From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #95 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Wednesday, September 16 1998 Volume 02 : Number 095 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Small Veda article in Performing Songwriter [Michael Curry Subject: Small Veda article in Performing Songwriter - --=====================_905930356==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" For some reason I think this article was already mentioned here before, but because I'm not sure, and because it's both quite good and quite short, I thought I'd take a few minutes to send it along. - ---------- Performing Songwriter (September/October 1998) Some songwriters can recall the exact moment they knew they would be spending the rest of their lives chasing the muse. For 29-year old Canadian Veda Hille, it was the summer she was hired to play accordion with a samba band in a giant puppet parade. She used the money she made to fund her first cassette. "Because it was cheaper," she explains, "I did the graveyard shift at the studio, so we where working from midnight 'til eight in the morning. So every morning I'd be taking the bus home with all these people on their way to work, and I was just coming back from an all nighter in the studio. And there was just one of those mornings when I looked at everyone else around me and realized that I was doing something completely different... I realized I had differentiated myself from the rest of the working stiffs whether I liked it or not. It wasn't even a political decision, it was just a realization that something in me had been settled." Fortunately for her, she had a diversity of talent and experience that has kept her on the musical path, which led recently to her fourth release, _Spine_ (Bottom Line). Besides twenty years of classical piano, plus composing experience and performance classes, she credits an unusual source of inspiration: sculpting. "In sculpture, I was really interested in assemblage, and finding disparate things that might even already be existing, and pasting them together to make something new. And I guess I feel that in tacking together words and music, there's that sculptural element. That has also helped me to do more of a cut-and-paste method with lyrics so that I don't feel they necessarily have to have a linear connection as long as there is some sort of integral connection that might be more of an intuitive thing." - ---------- Mike - --=====================_905930356==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter? -- Veda Hille | - --=====================_905930356==_-- ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #95 *******************************