Sunday 1 April 2007
Lodged
The other day carlos_G at the Immersion Composition Society announced the Lime Gecko Virtual Lodge - an all-day music composing marathon. The goal is to record as many pieces of music as humanly possible in one day. I started a bit late in the day, but managed seven:
2007_0331_01_habanerique.mp3 (1’57”)
11:30 am. Oh crap. I’ve started doing a pseudo-Cuban piano number. What am I doing? I don’t play piano. I do my best to fumble my way through a drum part as well. conga (only one conga today; the head on the other one suffered water damage thanks to a leaky roof up here) - piano - J-bass - drums - guitar (added later).
2007_0331_02_ShootForTheMoon.mp3 (3’07”)
Better start this one in more familiar territory, namely on the guitar. Then clumsy Roland drums - J-bass - lyrics - experimental 1+3+4 harmonies on chorus - keyboard. Me and the celestial imagery again.
2007_0331_03_Lander_beeswax.mp3 (2’10”)
Kept the keyboard on that same patch and did a lazy, introspective instrumental. Then I decided to change it up with a big stompy beat. Rolannd thru FilterQueen - Apple Loop processed heavily - re-recorded keyboard part - 2x electric through POD’s volume-swell.
2007_0331_04_Processional.mp3 (1’22)
My eyes settled on a recorder lying on the shelf. And the tin whistle. Which to play? Why not both? Doofy pseudo-folk. For the record, it is a pain in the ass playing a bag of marbles in 5 without a click. Both the conga and the warped head off its twin make an appearance.
2007_0331_05_Uh_oh.mp3 (0’53”)
Uh, there really isn’t any excuse for this one.
Perhaps I was subliminally affected by the message board, where lodge dude Nick Dobson had suggested, “why not squeeze off a speed-filler song when you’re done with this one?” and carlos_G had added something about “glad to hear that things are moving…” Oh dear.
2007_0331_06_Beyondah.mp3 (2’19”)
Spy show theme. Needs a breakdown. Fury bass through POD.
2007_0331_07_Sunday.mp3 (0’57”)
Starting to wrap up. Wasn’t sure what to do with this so I wrote some stream-of-consciousness “lyrics” and said them.
Edit: here’s the ICS forum thread where today’s Lodge was organized - you can find commentary and other people’s music there.