Thursday, December 9, 2010

4 something something, 3 something else, 2 blah blah blah...

It's late, people, but I decided I would finish a recording and post it tonight. So I'll upload the tune, write a witty post, and then I will crawl into bed for five hours.

Let's see...wit...

There was a young lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
They came back from their ride
with the lady inside
and the I JUST WANT TO GO TO SLEEP! WHY DID I MAKE MYSELF DO THIS TONIGHT?!?!?

Why, you ask?

Well, my little padawan, it's quite simple.  It is a fundamental law of physics that if Uncle Reeree does not finish the 12 Days of Good Lovin' before Christmas Eve, Santa Claus will turn into a werewolf and eat all of the world's children.  I know, I know, you've never heard that before, but it's because I've shielded you from the harsh truth all these years.  It's a puppy-eat-puppy world out there and people need blog posts to frighten potentially ice-age-inducing asteroids away from the earth. 

So...this one doesn't fit into a genre as tidily as the last two.  I wanted to play with a vocoder, which is a device (or a program) that applies the shapes of my vowels and consonants to the sound of another instrument (an organ in this track).  The result is an organ that sounds like it's talking.  Neat, yeah?

Good Lovin Dec 9 by are.kay.more

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for saving the world big brother. you rule for that.

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  2. Whoa!! Was that a herd of stampeding reindeer in the middle!?!?

    I can see why Sam liked this one best.

    vocoders are awesome.

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  3. @Mimi: Thanks, but you're too kind. I haven't saved the world, just all the world's children. We could always make more children later if we needed to.

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  4. @Sarah: Good ear, but it was actually just one reindeer recording pasted into several places. Think "bad Photoshop".

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