Song 2

I have not recorded all the stuff I've been working on for my "one song a week project" but I did have a chance to at least get a rough copy of this song done.
The guitar part for this song is in 7/8 the vocal part is in 4/4. When you play something in 7 against something in 4 they don't repeat their original relationship for a several repetitions.
(e.g: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc...)
The melody in 4 riding on top of a slowly shifting and for me slightly unsettling guitar in 7. I wrote the song as a lullaby because I thought it would be neat to capture the situation where you sing to your child something that is simple and soothing, as a way to combat what ever disruptive thing is happening - or in the song, you sing something in 4 against something unfamiliar in 7.

Talks:

Over the last couple of days I have enjoyed these talks.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is funny but I think I would hate to hang out with him. On the other hand i am fairly sure I could go camping with Richard Dawkins.
For some reason this talk is called "an atheist's call to arms". It's actual title is "queerer then we suppose" and is about the ability of our brain to understand things on levels of magnitude on the atomic scale and on the universal scale. It is very nice.



This one is just nice because it is quick and rational.





What I have been interested in is that despite these arguments these ideas still stick around. It is very interesting.

ICANHAZDR.WHO?

Remote Controlled Beetle

I found something strange on Hack a Day this morning.
It is a video of a real live beetle with a microchip attached
to his nerves to make him fly, stop flying, go left, right, up
and down. The first half the video I was excited but the
longer it went on the more sad and weird it was.

Here is the video

Un-canon Canons

I 

have been

 working on trying

 to write canons or rounds*

 that are harmonically complex and  maybe 

that even change key. I got the idea from my faculty

 Arun C. who also suggested I try to make a cannon that changes it's length 

after each repetition. I haven't had much luck with either of these two tasks yet but

 hopefully this weekend I will have something to post. # Give it a try it is real fun to try and figure out.

image credit: tasosk

*row row row your boat

#brian, you know you want to try itdfpo

Nick Cave

I found this guys stuff via http://foundcorn.blogspot.com/ currently titled "Art school".
I really want to put this thing on and run around the house.

you can see some little pictures of his other work here.

Song Writing Project

I am trying to write one song a week, good or bad, and post it. Hopefully they will slowly improve.
Song 1:



The assignment I gave myself for this one was to write a song that is entirely setting.