into the d(r)one (making-art-for-the-sake-of-making-art)

'if you are looking for a music project I could use some harmonium drones for the next far future village band album...' suggested a friend. 

horsemouth pointed out that the harmonium (as loaned by john clarkson) is tuned about +40/50% from where standard pitch is (but it does make a nice racket once it is going).

his friend proposes to tweak the pitch or tune to it. previously he had  recorded some tracks with a spike fiddle and had had to tune everything else to it afterwards.

horsemouth noted that's what musicians of bremen had done the first with the harmonium on volume three -they tuned the guitars to the harmonium and then played (most notably on the banks of the susquehanna). 

for volume four (or round about that time) they played two notes for each note one a semitone down so that it averaged out to the correct pitch (beating at the difference of the two pitches) and added a note of the 'correct' or correcting pitch on top - which was moderately successful.

strangely this led to horsemouth listening through the  musicians of bremen back catalogue in search of droney bits. 

hmm. he's thinking about how to record and share it. maybe he should record it on cassette. 

meanwhile the consolidation of the music industry proceeds apace. (not that this bothers horsemouth he is sunk beneath the music industry and into the 'making-art-for-the-sake-of-making-art'  world). 

yesterday  a strangely busy day. a phonecall from an aunt. mum visits the health centre and does some food shopping. 

later a trip in a land rover over to the local filling station to pick up chicken feed.  in the evening he watched black rain (fiercely dull). 

today a greyish morning (very mid as the youth would say).