Sunday, January 31, 2016

"Andromeda Weeps" From Sublime to Spectaculous

Andromeda is really starting to dance and her name is the root of all my music because she's the most beautiful woman who ever existed and music has at least try to meet her in that.  She was just a girl and her mother, the Queen, caused all the commotion with the gods and brought vanity and pride into it.

Probably you already know the story of Jason and Andromeda or you don't really care except for what is she in this story.  We assume you are interested in the last or you probably wouldn't still be reading.


For the Early Session today, there are three clear modes for the main part of the song.  One is solo on a sweet and clean guitar sound which is oh so sublime but, wtf, it's pretty.  The main part is Phrase 1 so that kicks off with strummy guitar, still with a clean sound.  The spectaculous part is doing Phrase 1 with an arpeggiator and that now has a Hammond B3 organ sound in the mix which all make a wide sound when distortion guitar chords come into that.

The strummy loop and the spectaculous loop are recorded as different phrases within the Andromeda song and switching between them goes well.  That was bumpy yesterday but much smoother so that's solidifying nicely.


The three parts flow nicely one into each other so now I want the Trips part to see how that integrates.  I know it will but the question is of the best how to do it and that pends in a most interesting way.


All of those modes are different aspects of Andromeda.  She's mad in love, happy as a young maiden can be, and the music is sweet, soft and instrumental.  Strummy Andromeda is getting the story going because she's with Jason so a maiden she ain't anymore but she's definitely mad in love.  There's the terrified but also forthright and clear Andromeda when the missile launch alert is given.

It's still in question how Colonel Kurtz will come into this but maybe the Trips part is swirling.  I want the delicious dream state of first love but this is an awful time because the order really is to launch the missiles to blow up the world.  That aspect mustn't be marginalized for the benefit of it being only a love story or it just winds up being "Springtime for Hitler" which was brilliant but not at all the purpose in this.  So that delicious dream state swirls in a mix with Colonel Kurtz ... man, I doubt it.

Next time out, that Trips part will materialize and then structure becomes more clear.

(Ed:  what happened to the No. 1 priority storyboard?)

The priority hasn't changed but that priority only applies when the story exists!  Once the structure of the song is clear and the lyrics are working within it, the storyboard will map out the scenes within that.  The object is NOT to map them down to seconds they will play but rather what they will deliver.  Some information comes quickly since we see two Young Beautiful People looking all goo-goo at each other and we can assume almost instantly this is a love story.  Since the information comes fast, the scene doesn't need to be that long unless it tells us something else.


(Ed:  aren't you forty years ago?)

Nope.  The world lost its way forty years ago.  I ended up with my music and the world got Donald Trump so you tell me who screwed the pooch (larfs).

They made gods of greedy swine
and they wonder why the rivers
don't now flow with wine

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