Tapeworm, tapeworm…
Posted by: ryno in ambience, composing, creative commons, music, musical instrumentsContains downloadable MP3 - under Creative Commons, and a bit about what I’ve been up to.
I’ve been faffing about in a large box of tapes.
Some are usual-format cassettes: it’s been a thrill rediscovering some of the stuff I’ve never owned on CD, and as a bonus I haven’t heard the songs in years.
There are things I’d like to keep, too, like seminar speakers, radio interviews, the odd lecture (and in some cases the descriptor odd is well-deserved indeed), and there’s also m.u.s.i.c. [My old friend Beako coined that acronym: it stands for "My Usual Self-Indulgent Crap".]
Maybe he’s right — who knows? When I’m not going ouch a lot or having bouts of suboptimal self-image, I have been known to play noisy things and record what happens. I have metric craptons of four-track tapes, and they are the prime cause for all this activity that has kept me from the bloggage.
Here is a link to a download of part of the audible crud I produce.
AfroDZA weighs in at 5.97 Megabytes (average for a song, or the equivalent of about a dozen hi-res pr0n pics, 30 LOLcats, meh — whatever) and represents what happens when I get loose and improvise a few overdubs on an inviting loop of sampled mbira music.
Some more of this may be posted in future. Right now, it’s time for a game of Death To The Evil Length Of Rope with KitTern.
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February 9th, 2008 at 1:53 am
I’m listening right now. I like this. Seriously.
February 9th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Ta. I see that I forgot, in my haste to play Rope with Miss Kitty, to explain the title of this post.
Danny Kaye, in Hans Christian Andersen, sings a song called Inchworm.
Beako and I used to do this rather grotty parody of it:
“Tapeworm, Tapeworm,
Measuring the lower bowel,
Could it be
You’d stop and see
Just what I had
For tea…”
Perhaps I better just get another few cassettes out, and shut up.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I like inchworm. Now I have tapeworm playing in my head. ew.
February 9th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Er, yes, it’s a contagious little tune, isn’t it?
February 9th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Thanks for the earworm. :-p
February 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
It’s nice to see you posting again. Fun picture of the cat
Funny thing is early this week I decided to go through my old cassettes. I dumped some and am slowly working through in alphabetical order. Current tape is Eddie Brickel
February 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Ah yes, the lovely Edie Brickell. I had a tape of hers with that hit single “What I Am” on it, but there was a tape wobble in the duplicating process or something, which resulted in a horrible FLAT half-second part-way through the song.
I am sure it was a duping error because I returned the tape for a replacement, and eagerly put the cassette in the deck, hoping to hear the song in unblemished form. No such luck: same place, same yucky bit.
The other side was fine.
BTW, I should send you a CD of the long ambient piece my friend KJ and I did over a background of froggies at night. I did the frog field-recording for that, stumbling round in the dark with a Portastudio and a whacking great pair of Sennheiser mikes nearly as big as the tapedeck.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Actually tonight I didn’t listen to any music, which is unusual. I stopped before flipping over to the side that has the song “What I Am”. I shall listen attentively for a flat part :P
I would love to hear the CD of the frogs at night. My most memorable experience with the sound of frogs was wandering into a closed and flooded campground at night. It sounded like a million frogs and it drowned out the sound of the nearby ocean. Coal was wild that night, running in the dark, and he finally got close enough and all the frogs stopped at once. Such a sudden and abrupt silence.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Okay, Chris. We can do this!
Send a comment to this thread with a mailing address where I can send you a CD.
All my comments are screened by my highly-trained army of one [me!] before approval, so it is the work of a moment to note your addy and delete the comment. I’ll get a CD in the mail to you.
If I find the froggy track (without the minimal instruments we added) among my studio tapes, I’ll get that on a CD too.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Chris: Address received. Will get the package underway within a week or so, Exec Dysfunction permitting.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Woo hoo :) :) :) Thanks
Which reminds me… I’ve been driving around with a bill in my car. All I need to do is put a stamp on it and mail it. ARG