Comments on: The Word – Song Development http://www.plaidcreature.com/2009/07/08/the-word-song-development/ Music from the Lab Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:30:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dr. Hyperbolus http://www.plaidcreature.com/2009/07/08/the-word-song-development/#comment-241 Dr. Hyperbolus Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:49:51 +0000 http://www.plaidcreature.com/?p=1619#comment-241 You've had a remarkable string of posts these last few weeks. It's real interesting to see the precision in your process creating this new work. This first song feels like a kind of invocation, a blessing over the proceeding aural experience, an appeal to the muses (or angels) for inspiration. Earlier this week, you mentioned O Brother Where Art Thou in a comment to Doc Salvatron's post. As I read your posts and went through the "reference material", I couldn't help but think of both the soundtrack and the movie. "Down in the River to Pray" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWn69VBslw "Song of the Sirens" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlyKA9O9LA I also thought of that song by The Postal Service, "Nothing Better," where two people sing from opposite ends of a relationship. Have you thought that maybe there's a dialogue taking place in your song... between the angel's single heavenly "word" and the main character's babbling earth talk? The "timeless" thing -- that's a hard question to answer. You’ve had a remarkable string of posts these last few weeks. It’s real interesting to see the precision in your process creating this new work.

This first song feels like a kind of invocation, a blessing over the proceeding aural experience, an appeal to the muses (or angels) for inspiration. Earlier this week, you mentioned O Brother Where Art Thou in a comment to Doc Salvatron’s post. As I read your posts and went through the “reference material”, I couldn’t help but think of both the soundtrack and the movie.

“Down in the River to Pray” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWn69VBslw
“Song of the Sirens” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxlyKA9O9LA

I also thought of that song by The Postal Service, “Nothing Better,” where two people sing from opposite ends of a relationship. Have you thought that maybe there’s a dialogue taking place in your song… between the angel’s single heavenly “word” and the main character’s babbling earth talk?

The “timeless” thing — that’s a hard question to answer.

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