ARJUNA OAKES and JOHN PSATHAS: Safe Way To Fall
ARJUNA OAKES and JOHN PSATHAS: Safe Way To Fall
John Psathas and Arjuna Oakes combine talents to co-compose and perform their song ‘Safe Way To Fall’, today’s SOUNZ Film from Orchestra Wellington’s Myth & Ritual concert in May 2023.
In an Orchestra Wellington interview John described his and Arjuna’s creative process like this:
“We've had this creative experience there, where we will sit in a room, there'll be a piano, I'll sit in the chair, he'll sit at the piano, and he starts improvising. I'll be listening. And at some point, I'll say, that was amazing. And he'll say “what, what” and he'll backtrack, and he'll find it again. And then I'll say that that was incredible. And then he'll hear it, because he's moving through time creating all of this content while improvising. And there's something about having me there like a fisherman with a hook, waiting to catch the one that comes past. So we'll find something and it might just be a chord progression or an idea, and we'll sort of tease it out. I mean, we'll maybe add a bar or repeat that, or cut that, or maybe invert that or add a note to that chord… and gradually, it turns into something.”
Orchestra Wellington is conducted by Marc Taddei.
Audio recorded by RNZ Concert.
Film funded by NZ On Air.
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