((newstereo)) production notes...

Still no Song

2008-01-01T22:40:00.000-05:00

I tried today but did not like the result so as of now there is no new song.

No Song for December '07

2007-12-01T17:20:00.000-05:00

We will start again in January of '08.

Thanks for listening.

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Song 91 "Peasant Curves"

2007-11-01T07:20:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 6

Release: "Peasant Curves"

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Song 90 " Greep Djeng Djeng / What do you care "

2007-10-01T18:05:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 5

Release: "Greep Djeng Djeng / What do you care?"

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Song 89 "LiveWorkOrWorship"

2007-09-01T09:39:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 4

Release: "LiveWorkOrWorship"

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Song 88 "Mountain Stream"

2007-08-01T22:17:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 3

Release: "Mountain Stream"

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Song 87-3.0 "Eyepatch offer extended"

2007-07-22T18:03:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 2 - Version 3

The new plan is to release a start up version of a song on the first of the month. Sometimes this will be the final cut and other times I will continue to work on the song and post updated versions.

All versions will remain available for download thru this blog and listeners can decide for themselves which ones to include on the albums.

Release: "Eyepatch offer extended"

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Song 87 "Special Eye Patch Offer"

2007-07-01T13:23:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 2

Release: "Special Eye Patch Offer"

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Song 86 "Charge"

2007-06-01T20:24:00.000-04:00

Aye Eyeball - Track 1

Release: "Charge"

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Song 85 "Question Mark"

2007-05-01T22:03:00.000-04:00

Liquid You - Track 7

Release: "Question mark"

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Song 84 "Falling Water"

2007-04-01T19:03:00.000-04:00

Liquid You - Track 6

Release: "Falling Water"

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Who's got you?

2007-03-12T21:59:00.000-04:00

The second house has got me.

I have the April song in reserve so it is a good time for me to just get lost in a building. I have realized lately that I love being outside almost every day. You are out for periods in extreme weather and then feel a rush when a brilliant day comes along. Spring is good for carpenters.

Framing is always an odyssey but this lately it feels like a way of life.

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Song 83 "like"

2007-03-01T18:45:00.000-05:00

Liquid You – Track 5

Release: “Like”

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… and poetry

2007-02-20T19:58:00.000-05:00

Something old and something way off in the woods.

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Complete with peeing

2007-02-19T20:41:00.000-05:00

Liquid you is completed with a recording of my own self peeing that I made as a sound effect for “Even Steven”. Public peeing is many a man’s best friend. This fellow however has always had a problem peeing around anyone. I like the joke it plays on me and the falling water theme. I also like that it is the water that falls from within us.

What is here is hardly a manly pee. Does anyone remember the moment in the book “Jaws” when Ellen Brody is lying in bed listening to her husband Martin take the first piss of the day? That was a manly pee and this one is nothing like that. Matt Harris used to say that he could pee forever when he was high. The next time I peed high I knew exactly what he meant. He also said:

“I just become more me when I’m high.”

Matt, when I knew him, was a really funny guy. He was also a song writer who wrote songs on a Casio with chords that it seemed he had created. I liked Matt’s music. It seemed like music that he owned. I learned a lot from Matt.

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Jobsite

2007-02-19T12:29:00.000-05:00

Q: What is the most important part of building a house?

I am building a second house. I am interested in where I am and have stopped most of the comparisons to where I was. It is one thing to remember your past and still another to objectify that past with sentimentality. Even the movie seems like it was years ago. While talking to my wife I realized that it is very seldom now that I will be driving in the van and arrive at my destination with that feeling of “How did I get here?” I drive nails and enjoy working with the tools in my hand. I want to build songs like houses. I want both lives and I am as free to have them as I will allow myself to be.

A: The part you are presently working on.

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Liar!

2007-02-15T22:12:00.000-05:00

Did you ever feel like falling water?

Ok, so as usual, I lied. “Falling water” will be the two word title of the last song on this album. Now that everything is written I can clearly see this is a guy album. Not for guys necessarily but about guys and for the guys who are interested in hearing songs about themselves. The trench coat happened again just this last week. I like guys but sometimes they take it too far. I oughta know.

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Alderman

2007-02-11T14:21:00.000-05:00

Quote

“The realm of myth leaves plenty of space for apocalypse and nightmare, especially when reality begins to function on the level of the fantastic.”
- John Alderman – Sonic Boom

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Writingsong

2007-02-10T20:58:00.000-05:00

8:28 PM

Do you ever feel like falling water,
bouncing off the hand you’re cleansing,
falling once again and rolling gently down the drain?

Have you ever heard of brawny new round
bilge lap strake sea skiffs a sailing?
1957 ‘s tailing Myrna loy in hornblow heaven.
No? You haven’t? that’s a shame.

Hey, you haven’t heard one single word I’ve said.

Hey, I’ll have to hand it to myself instead.

It’s 1898 you’re curled up in ball
Inside a barrel toward the falls
you bob in peril
feel the roar and pray its thunderous…
Show the whore you’re someone she will miss…
Death to thee will be thy counter diss…

The afterlife is perfect for a tryst.

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Writingsong

2007-02-08T21:39:00.000-05:00

9:10 pm

Did you ever feel like falling water,
bouncing off the hand and cleansing,
falling once again and rolling gently down the drain?

Have you ever heard of brawny new round
bilge lap strake sea skiffs a sailing?
1957 ‘s tailing Myrna loy in hornblow heaven

No? You didn’t? that’s a shame.

Hey, you have heard one single word I said.

Hey, I’ll have to hand it to myself instead.

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Liquid You

2007-02-04T07:45:00.000-05:00

Do you ever feel like falling water?

Each song on this album has a one word title taken from the sentence above.

The single words, the sentence and the albums title represent the mutable and flowing substance of attached meaning.

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Song 82 "feel"

2007-02-01T20:12:00.000-05:00

Liquid You – Track 4

Things got a little twisted for me this month. I walked around a good part of the first two weeks with the feeling that I needed and wanted to cry. That feeling made its way into this song. I was thinking about sobbing and I pressed record in an attempt to capture the sound of sobbing. I took the first thing I got and put it into the song I rationalized that the song was called “Feel” and so emoting was appropriate. This whole album seems to be devoted to such big feelings and how, if not properly handled, they can spiral out of control.

The precarious energies of persons living and dead played out with poignant passion and spectacular alacrity.

Release: “Feel”

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Song 81 “Ever” (II)

2007-01-01T17:04:00.000-05:00

Liquid You – Track 3

Release: “Ever”

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Song 81 “Ever”

2006-12-07T23:33:00.000-05:00

Liquid you - Track 3

Drama head has gone to bed and left me here to write.

The new Tom Waits thing came out and that is nice. Oddly what I expected but also some surprises. The front cover is my favorite thing about it. He has made himself some kind of interesting room.

Ever to never land is fun to sing. I have done two sessions with it and will try a third tomorrow. I have an initial version which I am playing on the stereo out in the front room. I am singing along with this and have also been playing around with a hand powered mixer but I can’t seem to get what I want. As it stands now it sounds like it does not belong partially because the rest of the thing is on such a groove. But then I listen to it with the two prior songs and think “Well, maybe…

The house and its surroundings get nosier and nosier. You’re back to the mixer. What belongs and what doesn’t? I do desire the blank canvas of quiet so I shut down heating systems and unplug appliances.

The wind has really picked up.

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Song 80 “You” (II)

2006-12-01T07:12:00.000-05:00

Liquid You – Track 2

Release: “you”

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Song 80 “You”

2006-11-20T09:13:00.000-05:00

Home Wreckers

I am constantly taking this music too far. This turns out to be a good thing if you bring those congested tracks up and down behind a simple vocal.

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Periodically I realize...

2006-11-19T20:09:00.000-05:00

My glasses are getting dirty and I am thinking too much.
Songs are not coming easy.
The wall is technical and spiritual.
Something is dying so that something else might live.
Tis almost the season…

It has been a big week. My mother turned 69. She is almost ready to move in here with my wife and I. She will bring 18 cats. The majority of them will stay in a 36 foot travel trailer in the back yard. This place attracts cats and trailers.

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Action!

2006-11-13T10:42:00.000-05:00

The movie was shown at the Rehoboth film fest and all the principle actors plus the director was in attendance. John re-cut the film yet again for this showing and it is my favorite cut yet. The audience of about seventy people seemed to enjoy it as well. Some of Tolias music was incorporated in this go round. John and I got into a drunken quarrel at the party after the show. I am sure it was started by me. I want to stop being angry with him for being unable to connect. I want to do away with hard feelings.

In other news I am having a breakdown of sorts which I do not find interesting. It is the reason I have written very little in these notes. I call it a breakdown of sorts because it is more like a balancing act between well and unwell. I am struggling to realize my vision of a life in art outside of the spotlight or rather I am struggling to realize I have a life in art outside the spotlight. That art has a life in me. I think I began this project of ((newstereo)) out of fear. And I have noticed that the further I get from KITUS the sadder and angrier I become. The whole thing feels very generic and smacks of regret which I think is for the birds. How can I come to truly appreciate this chance to be here working? How can I keep the faith that life and purpose are one and the same?

The other reason I have not written much in these notes is that I have put this blog in a big old box marked MUSIC RELATED. With ((newstereo)) isn’t it all music related? Isn’t life the production? Are these not working songs?

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Song 79 "Do"

2006-10-31T21:03:00.000-05:00

Liquid You – Track 1

Release: “Do”

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We were finished before we started.

2006-10-31T20:56:00.000-05:00

It is All Hallows Eve

Happy anniversary newstereo.net

This week I stripped the site down to simple. A central theme of colors has evolved and now those colors and the little men will carry the thing along as time adds songs.

Even Steven is finished.

The final print was rushed to meet film festival deadlines. No Davydov music made the score and nor are any ((newstereo)) tunes present. They were not made available in time. Instead inexpensive music from a website was used. Music which in my opinion is in no way better than what Tolia was working on. The overall sound of the film is full of audio errors which I have the tools right here in front of me to correct. I was not asked to help in this capacity despite my offering. John is a loner who wants to direct movies. I don’t get him and I do not understand finishing something poorly just to get it done. I see this type of thing in carpentry all the time. For a (little) minute there the whole thing felt like KITUS. I was excited and encouraged to be so and then I was excluded from the process. The whole second half of the experience was extremely frustrating. As for my acting, I guess you will just have to see the damn thing to find out.

Turn the page.

Fittingly we have also wrapped up the album “A man walks into the bar” with song number 78. And now, without further undo, we move on to “Liquid You”

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Song 78 "Remember me now and again"

2006-10-01T08:32:00.000-04:00

A man walks into the bar – Track 7

Release: “Remember me now and again”

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Song 77 "Command Central"

2006-09-01T16:53:00.000-04:00

A man walks into the bar – Track 6

Release: “Command Central”

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Sounds And Tones / ((MisStereo))

2006-08-07T14:31:00.000-04:00

Oiling Hinges

Sounds and Tones opens with one clip in WAV and one in MP3. History has shown me that it is best to let the technicalities of this library cook on line. The whole site has been constantly changing for as long as it has been live. I think that certain things are starting to solidify. Ultimately I would like it to be simple to update. This would maximize the life of the project by removing drag. Maximizing the life of the project is essential because Newstereo is about time.

Song 23 gets a brand spanking new outfit

“One Country World Tour” The third collaboration with Anatoly Davydov is finished and available Here. Tolia shows an amazing aptitude for writing American country music. I imagine that part of his understanding of the form comes from attending the Visigino Country festival in his home town of Visaginas Lithuania.

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Song 76 "Flows the Don"

2006-08-01T06:20:00.000-04:00

A man walks into the bar – Track 5

Release: “Flows the Don”

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Song 75 "Stockings stuffed with you"

2006-07-01T21:10:00.000-04:00

A man walks into a bar – Track 4

Release: “Stockings stuffed with you”

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Song 74 "Fern Garden / A Man Walks"

2006-06-01T06:25:00.000-04:00

A man walks into a bar - Track 3

Release: Fern Garden / A Man Walks

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“Even Steven” (VII)

2006-05-28T15:24:00.000-04:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

Vocalic Movie Music

Testing 1 2 3...

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“Even Steven” (VI)

2006-05-08T21:41:00.000-04:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

Tolia has the film and is working.

Sound Effects are delivered and inserted.

John has not communicated anything to me about the songs.

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P.S. I will write regularly when I feel there is a need. I have shifted into work on the house mode so audio is on auto pilot.

Song 73 "Ring" (I)

2006-05-01T22:32:00.000-04:00

A man walks into a bar - Track 2

Release: Ring

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“Even Steven” (V)

2006-04-03T06:34:00.000-04:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

John wants to send Anatoly some rough cut footage and have him write some music around a scene or two. Panchia is translating the letter to Tolia right now. Once the music comes back and is finalized John will make the final cut to the music.

Songwriting has slowed down a bit but last night I worked on something that incorporates coordinated breathing. Inhaling 4 times on the first part of the vocalic phrase and exhaling on the second part. Every once in a while I will get into using breathing as part of the sound. The last time I clearly remember doing this is on Song no.13 “The bulleted heady redletter”. I am trying to think of my body as a band organ.

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Song 72 "Life Force" (II)

2006-04-01T05:48:00.000-05:00

A man walks into a bar – Track 1

Release: "Life Force"

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“Even Steven” (IV)

2006-03-31T07:08:00.000-05:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

Yesterday was a big day for me. I awoke at 3 AM and ran microphones out the back door to the edge of the woods which lie behind the Schoolhouse. This is the time of night when there is only the occasional car which you hear long before it passes. I recorded about 12 minutes of night tone each hour thru 6 Am.

The first hour is deep night and you can hear sounds from the farthest away. These sounds include distant highways which though not audibly understood to be what they are lend a throbbing to the silence which I think will work well in the context of the film. The characters are trying to reach the outskirts of civilization under cover of night. The sounds around them should remind us that they are not quite there. While inside monitoring the recording my cat Irene who used to be quite the all night outside girl was glued to the area around the speakers. Her eyes were very wide and she was listening with ears at attention. Cats kill me.

The second hour brings rise to place. The characters have arrived. This is as far out as they will get. The sounds are wrapped tightly around us as they bounce off the water which is forming in the air. There is an intimacy to this environment which says you might just be able to get away with murder.

Hour three is the return to civilization represented by the rise in sound itself. Bird’s bugs and louder activity in the distance are waking up the world. The secrets of last night are exposed. This day is approaching and you are not the only one here as it seemed. Breaking daylight is visible thru the ears.

In the interim between the three tonal recordings I started the car, broke sticks, did a little singing and smashed three watermelons with a shovel. What fun!

Then it was off to work house building.

After work I had a letter from Anatoly in my inbox. He doubts his own capacity to achieve the type of sound John is after but did send an mp3 which I forwarded to John. It will take quite a leap of faith to go with Tolia for the music of this film. I still cannot help feeling that what he would ultimately bring to the picture would be worth it.

-b

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“Even Steven” (III)

2006-03-29T06:52:00.000-05:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

I spoke to John yesterday about simple musical metaphors to convey to Anatoly and together we came up with these:

*White water rafting on a river of molasses.

*Cabaret music seeing itself in a fun house mirror.

*An airplane coming apart under stress in slow motion.

As I understand the discussion between my in-laws and Tolia went well. He expressed a real interest in the project despite the fact that there will be no money involved. (Tolia is not a money guy anyhow so I knew this would not be an issue.) I have written him an E-mail which will be translated into russian by my wife, Panchia, today and hopefully will be sent tonight.

I think that the language logistics will only be a real issue in this early stage of things. Once Anatoly has the film in front of him and the sought after instrumentation and feel he will be able to move along with his keen sensitivity as a guide.

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“Even Steven” (II)

2006-03-24T22:52:00.000-05:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

There were Writing/Recording sessions this week. Three additional ideas for songs have come out of them.

The movie was shot on video which has a built in feeling of happening next door. The characters are from a small city and are fairly ordinary folk. I am trying to write the simple complexity of their thinking into these songs.

I am still bearing in mind that mine may not be the approach John has envisioned.

I think that would be fine with me because the sessions this week alone have already taught me a lot about how to work.

I am planning a late night SFX recording session in the next couple days to try and get the sound of the woods at night before spring wakes everything up. I figure 4 in the morning would be a good time to avoid the sound of cars. I will also be hitting a melon repeatedly with a shovel.

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Song 72 "Life Force" (I)

2006-03-23T06:50:00.000-05:00

A Man walks into a Bar - Track 1

Album 8 is an audio sketchbook for “Even Steven”.

Life Force will be our first official offering.

Song: “Life Force”
Release Date: 04/01/06

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“Even Steven” (I)

2006-03-19T09:26:00.000-05:00

A homemade movie by John Ebert

“Even Steven” is the title of the film I have been hinting at of late in these notes. I came on board as an actor and therefore decided that the project was something separate from ((newstereo)) and did not belong in these pages.

As noted above John Ebert is the Director and Writer of the film about a gynecologist who after a serious lapse of judgment becomes involved in a twisted triangle and a prisoner in his own home. John has impressed me time and again with his artistry behind the camera and his commitment to this film which can only be described as having a shoestring budget.

I really believe in this type of work. Making something from next to nothing is a great passion of mine. It is the reason I have taken my time with audio, adding a new piece of equipment from time to time, gaining knowledge and releasing songs I recorded along the way. I believe John’s requisition of video equipment and filmmaking knowledge has been a similar journey.

In movie making obtaining quality footage and quality audio are understandably two separate jobs. The skill sets and duties involved are simply too technical and time consuming for one person to handle. On our film it became evident early in shooting that a great deal of the audio would have to be left for or redone in post production. I hadn’t acted in nine years and had my hands full with that end of things but kept feeling like my experience with recording was a likely and natural asset to the completion of the film.

I approached John about wanting to help in this area and he accepted my offer. My duties will include the recording of sound effects and foley. Beyond this I gave John a copy of this month’s song “Remember me now”, which had been written with the characters of the film in mind, and copies of my collaborations with Anatoly Davydov. This has led to an interest in having Anatoly score the film and for Tolia and me to collaborate on songs.

As I write, my in-laws are in Visaginas Lithuania meeting with Anatoly and telling him about the project. I think the thematic nature of scoring a film is right up his alley and have my fingers crossed that he will be interested.

I am continually surprised at how effortlessly one thing can lead to another if only you let it.

I hope my computer holds out...

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Some numbers mean more...

2006-03-15T10:45:00.000-05:00

Number System

Henceforth the links to new songs on the ((newstereo)) homepage will be designated by Song Number.

This takes some of the weight off of titles and provides for a more manageable main image.

Also if you know what number we left off at it will be easy for you to check the site and see we have advanced by one.

Releases are still currently happening once a month and on the first.

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Song 71 "Remember Me Now" (III)

2006-03-01T06:35:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub - Track 5

Release: “Remember Me Now”

Scar said to Wound “Don’t worry someday you will be tough like me”. Wound let out a little laugh and then winced in pain. “How did I get here?” Wound wondered. It is as if all the moments share no connection.

My body lies over the ocean.

My body’s draped over the sea.

Remember the implants my body rejected

and bring back my moments to me.

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Song 71 "Remember Me Now" (II)

2006-02-24T21:12:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 5

I sang this enough that I learned how to sing it.

This one goes out unadorned.

There are three verses here that each belong to the three central characters in the film “Even Steven”. The fourth verse belongs to history and opportunity.

The funeral for the folks who didn’t die cinched its inclusion.

Song: “Remember Me Now”
Release Date: 03/01/06

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Split Focus

2006-02-20T08:45:00.000-05:00

Why not another moment to rock?

These last few weeks have introduced a frenzy of non-((newstereo)) artistic activity and brought to bear the question of what happens when I just do not have time to work several sessions on the first of the month release. The answer, if I desire to maintain my commitment to this project, must come in the form of an improvisatory and chance based hit and run song. I cannot say that I did not see this coming. There is only so much time to devote to work that does not pay the bills and since I am the type of artist who feels like nothing is ever finished it becomes just as well to cut this process off earlier than later. As the lady said “One rock is as good as another to wreck upon” and a moment to rock is better than no rock at all in a process which is as much about continuity as product.

Thanks for listening.

-b

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Song 71 "Remember Me Now" (I)

2006-02-10T21:29:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 5

Remember the two hour song.

This working may make the album.

This thing has spawned from that damn movie. That damn movie has got me wanting to act again. Acting is something I should do more of in these songs.

Song: “Remember Me Now”
Release Date: 03/01/06

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Song 70 "Gently/Strangeoil" (II)

2006-02-01T07:09:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 4

Release: Gently/Strangeoil

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Character development

2006-01-22T08:22:00.000-05:00

Even Steven

A tightly wound mess which gets to unravel.

A bubbling embryonic baby boat to bring voice to.

What more could you want?

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Song 69 "Moday" (VIII)

2006-01-01T17:36:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

Release: “Moday”

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Song 69 "Moday" (VII)

2005-12-31T19:18:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

One quick recording session on New Years Eve has brought us to there.

This one has undergone some changes and come round to something which sounds both Ga Ga and down home.

Many a maker has been made.

Hello 2006!!!

Song: “Moday”
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 70 "Gently" (I)

2005-12-27T22:18:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 4

“Gently” is a new number attached to a revival of a song I wrote when I first moved into the Schoolhouse in 1989. I was a deeply moving joke at the time and scared with good reason. The footsteps in the dark could be heard distinctly thru the single strength glass which had lost most of its glazing. A savage was born in this house. I know because he pulled up one day in his dump truck.

In the spirit of this revival, last week, something really strange happened. Panchia and I heard a barking outside and close. Three wild dogs had a deer cornered against our fence. They saw P and me and the dogs scattered while the deer with the rack bolted for the woods. He did not get any further than the rusty river. The dogs had collected themselves and surrounded him. I went inside for the only gun I have.

I pointed the cordless finish nail gun in the air and fired.

“Pap!”

No reaction.

I fired finish nails at them.

Nothing.

I went back in to find something with which to make noise and spotted the tambourine used on this song.

The rise and fall of sound cut the deep blue night air and the dogs stopped barking.

Soon they skulked away.

The deer looked at me for a while from the 3 inch water and then trotted off into the woods.

Song: “Gently”
Release Date: 02/01/06

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Song 69 "Moday" (VI)

2005-12-27T21:38:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

Mo emerges from the elevator and steps into eternity.
An emergency is just around the corner.

Song: “Moday”
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 68 "Windooty" (II)

2005-12-01T06:31:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 2

Release: “Windooty”

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Revival

2005-11-28T20:43:00.000-05:00

Songs 22 and 23 are getting a workout.

Song 22 is “Tell Time To Lose Touch” and I began by toying with a version I recorded on a Sony stereo voice recorder while painting clapboard siding. Last night I ran this recording thru several laps and a big top trying to turn the sound into something acceptable. Today I recorded new tracks and dumped the Sony recording altogether. (Well not altogether it is no longer recognizable.) I am not sure where this one is heading. It could be the album, Misstereo or neither.

Song 23 is “One country world tour”. Tolia Davydov has made 4/4 music out of my supposed 4/3. The archive files began arriving yesterday. This one has a bit of a country bent which makes the title seem more fitting as country has, yet again, gone international. This one will be Misstereo and I will announce its release right here.

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Song 69 "ELLovee/Moday" (V)

2005-11-26T22:06:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub Track 3

ELLovee is officially Moday.

The elevator in Huntington West Virginia is still prevalent but the footfall from the jobsite has been dropped. I am beginning to like the sound of different types and grades of recordings overlaid. It is sort of the no-no world of recorded music.

Song: Moday
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 69 "ELLovee" (IV)

2005-11-22T22:02:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

The rain came again and drenched this song in rough repetition. The windshield beads are slapped aside in a storm that took eight lives. Someone is the reason a siren goes off into the bright blue mourning.

Anyone, we know, can fade away.

Song: ELLovee
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 69 "ELLovee" (III)

2005-11-21T20:24:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

I have new speakers. Tony Deluca told me: “You will hear many things."

I realized how this album is influenced by the move in my money work from a small jobs carpenter to a house builder.

I realized how this concept of connectedness could be taken further…

We have switched to a template designed by Dave Shea because it seems to integrate better with the website.

Song: ELLovee
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 69 "ELLovee" (II)

2005-11-14T19:56:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3

And so a final tribute to the world of stereo speakers was laid upon the doorstep of a listening room.

Song: ELLovee
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Song 69 "ELLovee" (I)

2005-11-08T20:35:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 3
One Liner Designer

This song goes out to the morning emergencies great and small. There is an elevator in here and a scenic overlook. Back home the green bullet plugs into the rage 158 and the EV captures the Peavey. Next door the 44 is draped in a neckerchief.

Song: ELLovee
Release Date: 01/01/06

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Oh! just one more dear.

2005-11-02T19:47:00.000-05:00

An Alternate is a song which continues to grip my interest and therefore may continue changing even after the 1st of the month release. This is a valuable thing because some things want to take there own time and some things have a time to be taken.

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Song 67 "Genomophone" / "She Walks With Genome" (IV)

2005-11-01T20:53:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 1

<((FAITH))>

Release: “Genomophone”

<((SCIENCE))>

Release: “She Walks With Genome” An alternate beginning.

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Song 67 "Genomophone" (III)

2005-10-31T20:03:00.000-05:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 1

“Genomophone” is where we have ended up. The whole thing needed a skip and a presence which came over the phone. (My wife’s idea) The chorus is full of artifacts and artifice which is surprisingly what was intended.

Song: “Genomophone”
Release Date: 10/31/05

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Song 67 "She Walks with Genome" (II)

2005-10-24T22:24:00.000-04:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 1

“Waddle and Daub is a related technique to Cob but in this case you add cow manure into the mix and build it around a framework.” – Live deliberately.org

Makes sense to me. “Genome” is full of structure and shit of all kinds. From “This shit is unbelievable” to “Don’t shit were you eat”.

Hushed rumblings implore you not to read between the lines. It is all right there in ones and zeros. The pontiff admits an invincible attraction. The mason who is not afraid of anything admits that he is a little homophobic. The singer admits that all this is a far cry away from decoding a genome. The writer admits that she is he and we are in deed and misdeed walking from heaven to earth whilst holding the warm hands of science.

Song: “She walks with genome”
Release date: 11/01/05

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Song 68 "Windooty" (I)

2005-10-12T15:39:00.000-04:00

Waddle and Daub – Track 2

This track gets a bit of Bilhorn and of course Tammy.

Instruments odd disaster came with little warning except the desire to change clothes.

Our Pop Chop continues as we tickle the stars.

Song: “Windooty”
Release Date: 12/01/05

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Sales Blitz

2005-10-11T08:10:00.000-04:00

Juggle that dustspeck!

In a world where brand loyalty is commonplace, one product emerges that you definitely do not need.

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This free music has no inherent value. It is the disc you burned from a friend which has no cover art or credits - a marker scribbled title on a silver disc. It is equally at home in the trash as on the floor of your car. It was not created in the magic kingdom but in the house next door.

What is so special about the house next door?

Legend has it that neighborhoods once were villages where each household opened up wide its color matched smell and space based music.

How does the magic kingdom fit into all this?

Somewhere along the line people became convinced that that which happens here is dull and stagnant when compared to a smart, vibrant, fictional there. Here became somewhere to run away from. There looked better and better because it sported the whitest of whites in teeth and textile. The circus stopped coming to us. We had an inroad to a more colorful big top.

Is it still possible to run away and join the circus?

Yes. Stay at home and click you heels together.

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Song 67 "She Walks with Genome" (I)

2005-10-09T10:48:00.000-04:00

Waddle and Daub Track 1

Some entries ago I confessed that I was not trying to make music with hidden messages.

When dealing in voices such music may be inevitable.

This album is dedicated to U2, (Whose music I confess I barely know) their take on success and their association with Brian Eno. Some music makes itself available to tackle big ideas. Some songs get caught up in a news swirl. Some sounds combine to become more than the sum of their parts.

Song: "She walks with Genome"
Release Date: 11/01/05

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Song 66 "Isolated Jane" (IV)

2005-10-01T13:36:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 7

Release: “Isolated Jane”

“Jane” is a work song written and recorded in the dripping haze of days we in Delaware call summer - an odyssey of block and tickle.

Now onto Waddle and Daub...

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Song 66 "Isolated Jane" (III)

2005-09-28T20:56:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 7

“Her” is one to tell the grandchildren.

CRAck and I never saw it coming. My hand is pressed hard against my head trying to push out the pain. What makes this moment end one way or another is what I have to thank for another song and entry in these notes.

Jane is awash in a moment in time, a moment which extends thru now.

Song: Isolated Jane
Release Date: 10/01/05

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Song 66 "Isolated Jane" (II)

2005-09-20T20:58:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 7

RELATIVELY SIMPLE MUSIC GOES WELL WITH ALL TYPES OF WORK.

White noise for music lovers is heard emanating from jobsites. Some of it is captured here.

Song: Isolated Jane
Release Date: 10/01/05

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Song 65 "Bluecastle / Busy Sunday" (III)

2005-09-01T19:14:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 6

Release: “Bluecastle / Busy Sunday”

Kiss me once… It’s been a long, long time.

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Song 66 "Isolated Jane" (I)

2005-08-29T09:08:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 7

Jane is out there on her own with a zip to build her up and then leave her. This week she was plunged into darkness but her song was recorded while she still breathed the open air.

Anatoly Davydov is creating music for song 23 “One Country World Tour”. He has changed the time from 4/3 to 4/4 and added a bluegrass element. It will be fun to sing this one again.

The Schizopolitans have a new website to accompany their new album. They are onto something. Sample it here.

tapecase / rhan small and family pictures have added content to the “ideas for a movie” site, including a trailer and synopsis for the film. Visit them here.

Marty Galvin, a semi local poet, has given me three poems to set to music (?) as I see fit.

“Jane” Marks the end of “Beat Sounds”. A new album, “Waddle and Daub”, will begin with the November release.

Song: “Isolated Jane”
Release Date: 10/01/05

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Song 65 "BLUECASTLE / Busy Sunday" (II)

2005-08-28T11:47:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 6

Early morning recording is the only way to go around here in the summer time.

A note to the artist:

Work where you are and when you can. Do not wait to work until conditions are right. Do not hold your work in higher esteem than the work of those around you. The work they do is a part of your work. Resist the urge to judge yourself by anyone’s standards but your own. Artist’s who make a lot of money are not paid to make art. They are paid to endure the nearly intolerable (and sometimes crippling) inconveniences of popularity.

Song: BLUECASTLE
Release Date: 09/01/05

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Innocent armour

2005-08-20T21:33:00.000-04:00

Quiet men working

The work has been mostly visual of late. “Bluecastle” came fast leaving me room to breath and the money job has been extraordinarily demanding. I like having a web page which is constantly under construction. A house is not always a good place to record and sing. Some times it makes more sense to sit and quietly work on the images which will accompany past and future sounds.

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Song 65 "BLUECASTLE" (I)

2005-08-08T20:29:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 6

PEOPLE LOSE PREOCCUPATION WITH PRINCE OF DARKNESS
(Scientist’s say they see fewer embers)

In truth it is the devil himself who is taking a beating on this record. BLUECASTLE is a folk tale from the kudzu draped hills of North Carolina. Do YOU remember that time under the train tunnel?

Song: BLUECASTLE
Release Date: 09/01/05

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Song 64 "All Aboard!" (III)

2005-08-01T00:24:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 5

RELEASE: “All Aboard”

All is All Aboard and recorded all over the dog chewing house! It is neither about redemption nor having to say you are sorry. A baby acts like a baby because it is a baby. It would never guess that violence serves as one big reminder of immaturity. Supernatural nature permits one sun to rain on woman and one on man.

Oh, and by the way-

I am an American can turn into I am un-American in a heartbeat.

And back again…

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Song 64 "All Aboard!" (II)

2005-07-31T10:56:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 5

Harrowing! A work week rounds up and out in a “perfect for this time of year” insect fade.

Song: "All Aboard!"
Release Date: 08/01/05

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Song 64 "All" (I)

2005-07-24T10:05:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 5

“All” is encompassing a group of ideas that at first glance shout out angry. Oversimplifying is a danger here for me and for you. Bad people do bad things and good things too. Good people have at least 51 percent good intentions according to the standards set forth within the boundaries of their collective. Bad people are action figures in your neighborhood. He seemed like the nicest person. She seemed like the perfect mom. We seemed clouded in our judgments. Apologies go out to all who are willing to accept them.

In other news I have been laying block.

Song: “All”
Release Date: 08/01/05

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Song 63 "The Sway" (IV)

2005-07-01T05:49:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 4

RELEASE: “ The Sway ”

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Song 63 "The Sway" (III)

2005-06-29T20:48:00.000-04:00

Some songs when divided are not worth the sing…

The Sway is a house of a different color, one case when I actually backed off and found I like less. There is hope for you yet little man!

Song: “The Sway”
Release Date 07/01/05

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Song 63 "Sway" (II)

2005-06-15T20:40:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 4

Sway to the music and move to the groove. We’ve a fashionable anthem all polished and smooth. We give you two mothers, one harsh and one sweet, who call out their forces to force us to sleep. But rest won’t come easy for children on top with so many kids scheming to hop on the cop. In a flash the world’s heartthrob has sauntered from grace, watch ‘em sway as they swarm toward the nose on her face.

Song: “Sway”
Release Date: 07/01/05

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Song Study (III)

2005-06-11T09:17:00.000-04:00

Sing it again and again and again…

Say the same thing ten times. Turn time into a stack of negatives. Overlay moments on a light table. Turn up the volume.

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Voice over Voice

2005-06-07T06:51:00.000-04:00

Observation E. Learning

One aspect of this music I am noticing more and more is what happens when you leave the room where it is playing. Individual parts become prevalent depending upon where I am in the house. I suppose this is true with all music but here, with all parts played by voices, something different comes to the front depending on the distance from the source. This seems to be true even in the muddiest mass of vocals I have done so far “Olive, I’ve green eyes”. I did not set out to create music with an active ambient component and nor will I strive to make this a music of hidden messages but it is interesting to note.

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Group Dynamics

2005-06-03T13:48:00.000-04:00

Partners in crime

Dealing with people you will have an occasional conflict. Artistic conflict is good because it can sttttrrrreeeeeccccccchhhhhhhh you. Ego conflict is difficult because people who may not be listening to each other much stop listening altogether. Internal conflict can arise from dealing with people who are in the middle of an ego conflict and this is where our story begins:

I took off my glasses and moved into my other visual world. I say “my” because I cannot be sure that any one else sees like this. The conflicted voices come more into focus even as the faces wash out. Seeing might be a metaphor here. Conflict may be as well.

Somewhere beyond this moment is another. Be there now without sacrificing here. Here is little more than a time zone. There can take here for a ride in the car with the windows open. Here can hang its head out the window and bark wildly. I can stand in the gravel at the side of the road and listen to their pyramid approach:

…………………………………………….ROOF……
…………………………………….ROOF………ROOF……
……………………………..ROOF…………………….ROOF……
………………………ROOF…………………………………..ROOF……
……………….ROOF……………………….me…………………….ROOF……

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Song 62 "I" (II)

2005-06-01T07:30:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 3

RELEASE: “I”

I before me comes just after we. We the moving thanks impart to our own ATP. Johnny Cash, Jacque Cousteau and another J.C., onto something, swam to surface on the high sea of we.

Thank you Alegna for taking the time to write me and for mentioning 4’33’ reassuring me of the we. Alegna‘s blog has some stunning images and is located here.

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Visual identity

2005-05-28T21:49:00.000-04:00

By definition

Somsterday: An ageing digital *paragraph which may be hard to look at and represents **music which may be hard to listen to.

*Manipulated overlaid images.
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Song 63 "Sway" (I)

2005-05-21T09:57:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 4

Suggestive sounds and 2 types of songs make the bed spin around and your dreams go long. Not back breaking work but a jerk, quirk ring. Some songs, when divided, are not worth the sing.

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Song Study (II)

2005-05-12T20:42:00.000-04:00

Dear Listener,

Music is a sick raccoon that unsteadily waddles away and a healthy one, as well, cleaning its human-like hands. Music walks on all fours and is pictured in textbooks making the transition to stand. Bi-pedaling backwards, we find intelligent designers crafting music from nothing more than imagination. Further back still, music trills and spills out into tomorrow’s tributary – Today. And subject matters less in a large body of water. Waving goodbye with freshly washed hands, the coon in the moon will be its own shadow. In sickness there is health. This concept disturbs the groundhog.

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Song 61 "BLUE MAN MONO" (II)

2005-05-01T09:15:00.000-04:00

Beat sounds can be on/off by MUTE button – Track 2

RELEASE: BLUE MAN MONO

While I was in college, discovering the mythology and lyrical content of the Blues, I believed wholeheartedly in the Devil. Previous misdeeds informed my thinking to the point that I was sure the big D + evil had it in for me. In this one dimensional, premature, waking, wet with adolescence dream I fought for my all important SOUL in the only way I knew how – I wrote a song about it.

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Help Wanted

2005-04-28T20:51:00.000-04:00

Ask for it by name.

Everything is dirty on top. Not nasty but grimy and a long steady rain cannot wash it away. Here is what you see at the end of the aisle - a smile and one crooked eye. There is what you see in the rearview mirror. There is a midway littered with old programs. There are the acorn girls whose heads fly away. There be dragons which drag on drooling and dreaming and dropping hints to oblivious cousins. Here be essays of my way highways that reach for the A handed off, tag team, to the last person picked. The cellophane crinkle is almost forgotten. You crack the cookie. Your head is one big barometer.

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Rolling!

2005-04-23T00:22:00.000-04:00

Action!

Speak louder and then take a powder!
Seeing, as being, can lean toward deceiving.
An old door needs repair.
A new door wouldn’t dare!
(Boyd laughs loudly)

CUT!

FADE TO:

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If one of those bottles should happen to fall...

2005-04-17T23:01:00.000-04:00

468 bottles of beer on the wall.

I think a monthly release is just perfect for me. This time frame for constructing a song arose because ((newstereo)) is a profitless pursuit. Time is spent and money is made away from music. The time to create songs is limited. A month is enough time to find the time to work.

But a song a month is also good if suddenly the time/money scale tips to the favor of time. In this scenario, I suddenly have more time than I know what to do with and I can spend that time getting to know a song better.

If I continue to release a song a month and I live the average male lifespan, I will release another 468 songs before my death in 2044.

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Fairground Art

2005-04-12T09:34:00.000-04:00

Stand by your clown.

…after all he’s just a clown. This pop up book feeling fits just right for now. I keep waiting to get tired of revising but this theme seems a velocipede.

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Bump in night might be good for you.

2005-04-11T22:29:00.000-04:00

Scary songs are one way to comfort yourself.

A spooky kid is watching you through a white fence, in bright sunshine, and all you can do is sing. Shadow people shovel dirt in your path and make you want to write the surrounding bubble sound of hitting water or the limb flailing, slow motion, accordian crash of car.

If you think about monsters before you go to sleep you will not dream about them. I believe my mother told that me that when I was little.

Speaking of little, I did lay terrified and frozen with my face to the wall while a dark presence lingered in my doorway.

Or did I dream that?

As my eyes closed I must have been thinking about kittens.

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habitually incredible cheap

2005-04-09T01:17:00.000-04:00

There is a wobble in learning to live with milestone and drudgery.

Big Bells are ringing in the world.

I heard them in a recording. Audio and Images are abundant and encoded for persistent preservation. All of these recordings on the point of a pin that is lost somewhere in a comfortable chair. Hunt, gather and have a seat.

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Song Study (I)

2005-04-05T22:57:00.000-04:00

(A lot of people sing along with music. Here is a dork that doesn’t.)

I am studying the nature of song by singing without an instrumental anchor. These songs begin with words which lead to tunes. These tunes adopt a tempo and before you know it you are singing a simple song. You can take the music out of a song but you cannot remove the tune. Tune and song are inseparable. Lose the words, if you like, but a tune is hard to get rid of. Tempo has a dialogue with tune. It is a wordless dialogue which is willing to take words along for the ride.

(Any jackass can sing without music.)

This must have been how it began. Back in the days when being a jackass meant nothing at all. Some sub human sitting on a rock in the moonlight studying the nature of song.

(A bootleg of the first concert.)

With no language to sing in Kri embodied vocal ease. She wore a sheepskin draped over one shoulder and made unprecedented use of her voice. With reverb provided by rock formations she dazzled her audience who were unable to get Kri’s cries out of their heads.

(A march made in heaven.)

From the heads of those who had heard came a chorus of innocent copycats. The first song had repeated itself and continues to this day.

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