rhythm changes

Presented during the IRCAM Forum @NYU 2022

Gunnar Geisse
rhythm changes (2020, 27’43'')
Sonata for solo laptop guitar
Digital pre-structured improvisation for electric guitar and interactive computer setup, post-edited montage of the recorded improvisations for the present fixed media version.


Quotations
1 Anthropology, Charlie Parker
2 „Was ich an meinen Bildern mag, ist, dass es nur so aussieht, als seien sie real. […] Man spürt, dass das, was man sieht, nicht deckungsgleich ist mit der Wahrheit. Nicht vollkommen.“
Jeff Wall, Süddeutsche Zeitung, interview with Holger Liebs (2003, May 24/25)
3 „The tune starts like this, and then it goes wherever it goes, but it's about [how that one first phrase is developed.] … What's the sense of what's coming next? [Like to me that, you know, the greatest solos, like] you don't see it, you don't hear it coming, but then once it's there it's like …“
UNO Jazz Studies Program: November 5, 2014 - Peter Bernstein (2020, January 21), [YouTube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOucyHguEGE, 14:31-14:35 and 27:02-27:12.


Live version:
https://youtu.be/MUj4wa7cHyU?t=1980
or
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Pt10V8fcXJLHeefMR0iJFvor4T4sZuX/view?usp=sharing

 

THANK YOU ALL, Gunnar