social

in listening to my music compositions i find that it takes wading through the tedium to get to the sublime ( of course , the sublime was the tedium the next time ) and i'm realizing this is some of the value of nerve; that one has the nerve to be one's own composition in order that others may enjoy them.







-used to concern myself about not getting it together more socially. where i might have been , or just ordinary never occurred to me. what i imagined seemed quite out there to most . i imagine now a kind of apogee and perigee , like sine waves in musical thought. it's a way of getting beyond what is impossible to what is sensible.







( for world outreach, how about? 'we'd like out)









(concerning a dvd audio transfer from tape)

...i have a certain kind of splashiness i don't find it anyplace else


some of this is really bad , i don't have the heart to edit it, or i have the heart not to edit it. -must be similar to the feeling dressmakers feel with a bolt of gorgeous fabric and an iffy pattern.

the next song somewhere had a vocal line about the twenty fifth century. -hopefully by then more people will be listening to good instrumental music, there will at least be different vocalists. - there is a difference between animism : hearing the spirit or life in an object , and hearing the voice from what isn't an object.



...not deciding where the revelations are going to be in order that one might experience the revelations.


drums in heaven , what business is it of yours?

on this version since the nineties there is a guitar overdub for shure and later reverberation and flying monkey synth performing the major key re

transparency adequately

goes on presently for eternity and just because something happens doesn't mean that life is bad.



eventually segues inro raw raw rock with the sustained quick echoes. --nearly gave up on music after this one; lying face down on the carpet wondering what i'd done and if there's a better activity.

it's possible i built my own microphone yet unlikely. it was probably the only microphone i had and had to sing really quite forcefully to get any signal, yet i still tried to make it sound smooth.

something about on the way to the beach house, a rather bluesy number ; makes me think of the doors , might sound easy it isn't . neither is putting in a few whoops adequate; on playback it sounds like real whoops yet rather cheesy. the real takes effort dedication and meditation , even if you are without medication.

something you'd listen to in a cave in the summer with friends .

the gloaming

... i was accomplishing an album titled 'the gloaming' , i didn't tell anyone until now , the files were erased while backing up the system. a few fragments and maybe even a song or two were recovered after some search party.

the best news is that some of the musical ideas since then have reappeared and they seem stronger perhaps having more depth and feel comfortable with themselves.

one of the songs which disappeared was titled 'relationship destroying nonsense' , and it was almost an unbearable listening session though most rewarding.the only faint reference or comparison which a few of you might luckily recognize is iggy pop's ( james osterberg?) movie soundtrack to the bikini contest scene in 'the possibility of an island'.

there was also a monkish (choral writing) bit where i made sense of the words to the above and titled 'rel des non'. i even used something i learned from 'the science of the singing voice' . it takes years...


the over arcing concept was likely inspired by those edwardian children's books which often provide more meaning to the adults who read. in thinking this over i understand that to make an adult theme impressive to children is a mark of high and accomplished style and not a weakness. e. nesbitt was probably an influence and maybe even rudyard kipling, though my attempts to set kipling's verses to music fell flat somehow.


i had to write my own lyrics for anything to come of it, drawing inspiration from those lengthy victorian poems about brave children dying ( manifest destiny...) bird songs et cetera....


in recovering what was possible i found a segued song collection ,none of them sound familiar from the release on retinascan , one of the pieces features a violin though i cannot figure out how the sound was made. strange acoustic phenomena occur when one utilizes violins through preamps. it's mostly certainly a violin and me playing it; no one else was present with the instrument. it sounds different from the way i play and unrecognized yet appealing - plan on making a file to send soundcloud a sort of podcast.

a few more highlights of the missing mega-album: there was a line which i really hope no one heard. it was at the end of a verse , bridge ; and it went 'my lips to betroth' . now , in the context it made sense though the sound of it was just so tasteless and i think i deleted it with the bridge. the song was something i wrote when i was six and had to reconstruct the words , sing like a six year old. the bridge was a recent add-on and an effort to make the song sound more monogamous or at least faithful since it seems to be about balling a flight attendant.






there was at least one tune (which i think i recovered) which has this marvelous garden party stroll feeling which i don't know how i did it ; find it has gone missing in today's pop music , even if they talk about strolling...

i haven't seen those types of garden parties since the seventies , though i remember eons ago seeing a pbs documentary ; possibly about a professor at a graduate school , and his sons(also graduate students) who were in a rock band. there was a party. adults were wearing head bands and dancing with small children. there was a tune ' come back now my cutey pie , you make me high , i'll keep on eating those blueberry pies...'. now there was a girl in the group doubling the verse an octave higher. she had on one of those pale criss-crossy summer dresses , was quite pale and bosomy , frightening looking yet probably quite nice. the chorus of the song went' oom pah pah pah...' . the smart son who played bass wearing another headband held the neck of the instrument high and did a rather restrained enactment of the wild hippie boogie while he played...

there was a scene with his very young daughter where the professor said' i wish i could eat oranges all day...' about then someone clicked it off.

abhore the flog

there is perspective in sound perception ( distinct from music as sound perfection ) and it is best to leave everything where it is and let ensemble occur naturally







this is in reference to mixes , even hip hop mixes ; it is better not to force things together where they don't belong , [to] treat sound as graphic design you cannot see.







no matter what the volume is , it is


no matter what the volume isn't it isn't



voluminous itness


increasingly is increase the is


the isness is none of your business





footnote to abhore the flog


it isn't a spoonerism

text

- realized that there is often a major difference in a text written and then recited or merely spoken , the latter is more vulnerable apparently (is there an audio equivalent to apparently...)

also thinking of the choice of utilising or not utilising illustration intended for another purpose. Is this valuable perspective or a form of mental pollution? neither. thank-you.


when making an unwritten text audible , thinking takes place and this takes priority from sounding forceful , bombastic or perhaps macho. the advantage in listening to this articulation is in reading the sound like a book and finding one's meaning.



there is a strong possibility that by doing this other individuals might find what one is talking about. One might even better understand what others are saying , at least be less fearful of what meaning they might have, or hold.

it seems this is what's happening , but it isn't .

( much later )


enough to state preferences , say: ' i like something , i don't like something' , and then

contradict those statements with actions ?


The value of disfunctional circuitry is that it

might represent or even

model a system in which

everything isn't connected

and functioning to draw

in come .

What is the difference

between income and current?

currency ? ( crazy ? )

movie unrelated

popular music has perhaps involved into the music of popularity.

in a wider , larger paradigm perhaps playing that person

which has evolved into a popular instrument .


in the broadest sense , is it possible for the upper partials

to be in tune with the earth; the fundamentals in tune

with the sky ?

lightness and frivolity

-not meaning to wax political since this is almost exclusively a sound design and urban planning blog; the chart reminded me of the soundhack compressor +compand with its look , anyway.No conclusions.

It appears that much of what is happening , or the reason for a lack of happening is attributable to the idea of appropriation; taking something that is someone else's or is readily available to the public and signing it or representing it . Like any instrument that can be played elegantly or fairly or horribly:

Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and the wounded filled the chains
And the paintwork was all splatterdashed with other people's brains.

She was boarded, she was looted, she was scuttled till she sank
And the pale survivors left us by the medium of the plank.


That was from a pirate poem , I don't know who wrote it.

This weekend I went to Walgreens and purchased a vanity lightbulb and some socks. I was impressed by their beach thong display. Most puzzling was when I was ready to replace the burnt out vanity light it had come back to life ( in a manner of speaking) or had been replaced without my knowledge or consent (unlikely).

Last weekend I conversed with two individuals from approvecho and though it isn't very exciting in words , I find the approach to sustainable ecosystems most appealing. Some of their internships also offer college credit.

I am interested in the idea of a world class recording studio powered by renewable energy sources and making some use of recycled materials (rubbish).

When I lived in Dayton the dogs would take themselves for walks.

the ignophere of the ignosphere

ignosphere

reflections

instead of trying to remove the (sound) reflections from a room, attempting to be more selective in terms of the frequencies of the reflections and use them to enhance and cushion the sounds resulting from the guitar amplifiers.