This is a conversation with Caroline Kraabel who grew up in Seattle USA, and came to London as a teenager. She discovered saxophone and expressed her love for it via indie music and street performance.
I talked to Caroline about about how she began to play her instrument, her inspirations, collaborations and her experiences of the experimental music scene in London.
“it’s possible for somebody like me….in a state of complete ignorance about music to make sounds and put them together in a way that worked for me… & other people seemed to think it worked too..…”
Show Notes and mentions include:
Swell Maps
Ornette coleman
film making
soundtracks
tape loops & noises
Stormy weather
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat- by charles Mingus
working as a projectionist
Living in squats
John Stevens workshops in stockwell
Search and Reflect by John Stevens
Maggie Nichols
fake blood
Susan Alcorn- pedal steel player
Annie Lewandowski- musical saw prep piano accordion
Veryan Weston
John Edwards
Chemistry beats electricity
Mark Sanders
Bei Bei Wang