Great Blue Hill
By onezero on March 1, 2026 11:27 pm
For this one, I'd thought to use the $60 Univox in Bb F Bb F Bb C tuning, and recorded some quiet, sparse things on Friday evening. By Saturday morning, though, world events had me thinking that quiet and sparse wasn't the way to respond to the moment, so we have a more aggressive intro with a discordant tritone in there. By Sunday, the music seemed to want to do something different, so we have some 3/4 sections (one of which has a line that's in 5/4), and which is more consonant.
For this one, the Univox Coily is going straight into the UA Volt. There's convolution reverb send from each channel, and the usual compression/eq on the stereo mix.
This tuning makes it easy to gravitate to pentatonic positions on the neck, and in this piece I'm consciously resisting the easily rewarding ones. Maybe the 3/4 + 5/4 parts are my favorite here. In other circumstances I would have built the piece around them, but it took the other parts to get to these parts.
The title comes from Great Blue Hill outside Boston, which has an elevation of 635 ft.
Does it matter how I respond to world events with these little pieces? No. But I'm a person, and I have responses to the things around me. For more meaningful responses, well, let's look for ways in which we can make things better.
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