Initially I wasn’t even trying to compose, I was just experimenting with preparing the Chapman Stick with various items that I found around the house and could fit under the strings. There were rubber and plastic tubes, springs, cable-ties, sheet metal, magnets, felt etc.
Listening to the recordings next day, I felt that some of them sounded quite promising. So I started to cut things up and add effects. After adding drum parts to the prepared Stick tracks it sounded like a song.
A long while of on and off composing and expanding on the initial idea, this is the piece in it’s finished form:
New track: Sliced and Prepared
