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A Sonic Meditation For George Lyle

from Flying A Kite On An Empty Beach by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

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A Sonic Meditation for George Lyle (Fritz Welch)

George and I hit it off crackin’ jokes in the back row of a Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra gig. We talked about jamming together for a coupla years before it finally happened. By then I lived just up the hill and so it soon became a weekly occurrence. We would meet during the day, drink lots of strong coffee and shoot the breeze before playing music in his living room. He was a free player through & through and seemed to thrive on sound!

I was psyched that he was totally comfortable in the ultra weird zones that I like to inhabit. He pushed himself and his instrument to fantastic extremes. George quickly became one of my favourite collaborators. He was always down for playing. And he loved to talk about music, sounds, ideas, dreams, politics and life. He joined me and my family for Christmas dinner a few times and always brought a fresh pineapple to parties.

A Sonic Meditation for George Lyle is a large ensemble improvisation in two parts.

Part one utilizes a recording made in April 2015 of George and I vocalizing together. George is in the room. GIO members join in to form a choir of utterances and exhalations. The second part is an instrumental improvisation of undetermined duration focusing on an imagined culmination of George’s favourite stuff (sounds, composers, meditation techniques) which serve as a simulation of a structure for mass improvisation. We strive towards an aural embodiment of the essential George Lyle.

- Fritz Welch

Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

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from Flying A Kite On An Empty Beach, released November 30, 2022

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