making Wolfe-inspired music

Son of Witz · 08 Nov 2008, 07:31 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:31:06 -0800
Subject: (urth) making Wolfe-inspired music
In-Reply-To: <210209.82266.qm at web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <210209.82266.qm at web81405.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <51507EBA-A734-477F-91CC-89C97C29F049 at butcherbaker.org>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqY0dCmAyNM

Oh, you gotta love it.

, Stuart Hamm wrote:

> You know..I've resisted writing GW inspired music..quite a challenge  
> from what I get from him and how to translate musically..
> Write a song from a concept with changes, a melody. a sound and a  
> vibe...but never actually state the changes or melody...but put  
> musical clues as to what the melody MIGHT  be....hmmm..
>
> Having said that I'm working on a Bass tour de force (hopefully)  
> tentatively titled "Terminus Est"...presumptuous I know..that I'm  
> trying to convince Steve Vai to play acoustic with me on as a duet....
>
> it is what it is...sometimes I think too much....
>
> Listening to Ry Cooder in El Paso...working nicely for me.

all four of those sound great. counting "too much" as an entity.

I can imagine a combination of windy mountain slow mo doom with Ascian  
explosion war percussion every 500th heartbeat, [Earth / Melvins /  
SUNNO)))], with strange bits of lo fi acoustic folk (somehow progged,  
perhaps by getting into medieval pythagorean tuning  (SC3) ) that  
wanders in and out like it was a Sublime Frequencies release.   
mysterious, cinematic.  bring in some sort of orchestral stuff for  
some action and drama, then use choral vocal work for the claw.  big  
bottom brass for the citadel, and of course killer prog Baldanders  
battle.  the get Astro-Nautical outer-space pirate psyche that gets  
you lost in the mirrored sails .

but then that sounds like a secret chiefs 3 album.
I've suggested he read it, of course.
(have you heard the recent Xaphan: SC3 plays John Zorn Masada book two  
(vol 9) ?  yowza that's a great ride.       (I didn't do any art so  
I'm not shilling for sales FWIW)

~witz

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20081107/65ab2f97/attachment.htm>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net