But I think the harp has been viewed in one particular way for so long, and has been limited for so long, that I feel like I am really interested in stretching the boundaries of what it's capable of doing and how it's perceived. I also don't want to feel bound to the harp, I'd be interested in bringing other instruments in at some time. That there is a bass in the harp - there is a way to create a rhythmic sense without drums - there's a way to have all sorts of textural variations and expressive variations. I'm really interested in the harp as a fully actualized, self-contained way of presenting songs. You know, like they have songs that are fully realized, complete songs, and then they think "How do we make this special? - Ooh, let's bring the harp in!" and they kind of want a harpist to play a glissando and play some heavenly noise in the background. Partly because I feel like many people view the harp as this kind of gimmick. I'm not terribly interested in playing harp on other people's music right now.I’m not sure if that comes across or not. I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song.1.4 Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band (2007).
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