In context to everything - Bricolage

I haven't blogged in a while so to try get back in the flow of the know, just thought id put this out there.

Over the July break i got a new edition to my makeshift drum kit. Previously i acquired a bass pedal which i swapped for one of my belts. A fellow Jeweler friend gave me a drum kit tambourine, which i'm now using as a type of hi hat.  The other day i was washing the dishes (something i will hate till i die) and discovered the interesting sound quality it had, so i have now appropriated it into a sound source.

I've been wondering a lot about the activities i do collectively and if it is all connected to bricolage. I've discovered in my Jewelery making that i'musing bricolage to make street Jewelery, aswell as music and photography. In the construction of a drum kit I have used bricolage too! Objects have been appropriated into sound sources, Plastic boxes have been used as props for stands, and the snare which sits on a plastic box acts as a bass drum.

Theirs this reoccurring theme of improvisation,where i tend to do things very spontaneously.Its a way of using what you have where you are in any given circumstance. In context to percussion taking found objects and arranging them into a type of sequence feels the same as making jewelry, Its like i'm trying to create this improvised melody which takes place in a moment in any given environment.

All this reflection has been rather enlightening and the significance of realization has steered this ship far beyond the notion of recycling. Im pretty happy about that.

All Good things come to all those that are prepared to wait.

Oh, yes they do. For a long time i wondered if i had abandoned the idea of percussion. Its a passion lodged deep inside. Its more of a feeling. When i get these feelings i want to try and explain them through sound. Its like writing a letter to yourself, and reading it back, and going, What i wrote this? It sounds amazing.

Most of the time its just you clapping back to yourself. Its a huge multidimensional space in your head that you just want to climb into.

I never thought about music much, not to the point that i could vocalize it in words.

Its fun experimenting with sound on garage band, or via electronic means, but you don't get that same feeling from, mechanically doing it yourself.

Anyway, i have been stopping and starting this extra mural activity for some time now, and it feels like, it may be going somewhere. Im not interested in being in a band, for now its a conversation i can have with myself and not be portrayed as a mad man. 

It might be a year, it might be five that i decide to do something with it. For now its a collection of thought that i may use in some work Later. Its a collection of whatever, until i find something to apply it to.

Like the found object, its there, and its tangible,and its an opportunity to consider.

I did have a vision about an installation piece, that waffles in and out of my head, but im not going to go there now.

The best thing that happened to me this week is i traded one of my cam belt belts, for a bass pedal to a kid, who happened to have an extra one.

And thats why all good things come to those who are prepared to wait, Ive been waiting along time.

Did i mention i also got a tom- Bonus!