Camera Obscura
My latest “Found Song” post comes from Ruebi Lynn. Here is her song prescription:
“a song about forgiveness with a slightly out of tune mountain dulcimer, jingle bells and an accordion set half inside of the giant camera obscura and half outside in the muddy water of the sutro baths where the seagulls scavenge and the whales pass by with huge indifference. oh, and a choir of lip syncers.”
This was one of the first prescriptions I received. I drove out to ocean beach and wrote it with my dulcimer in the car, then strolled on the beach with my accordion playing the air and scaring the birds.
I played strummed and bowed dulcimer, accordion and jingle bells. Noelle Cahill provided the underwater choir.