The show at my new rehearsal loft was just lovely. Thank you to all who came out, and there will certainly be more. Here is a video of the first performance of my newest loop song, SFX (Special Effects). Jeannie was kind enough to document it from her front row yoga mat seat:)
New Practice Space
My new rehearsal loft!!! Moving in on my birthday 1/1! (at Green Street Park)
Visiting Doom
Just took a tour of Doom Room. Recording experiments finally evolved into record, which will be mixed here early winter by @cr_mclaughlin. (at Greenpoint, Brooklyn)
Environmental Music Series
Environmental Music Series put on by the Music Therapy Program at MGH. (at Mass General Hosptial)
Swans and Prism
Sunset Prism Swans One.
Stompbox Sonic 5 Year Anniversary show
Thrilled to be playing the Stompbox Sonic 5 Year Anniversary show. It will be in intimate night of exotic noises. https://www.facebook.com/events/790334821022649/
Spoon Session
Jessica Dasilva Garrett recording washboard and spoons. She makes jewelry and boot tambourines. http://dasilvastudios.com/home.html
Blood Moon
It was too overcast to photograph the Blood Moon, but I wrote this poem while I was waiting for clouds to clear. I might make it a “row your boat” type round.
Yoga Performance
I will be accompanying the lovely Jenna Palm for a yoga session on Saturday, October 25 at 12pm. It would be lovely to see you. https://www.facebook.com/events/830563393630541/
The Sunbathers
Cinematic art song in triptych form for Voice, Harp, Cello and Bassoon. Sounds like if Nancy Sinatra performed chamber music.
Text and Music by Audrey Harrer
Produced by Chris McLaughlin at 1867 Studio
Harp/Voice: Audrey Harrer
Cello: Catherine Bent
Bassoon: Jessica Gillespie
\\The Sunbathers\\
I stand in the shade with my mother
The sunbathers giggle and glow
I stare at their beautiful bodies
As I sweat in these dark summer clothes
I want to pour it all out like a fishbowl
and burn dry ‘til my fins turn to legs
Leave this place and pretend I’m an orphan
and start fresh somewhere oceans away
I stare in the eyes of a stranger
I see everything there I could want
They project over me like a future
Full of beautiful things I forgot
I want to stay with these birds here forever
Squeeze the moon so hard that twilight never breaks
Spend a life in that place just before we look away
And move on with our arms full of waves
Now I stand here with all of these people
All the places on all of these shores
The past is so vast and elastic
echoing words swinging doors
I want to sort through every strand like it’s a haystack
Find a needle that could stitch a straight line through
But it’s all just noise and polaroids
Of sunbathers waving at you…
Worry Doll
Worry Doll gifts from music therapist Suzanne Hanser, to get us all through the final two weeks of our four month project together:)
Solo Show
Beach Day
Testing lenses with Angela Harrer for my first music video shoot!
@angelaharrer assembles scenes on top of our fridge. Tonight T-Rex plays a golden harp and eats a bird.
Final mix of my first song done. “The Sunbathers.” Epic moment:) Here is a clip, accompanied by video of an old radio at the studio.
Dealing with the Protools aftermath of choosing to record looping parts rather than a composed arrangement…
I just might be tearing it up on the Zabumba in class today…:)
My Jamaica Plain Porchfest porch:) Lovely day.
Strange new harp sounds. Brought my little harp to practice at beach, and the wind played strings like I have never heard:)