This photo, I found by delving into a folder which was originally on the blog which I lost, after being accused of being a troll by the guy who moderates the "help, my blog was deleted" forum for Blogger bloggers.
Bloggers photos were hosted by Picassa web albums.
But, when Google bought Picassa, I guess they bought my photos from 12 years ago.
The blog is gone, but the photos remain.
Southern Decadence Festival
It is Sunday night and it is raining lightly outside, if I didn't already have an excuse for not going out to busk.
I'm working on a piece of music where I am trying to follow in the footsteps of Hip Hop artists, who composed the music that was heard on the radio, often using equipment no better than my laptop and my Snowball microphone.
I have made a background track by taking a short melody played on my guitar, dropping some of its notes down an octave to make a bass line, and then measuring the time between each note I played, down to the millisecond, so I could adjust them so that they are in perfect time.
Some of them were only a couple of milliseconds off the way I played them, which is comforting. I worried about my sense of timing being off, but have concluded that it is a lot better now that I am not smoking weed.
Now I just have to "sample" sounds from Harold the cat meowing, to the squeaking of the hinges of my front door, a note or two from a Beatles song, and maybe a snippet from a symphony.
These, I can slow down, speed up, raise or lower the pitch of, reverse, add distortion to, but most assuredly repeat. Repeat repeat repeat; the cornerstone to a Hip Hop song.
I will hopefully learn stuff that I can use when making real music.
I guess I never really listened to Hip Hop and wondered what is that sound, and how did they make it?
I will gain a new respect for Dr. Dre if I discover that it's not so easy to make a "beat"
Out of time Uxi Duxi closing....
OK for one thing, look at the angles, Steven King is looking downward a bit, so his mouth naturally looks more smiley.
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