"Do not fear mistakes. There are none"
I was listening to this compilation from Antilles on vinyl...
This track by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno called "Evensong" started playing...
Then it started skipping...
I started to feel frustrated, frustrated with my turntable, frustrated with the situation...
Then I started to reject my own frustration...
I simply listened to the skipping record...
I started recording it & playing along on my Wurlitzer...
Using some of the same ideas that Eno & Fripp were messing with, I copied the recorded skip...
did some minor editing, let it pulse against itself & recorded a second Wurlitzer track...
all in about 15 minutes, done quick & with almost no contemplation
(working fast is something else that Miles & Pollock have in common)
now, of course, I don't delude myself into thinking what I came up with is really all that special but...
it was satisfying to know that it really is all about making lemonade with lemons, taking a perceivably negative situation & denying that it is an accident, be it a skip....or some paint that goes drip....... drip....... drip....................
