Tuesday 8 May 2007

Raw

This afternoon I recorded Koku with passing buses and car horns [for the purposes of observation and subsequent reference]. It is still very rough but I am working on the flow and certain ornamentations to achieve greater simplicity. Hopefully, the sound will become more refined with practise. Yesterday, my double CD album of Yokoyama Katsuya 'Zen' arrived from Amazon. I am not sure why I have not this earlier! Of course it includes Koku and, in this case, played on flute-length closest to my own. My 2.1 has a 'B' fundamental and Yokoyama is using an approximate 'A#' - is that 2.2? Somehow, with so many things to think about, Koku feels very energetic when I play it but Yokoyama makes it sound perfectly serene and with superlative long phrases ...