Suite II for Leigh (with Ostanada). This is one of my earliest works, recorded when my partner Jo was still teaching in China (before we were hitched). Okay, so here is the whole Suite II for you. ... I recorded the Rhodes (through a wide deep Stereo Chorus) onto a cassette tape, and then played this back in an atrium (at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Marquette Michigan in 1993), using Howard's old ReVox Reel-to-Reel for sound-on-sound delay looping, whilst alternately playing my flute or singing - recording this all onto my Beta Hi-Fi recorder (just Audio). I used my old Altec mixer to run a bit of the Rhodes 'direct' with some Rhodes playing through speakers in the atrium, as i played along with my flute (into my home-brew stereo microphones which were also feeding into the mixer and the tape delay loops; i did about two or three layers like this). The spaghetti patchwork was a hairy mess worthy of Edgar Varez. And i'll never come up with that exact same patchwork in a thousand years; i've lost my notes.  I have a friend, Leigh, with whom (in gleeful pride) i shared my finished work.  She informed me then (quite coincidentally) that it was her birthday. This was a very cool coincidence, so i named it for her. The suite begins with the Rhodes, in one layer of tape loops. Near the end (in the ostanada section) i add two more layers (where you'll hear both flute and vocal layered together). Enjoy! ~joan ... Copyright MCMXCIII  Joan Heath Patrie - Creative Commons Deed 3.0 (the attribution/non-commercial use/share alike license) ... joanpatrie.com

Ostanada, from Suite II for Leigh. This is one of my earliest works, recorded when my partner Jo was still teaching in China. I recorded the Rhodes (through a slow, deep Stereo Chorus) onto a cassette tape, and then played this back in an atrium at Saint Paul's in Marquette), using my friend Howard's ReVox Reel-to-Reel for sound-on-sound delay looping, and playing my flute and singing, with the mix recording onto my Beta Hi-Fi. I used an Altec mixer to run some of the Rhodes 'direct' (with some of it playing through speakers in the atrium) as i played my flute into my home-brew stereo microphones -- also feeding into the mixer and the tape delay loops - in about two or three layers. The spaghetti patchwork was a hairy mess worthy of Edgar Varez.  I shared it with my friend, Leigh, who told me that it was her birthday. This was very cool, so i named it for her. This piece is just the ostanada at the conclusion of the two suites, and i think it's the best section, so it's what i share. Most of the full suites are only the Rhodes in one layer of tape loops.  In this ostanada i add two more layers. You'll be able to hear both flute and vocal layered together near the conclusion. Enjoy! ~joan ... Copyright MCMXCIII Joan Heath Patrie - Creative Commons Deed 3.0 (the attribution/non-commercial use/share alike license). ... joanpatrie.com