Joe Townsend and Martin Green

When looking for musical inspiration for the major project I looked to the experimatal approach of Joe Townsend and Martin Green. I first came across there work on a BBC folk awards album a few years ago. When I first watched the clip from 'In Absentia' It was the first thing that came to my mind. Pulse The discordiant strings and erratic rhythums create a definate mood. For me it represents a spiral of something. When I watch 'In Absentia' with it in mind, it for created a sense of madness and a decent to that horris place the character's mind is it. It feels tormented and wound up. The mood it creates is something I want to incorporate in my work on 'In Absestia'. I want it to feel like a down ward spiral. There needs to be a building tension that represents the inside of the characters head, her mindset. It seems to me that the story the images are telling are of her state and I want to enhance thins through the sound. I have taken inspiration from this track and have recorded my violin. In order to create discordiant and strang sounds I left the bottom two strings untuned. Therefore the sounds they created were harsh and odd. I intend to manipulate these and create a soundtract to the piece that will help to tell the story of this woman's tortured mind. It also gives me chance to experiment with music in a way I haven't before which I think will work well with this piece. In my mind at least it is a chance to really go to town on creating sounds to fabricate a tone of maddness and repitition that inhabit this woman's life.