Technical Notes on "Kierkegaardashian"
A couple of people have asked me about my song " Kierkegaardashian , " which concludes my upcoming album Quartets , and its relation to the source material, which is Charlie Parker's " Kim ," so here goes: Back during the pandemic lockdown in 2020, I spent some time overlaying multiple takes of Charlie Parker's solos on a given tune, adjusting the timing to align them roughly, and then seeing how the phrasing overlapped or diverged for curiosity's sake. I wrote a bit about this in a blog post I called "Synchronic Bird," but I took it a step further with "Kim" by trying to compose a new song using the overlapping material. First, I laid out transcriptions of each take one above the other, then chose phrases between the two takes that would create a new, super-long linear melody: I did this process for the entire solo, which spans multiple choruses, but "Kierkegaardashian" was intended as a miniature composition, so I only