What do you do when two storms have scuppered all your plans?

Improvise on an old track and make a film.

In 2020, during lockdown I created a track which ended up on a huge compilation from Linear Obsessional.

The idea was to get as many ‘self isolating’ artists during the Covid – 19 pandemic to create a short piece on their own and with minimal or no overdubs. The resulting 85 tracks was the basis of a huge remixing / re imagining release later that year.

This project was a bit out of my comfort zone and meant me working in ways I don’t do as an electronic musician, such as live recording and no overdubs. I like to tinker with and layer the sounds although I do work alone.

In the end, I gave myself a quick recap how to record live with a mic and played an improvisation on my melody harp, accompanying loosely a recording of bees, recorded in the garden.
The result was ‘Bee Song’, a quirky little piece.

Today, I improvised over the top of this track and added layers of electronics to create an off the cuff improvised piece. I then had fun making a short film to go with it using free video from the Pixabay community. Many thanks to Ella_Angelika, NickyPe and Thomas Ritter on Pixabay for the bee films, which I have adapted and used under Creative Commons 0 license.