![]() ![]() Simon, "as are a myriad of different bells, most of them from India. The cloud bowl's tones are "scattered throughout the 'Seven Psalms,' " said Mr. Simon recorded some of Partch's cloud bowls, which are shaped like huge wine glasses. Partch believed that an octave can be divided into 43 unequal tones, or microtones, and he had to invent instruments that could play microtonally. Simon went on to discuss "cloud bowls," instruments invented by Harry Partch, a 20th-century American composer. Those sounds and instruments are very interesting." One, of course, is the song and the lyric." There is also a "textural background that contextualizes my guitar. During the recordings there are really two or three elements that are going on. but I hadn't done the recording, or I was in the process of doing the recording. Simon said, "I think I had finished all the writing. ![]() Simon was unfailingly gracious, thoughtful, and serious about his work but not himself. Throughout those sessions, and in his talk with Mr. Simon's recording studio in the Texas Hill Country, where he lives several months a year with his wife, Edie Brickell, the singer and a Texas native. The "Seven Psalms" sessions were shot in Mr. The film itself really took off when Paul called me one day and said he was making this new album called 'Seven Psalms.' That gave us the structure for this film." Of course I was delighted and thrilled to get the call. "Paul had seen a film I had done about Frank Sinatra, and he had liked it a lot and wondered if there might be a film about his life and career. Gibney discussed the genesis of the film. "It's about as close as somebody has come to capturing the creative process that is my creative process," he said of the film, during the "conversation" with Dave Fear, Rolling Stone's film editor, at East Hampton Middle School.Īt the screening, Mr. Perhaps the best way to link the two Paul Simon film festival events, a Friday-night screening of Alex Gibney's documentary "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon" and Saturday morning's Conversation With Paul Simon, is to quote the songwriter himself. ![]()
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