Creating Music Stories – Log2013

Sandra Kirkwood

Set up the I-Pod to recordEventIn early January, I discovered that I could hook up my i-pod on a music stand to record my improvisations.This piece was composed without thinking to test the keyboard in the well-known key of C major.

PurposeThis log is a chronological narrative about daily occurrences played on keyboard and my reflections on music projects with various communities. This will show the progression of my thinking and creative processes in a way that can reflect emotional content and musical development. The idea is to improve the supporting technologies to allow easy documentation through recordings that can be shared with others and analysed for research purposes.

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28 January- After floodOver the Australia Day long-weekend, there was severe flooding and wild winds in Ipswich. Today Purga Creek was back within its banks, sun shining, and daily life returning to normal.

This is a piece that I recorded to express the tranquillity of the moment and my sadness that a young kangaroo had died in the dam at the back of our property.

In the storm, mobs of kangaroos bolted through our yard, but were trapped by the rising creek. I do not know how this young one passed away, but no doubt it was a struggle for survival and being small, the kangaroo may have been injured or caught in the mud unable to free itself as the water rose and it had the dreadful battle with no help available. Photo of Purga Creek in flood 28 Jan, 2013

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Kangaroo tribute (piano – SK). Click on logo to play video-recording.