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22 years ago...
A film in my head, ended up as sound in your ears.
The sound of mechanical things has always had a huge influence on my music. Engines, typewriters, scanners, electric shavers...fog horns. I was so seduced by mechanical sounds that I would often hear familiar things in unfamiliar environments. I was once in a train station in Berkeley CA at 1am. I was the only one in the station, yet I heard Bruce Springsteen "Born to Run" echoing through the station, from the hall, from the tunnel, the source was impossible to detect. It was perfect in pitch and tempo, but oddly, the lyrics were not present, and the instrumentation was unfamiliar...yet the sound and structure was absolutely perfect. I walked all of the corridors searching for the source of the music but could find none, no hidden speakers, no lonely soul hunched over a boom box. And as I stood there...it occurred to me, the sound I was hearing was not "music" at all, it was the sound of the escalator, perfectly channeling Springsteen. The train I was waiting for never came that night, and I ended up walking home...singing Born to Run, and laughing all the way. I learned something that night.
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full evening show &mdash 03/21/07 - 02:58:40 AM
Hi Blaine, nice to see you post songs again:)
I had this one playing while I was working on something else. I got a maritime feeling from those fog horn like sounds, and there is a certain mystic feel over this piece.
It's quite long, so I can imagine you having had a good time playing those synths:)
I can see how this could fit as a sound track to a movie. Very mood setting.
When will the film start shooting? Any chance there is a part available as an extra in it;) [ Reply to This ]
:-) &mdash 03/21/07 - 06:45:25 AM
Did you ever attempt to match this with some footage? What did the film in your head look like as you were creating these textures? How would that film look now 22 years later? [ Reply to This ]
fog horns &mdash 03/24/07 - 09:31:10 AM
Interesting that you would mention it. I lived in San Francisco at that time, in a neighborhood notorious for it's fog, especially during the summer months. I would spend many nights walking the neighborhoods shrouded in dark and fog, with only neon and ambient light breaking through. I would often take my portable walkman recorder with me to capture the sounds of those fog shrouded evenings. One of those sounds was the fog horns off of the point of Baker beach, not far from where I lived, other's that had great infuence on me were the screeching breaks and charged electrical sounds of the above ground rail system running the streets. Thanks Thoddi, Biba, as I had almost forgotten the significance of that environment on the "music" I was making a the time. [ Reply to This ]
ooooh.... &mdash 03/24/07 - 05:15:53 PM
What a great story you tell in your song notes, and which to add to this track!
I've had moments where I've 'heard' sounds or echoes of sounds in the 'white noise' of silence.
Usually, when I detect what I'm actually hearing, it turns out as you explained above. Something else that is triggering a musical memory, or 'in pitch' with something remembered.
Of course, there is always a musical soundtrack 'playing' in the back of my mind at any given point in time...so that says something about me....I think.... ;) [ Reply to This ]
Reminds me... &mdash 03/24/07 - 08:50:50 PM
Of a book that influenced me years ago, called "The World Is Sound/Nada Brahma'...
And further reminds me of Mysti and Biba Nova's recent experiments, while also reminding me of what smokeyvw seems to be trying for in some of his recent work...
I really love music that is brave or secure enough to be slow... You just have to allow yourself to slow to its pace... Different from what music usually does in our culture...
I have really enjoyed listening to these pieces today, Blaine...
Welcome back...
Ed [ Reply to This ]
keep on &mdash 06/09/07 - 09:48:26 AM
stayin the change our brother!
we're still waiting for you at the bunker. [ Reply to This ]
I'll be there Joan... &mdash 08/10/07 - 09:59:08 AM
I swear, if takes a lifetime, we're gonna jam one day. Soon as I get some bills paid around here and get that boot off the front wheel... [ Reply to This ]
Great soundscape &mdash 10/25/07 - 04:09:07 AM
I love the atmosphere of this - very Eno-esque.
The Springsteen story would make a good short film too. Dark and misty night, deserted railway station, guy searching for some sounds he can hear. Excellent! [ Reply to This ]
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I had this one playing while I was working on something else. I got a maritime feeling from those fog horn like sounds, and there is a certain mystic feel over this piece.
It's quite long, so I can imagine you having had a good time playing those synths:)
I can see how this could fit as a sound track to a movie. Very mood setting.
When will the film start shooting? Any chance there is a part available as an extra in it;)
[ Reply to This ]