Subtractive Editing

I didn't so much remix this song as take out an offensive vocal track where I was attempting to harmonize but landing off-key. This is the nature of experimentation, which is an integral component of art. Sometimes our experiments fail, which is how we learn.

Here is the updated version, still a work-in-progress:

I've been working on music for close to fourteen hours today. Please enjoy what I've made. If, after listening to this song, you can get the guitar riff out of your head, good for you. 

I still can't.

Those Graduate Degrees Are Finally Paying Off

I finally did it. I achieved my day-long ambition of working the word "schadenfreude" into a song -- the last word of the chorus, no less. For a few bonus points, I also rhymed "surreptitious" with "suspicious" and "popular opinion" with "secular religion." 

I'm kind of proud of myself. Did I mention that I've spent many years teaching English and Film Studies to college students? For all of them who complained about writing a 300-500 word essay, they should know that this song clocks in at 340 words, and it rhymes.

Here is version number one of Out to Get You. I wrote and recorded it today.

I've been working on this song pretty much all day. I'm sure I'll keep working on it, too, but this is what I've got so far. Like all of these new songs, it's a work-in-progress -- but that makes nine, in case you're keeping track. Two more and I'll have another album.

Enjoy. Thanks for listening. 

But Wait...

I re-recorded the vocals on the song that I wrote yesterday. Here is the latest version:

This is art in progress. Thanks for listening.

There's More

Here is the more that I promised in my last post. I revised the lyrics and re-recorded all of the vocal tracks in Petals in the Grass. You can hear the latest version here:

This song is an ekphrasis of the first 16mm film that I ever made. It was my Grant Park Project in Production I at Columbia: a silent film about a guy tearing petals off a flower -- she loves me, she loves me not, etc. -- until in the end, all that he is left with is a broken stem and a bunch of petals in the grass. 

Thanks for listening. 

Remixed the Vocals

I remixed Plastic Flowers, as the vocals were way too loud at the chorus. I think it's better now. See what you think: 

This song is about reimagining the American Dream to adapt to a changing social context (just like it always has). 

Enjoy. More to come. Stay tuned...