Composing motivated by the desert in Joshua Tree Public Park
It was a wild weather conditions end of the week in the Mojave, in the entirety of its fierceness and yielding, its shocks, its unexpected weather conditions changes right when you assumed you had everything sorted out - and the finish of an impossible summer of climate whiplash that highlighted an enormous desert rapidly spreading fire and a far-fetched desert typhoon, trailed by a subsequent scene modifying rainstorm storm, all in August. Then there's the intriguing desert verdure super sprout that followed the fire and downpour into profound harvest time. This all merged to set the ideal, tempting desert eco-tones for my new Desert Organization on location field composing studio, Compose Like the Desert (c.) on the last Sunday of October at the great Indian Bay camping area in Joshua Tree Public Park, arranged at the north finish of the suitably named Wonderland of Rocks where an immense alluvial fan spreads across a few miles onto the open desert floor. Here, the light washe...