Consciousness Expansion Score Movie (revised)

"Consciousness Expansion Score Movie (revised)": This is basically the same piece as the 'unrevised' original ( https://youtu.be/YBYB_jfJR0s ;
https://archive.org/details/consciousness-expansion-score-movie ) except that I removed 6:55 of introductory text. I leave the original online both for curious scholars & because the 1st rehearsal ( https://youtu.be/CcOyfj3SGvc ;
https://archive.org/details/expansion-score-rehearsal-1 ) was working off of that original score. Future rehearsals will work off this revised one.

"Consciousness Expansion Score Movie": I've been making "Score Movies", movies meant to function as the scores for the production of their soundtracks, since 1983 ( http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/MyScoreMovies.html ). This is my 10th one made in 39 years. It took me roughly 17 months to get it into this form. I'm working towards getting it performed now. I certainly hope it will be, I think it's a Magnum Opus.

It has a long & complicated history: starting in October, 2020, I hired someone to build an extension on my house, the primary purpose of which was to double the size of my (M)Usic Rm. The builder didn't work out so I had to resort to building it myself. I had some help from Kenny Haney & Ross Nugent as well as a few other friends & a hired electrician. By the beginning of July, 2021, the (M)Usic Rm expansion was more or less done & I recorded by 1st duet in there w/ my long-term collaborator Ben Opie. I decided to stop shooting footage of the ongoing process after exactly a year had elapsed in mid-October, 2021.

In the meantime I made 8 movies documenting this process totaling something like 16 hours' worth, having shot as much as 700 hours' worth of footage, maybe even more. I edited all the 8 edits down to a summary edit a little over 3 hours long. Then I took THAT edit & edited it down to this, removing all sound irrelevant to the score (although that might not be obvious given that I left in a small flock of geese & a passing train, etc). I went through every shot & thought of single descriptive words for most of them. Then I picked a music term to associate with each of these descriptions. THEN I composed motifs & made titles to explain it all (actually the players get even more detail than appears in the movie).

- April 28, 2022 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

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