In an effort to exercise my practice and refine my sonic identity, I have arranged multiple pieces with an emphasis on improvisation for guitar. Modulation, distortion, and finding new ways to use the instrument as a means of expression is one of the key factors of my practice and I exercise these ideas in this series of compositions.

“Voice No. 1” is my first attempt, using only an acoustic guitar and shaker for the rhythm track. The lead track was recorded running a Stratocaster through a q-tron envelope filter by electro harmonic and then out of a mesa boogie California tweed amp with a little spring reverb.

“Voice No. 2” is the second attempt, and I strived to obtain more clear and emotional phrasing from the instrument. This was the first instance that I decided to implement the Roland tr-08 drum machine into this collection of works, using the drum machine as a relatively simple means of rhythm in order to keep time.

“Voice No. 3” utilised an acoustic guitar and an interpretation on Spanish style playing. There was also a looped water drop from my loose faucet I recorded and added spring reverb too.

“Voice No. 4” is the first of the collection to incorporate more intense tones within the improvisation. I ran my guitar directly into my audio interface through a boutique fuzz pedal I have, which created very brash clipping over the signal path. The inspiration for the rhythm guitar parts was derived from 60s French music, and a piece from John Frusciante titled, “Hope”.

“Voice No. 5” is another more rock based improvisation that uses delay in the lead tone of the instrument. It has an amazing weight to it, and combines both acoustic and electric elements.

“Voice No. 6” is the most recent voice related piece I recorded, and it is a tribute/cover of the riff from the Red Hot Chili Peppers song “Sikamicanico”. I used my broken wah pedal and a lot of fuzz to get the desired tone for this piece.