A friend and musical collaborator of mine (who goes by the name Tony Bontana) was in London for a weekend, and we worked on some music. The first track is with Tony playing the guitar and me producing the session (recording, arranging, mixing), as well as playing some keys and other sounds such as strings (via midi). This track was made surprisingly quick and felt like one of those moments that your grateful you were recording for. The track was made mostly by layering guitar tracks starting with the main rhythm and then adding melody, and improvising melody on the structured and arranged version of the track.
Based on the idea of improvisation that we had started making the track above, later on the same day, Tony and I decided to record some more improvisation drawing inspiration from free jazz and experimental groups such as Hype Williams. We ended up recording for about an our and finished with a 45 minute improvisation after some slight post production editing. For this I was playing the keyboard again, whilst also producing and automating effects and manipulating the sounds we made live, and with Tony playing the guitar, which I was also modulating live. I feel I managed to create a pretty wide variety of sounds from the guitar and the keys to place the listener in many different places/ feelings/ atmospheres within the piece. I feel like this took the listener on a full journey of the ideas me and Tony were playing with and coming up with in real time with the track over the 45 minutes. This is one of my favourite elements of the practice of improvisation (capturing moments where ideas are brewing and including the journey to the final ideas within the improvisation instead of only keeping the final ideas.