◄1► spirits in the gallery

1 week ago by @burrMod

◄1► spirits in the gallery

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Liner Notes

i'm blowing out the cobwebs by catching up on projects my overloaded 2024 self wasn't able to follow through on last 50/90 challenge.

🚨 weird alert 🚨

i had an ambitious idea to do a #CommentsFirst #Cassette #4Track #Feast so i posted not one but FOUR #Titular titles and let people go nuts.

then, once the prompts came in... i sort of saw a narrative emerge and decided to try a mini "concept EP" that tells a story, on top of the cassette and comment constraints. why? because i'm a glutton for punishment.

this ended up being very ambitious and, while fun, results were mixed. i don't think i'll try this combo of constraints again! 😅 i kinda had to "cheat" from time to time either pre-sequencing some parts in a DAW or playing VST instruments and then routing the audio to the deck, since i don't have (or even know how to play) some of the instruments i was prompted to use.

original comment prompts from last summer:


the tracks & instruments:
T1 ► univox sr-55 drum machine
T2 ► accordion VST (recorded backward)
T3 ► guitar
T4 ► vocals / kazoo (autotuned!) / live drums

all the songs are:
1 ◉ THIS!
2 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309130
3 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309131
4 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309132

Lyrics

==== MOAR NOTES ====
this is FIRST in the series. in which we meet our narrator who is an alien anthropologist fascinated with the work of an artist who fabricates alien artifacts not unlike those he studies.

the original title i was given from titular was "through the spirits" but in the end i changed it, while sticking to the prompts. song structure on this one is all over the place because recording backwards with just a drum machine was hard. in general this one is pretty ad-libbed and most of the recordings are first takes. the live drums was to try and make the long outro less monotonous. it's a miracle that i stopped playing both guitar and drums just as the drum machine ended.

i didn't even consider trying to the greenbaum/police samples. the "polyrhythms" are in the bridge/kazoo solo (not the chorus) and it's really just mashing buttons on the drum machine to add a waltz on top of the other rhythm preset. and who knew that a kazoo played through a hard pitch-correcting vocal effect pedal would sound kinda like a saxophone?

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alien ambers
enveloping me
i trace out the lifelines
as they secretly, silently sweep through…

spirits in the gallery
drunk and and staring back at me
like static in a memory
lost in what i see

odor of ethereal ozone
a puzzle missing a part
(in a work of art)
traces of language carved in stone
wanting to be known by…

spirits in the gallery
drunk and and staring back at me
like static in a memory
lost in what i see

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