PA), Glenn Weyant (AZ), Paul Bailey (CA), Todd Lainhart (MA), Jeff Fairbanks (MD), The Hentai Improvising Orchestra (TX), Joseph Benzola (NY), James Ross (NY), Gaetano Fontanazza (IT), Chris Becker (TX), Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (FI), Doug Kolmar (ME), Chris Vaisvil (IN), Gérald DeGroote (FR)

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Steve Layton Seattle, Washington

Composer, performer, recordist, connector, facilitator. Editor of Sequenza21.com, a long-running website reporting on contemporary classical music.
Collaborator at ImprovFriday/Sound-In, a weekly web gathering of musicians from around the globe. NiwoSound is an umbrella for innovative art music / art sound.
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