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album: Beyond One's Control
track 1: 3:57 How And Why
track 2: 2:40 That's Progress
track 3: 6:56 Unwinding Time
track 4: 8:21 Quant
track 5: 3:37 Five on Seven
track 6: 2:46 New Amsterdam
track 7: 4:12 Vicki Kierkegaard
track 8: 6:56 Remember Petr Dumfrey
track 9: 9:01 Another DDT
track 10: 2:19 In The Mess
track 11: 5:21 Tempus
...more albums...
Song Description
Last night I woke up. I couldn't get back to sleep. My mind was filled with thoughts that just circled around and around and wouldn't go away. So, I snuck out of bed and fired up GarageBand.
I had financial engineering on my mind, how it's clear that the rich continue to get richer (and since the stock markets are zero-sum games, by screwing all the rest of us), and whether I'll ever be able to retire, so the idea of quants was there from the start.
About an hour later, I had the chord progression, piano and vocal settings worked out. I had the major drum loops put together, and a bass line. It was all in a repeat region, and I was just turning tracks on and off to get a feel whether they would play nice. Then I went back to sleep.
The next morning, I spent an hour spreading out the loops into an arrangement, added the modulations, and the arpeggiating tracks. Burned it to a CD and previewed it in my car. I noticed a divot in the chord progression, and realized I was not satisfied with how soon it ended. There needed to be more.
Later that afternoon, I fixed up the chords, extended the song by turning the original ending into a false ending. That did the trick.
I added another drum track that is essentially snare drums being beaten mercilessly. A few tweaks to smooth out some rough edges, and that was it. I have never completed a song that fast before.
I sought a graphic of a generic equation, and lo and behold found two adjacent things: Someone commenting on how the f-hole on a violin looks like an integral sign, and a joke tee-shirt with a fake equation on it. I blended the two ideas into the song pic you see here. It fits like a glove.
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Quant eyes this:
SPY QQQQ IWM MSFT TYC F INTC GE LVLT PFE BRCD SIRI SLB CSCO SUNW MRVL ORCL XOM XLF PMCS T BAC EMC SBOX SMVW YHOO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
http://bearmarketcentral.com/mutualfunds.htm
and we flounder.
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sound effects used in this song:
large crowd auditorium.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=36060)
By cognito perceptu (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=57789)
track 1: 3:57 How And Why
track 2: 2:40 That's Progress
track 3: 6:56 Unwinding Time
track 4: 8:21 Quant
track 5: 3:37 Five on Seven
track 6: 2:46 New Amsterdam
track 7: 4:12 Vicki Kierkegaard
track 8: 6:56 Remember Petr Dumfrey
track 9: 9:01 Another DDT
track 10: 2:19 In The Mess
track 11: 5:21 Tempus
...more albums...
Song Description
Last night I woke up. I couldn't get back to sleep. My mind was filled with thoughts that just circled around and around and wouldn't go away. So, I snuck out of bed and fired up GarageBand.
I had financial engineering on my mind, how it's clear that the rich continue to get richer (and since the stock markets are zero-sum games, by screwing all the rest of us), and whether I'll ever be able to retire, so the idea of quants was there from the start.
About an hour later, I had the chord progression, piano and vocal settings worked out. I had the major drum loops put together, and a bass line. It was all in a repeat region, and I was just turning tracks on and off to get a feel whether they would play nice. Then I went back to sleep.
The next morning, I spent an hour spreading out the loops into an arrangement, added the modulations, and the arpeggiating tracks. Burned it to a CD and previewed it in my car. I noticed a divot in the chord progression, and realized I was not satisfied with how soon it ended. There needed to be more.
Later that afternoon, I fixed up the chords, extended the song by turning the original ending into a false ending. That did the trick.
I added another drum track that is essentially snare drums being beaten mercilessly. A few tweaks to smooth out some rough edges, and that was it. I have never completed a song that fast before.
I sought a graphic of a generic equation, and lo and behold found two adjacent things: Someone commenting on how the f-hole on a violin looks like an integral sign, and a joke tee-shirt with a fake equation on it. I blended the two ideas into the song pic you see here. It fits like a glove.
~~~~~~~~
Quant eyes this:
SPY QQQQ IWM MSFT TYC F INTC GE LVLT PFE BRCD SIRI SLB CSCO SUNW MRVL ORCL XOM XLF PMCS T BAC EMC SBOX SMVW YHOO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
http://bearmarketcentral.com/mutualfunds.htm
and we flounder.
~~~~~~~~
sound effects used in this song:
large crowd auditorium.wav (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/samplesViewSingle.php?id=36060)
By cognito perceptu (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/usersViewSingle.php?id=57789)
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Finally! Percussion!!!! You so know me! Sorry you couldn't sleep, but I'm glad you didn't for a little while. Love the intro! Loved the taking me by surprise! I'll be good from now on. I promise.