Geoffrey Armes

New Venture · 5 days ago

New gear, and new ideas. This link starts to explain.

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Upgrade · 9 days ago

in the middle of an upgrade, so the flow of sound is temporarily in hiatus…..

“I approached poet DuEwa Frazier with a track that belonged with her voice and she came back to me with this brilliantly profound lyric.”

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New Sounds · 13 days ago

Soully Lounge Groove Dubwise Science Drop

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Follow me · 14 days ago

on Twitter

Longer essays will appear here, but not for a few more days.

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You Tube · 26 days ago

Our new Youtube campaign is spearheaded by the long awaited release of the official Shift Well Video. View here, download tune here.

also, the video for Endless Mansion, one of the best tracks on HEMISPHERE is up

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Listen to Marcus Harmon · 26 days ago

I met Marcus via a Craigslist ad I posted in NYC. He was the only singer to respond, and as far as I am concerned the only one who needed to respond. Watching You is our first release together. More soon come.

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Just.. · 32 days ago

...busy.

Yeah, I promised a review of the SV-1 — suffice to say I’ve been playing it a lot. It’s all over January and December for example, both piano/clav sounds and the wah wah stuff. It’s a good instrument, and I mean ‘instrument’, in that it has a response and a feel that enables the player to stamp his/her unique touch. While a nod to the sounds of the seventies in particular, it’s never an exact Rhodes or Wurli or whatever, rather, to be honest, a far broader pallete to work with. An excellent electric-piano, that also models acoustic sounds very well.

More later…..

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Going Across the Floor (primarily for my Playhouse students) · 45 days ago

Briefly, where dance – a visual art – and music — aural — meet is in time – in that both art forms can be seen or heard as a way of measuring time. So when working together, it’s the confluences of time (timing) that we refer to in order to cooperate.

So for you, when there’s a six measure phrase (as we had last Friday), the first thing to do is to stop referring visually to what the other dancers ahead of you are doing (because they are most likely doing it ‘wrong’). In an ideal world you would instead feel, count, know where you were, in that maybe abstracted but none the less real world of passing time that we all inhabit.

However, in the student environment, you can lean on the musician a little more heavily. Transform your expectation of a visual cue into an audio craving. That is, if the music is phrased, then the ‘one’ of the phrase, and other salient points will be demarcated in sound, as the time alloted for each cycle of movement passes.

Eventually, hopefully in performance, music and movement can live in separate but parallel universes, as they both pass through the same time zone with their own emotional and expressive priorities that illuminate each others value — that is ‘cubing’ as it were, their shared expressive energy… but I digress to the future.

In short, dancers or movement artists, when studying, you sometimes have to remove yourselves from thinking visually and use your ears instead.

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January · 51 days ago

is a cold groove to warm your feet found here

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Other matters · 59 days ago

like flu in the family have taken privilege over my normal scribing, scratching, musing at the wonderment and stupidity of it all and, well you know, family, love, come first.

I did find a nice review up on the HEMISPHERE CD Baby page

Mr. Armes new release is a surprising developing tapestry. Elegant and transformative, Hemisphere is utterly beautiful and exciting. The tracks continuously evolve, stirring up a fresh perspective with each listen. The beats and percussion are hypnotic, as are the rich melodies that seem to weave in and out of time and space. Developing elements of World, Ambient and Dub styles all live together in unanimity, but the albums real strength is as a whole. I simply love listening to this CD and cannot recommend it enough!

The author, we are told, is one

Ali

whom I suspect of living here

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My body may be down and flailing, but my being is crystal with purpose, so listen for new developments soon soon soon.

Did you get December yet?

Also if you are on facebook, well, fan yourself under the My Band tab on my page, if for nothing else then because it then ‘fans’ me cooler and better! When I feel better I sound better. Then you’ll feel better. Promise.

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Hmm, I’ve been doing all this work where I exist in a drone or very simple harmonic structure yet feel very free to move around within it, I mean, I’ve become quite astute at finding all kinds of wriggle room that works… so now I’m drawn back to making some stuff that is a little bit more complex, yet I want to feel as free within it as I do right now in the modal stream.

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