Lisa Busby is a Scottish composer, singer and producer of experimental electronic music. Her work is notorious for using unconventional composition techniques such as using non standard musical notation. Busby also uses a lot of literary techniques in her composition, mixing spoken word and poems with electronic beats. With these techniques, Busby achieves to create a narrative that caught’s the listeners attention.

Proposal For A Song is one of Busby’s pieces that I most enjoyed. Creating different textures with the noisy looping sound of vinyl and using beautiful melodies with her voice, Busby creates a really emotional performance. By using her voice the piece has much more intimacy and as said before it hooks you to a narrative. She uses a lot of experimental turntablism (Busby, 2019) in her work, I really liked this aspect of her work and I think I could implement something similar to mine. I could try to sample some of my personal favorite records and include them in my pieces, to try and make my pieces have more intimacy such as Proposal For A Song Has.

Another characteristic that Proposal To A Song has is an unconventional structure. The piece have different sections that are very un similar from the one before, but they fit well together. In my piece Behind The Window, I also approached a non conventional structure but the transition of every section are not as smooth as the piece by Busby. I could use her work for inspiration for my next piece to smoothen my transitions and that way create a successful non conventional structure. Attached below my piece Behind The Window.