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Bendingreeds
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Father, anarchist, author, musician, artist, farmer, permaculturist

Upgraded to an upright freezer. The meat and dairy freezer. I've been trying to find this used for two years, the wait finally paid off. 10 cubic feet! Just big enough. Now everyone in the family can find what they want.

#grownostr #homestead #foodismedicine #upgrade #meat #permaculture #thrift

Dialing in my ability to go live from my studio. Aiming for Mondays and Wednesdays 9am PST for a half hour. All music is created on the spot.

Here's todays: https://www.youtube.com/live/c6R_FMfbbak

#grownostr #music #saxophone #drumbruteimpact #SP-404MKII #ableton #lifesteading #beyondpermaculture

https://youtu.be/PhJkzkqjzKI

Here's an excerpt from my OhrR project. I have it up on #wavlake but some of the takes are too long for that platform. #bandcamp is still my preferred platform to share music. www.bendingreeds.bandcamp.com is where you can find all of my releases.

#grownostr #improvisation #saxophone #drums #drumsandsax #zap

As I work to finish up my next mythic album project, I am concurrently gearing up my solo performance setup. After a great deal of research I settled on #Roland #SP-404MKII as the next piece. It arrived last month, and there's a definite learning curve. Today I had my first round of success achieving the sound I was hearing. When I fired up the rest of the gear and dialed in volumes I took a quick recording snapshot to get an idea of how everything sounds together. It was a first take, and I can see the path forward there's still more to go to bring it all together, and I will be a sonic wizard on the precipice of existence. A place that I love to jump from.

#grownostr #music #production #art #lifesteading #myway

#oldmansbeard #forestwalk #medicine #permaculture #homestead #grownostr

Finishing up my workday, found my tea for the next week.

After two days I finished #organizing this client's tool-shop. There's a couple containers of stuff to get rid of, but the ability to find stuff now is a godsend.

#grownostr #homestead #diy #zap

Some of my music has been selected to be on a show airing tonight at 9pm eastern. mixcloud.com/thesubmithubshow/found-sounds-extreme-1

Give a listen if you like eclectic musics.

Saxophone?

Do do do, just whistling past the american graveyard again… still… do do do…

I’ve been listening to King Crimson’s Red album quite a bit over the last few days. Crimson, in their original incarnation, had a sax player. First it was Ian McDonald, then it was Mel Collins. When band leader Robert Fripp shook things up and hired a whole new band with a drastically new sound in 1972 the saxophones went away. For a while, at least. By 1974, when they were recording the Red album, they were down to three band members, Fripp (guitar/mellotron), John Wetton (bass/vocals), and Bill Bruford (drums/percussion). Fripp was the only soloist in the lineup… sort of… the other two guys could have cranked out leads with the best of them (because they pretty much were the best of them) but instead they brought in a bunch of session musicians to help fill in the gaps. Among those session musicians were two sax players; Ian McDonald (alto) and Mel Collins (soprano).

Collins plays on the album’s centerpiece, “Starless” and his playing is wonderful (as always). McDonald also plays on “Starless” as well as “Fallen Angel”. His playing is out of the fucking world amazing. He wails, especially on “Starless”.

Listening to this record quite a bit lately has me thinking… is the sax playing inspiring me a little? The RPM Challenge is less than two weeks away and it’s coming up on time for me to start recording some new music. Do I suddenly find myself wanting to play the saxophone again? I haven’t taken my alto sax out of its case since I finished the 2020 RPM Challenge. Five years. Is it time to break it out again? I think it might be. I know I can still play even if I am only about 1% of the sax player I was when I was a music major from 1989-1991 and sax was my primary instrument in school. Guitar was a hobby I played on the side, even though I spent nearly infinitely more time playing guitar than sax… which contributed to me leaving school before I graduated.

So I guess what I am trying to say is, if throughout the month of February you start hearing about me writing songs in the key of E flat or B flat instead of E and A, and you start hearing me complain about severe pain in my lips and jaw (do to not having practices at all in the last five years), then we can probably go ahead and blame Mel Collins and the late Ian McDonald. Just saying.

#altoSax #altoSaxophone #ianMcdonoald #KingCrimson #melCollins #Music #musicSchool #musicSchoolDropout #RpmChallenge #rpm2025 #saxophone #starless

What's the Rpmchallenge?

I have both a chimney flue and and air intake cut off. When I know I am going to bed and don't need to keep adding wood, I close both off. Depending on the coal bed, determines how well the remaining wood chars.

Got about 3 cups of char from my woodstove lat night. It's not much, but it adds up. It's also a bonus for an activity that I am already doing. #biochar #homestead #permaculture #hacks #zap #grownostr

Yep, working with the materials the client is bringing in. We'll definitely be capping with 3" rock.

Moved a fee yards of dirt today. Eventually this bridge will have ramps on both sides to allow the tractor to pass over.

#workday #workout #farmercarry #dirt #water #farmlife #grownostr #permaculture #zap

I'm excited to see the results this growing season.

I finished this hugel bed up today. After filling it with logs and branches old sheep feed and chicken manure. I topped it off with seaweed, a couple of dead rats, the leftovers of a processed rabbit, 4 wheel barrow loads of conpost, then a layer of dirt a layer of used canary reed grass another layer of dirt and topped with the used canary reed grass. I meant to add more char, but it's in with the chicken manure. I also planted 16 tulip bulbs at the foot of the bed, as this will be something my wife comes by on the way to her office.

1 more bed to go like this.

#grownostr #permaculture #hugel #homestead #prepped #farmlife #weekend #workout