SCP #6: If I Were A Shape, A Shadow

Written & performed live 13th January 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. Composed by Erica Bramham as part of the Song-Chain Project. The Song-Chain Project is a year-long creative mission that commences January 9 2017 and will run until January 9 2018. Each day for 365 days a new piece of music will be written, recorded and posted online, and the process documented. For more information visit ericabramham.com/songchain-project

It seems I made the mistake yesterday of enjoying what I created, which put me under pressure to try and equal or better it today.  My inner critic was turned on to max when I woke up, and I procrastinated for a good part of the day and then rejected my initial idea when I finally sat down to work.  I decided making something vastly different to yesterday might help to distance me from comparisons, so I took just a few kernels of my rejected idea and improvised with them using my loop pedal.  

I took the word silhouette from yesterday as my starting point, which ended up leading me to a kind of sonic representation of a shadow.  Or at least how I imagined a shadow might be represented sonically at the time of the improvisation.