Listening to “Music on a long thin wire” by Alvin Lucier has given me the idea to use another material beyond my synthesisers to create tones for the assignment. The theme agreed upon is pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, so I think it would be fitting to amplify tone with a string instrument as I primarily work with electronic instruments. I own an electric guitar so it would be good to use it’s strings as a starting point, although the idea of the piece shouldn’t be to sound like a guitar, just as a subtractive synth generally sounds like nothing else imaginable.

I like how the tone pans around through what is essentially frequency modulation to create beats(from what I have researched). I would like to incoporate panning through multiple amplification and positioning however, instead of frequency modulation as a technique, I think the tones should be distinct from one another and be individual through whichever speaker they are played through; like a person’s voice in a static location.

Delia Derbyshire’s work is very narrative based, even within the minimal and drone like pieces she wrote. This is clear in songs from the album “Standard Music Library: Electronic Music” by Delia Derbyshire. I would like to also incorporate a music concrète workflow similar to hers’ to create a narrative to the piece. The way Delia worked was through sampling, although a very early and archaic method of sampling compared to digital practices today. If I were to sample guitar tones individually, I could create a narrative with them as these samples would be sound objects (samples) which I could sequence and perform with.