SCP #55: Res'vor

Written & performed 4th March 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

Keeping with The Getting Of Wisdom theme from the previous day, this piece is named for the protagonist Laura's sister, Pin.  Pin is nicknamed Res'vor by their housemaid "on account of her perpetual wateriness", and so I worked with the idea of tears welling up for this improvisation.  I had about a ten minute window to get this done, so I improvised it completely, without doing any thinking or writing exercises first.  

I am getting quite good at coming up with interesting prose and lyrical ideas when I'm putting pen to paper in a timed writing exercise, but I find that process much more difficult when using my voice instead of a pen.  I would really like to work on spontaneous vocal textual improvisation, so I'm glad this project forced me to just throw myself into this one.

The hasty recording setup also meant I managed to chop my head off in the video, and I didn't realise until I watched it back the next day.