This audio & video project was done for a contemporary music history class. It combines the song "I Get Ideas" by Louis Armstrong, which would have traditionally been played with all players in one sitting, on one single track, and combines early jazz ideas with a more contemporary approach. Laurie Anderson was a musician who implemented out-of-the-box ideas into her music-making. She combines tracks which perhaps would not seem to fit together. I took the idea of separate tracks even further and asked each musician to record his or her own track at a different time and in a different location. Before recording, the musicians knew how many times to play the song, what key to play in, and what the original Louis Armstrong recording sounded like. During recording, they were able to listen to a metronome and the recorded tracks so far. They were able to read off of a lead sheet, which provided chords and a melody line.
This video, along with the audio recording, is the combination of the ideas of two contemporary music masterminds. It is what resulted when I combined a traditional jazz style with an anti-jazz recording technique.
This is an original recording, and I own all rights to the audio and video recordings, with the exception of the last sound clip at the end: "I Get Ideas" by Louis Armstrong. The rights to this song are not mine.
© Bethany Wichman 2010
Sorry I just saw who the musicians were. Thank you DeAnna
stegmaiertom0704 3 months ago
I just loved it. It made me smile all the way to the end.I would like to know who the musicians were. t6hey were just wonderful also.
stegmaiertom0704 3 months ago
first i was like ¬¬ but then i was like :)
grandexandi 8 months ago
Very well done, Bethany. It was good to see and hear you again! Yaaaaah! Keep up the great work!
omerfischer 1 year ago