◄3► corpus (scientist)

1 week ago by @burrMod

◄3► corpus (scientist)

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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 ► drum loop + slide bass
T2 ► hacked NES chiptune VST
T3 ► vocals
T4 ► buchla music easel VST

all the songs are:
1 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309129
2 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/309130
3 ◉ THIS!
4 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/309132

Lyrics

==== MOAR NOTES ====
this is THIRD in the series. in which the narrator invites his artist soulmate to his research location while he examines the alien artifacts discovered there.

for the slide bass i tuned it DADG and mainly just played the bottom 2-3 strings. once i had tracks 1 & 2 down, it sort felt like a weird beat poet vibe, so i decided to try spoken word for the verses. sorta worked. made it easier to work in imagery of the body. a lot of this was sequenced first in the DAW, but bass, vocals, and the buchla were performed live to tape.

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as they say, truth can be stranger than fiction
but it wasn't until i knelt down and felt
the unfamiliar texture of its skeletal hand
so unlike the delicate but well-worn hands of the artist i had come to know
and who now accompanied me at the excavation site
doing “research”
and keeping me company
the scent of ancient earth hung heavy with anticipation
here on precipice of a discovery
here in the luminescent half-light of evening

questions fill my mind
who are they
and who am i
to you?

blend of biological and mechanical evolution
skin cool and smooth to the touch
eyes like polished marble
large and reflective
kind of makes me wonder what others see in my eyes
(other than themselves)
intrigued and unsettled in equal measure
feeling not quite prepared despite years of study
a scene both alien and familiar
arms across the chest
over what we would normally think of as the heart
but i need to know the subject better to be sure…

questions fill my mind
who are theyand who am i
to you?
questions fill my mind
what part of the puzzle did i find
in you?

overcome with humility and wonder
standing at a bridge of worlds
the taste of excitement lingering on my tongue
like the sweet tang of metal
or an alkaline extraterrestrial element we have yet to discover
or come to understand
of give a name
like evanescion
or mythate
or solamere
or yearnium

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