![]() ![]() “Experimental” music is often an excuse to not quite finish something! Also, I am very keen on what I call “virtuoso folk music,” like Romanian, Indian Classical, African, South American, Portuguese. I am particularly fond of Prokofiev, Elgar, Schönberg, Berg, Varèse, Fauré. I love the work of most “classical” composers, except Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky. I prefer classic jazz (1917-1942) and prototypes like Earl Hines and Coleman Hawkins right through their whole careers. Then I joined the professional Original Downtown Syncopators on piano from 1961 to 1965. We did gigs only on a Saturday night around the Glasgow area of Scotland. Ron Geesin: The first band I was in was the very amateur Mahogany Wardrope and his Pinetop Stompers in the village of Bothwell where I was brought up. What was the first band that you were in, Ron? “Experimental music is often an excuse to not quite finish something!” His most well known collaborations include those with Pink Floyd and Roger Waters.Ī gentleman of many interests, he’s also restorer of many jazz 78s, researcher and author of The Adjustable Spanner, inventor of The Tune Tube interactive installation and overall one of the most interesting people in music. Ron Geesin | Interview | “Experimental music is often an excuse to not quite finish something!” Ron Geesin is a Scottish composer, performer, sound architect, interactive designer, broadcaster, writer and lecturer active since the early 1960s. ![]()
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