SCP #125: A Fortune Of Five Cent Coins
Composed & performed 13th May 2017.
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
This is the first in a series of three experiments with a mind map for the theme glove. The mind map became a kind of graphic score, with a random starting point chosen and then the lyrics improvised in performance using parts of the mind map as prompts. This is similar to the way my brain works when I sit down to do a timed writing exercise, but I find it much easier to translate my thoughts to pen and paper rather than speech. This exercise was an interesting way to bypass the pen and go straight to my voice. I found it quite challenging, but resisted the urge to record second takes of any of the improvisations.
You can't see the mind map too well in the video, so here it is:
