one day i will be independent and autonomous. one day i will have so much power. I will treat every soul, every human being, every creation equally... like they were each little pieces of myself.
and i will be a hippy that loves everyone.
until then, this is what i can offer you.
that is all. carry on my critters. carry on.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
organized sound
Edgar Varèse: music can be thought of as organized sound. And there is no known culture, now or ever before, that lacks it.
I listened to Jon Hendricks adaptation of Charlie Parker tunes, adding scat lyrics to them. Then to this version of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony with lyrics added. (Youtube them).
I hum guitar riffs and often sing my bands songs using only simple syllables like da-na-na - sometimes tapping and beat boxing - without ever singing the lyrics. But just because we don't sing lyrics doesn't mean it's not a song.
"Most of us share this intuition that "song" is a broad category that includes anything we might sing of any collection of sounds that resembles such a thing. [...] African drum music h as an important role in the daily lives of millions of people and might not strike some as being songs, but to ignore such purely rhythmic (and difficult to sing unless you're Mel Tormé or Ray Stevens) forms of expression would betray a bias toward melody" - Levitin
But then the meaning of a purely melodic or rhythmic song would be debatable. I'm listening to Bonjay's Gimmee Gimmee right now. It incorporates so much of what I'm talking about and questioning. In the song, the basses primary function is maintain a steady beat. Layered over top of it is series of clapping, nonsensical hip-hop-inspired-scat-styled, heavy breathing and sort of muted (purely rhythmical) guitar strokes. The song is a compilation of sounds functioning primarily percussively... and it's beautiful.
I'm searching for a catchy chorus to insert into an already catchy song and it's making my head spin. I'm trying to process all of the cultural arrogance and narrow-mindedness I've been taught (and grown to love). So my musical muses for this week will be: Tool, Rodrigo y Gabriela and City & Colour.
I listened to Jon Hendricks adaptation of Charlie Parker tunes, adding scat lyrics to them. Then to this version of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony with lyrics added. (Youtube them).
I hum guitar riffs and often sing my bands songs using only simple syllables like da-na-na - sometimes tapping and beat boxing - without ever singing the lyrics. But just because we don't sing lyrics doesn't mean it's not a song.
"Most of us share this intuition that "song" is a broad category that includes anything we might sing of any collection of sounds that resembles such a thing. [...] African drum music h as an important role in the daily lives of millions of people and might not strike some as being songs, but to ignore such purely rhythmic (and difficult to sing unless you're Mel Tormé or Ray Stevens) forms of expression would betray a bias toward melody" - Levitin
But then the meaning of a purely melodic or rhythmic song would be debatable. I'm listening to Bonjay's Gimmee Gimmee right now. It incorporates so much of what I'm talking about and questioning. In the song, the basses primary function is maintain a steady beat. Layered over top of it is series of clapping, nonsensical hip-hop-inspired-scat-styled, heavy breathing and sort of muted (purely rhythmical) guitar strokes. The song is a compilation of sounds functioning primarily percussively... and it's beautiful.
I'm searching for a catchy chorus to insert into an already catchy song and it's making my head spin. I'm trying to process all of the cultural arrogance and narrow-mindedness I've been taught (and grown to love). So my musical muses for this week will be: Tool, Rodrigo y Gabriela and City & Colour.
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