Ben Tibbetts Studio      Home    Services    Archive    Students    About    Contact    Now    Store    Subscribe Illustration With Camden Smith Listen (mp3) I think Illustration was the first free improvisation I recorded with someone. It was with Camden Smith, a drummer and friend of mine from high school. His family had a cool setup where they put a recording studio on the top floor of their barn. They transformed that space into a beautiful spot for making music, filling it with equipment and instruments. As a result of this mad-science-lab, we were able to use some different instruments in Illustration and layer them on top of each other. Listening to this track now, I feel a lot of gratitude to Camden and the other people who collaborated with me during this time in my life. I had a very non-judgmental, open-minded group of people around me, who wanted me to try different sounds and make music that felt authentic. And--at least from my perspective--there was no pretentiousness to any of that. Although we were proud of our music, it wasn't that we believed we were creating earth-shattering art. It was more that we were expressing ourselves and enjoying the relationships we'd forged together. This track could be paired in some ways with the two improvisational albums I did with Ken Hallowell, Our Lady, Windsor and The Waterless Sessions, which represented similar collaborative growth and creative freedom.  Ben Tibbetts Studio      Home    Services    Archive    Students    About    Contact    Now    Store    Subscribe Search     Copyright © 2006-2023 Ben Tibbetts change log