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Thursday, October 25, 2007the saddest story ever toldhere's a cover i did of a magnetic fields song during the summer.the saddest story ever told (mp3 / 1.1MB) some peculiarities: ~guitar track ~violin track (four) ~bass guitar track ~drums ~vox as for the drums, i used a practice pad, a piece of wood, a belt, and a tin cup. i tried this organic approach that i've heard fellow cadets do before and was inspired by. if it's not too grating a sound for you, i think it sounds pretty cool at points. i also like my bassline, but i'm not one to brag. i miss you, cadets. it's come to my attention that you couldn't upload stuff for a while. it's been fixed. party!! also, major ups to ART PARTY events happening in new orleans again!! Labels: bass, cover song, drums, guitar, music, violin, voice Thursday, July 26, 2007a songthis song completes my 20 "track" "album". if you want one you'll have to buy me a CD burner or subject yourself to my whims. guitar work* inspired by that wilco song about spiders. organ work inspired by bach or some shit. lyrics inspired by boredum.Aztec Libraries *technically I'm not actually "playing" the guitar EDIT: if you want to download the album, here it is all zipped up and hosted on yousendit for the next 6 days or 100 downloads. there are track numbers. The Album Friday, July 06, 2007old songs with new wordsenme may remember this as "space shanty" but it was an empty shell of a song then and now it has words to breath life into it's otherwise lifeless melodies.Cyprus Isle also, this song was once affectionately known as "happy dappy 3", and is a collaboration between myself, hunter daniel (drums), j mclendon (lead), and bozeman (bass). i added some shit to it today so that it could blossom into a 'real song', where all the instruments congeal together into full-on/near-cacophony as god intended. From The Hymnals Monday, July 02, 2007a songi dont like writing lyrics. syncing up shit in audacity has become a huge bitch. im finding that i enjoy piano more than other instruments, and that playing lead guitar is just fucking hard.Heaven's Satellites Tuesday, June 12, 2007the new music of reverend fingersi have completed moving and now i no longer have an amp or really any means to produce electronic instrumentation besides this old Casio SA-38 from the 80's. i made this today in a few hours. i sort of decided it would be best without lyrics.Witch's Brew Tuesday, May 08, 2007Yet another song. An original this time.Wrote it just now. Beers and tears helped. Here's the lyrics if anyone is interested.The THX-1138's - Georgia Blues I despise time, I try to escape death everyday. But the clouds they all look black They're also going to cry. And I'd really like to pray but Jesus ain't my friend. What difference will it make When I cause my own end? They could call this prison growing up But I call it a Southern Belle And they'd call it breaking up When I'm really breaking down My life is heading nowhere They'll call me Crash n' Burn They could call it a part of life But it feels more like death All the times that I wept All I needed was her smile But the night I hang myself I would like to see her cry And the mind is always numb From numbing it with smoke I would really like to stop But I'm afraid that it might hurt At the clouds and the sky I was screaming Nobody heard At my friends I was pleading Nobody turned Then I'd crawl up to my mother She helped me with my weight Every dog has its day, I've had mine, I want it back. Wednesday, May 02, 2007another Johnny Cash coverfrom Cadet AldoThe THX-1138's - Cocaine Blues Labels: cover song, music Thursday, April 26, 2007cover songdo these breach copyright laws somehow?thanks O Valencia Monday, April 23, 2007cover songThis is the song that Trash Trash Trash will be debuting tomorrow at the Dragon's Den in New Orleans. Recorded it for fun.-MC Scrotum The THX-1138's - Folsom Prison Blues Labels: music Saturday, April 21, 2007BanjoHere is a short tune I made for one of the lovely Morgan's poem. I got a recording interface, so I went a little crazy with the voices. Is it too much?Love, Katherine Banjo Labels: music A cover songI made this in about 2 hours total out of bordum. Real sloppy.Village Green Labels: music Friday, April 20, 2007Open D TuningBehold:Untitled My simplest song ever. 3 Layers. Labels: music Monday, April 16, 2007baby cymbalThere used to be a tiny little baby cymbal on the drumset at Joe's apartment. It was so tiny and cute and we all talked about how it probably feels next to the big "real" cymbals. So after this conversation, I wrote this song real quick and recorded it on garageband. In a perfect world, there would be little baby ding sounds and lots of percussion background. Sadly, this version is just me and a guitar.baby%20cymbal.mp3 Labels: music Sunday, April 15, 2007Madonna!last summer, Scandaliz Vandalistz attempted, and some would say succeeded, in writing a new song after we recorded our album. it's based on a true story-- back in the day, before she was famous, madonna used to go to lots of parties in new york and ask to join everyone's band. she happened to ask my aunt's best friend if she could join their band and they totally said no.... mostly because their band just sat around and played music in a closet. sooooo my sister, cadet morgan rosebud, wrote a poem/song about it, which we borrowed, adapted, and added to, and the result was our song "little brains" which turned out to be a really great song played live.... we never got any real recordings made of it, but i've recently discovered that we used my laptop during some practices, so there's a couple really early versions floating around on my computer. today i've decided to share them and i hope you enjoy.... please keep in mind that we were still in the process of writing the song at this point, and that it sounds crappy because it's recorded from a laptop microphone.Little Brains with the full band Madonna! you can't be in our closet band! cuz! We're in a closet in a closet in a closet... Hey Madonna! you suck! you suck! We don't need your fashion show! We don't fit in the places you go! Madonna asked if she could be in our band and we said NO! cuz! We're in a closet... we're a closet... We've made a world in here We've got plenty to wear Sick and Tired of breathing bad air Needing a change in the atmosphere We hide away in a place that's small but there's no wiggle room, so it makes us feel tall a tiny space filled with tiny kids our brains are little, but our thoughts are big so so so so so big! In here! our minds are free! Floating around with the dust bunnies in the closet... We learned your rules and now we're done with them! we don't want a part in your pretension necessity is the mother of invention we put ourselves away, it's dark in time of day in here it's like another dimension but it's a closet... life in closet... Chorus (It's a small world after all) No tune! we've broken all our strings No room! this place is shrinking the good air's all gone maybe we were wrong about the closet... obsessed with a life of prevention now closet is the necessity of invention the sun is brighter than this little light bulb and we've started to forget what we're missing we're in a closet and we've lost it we're in a closet and we've lost it we're coming out of it! Labels: closet, madonna, music, punk, rock Tuesday, April 10, 2007Polyrhythms and lyrics and stagnation of musical inspirationI play everything. I had 4 songs i was working on at once and this one just happened to be the lucky one to actually get finished. The other ones are being neglected as punishment for their lack of appeal to me personally. As always, the title is meaningless.Thinking About Thinking (Blues) Also, if anyone lives in memphis and is interested in writing songs (clarification: i dont want to just "jam". i have enough musician friends who can sit down and play by ear and make some free-jazz cacophony. but i want to sit and talk about music, preferably with someone who knows more than me, and come up with something worthwhile) I can play drums and bass amateurishly, guitar somewhat adeptly, and anything on piano as long as i rehearse it a bit. I have a room stocked with instruments for at least the next two months when my roomate moves out, at which point i will probably only legitimately possess a 100$ gibson epiphone acoustic guitar. Monday, March 26, 2007songs from katherine."math rock (M4A file)" - claire (singing, guitar) katherine (bass, oohs)anna-claire (piano, doos) jake (clarinet) "drool (M4A file)" - katherine (singing, guitar), claire (piano, oohs) recorded by jake at his house the other day. much love, katherine Thursday, March 15, 2007A song (with lyrics and beats)This ones pretty simple, i wanted something i could just write some easy lyrics to. it started out as an exercise in polyrhythms but i dont think i really captured the percussion sound i wanted in the end.Seas Of Violet Labels: music Saturday, March 10, 2007A conceptual Songthis one has 3 parts it pretty much came out randomlyGhost Train Labels: music Monday, March 05, 2007A conceptual song (and some other shit)with an awkward ending. the title is just something i thought of while listening to the song when it was like half done.The Frog And The Crane Edit: i found this when cleaning off my computer desktop of all the minute and a half diddes i have cluttering it up i figured id post it. im playing bass my friend tim wrote the chords to this song and plays guitar, kevin plays drums. we werent really satisfied with this but it was as close as we got out of like 5 tries. its a little sloppy. Running Along (Electric Redux) Labels: music church of space (THE SONG)listen! The Art Party is loosely affiliated with the COSMOS (church of space mystical organisation of spirituality). little has been known about the Church of Space--until now. this is basically all that exists about it. DOWNLOAD "CHURCH OF SPACE" [5:05] (Illegal MP3) JOIN THE CONFLAGRATION! WE'RE YOUR BURNING INSPIRATION! CHURCH OF SPACE SEEKS CONGREGATION VISIT OUR OFFICES AT THE SPACE STATION What is the ultimate reality? The cause of causality? Others think that they do know, But they always fail to show What it is they think they see, Faith can't be so easy. The Church of Space still seeks the answer, Amidst aquarius, capricorn, and cancer. We don't say we claim we know, but into SPACE we must go to perform stellar experiments on our exponential firmaments. Have Mass on Mars and commune on the moon. On Earth, you'll never see the stars come into bloom. We say Pluto's a planet, not just a rock. Blast off into our holy flock. If you want a truly universal faith, We await you in outer space. Look at all these earthly churches Pontiffs on their purchased perches They read books while we write them Their chants pale next to our bright night hymn Space is full of contradiction, but still better than earth's simple fiction Terrestrial religion is lazy, but outer space is fucking crazy! Quasars spitting gamma rays, Pulsars with their radio waves You might think that space is quite a rave, but Saturn isn't just a place to play. words by admiral alanna and cadet tom music by cadet tom Labels: church of space, cosmos, music, religion, space Thursday, March 01, 2007A Song the whole familyThis one took me a while. it started with the bass and i just started adding things. i didnt name the song until everything was finished, so nevermind the title. Also its kind of LOUD at times.Aliens In Iraq Labels: music Wednesday, February 28, 2007Betty And Margie Play BingoThis is a short created for a Sound Design For Film class. I used a mini-disc recorder and pro tools. Animation eventually?Betty%26Margie%20Play%20Bingo.mov Labels: Sound Design Monday, February 26, 2007A songTheres alot going on here. Im trying to add a trombone but my lips and lungs arent quite up to it yet.Space Shanty Thursday, February 15, 2007Songs that arent mineTwo covers. Props to whoever guesses the originators. Both involve vocal harmonies, one is pre-cigarettes one is post-cigarettes, so see if you can figure that out too.Vege-tables Smothered in Hugs A New SongI play everything on this. I 'm debating whether or not i should add lyrics, be they my own or someone else's. The title is completely meaningless.Ocean Bullet Tuesday, February 13, 2007Digital Hamn!   In high school, I fronted Hamn!, a very silly and very chaotic punk band. I made "digital" versions of some Hamn! songs after my first year of college under the name Deli Beats and here's some of the "best" tracks. If you are absolutely insane and want a free copy of the Hamn!/Digital Hamn! cd, email me (delibeats@gmail.com) and we'll figure something out. Seventh Vegan Protest Song Hats Off To Strap-Ons It's A Nice Day Sex With Shotguns Sunday, January 28, 2007sneak preview to the TTT sessions.Here's a quick view of one of Trash Trash Trash's hit songs, "Rastarats."Vocals: Admiral Alanna Drums: Cadet Aldo Bass: Cadet Daniel Piano: Cadet Tom Commentary: Cadet Brandon & Leroy & Warren Friday, January 26, 2007A SONGAll meRunning Along Pt. II Sunday, January 21, 2007Near JasperThis is a song that trey wrote and then sent to me to embellish with other instruments. in addition to trey and his guitar, i can be found playing the following:keyboard drums electric guitar bass harmonica Near Jasper Saturday, January 20, 2007A Songthat i recorded a while back but have never posted and i think you will all enjoy thoroughlyChase That Ends In Happy Friday, January 19, 2007A SongBut really its just two smashed together sloppily.Fable Wednesday, January 17, 2007A song, I tell ye.An unfortunately incomplete song. It's incomplete because I have no means of recording songs on my computer except with the default windows thing (Sound recorder I think it's called) and it only let's you record 60 seconds. So if the other fellow cadets know of a better and easier (and free) way to record for more than 60 seconds I'd appreciate the information.This is a song written when my morale was down, we shall say. If I would have had the appropriate progam i would recorded it all with more lyrics and stuff. Hope you enjoy. I'll post another one another day when i find it. All the songs I write I write them under the pseudonym "The THX-1138's" after the George Lucas film starring Robert Duvall. A Kiss on the Cheek Tuesday, January 16, 2007Another SongI recorded this a while back. The title is indicative of the state in which it was originated. I added some flourishes yesterday and a bass.Sad Drunken Haste Monday, January 15, 2007A songThis is a song of mine that Trey created some lyrics for. I also sing some.Crushed Up Pills South PittsburgThis is a song I wrote and audacity-ed not 3 hours ago. It's about a boy who visits the town where his dad is buried, while with his dad when he's alive.Near Jasper I still remember the South Pittsburg store On a street with no cars and a horse before the door My mother would get a moonpie with a dime Lookin at old uniforms from a time before my time There was a downstairs where children could not go Whiskey flasks, guns and things that could explode My father would walk up with a new face on his head I'd always think he'd rather be there instead. And when he did die we put him near that ground Some mountain near Jasper where the trees only grew around There was a blue jay starin up in the sky I knew what he was lookin for and then i started to cry We went to gertrude's, to figure out the plan I saw Aunt Hattie's dolls, and all the books she had There was a church nearby that no one still went to A watermelon patch in the front yard overgrew 10 years past and i looked for it all again A few had closed but the one with horse was in I stepped inside and saw the same thing as then Told the lady my name and she told me she knew my kin Sunday, January 07, 2007New McFabulous tracks!!!Hey paarty persons, I've updated my website again. This time around, it's a series of fake unreleased tracks from fake bands on my fake record label, "Jersey C***". Also check out bruce in a skunk suit.http://home.comcast.net/~benmcfad Saturday, December 30, 2006A recent songHer Life NowIt's about my mom. Sunday, December 24, 2006EspaniaI only contributed a tiny part to this, I thought some people might enjoy it.Espania Hunter Daniel - Drums Me - Em Katherine - Bass Alice - Guitar and vocals Kevin - background vocals Brock - the noticably good vocals Bozeman - funk organ Friday, December 22, 2006Hey art party peoples. This is McFabulous, signing in from the great state of Ohio. For those of you who may remember, I hosted the Scandaliz Vandalistz "Porch Fest 06" in Hampton, NJ. Anywho, I thought I'd share some of my electronic werks with everyone. HERE is my website. It's sort of in holiday mode right now, as you can tell by some of the animated .gif files decorating the page. There are a few Good things, a few Christmas things, and a few things I put together in Five minutes. Please enjoy!!!Saturday, December 16, 2006Singing TelegramKatherine and I decided to be entrepreneurs this summer and offer singing telegrams to raise money for the SV funds. Chuck Vicious was the only taker. So Alanna, Katherine and I wrote this for his friend Sam that works at the Quik Mart on Madison. We recorded the telegram for fun (and posterity) with Producer Joe when Katherine came to visit me in Murfreesboro. Katherine plays bass, I play guitar, Charlie drums. Katherine and I both sing. Duh.samsam A SongI made up this little ditty this a long time ago on the finger piano, which is a little african, hollow, body apparatus with an opening directly under some little metallic prongs you pluck with your thumbs. I added a little mini piano which was just a C scale I think, a harmonica, and wind chimes. It's kind of quiet and off rhythm.Song Monday, December 11, 2006urgent!Saturday, December 09, 2006missingmissing%20mp3.mp3Friday, December 08, 2006we do it too (mp3)here's a ditty i wrote about a year ago. it's got a jazzy sound, sort of, what with the walking bassline and vibraphone. it's something that i think sounds pretty cute.again, it's all synth, which makes me sad, but you get the idea certainly. the song is called "we do it too." when i wrote it, i knew what we did too. but i forgot what it is we do... i think it's something hypocritical. what do you think we do too? Wednesday, December 06, 2006A SongChords written by my friends Duncan and Tim, who play acordian and guitar respectivly on this track. I can be found playing the mandolin. I also added those wierd organ hums throughout the song afterwards. I had alot of trouble trying to add drums to this song, so I decided to leave it as it is. The "wind noise" is sort of annoying, as is the 17 seconds of silence intro. Also, the ending is slop.Running Along Tuesday, December 05, 2006concinnityInspired by a nytimes article about a violin maker and a violin etude I have been working on. It was hard to record with everyone practicing for juries in the practice rooms, so you might hear some jazz trumpet in the background if you listen hard enough. There is: guitar, violin (pizz and bowed), voice, and some percussion (which is really just me lightly banging on the f-holes of my violin).string%20theory%20v.3.mp3 Monday, December 04, 2006happy clamphased guitar and lip whistle.<3 katherine happy%20clam%20mp3.mp3 Wednesday, November 29, 2006i could sleep forevera roughish recording.love, katherine i%20could%20sleep%20forever%20rough.mp3 Monday, November 27, 2006Eastern LandscapesEastern Landscapes.mp3I recorded this acoustic guitar rhythm in New Standard Tuning while messing around with it one day. For anyone unfamiliar with NST, it was devised by Robert Fripp (probably best known for being the creative impetus behind King Krimson) to balance the advantages of students enlisted at his "League of Crafty Guitarists". The tuning is in 5ths like a cello or mandolin, CGDAE, with the bottom string being tuned up to a G, which is a minor 3rd (which actually requires a higher gage string as I found after breaking about 4). Pretty much every chord you play is an inversion, and scale patterns make a little more sense. This song is very simple and in C I believe with the exclusion of one little repeated bridge where it gets dark. After recording the acoustic rhythm, I sent the file to a bunch of musician and/or creative friends of mine and asked that they add something to it to see how each would approach the song. The version I ended up using (and adding all the wierd kitchen percussion and toneless slide gutiar to) has lyrics by Trey Kirk, who also did all that vocal distortion himself which I haipply left in unaltered. This was a departure for me, mainly because most of my songs are vaguely structureless and, for lack of a better term, exist as nothing more than crude "sound collages" I create by sloppily layering transitions and harmonies together. I wanted to make an actual "song" with a little more continuity and tradition (although there are some wierd parts too I'm sure you'll like). Friday, November 24, 2006Gwildor's Funeral DirgeThis is a song I made a while back but recently decided to open up and tinker around with.Gwildor's Funeral Dirge Monday, November 20, 2006The March of PlantsThis is another conceptual song i made. sort of a "mrs o leary's cow" almost.The March Of Plants i play all the instruments myself, those included: guitar keyboard organ mandolin bass drums Wednesday, November 15, 2006A song (mp3)I recorded this with my friend Kevin in about the span of two hours with no forethought. We were bored and decided to make a song with "multiple parts" and "transitions" and this is what we came up with. The title is some quickly contrived pun on 2 Jethro Tull albums.Passionate As A Brick Thursday, November 02, 2006joy in simple things (mp3)this is a song that cadet kat and i wrote together in spring 2005. it can be found on our band Scandaliz Vandalistz's album, I Forgot Where I Was Going So I Came Back, which we released indepedently in august. violin by cadet alice, guitar by katherine, vocals by me and katherine.lyrics: Middle of July, the fireworks are over Running around in circles Simply waiting for Godot And I was feeling kind of numb Taking an icy shower Then I heard a knocking on the door Whoever is it? It was you Hey look, I've got a shovel and a pail Why don't we sail, And look for whales? No use waiting for something that never comes At the beach, we'll have some fun Don't be blue The sky is blue So don't be blue The sun is shining down So lovely to be with you Before you came I was a mess Worrying over nothing But to hear the tap of your feet along the boardwalk shows me joy in simple things I found Godot a while ago with you étude no. 1 (mp3)this is an étude for piano and cello that i wrote about a year ago as well. it's an étude because it's highly technical and maddening.the american heritage dictionary defines maddening as "Tending to drive insane." i think you'll agree. i'd love to have a talented cellist and pianist play this for me. if you know any, i can deliver manuscripts unto you. Tuesday, October 31, 2006banana royale (mp3)here is a short ditty that i wrote whilst at home in new york during the irrelevant autumn (katrina) semester last year. it's called "banana royale," as it has a sort of regal tone. yet it has the word banana in it because i'm just ridiculous. |