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Tripping by SmokeyVW [Email]
Genre: Psychedelic

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Last Played: Nov 19, 2008 - 10:59:16 AM
Downloads: 7
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Uploaded: Nov 09, 2007 - 09:47:22 AM
Last Updated: Sep 13, 2008 - 11:33:40 AM
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Description:
album: Vision Quest
track 1: 3:20 Vision Quest
track 2: 4:49 Falling
track 3: 7:28 Nothing
track 4: 1:11 Snow Squall
track 5: 4:22 We Lost Touch
track 6: 1:36 Time For Peace
track 7: 8:04 Oblate Oblivion
track 8: 8:23 Little Orb
track 9: 12:54 Tripping
track 10: 6:35 Soaring The Thermals
track 11: 4:10 People (Running Through My Mind)
...more albums...

Song Description

Three dimensions

Two dimensions

One dimension

Lyrics:
i'm building up a sculpture
one voxel at a time
chocolate rabbits
i'm building up a picture
one pixel at a time
candy corn
daffodils
chocolate coins

i'm building up a song
one sample at a time
autumn leaves
a meadow lark
candied apples
white snow drifts
a cricket chirping
slices of life

a green leaf drifting down the stream
a rainstorm
slices of time
blue sky
thunder rumbling

a grain of sand
dark gray clouds

snow falling

a green rock
children laughing

the silver light before sunset

the wind blowing through the trees

a blue robin's egg

chocolate rabbits

the night falling

clouds

i'm building up a sculpture
one voxel at a time

(c) 2007 Bill Grundmann
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What a long strange trip it's been &mdash 11/09/07 - 02:04:23 PM
You had to be committed to do this piece. I won't say where to. Much enjoyed - head scratching and all. Trying to grasp the concept behind the dimensions - do explain. The swimming voices are pretty amazing.

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. &mdash 11/09/07 - 11:18:42 PM
you had to ask! there is an analogy going on here:

3 dimensions - sculpture - voxels
2 dimensions - picture - pixels
1 dimensions - song - samples

there are also 3 different songs blended together here.

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:12:21 PM
except for that 20 minute "relaxation tape" (http://www.macjams.com/song/30708 "Ponder Then Awaken") this is the longest of my tunes to date.

there actually is some intentional stuff going on in the mix here...

thanks Bud


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here's to life x 3 &mdash 11/09/07 - 02:33:26 PM
very interesting and well done piece....just feels like life....very cool

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:25:00 PM
thanks - glad you liked it - it was a fun experiment in chaos - i think i was thinking about "Revolution Nine" a little while doing this.

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what an undertaking &mdash 11/09/07 - 03:14:31 PM
is this why i feel like you have been gone awhile? really cool piece. i'm prety blown away at all the changes and different parts you fit into this. great job.

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:29:53 PM
i've been real busy with work and stuff at home. i guess that's the source of the energy behind the chaos here.

this song is a construct of three songs that have been partially done for a long while... each one alone just wasn't going anywhere. together they have become whole.

thanks

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All my favorite memories incl. Rock & Roll &mdash 11/09/07 - 09:46:05 PM
I close my eyes, the sound of your voice has not changed - calls me home to New England and childhood, I am transported back through time. I remember the happiness in simple things. :-) Peace Bill :-)

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:33:07 PM
you found part of the theme in the lyrics - cool! i was going for universals...

thanks for listening and commenting

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hyperrabbit &mdash 11/10/07 - 12:55:21 AM
I like all the various textures... like the overlapping, evolving patterns and visual kaleidoscopic rhythms that leave large-scale strobed temporal trails. Hm, this tune makes my mind wander: good work.

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:39:47 PM
the three songs in here are in different keys with different tempos and different styles and moods. they really don't "want" to be mixed, but it works in a way. it's a sort of flood of feelings as a result - and somewhere in the process i realized what the title needed to be.

each song is a separate GarageBand project. i ended up tweaking each one several times to make them mix the way i needed them to. the spoken lyrics were added as a fourth element to really drive home some concepts about dimensions and elementary ideas/sensory inputs.

thanks!

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I have &mdash 11/10/07 - 03:50:20 PM
not got a first clue of what's going on here but I really,
really like it whatever it is. It goes in very deep and is extremely powerful. Superb.
Cheers
Len



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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:45:08 PM
glad you liked it - understanding is probably not a goal here - more like confusion & chaos - so i think you got what's going on all right!

thanks

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Weird stuff for a Sunday &mdash 11/11/07 - 04:23:39 AM
actually this weoid stuff anytime.

Wonderfully put together.

I love the melding of styles, textures and words.

Nice one.

Cheers

Dick



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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:54:35 PM
thanks - i poured some personal negative energy into this and it turned it into a fun project - it's almost therapeutic.

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Well, sir... &mdash 11/11/07 - 02:24:14 PM
...with a song title like that...bound to attract some kind of attention...

...where do I order the chocolate rabbit sculpture...?

Love the sweeping theme with the beat still steady...then the vox and the move away from the beat...

...nice, nice piece, SVW...

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. &mdash 11/16/07 - 08:59:13 PM
hmmm... i hadn't even considered trying to draw attention. the title came up as a good description of what the song was turning into as i worked on it. (and i have no idea where to find those rabbits any more.)

thanks!

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You have to love...... &mdash 07/12/08 - 02:55:34 AM
a tune called Tripping. A must listen in headphones.

Super-duper good time.

Dave

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