Keith Snyder

Yesterday I waited even longer than usual for a client to get back to me with an approval--so while I was killing time, I fired up Digital Performer and made a 90-second piece of music.

From scratch.

That has nothing to do with any current project.

I can't remember the last time I worked on music that wasn't for one of my two screen musical projects. CUPID & PSYCHE, the feature, was what I'd constantly be working on during most of 2004, and then it was CREDO for the first few months of 2005. Something new? Something that didn't need a melody and a through-line? Something absolutely unattached to any larger purpose?

Blink blink. Say what?

OK, so 4/4 boom-boom-crack, kick and snare. That's fun. Use the Vinyl kit so it's got oldskool pops and crackles on it. (Oldskool pops and crackles are, in my opinion, way done--but so's everything else, so hellwiddit.)

Then I remembered a thread at SynthSights, a Yahoo Group I'm on, in which a series of notes was proposed as a starting point for everybody to make pieces of music. Nobody did, but I was in a kitchen-sink mood, so I grabbed the note series, hocketed it into two basslines, brass stabs, and organ parts, and went scouring the hard drive for AIFF files.

Found one of Kathleen saying "Le chat dit miao!" and one of Larry doing a hearty opera laugh for a LeapFrog issue. Threw those in. One of me saying "HAH!" pitch-shifted and formant-corrected to sound like an elf. Gunshots and thunder noises left over from CREDO. Blend and pour. Violin outtakes, also from CREDO. An audio story from a few years ago. A goofy track I did for LeapFrog called HOW MANY PEACHES. Stick 'em in there, what the hell.

Damn, that was fun. Advantages of doing everything on a laptop--when the client doesn't respond, you can make blender music at Starbucks and drive your engine clean.

"Blender music" means "too chock-full of copyright violations to share."

"Drive your engine clean" means it's big and loud and stupid.

Back to the paying project and the CUPID & PSYCHE string parts...

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