"Pirthy Tweet"

Pirty Tweet She's Tripy, She's Sweet

A Psychedelic Sonata

In 2006, when I completed this project, there was no such thing as a tweet. This,to my thinking, is a very important point.

When I first started this project, I was thinking about orchestration, instrumentation and non-traditional methods of using sound a an instrument. I persist in this effort.

I began this project about three years prior to its release. By that time, technology and electronic instruments have blossomed and were widely available. Software synthesis, like granular synthesis, was not easy to find. Today, we take these tools for granted, but I have always thought of them and the sound they produce as instruments .

There were many starts and stops over the years I worked on this project. My goal was to use synthesized and altered, acquired sounds to replicate an orchestra.That's the aim for most of what I try to accomplish. Many of my contemporaries were strictly traditional players. They used instruments to accomplish their goals and scoffed at electronic musicians.

As I said, I believed in non-traditional methods, and that belief led me down a different path. In my portrayal of what music is and could be and what constitues an ochestral sound.

I’ve always liked psychedelia and all that it entailed: music, art, color, fashion, and all facets of the movement. Leaning in to non-traditional methods and defining labels,I decided to describe this work as a psychedelic sonata. I'm aware that the piece may not be either one, but that’s how it hovers in my space. I’ve never felt a need to go into the origins of Pirthy Tweet, but today I did.

In my minds eye pirthy is trippy, and a tweet is sweet. Ergo, Pirthy Tweet is trippy and sweet. I believe that my granular birdies have a sweet sound to offer.

Pirthy Tweet was my first attempt to accomplish this,and I believe that I was somewhat successful.

We all enjoy a sweet treat,so dig in.

Composed, Performed and Graphics by Rail Dog.

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