Radio Active Lunch

March 3 2010: Musical Teabagging with Immaculate Misconception

Friday, 05 March 2010

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Teabagging Once again I was joined in the studio by members of the Radio Active Lunch Orchestra - Immaculate Misconception - performing their somewhat unique blend of freestyle improvisation - that is to say the musicians get together without preconceptions and rehearsal and play away with the intention of spontaneous composition. This day, in addition to the three main characters of RALFO were joined by the severely talented Rick B on electric fiddle and easy board. This was certainly one of the most coherent freestyle sessions we've offered.

In addition to the music, I was looking for a new element to add to the freestyle ensemble and decided to incorporate a form of teabagging in with the music turning it into a musical sporting event. Teabagging, not the traditional form of teabagging known to most as the type of sexual act, involves launching projectiles (i.e. teabags) at the musicians while they are playing. This adds an element of surprise and fear to the music that I think most musicians don't get to experience in their lifetime. Teabags do not bode well in a radio studio as the bag itself lacks structural integrity and electronic devices are not friendly with food matter and, thusly, we had other objects in the studio to launch at one another. Unfortunately, we were way too focussed on the music, but there are a couple of moments when you might here some odd noises indicating the potential flight of some object across the studio.

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