29 February 2004 (Sunday)
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This was an alternate tribute song that I had started on, but it was so strange I thought about not doing it. But that isn't in the spirit of FAWM, so here it is.
This is a tribute to my first year Music Theory/Composition teacher. The lyrics are very-close paraphrases or direct quotes of things he said often. He was a big proponent of Dissonance, arguing that consonance didn't go any where and the more tension you built in a piece, the bigger the release when you removed that tension. Philosophically I see his point, but it's hard to sell a song to the "average" audience when you stack lot's of minor seconds on top of one another.
This song is dissonant, so be forwarned. But it is not nearly as dissonany as what Dr. Linton would have wanted. If I had submitted this for Composition I might have gotten a D. (That and it's extremely sloppy.)
Anyway.. Um... Well. Enjoy... sorta
Linton
This is static
This is not
This is cold
This is hot
If you don’t have tension
What have you got
Here’s the bass
Now arrange the part
If it’s to go
It has to start
I know it’s sound
But is it art
Tension release
Tension release
That’s the key
To the piece
Comments: 3
this song is a little weird, and not my favorite... but i can totally picture this guy and his notions of what makes good music.
one comment: for the "tension, release" line you could make the "tension" more tense and dissonent, and the "release" almost like a relief. i think that's the key to the piece. ;)
burr [11:50AM CST 02-Mar-2004]
i also like the octaves solo there at the end...
burr [11:51AM CST 02-Mar-2004]
I actually tried for more tension on the chorus, but doing it in one pass just didn't do it justice. I would really need to sit down and do the dissonances justice "Linton-style". There is a very mathematical pattern to dissonance use and you can inject a lot of tension using specific intervals in specific ways. I just didn't bother to go into that detail...
Maybe if I keep the song and electrify it some more...
By the way, the octave solo was a throw away.. totally improv, which is why the bass is a continous E and when it does move, it doesn't always sync. I couldn't remember what I did, but didn't have time to figure it out. I just like playing octave solos! (=
Eric [12:17PM CST 02-Mar-2004]