Summary: a couple of weeks ago i took part in this event called the 'can we sleep in your barn tonight mystery tour'. it was organized and led by karin bolender, who is an artist and writer living in weyers cave, virginia. a group of mostly musicians set out for a few days on foot through the quasi-rural landscape of the shenandoah valley with a couple of donkeys and a couple of goats in tow. we jammed out in a barn-turned-chapel-turned-nothing, in a funky octagonal barn, and finally in a giant cave. in the cave, each of us took a 'room' and orchestrated what was to happen in that room. this is a recording from my room, called 'the rose garden'. the recording is obviously seriously lacking in terms of its ability to replicate the amazing spatial energy and acoustics, but it is at least in stereo.... my instructions to everyone were first to listen silently to the space, then to slowly begin to hear a sympathetic tone, to begin singing this tone to yrself and then gradually audibly but never so loudly that yr own voice was the loudest thing you heard. (more on the tour at http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS01/606060322/1002/NEWS17 and http://www.free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=417 .)
