STORY SHAPED BEATS | Strange Music Structures and Life Events

 

Been listening to John Foxx's SYSTEMS OF ROMANCE, METAMATIC and his 2010 LIVE "Analogue Circuits" on continuous repeat the last week+. Some of his lyrics and delivery are "word salad poetry" like.  I hadn't really noticed before, and haven't seem them referred to as that.

I found that really interesting so added such spoken word lyrics to the last short piece of music I did. They imply things, and are open to interpretation. 

I think the result is a very interesting structure. I am being really original here? Maybe. But surely this stuff has all been done before...

The verses have a few bass sequences they play over, then there is kind of a call response between the spoken words and a melodic synth part, a few notes at a time. Verse ends with a melodic few bars. Could you call that a chorus though? 

After 2 of those section it drops back to just the arpeggiated synth sequence that runs all through it.

Then rock guitars come in for a few bars, then it drops back to another verse end melodic few bars with some repeated spoken words.

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Other Things

Had my last, number 4, medical procedure for hemorrhoids last Wednesday.  Cut and stitched this time and not the rubber band ligation of the previous 3 procedures. Will be uncomfortable for another few days yet, but this has been NOTHING like the 4+ week ordeal I went through 9 years ago recovering after the overnight hospital stay. Photo of Hospital room. 

The point of the story is that handling a problem earlier, rather than later, can be so much easier and better! Putting off treatment for 20+ years was the wrong thing to do.  I am lucky so far to have only none life threating issues, even if they have been terribly painful and inconvenient in the past.

I will be taking it easy for next week it seems, and will have my final check at the clinic on Friday and this issue should be closed.

On another medical note, the musician that video called me out of the blue last year tracking down who had made the SYSTEM FLOPPY DISC of the first Fairlight Instruments CMI Series III in the UK in the 1980s posted some not great news.  He had been under treatment for cancer the last few years, but that has now stopped as the treatment itself had became dangerous for him.  Without the drugs he is actually feeling the best for years, but he is now on the final stage of his life, and prepared for it.   

Watched LEON THE PROFESSIONAL on Netflix over 4 nights during the week.  Not a fun flic at all, but has many that made THE 5TH ELEMENT involved with it.  Some of the minor music ques in LEON seemed very similar to the same composers work in THE 5th ELEMENT.  THE 5th ELEMENT is one of my most favorite films, have the soundtrack CD etc.  The bits with the Arabic feel.

Mattias IA Eklundh released a track yesterday that is back to his Freak Kitchen in style, rather than the more weird Jazz of recent Freak Audio Lab work.  More to my taste.  I tried to get into his RESIST THE CORROSION,  but it didn't have the kind of  riff and melodic bits that attract me. 

I guess I prefer stuff with simple riffs/ melodies and nursery rhyme like. I try and make my own stuff  like that. I really like to have a simple thing to hum to myself while having a shower.

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