To briefly recap, a week ago I posted a short piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it. Bob and eb tossed down swank slide and vocal interps respectively. Now the Dread Pirate Yaniv Soha joins the fray.
For handy compare and contrast, here’s the original piano piece, Bob’s slide, and eb’s piano/vocal spectacular.
Yaniv’s take gets funky with it, adding beats and bass and slicing things around. The result is a subtle hypnogroove guaranteed to help you stop smoking.
Hope you’re enjoying the sequence. I’m really enjoying how different these three versions have ended up. There’s still time to join the adventure and live the dream. And really, Yaniv’s version is just begging for some latter-day Biz Markie to mix in a little poetry.
On that note…if you’re taking the challenge, feel free to start with any of these versions, then email whatcha got to: vortex@mediajunkie.com.
Thanks. And watch the skies, -CV
Yaniv Soha’s Remix: Tower of Cauliflower
time: 57 seconds; specs: 900K
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(For more Yaniv Soha-infused musical experiences, be sure to drop by Yaniv Soha Central.)
Cecil Vortex
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Melancholy Flower
Last week I posted a wee chordy piano piece and asked folks to mess around with it and send me the results. First in was a sweet slice o’ slide from Bob Myren. If yer just joining the fun, here’s the original piano piece — Cauliflower Melon — and here’s Bob’s remix — Cauliflowermelonslide.
Today we’ve got eb’s take, with words, melody, and fairly spectacular vocals. You really have to hear this. She took my lil’ piano piece and made art.
I’m just enjoying the hell out of this whole thing so far. Hope you’re enjoying it too. Speaking of which, if you’re out there and planning on taking the challenge, feel free to funk around with any of these three, then send the results to vortex@mediajunkie.com) and posted shall they be.
Thanks!
eb’s Remix: Melancholy Flower
time: 47 seconds; specs: 700K
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What is wrong with me?
That place in my heart
where I should want a tattoo —
that place where my tattoo desire
is supposed to brood —
it’s a dead place.
No. Worse.
I don’t even have that place.
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 11
Week 11. I mean, are you kidding me? Seriously. 11? This is ridiculous!
I my own self have fallen back behind. Caught a wee spot of the old TB this last week. But I’m bouncin’ back (coughhack!) bouncin’ back I tell ya!
On to next week: Let’s make camp at page 580 (p/v) where “Jamf was doing it in the least obvious there was.”
Project “Fun-Time Challenge Project” Presents: Cauliflowermelonslide
Yesterday I exhorted folks to take this wee chordy piano piece I’d recorded (aka Cauliflower Melon) and mess around with it — add guitar, verb, drums, guitar, slice it up, and what have you.
Lo and behold, this morning — the very next damn day! — my old and excellent pal Bob Myren came through with the first remix. It’s a slice of slide guitar that, quite frankly, I ultra-dig. It’s amazing to me the difference in mood and atmosphere that slide guitar can make. All I’m saying is, when I die, I hope I come back as a sustained note played on a slide guitar. That’s all I’m saying.
If you’re taking the challenge, please feel free to screw around with this one, with the original, or with both. Then send whatcha got to vortex@mediajunkie.com). I’ll keep posting them as they arrive.
Thanks! And enjoy…
Bob’s Remix: Cauliflowermelonslide
time: 48 seconds; specs: 1.1 MB
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x-post: Reactionary Dander
All this prurient Pynchon appears to have nudged me into a reactionary dander. Read the results (“The Mainstreaming of Vice“) over on the mighty, the mighty, the mighty Edgewise. Unless you’re intimidated by my clear-thinking, straight-shooting, uninhibited sense of moral superiority. In which case, you know. It’s cool.
Cauliflower Melon: A Collaborative Fun-Time Challenge Project!
Tune-making and MVRT have both been considerably waylaid of late by hard disk problems and assorted other distractions. But last night I got Pro Tools working (yay!) and recorded this wee, chordy piano piece.
And with this piece comes the following open invitation to a collaborative fun-time challenge project: if you like to screw around with sound, please — screw around with this sound!
Then send me the results and pretty much anything non-obscene, I’ll post here. Add guitar, voice, drums. More piano. Verb it up. Slice it up. Whatever. And then send to Vortex (that is: vortex@mediajunkie.com).
Thanks! And enjoy…
time: 51 seconds; specs: 800K
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Morning Sounds
Twee birds, rumbling boat horns,
rough timber movement
rolled up for the night
into a living room carpet spiral
with socks and cat toys,
spoons, string, lost chopsticks.
Leaned sideways through the timeline,
bending toward a corner wall.
And then shook out at new light.
Dropping like 6 am jacks
onto the hardwood floor.
The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch, Week 10
10 weeks — 10! And now we’re roughly two-thirds of the way through. What’s left? Just a pamphlet really. A hop, a skip, and an analepsis.
Last week was challenging for different folks in different ways. Some of us battled with the lengthy Pokler section, which I loved, perhaps because I read most of it on a flight back from Vegas, the way it was meant to be read.
Me, I was displeased with the Bianca/Slothrop section, which left at least some others unphased.
What will this week bring? More Zone? Oh yes. Count on it.
Next week: Page 532 (v/p) aka 620 in (b), and all those “good-bys in his pockets warming his empty hands….”
Pears
Jane won’t eat pears. No matter the context.
Stranded on Pear Planet.
Attacked by toothy pears.
Armed with only a pear fork.
Peckish.
Oh, she’ll kill ’em. Oh sure.
She can be savage.
But she won’t eat the flesh or drink the juice.
And she doesn’t want to talk about it.