Mark Stewart’s Sublime & Ridiculous Noises for Traditional & non-Traditional Soundmakers (& you):
I have a Johnny Appleseed thing about music. The word “Musician” is too often used to discourage people from participating in their birthright as Soundmakers. I want to reconnect folks to that birthright. So my instruments are made from humble materials, are easy to make & play, make engaging sounds that invite, encourage & reward honest effort & do not inherit a “system of order”. Consequently, people tend to get-right-to-it in a guileless fashion that is comparable to fingerpainting in both its lack of self consciousness and, often, it’s satisfactory result. These results suggest the following:
- See what an instrument does
- See what you do upon it
- Do both and “music” tends to emerge.
This recipe calls for inquiry & observation in equal portions. That which is delightful to the Soundmaker is at the heart of it all.
Tonight you will hear some of what these instruments do. And some of what we (you & I) do upon them.