In Laura Marling’s class, Laura asked us to find a new tuning to “switch things up”. Moving from standard tuning (EADGBE) to an open tuning changes the palette dramatically. One of the pleasures I had from her workshop was often I was not in the mood and she expressed she would not be in the mood to write a song based off of a painting because a teacher assigned her to. Giving myself permission (permission to be mischievous, David), I found an outcome I emphatically love: I just tuned the guitar until it sounded nice to me. More so I wanted it the harmonies to feel right rather than sound right (the whole hear with your body thing). I ended up in this mystical tuning that encapsulated me for a few weeks. I used it to score “Goodbye”, a short film I made this past year.
I feel these pieces are the mood boards (2/3 pieces- Montages I) for the score of the film (or an extended short). I don’t have a particular drive to expand the short film into a feature- other projects are taking precedent, but that’s “the notebook”: Da Vinci slowly chipping at different projects at his whim. I like that idea, adding one single hit to a sculpture or a few brush strokes to a painting. Brilliant really, I guess it takes more patience on our end to not add more (until called to).
