Environment Module 1.b
This particular module contains the lyrics to the last three non
POETRY Mix songs on ASPoLaMIMfMM... CD.
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the tone of MOM. The vocals are
“stylized” as an “insane and bitter
professor” discussing, or ranting,
to his class of the virtues of the
belief that love is nothing but an
external stimuli initiating an
internal chemical event, thus
leading to the perception of
“being in love.”
The percussion is the starting
point of this particular song. It has
a cool yet funky sensibility to it.
I'm not a big fan of synthesized
brass; however, the string/brass
timbre that's used within this
particular composition just works.
Notice the filter and resonant
aspects of this timbre.
The tone of the arrangements is
what I call “Funky Electronica,” an
almost jazz-like feel. I wouldn’t call
it a classical jazz feel.
Nonetheless, I would argue it’s a
fusion of electronica and jazz-like
qualities.
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from Poe is his writing technique of having the main character’s
dialogue be within the main character’s mind, meaning the
character is narrating his won thoughts to the reader, such as the
“Tell Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
My character’s issue is dealing with the initial realization that the
night is approaching and he must face it alone. There is nothing
like the first night after a true love has ended, or at least the
relationship has ended… Oh sure, the “love” usually is extinguished
long before the words are actually ever said, nonetheless, there is
nothing like that first night.
I used the concept that The Cure used on 10:15 on a Saturday
Night, you know, that whole “clock is ticking” thing that they used to
highlight the sense of “time moving on.” Except I decided to
highlight the sweeping numbing sense in real-time.
So, the song covers a 2-min.span as opposed to the whole night.
Hence, the hyper sense of time moving, not through the entire
night, but during a specific duration of about 2:10 that the song
takes to complete.
During this time our singer realizes he’s now alone, senses the
numbness consume his soul, the adrenaline rushes as he recalls
the image of his once true love, the singer then rationalizes his
circumstances and emotions as to attempt to stabilize his senses.
However, once again, the numbness consumes his senses as he
realizes that he’s alone, he then once again recalls the image of his
true love, and in an attempt to stabilize his emotions he attempts to
rationalize…
Musically, it’s a “punk ska” feel that is all “electroGothTronic” timbre.
Our love ended today and now I face my life, alone.
Uneasiness of soul as I realize the pain to come…
the darkness is so deep.
How to numb the numbness and to find solace…
how the numbness consumes all!
My first night alone how my mind races…
My mind…it races with visions of true love no longer able to
survive…
Much like a corpse which spasms in a morgue…
All life is gone…but impulses remain.
Love is what love is. Like fire from the sky, it will alter your life!
Sudden awareness that I'm alone, the silence is so tangible.
My heart it races, sensation displaces any thought of you for
only seconds
Now I'm thinking solely of the image I once deemed so holy.
What's this? A second…A second of lucidity!
During this second I realize in life there is no permanence!
Love is what love is. Like fire from the sky. It will alter your life!
Love is what love is.
Like Plato's Analogy of the Cave,
It's the socialized image that binds us to the suffering and pain.
that I didn’t like the others; however, this is one of the first songs that I engineered and recorded at my MIDI realm
studio.
It has a Kraftwerk-esque drum kit, yet it has the “electroGothTronic industrial SEPtecK” timbres that I find so
fascinating in a creative sense.
The song is once again, if it was in prose form, the main character narrating his own thoughts. Thank you, Mr.
Poe. It’s essentially a recording of my inner mind as I deal with the voice of my true love, even though it has been
a considerable amount of time since she has been gone.
It’s an attempt to capture via sound recording, a man’s “descent into madness.”
The filters on this song were simple magnificent! It gave the timbre a sense of a female siren. A sound which is
both alluring, yet emotionally paralyzing. Again, the drum kit just makes this track work.
The vocals are layered with 6 effects to allow for the decay to match the decay of the “siren” timbre. So, as I “sing”
the lyrics, it’s juxtaposed against the siren voice. From this cause, you get the “descent into madness” effect.
The reason that I let the song go 5:16 is that I wanted to highlight some of the timbres without my vocals over
them. Notice the “SpazzOrgan” after the vocals are finished. It’s just a cool tonality. The last part is me just
showing of my “sci-fi” sound design capabilities.
A ghost lives in my mind…
A voice with influence in real-time.
Haunting my life…
A voice.
I nourish an enthusiasm within,
which so is the cause of distress within me
that it both pains my heart,
and yet in an infected nature,
contents me.
This is such an engaging agitation,
and I so love it that I would rather die than remove it.
A ghost lives in my mind…
A voice with influence in real-time.
Haunting my life…
A voice.
