The Industrial Music that surrounds us is bellful, horny, and white with noise. Dings and blares come from every clock and car, the electric B-flat hums from every outlet, and the streets are seldom silent. If one were to form a SimsBand, covering the music of each day, it would have plenty of brass and […]
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Adult Sing-Alongs in Contemporary Film
Dead, dead; dead. The American sing-along is dead. Once upon a time, there was a baby Steinway in every household, and American families sang together in perfect nuclear harmony. Pa was an operatic baritone, and little Timmy had chosen to forgo puberty to carry on the castrati legacy. The sing-along was the musical hearth of […]
iFart computer sounds :) (o)- – –
What are the most popular sounds around us? Are they musical or noisy? Artful or aleatoric? Do you hear more birdsong than pop song? Is the human speech around you monotonal, monotonous, or musical? Do you wear headphones all day, or does your own cortex hallucinate music for you? Friends, there are no more insidious […]
Marching Jam
Hello. We will be having a Marching Band Jam in New Paltz for the Halloween Parade on Sunday October 31. It starts at 6pm on North Manheim Blvd. and marches down Main Street into town. Please join us for this intense musical experience, where we try to play a single song for an hour long. […]
Cock-a-doodle Doo
Since chickens find the same faces attractive as we do, it’s possible we share other aesthetic tastes as well. Take the rooster’s crow for instance: Such pacing and portamento! Drag over the noteheads below to hear the rooster played on a rhodes. I hear it in 3/4 time, like the heartbeat. Afterall, cocks are known […]
Neotropic Wren
Most birds are solo artists, but plain-tailed wrens form bands. Male and female wrens sing choruses together, duetting in call and answer form. Songs are 2 minutes long, as compared to the standard human pop song of 3 minutes, and will last for as long as 40 verses. Take that Leonard Cohen with your measly […]
Latest Picardies and Bug Songs
The new Weezer album “Hurley” has a picardy on it – the band’s first and only picardy. If you recall from our last post, a picardy is when music changes key from Minor to Major on the very same root note. A reverse picardy occurs when a song turns from Major to Minor. In a […]
