Working yesterday on two Fall in Green tunes; The Cabinet of Dr Eckelmann (which is all about The Kabinet of Dr Caligari), and a surprise diversion into a poem we've performed once before, Kingfisher's Handcup. For the latter, I played around with a flute sound and like the strange looping effect during when using the sustain pedal, so played a moody tune in one go. This good start led to lots of small tweaks to get the timing right. At one point I added a 'water' sound which triggered when the flute did. Essentially it is a very minimalist tune; gentle, full of the forest.
Eckelmann presents its own problems. The poem is highly narrative so the music must track the story, as in Lost At The Fair, for example. We've played it live many times but every time it was different, with little more than a throbbing bass and some distorted organ chords. The bass is tricky to replicate, I may have to play that externally throughout. So far, the mood is nightmarish and suitably evocative of a dark and grainy horror film.
