专辑简介

Over the past year I have been working on a recording project through the artist support program at Jack Straw Productions in Seattle, WA. The music for this project is for solo alto saxophone and overdubs. Going into this recording, my intentions were to explore sonic landscapes and the perception of space by positioning each of my performances in different locations within the studio. Almost the entire recording process was improvised. The only compositional materials that I brought into sessions were conceptual postproduction ideas that I felt would help shape the overall pieces.

To my surprise, the process of improvising overdubs was a remarkably rewarding compositional experience. I would improvise my first track in one location of the room, then move to a new location and improvise another track while listening to the previous track just performed. I would do this any number of times until satisfied with the overall product. The fact that everything was improvised, and I’d used my ear and memory from what I played earlier, created compositions I would have never been able to conceive of if I was just composing with manuscript paper. I entitled this project The RE: Project due to the fact each overdub track after the first is referring to, or in regards to, the previous.