Richard Reed Parry - Explorations 1

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Explorations is a series of hypnotic, quiet videos + field recordings of musical work in progress, shot in natural environments. It’s a meditative, ongoing process of improvising, capturing and developing new musical ideas while they’re still in an early phase of development - a song before it’s a finished song, melodies that are still finding themselves, lyrics that haven’t decided what words they really want to be yet. I explore new ideas and revisit musical fragments that I’m slowly developing, letting myself try anything, make mistakes, repeat little ideas that feel interesting in the moment… a raw, organic process of music creation caught in motion and not a polished, finished product. I treat the natural world as my working studio, wander out into a remote location and see what ideas happen and where they go, allowing myself to just flow with a musical idea and let it continue as long as it wants to, let it hypnotize me and see where it goes. Some of these fragments will become finished songs, some of them won’t ever be more than a fleeting musical thought. And either way, there will be a beautiful, raw document of new creations in the making, out in calm, immersive natural environments, my favorite places to go exploring.