Sunday, November 22, 2015

"The Sanctuary Song" - intro

The fear is all out there
it consumes them everywhere
one moment they are here
and next they are nowhere

We won't bring that inside
It's not that we would hide
but here we find the peace
we will not be denied


Yep, that should do it.  A little bumpy just now but that gets the concept, gives a bit of explanation as to what was making the people disappear during the video run-up to the Sanctuary.  So we see "The End of the World in Fort Worth" is not about the world being destroyed but rather people destroying themselves with their fear.

Note:  I did not know that when I filmed it.  I knew it was a cute trick to make things disappear through Final Cut trickery and the intention was clear but there wasn't a good answer for the cause of it.  So now there is and the news gave it to me.

All that goes with the first looper phrase.  Next is the brief transitional phrase.

You've come to find Sanctuary
but you knew all along
it wasn't in the words
it was always in the song

Go straightway to the third phrase.  It should have a screaming voice and a wailing, bent all to hell, screaming to the stars note from the guitar at the same time in blasting straight into it.  That's just beyond my skill, tho.

Or not ... that kid said nothing is impossible and we believe him.

More to come.

There was wailing last night and it was kind of toward that dive bombing finale and that's hugely satisfying but there's a hazard.  In flipping the E string from F / E for dive bombs, the full Barre chord must be complete again before coming back up to the natural pitch or it's lost because we're coming back up to a fast, continuous strum of the F with all the lights flashing and all the flashpots firing to make the massive as hell crescendo and then hard cut to black.  Sound stops, all lights go out.

Note:  that may be too dramatic for leaving the question:  did the Sanctuary just poof as well?


It's all in the timing.  This has to be filmed at night because I want the lasers and smoke for this.  It has to be full trips because this is a world which is fantastical to any existing perception, particularly by a world riddled with fear.  Here in the Rockhouse we live in it because we actually like being peasants and it's been Sanctuary all along.


Just as with the Hegelian Dialectic, it's all in the telling.  Sometimes it goes well and sometimes it just flat sucks.  That something is real doesn't necessarily mean it is easy to describe without being heavy-handed, preachy, or any of them thangs.

So it goes.  (I'm sure it is close)

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