Harry Boodah - Music Information

Harry Boodah music...

If asked to describe the Harry Boodah genre of music I should start with the term avant-garde, but I would refrain not wanting to sound elitist. The music I create is more reachable than that, but definitely not mainstream. There are electro acoustic and musique concrète elements (actually I still use some tape and analog effects, even some of those tube thingys) in this Experimental music. Experimental yes, but it is my creation process that I am experimenting with, I don't try to make any particular genre of music and my attempts are not to be experimental per say, I just create what the moment brings.

When I am making electro acoustic music I mostly use a mic and a garage full of junk to make original samples with. For example a mic shoved into an empty 20 litre water jug makes some interesting sounds when you bang on it or scrape it with junk. Sometimes I also go and grab some foley from around town. Either way I take the samples back to the studio and manipulate some of them electronically. Some of them go into a sampler and are played with keyboards, some end up in magnetic tape and analog effects units. Others are just left as ambient noise. I also use other instruments as follows: many Acoustic/Electric/Bass Guitars, Lots of Drums, Tons of Percussion, Congos, Timbalis, Panderos, Nord II, Korg Triton, Ensoniq MR, Roland M-SE-1, Roland M-DC-1, Akai S2000, Roland JV 1080, Roland JV 880.

I don't play live very much anymore, only the occasional gig which is usually just solo guitar. I do play as a guest in the odd band, mostly guitar or percussion. I have not yet performed any of the music from Harry Boodah live, as it would be complicated and costly, but the recorded music has been used in many live venues. Five or six tracks were used in the full-length dance production "Eve" which opened in July of 2002 in Vancouver, BC. for more information see http://www.coricaulfield.com under shows. Several tracks from the "Outpost" CD have been used in shows by modern dancers in the past few years. I do have an interest in bringing the Harry Boodah music to the stage, I expect that will happen at some point in the future.

Some of my musical influences not in any particular order are/were: Vangelis, Lalo Shifirin, Jean Michel Jarre, Herbie Hancock, Sly Stone, Chic Corea, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nina Simone, CCR. It is not a complete list, but it is an eclectic mix. You will have difficulty finding any one individual artist's influence in my music, but this is the music that I love so it must influence me.