Friday, January 16, 2009

i fall away in c# minor.

For now just a crude recording in Logic before I leave for a few days to come back to and work with. An old idea that I never really developed trying now not to make it too wholly tragic but tragic enough. Not sure where it will go but I like the chord progression quite a bit all of a sudden out of nowhere walking around house then rushing to piano quick before it escaped me a faster tempo than I recorded for sure. I love late night (preferably middle of the night) recording sessions cos the best stuff seems to happen late late at night though not sure why. I am in love with the idea that I can record anything I want whenever I want. What is terribly difficult actually is coming back to these ideas now because I have moved on with writing but I know I really cannot until this earlier stuff is totally developed and so somehow must figure a way to make sure it still works writing it now without making it sound like what I am writing now. The rising chords are fantastic.  The bass notes on the piano are heavy and enormous. The change to A major is incredible. It starts out with just this deep piano sound chords huge with lots of reverb at a slower tempo and possibly a different time signature then after an intro of I don't know forty or fifty bars the guitar comes in very very noisy with the drums and bass and furious arpeggios on the piano then the song really begins. Of course I see a photograph with this as well that I cannot capture at the moment so a lame screenshot and crude lyrics will have to do while I listen to the fifty-some bars I recorded cycling over and over and over.
your face your gaze your eyes have come to pass the time away
and I compare my stand my Fate with what I find in those I've known
my time has gone and I fall away I reach for you and empty sand and fall away

Monday, January 5, 2009

glenn gould 31/32.

Leaving.

"As the eyes are framed for astronomy so the ears are framed for the movements of harmony."
~ Plato, from the Republic

No single composer in the history of music portrayed a sense of harmony more so than Johann Sebastian Bach. And no pianist has ever performed Bach more perfectly than Glenn Gould.

glenn gould 30/32.

Voyager.