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Wyoming

from Rough Spaces by Tom Swafford

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The bent notes in this piece conjure up visions of long barbed wire fences stretching across prairies, and rock formations silhouetted on a darkening sky… this kind of romanticizing of the "old west" is something I experienced first hand when I was the in-house musician at the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park. The video I made touches on this, using found footage from 1970s home movies and an old John Wayne movie. I'm not sure if I was thinking about horses or not, but the galloping is rhythmically off, usually in 5 instead of 4, which creates an unsettling feeling. I find the whole "old west" fascination a bit unsettling when I think about what it was really like back then...

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from Rough Spaces, released October 5, 2022

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Tom Swafford Providence, Rhode Island

Tom Swafford has been active as a composer and improviser for over 30 years. He has lived and worked in NYC, Seattle, Boston, Berkeley, CA, Amsterdam, and is currently based in Providence, RI. He has worked with Butch Morris, Jason Kao Hwang, Amirtha Kidambi, Aram Bajakian (Kef, Dalava), Wayne Horvitz, Zachary Swanson, Matt Crane (Golden Crackers), and many more. Photo: Peter Gannushkin. ... more

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