Following the expansion of my project into the ideas and role of the voice in a musical context, I continued my recordings using the guitar as the sole instrument for my piece. My goal is to create an environment that feels organic despite being composed from electronic components. The guitar has been the focal point of my creative practice for years now and I am working towards expanding the utilisation of the instrument into new areas outside of typical music, for example sound design and composition for film.

For the project I have composed and recorded a chord progression in the key of C, and used guitars to structure the basic layout of the piece. The rhythm and low end is played using single note drones on a Moog Subsequent 25 and the kick drum is from a Roland TR-08 drum machine. Following the basic tracking, I experimented with a plethora of clean and distorted guitar sounds for the ambience, rhythm, and lead parts of the piece. Some examples of the tonal qualities I used for the piece include clean dry tones from my amp and a chorus pedal for the main closed chord shapes, modulated delay feedback that has rhythm generated from a tremolo pedal for ambience throughout the piece, fuzz and delay combination with a glass slide to play one of the lead lines in the middle of the piece, and chromatic drones played on the whole of the neck randomly throughout the piece to contribute to the spatialisation of the piece.

While it is still untitled the growth of the piece has been inspiring to me and is growing into a world of its own, that represents the expansion of my own practice and overall interest in sound in general.