For Joanie
My English teacher in Vienna said I should write something light, airy, whimsical, and short -- and so I did.I wanted to great something like DMB's Pantala Naga Pampa.
My former middle school English teacher, Joanie Mullin, suggested making a song that would be light, airy, whimsical, and short. I added some video footage for fun.
My former roommate Meyer Neel laid down the bass line. Other roommate Matt Schacht gave me video editing advice.
- Drums: used a fine free sequencer online at audiotool.com (shaker sound that goes on the whole time is actually the sound of shoes on gravel, but digitally manipulated to sound like shakers)
- Guitar: recorded two different parts for each speaker, each part plays a different inversion and a different rhythm!
- Bass: invented and recorded by Meyer Neel
- Strummed piano: I used a plastic card to strum the inside of the piano, I plucked a melody for one particular riff
- Vocals: I wrote some lyrics and sang them, used a bit of compression
- soloing instrument/pentatonic flourish: Although I designed an instrument for this: I recorded the sound of a piano playing a 440-A (with the sustain pedal down to get all of the harmonics), used audacity to "surgically" remove the "440" part and replaced it with a guitar 440-A, then used a csound algorithm to let my MIDI keyboard manipulate the pitch and velocity (IE, just creating a new sound on a keyboard).
