Fractal Radio | Episode 14 – Shortcut to your Nostalgia Circuits

 


So I was doin a bit of studying and stumbled on a U2 song with a sweet and simple (somewhat trite) lyrics ‘you’ve been everywhere.’ Which got me to pondering the funny way music and glib phrasing allows us to overlay our own lives and interpretations over a piece.

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I’m not much of a U2 fan but here’s the song so you get a better feel for what I mean.

Again Again (Original Lyrics and Song Demo)


The result of a brief little jam session I was able to squeeze in last night.

I made it on the fly and just now wrote down the lyrics for those who prefer poems to songs.

DAW (i guess it’s a DAW) – Audacity (Effects – compression, equalization, reverb (or echo IDR) )

Instruments – Guitar, Violin, Vocals


Lyrics

All the puzzle pieces are such familiar places

I use them to make traces of my past

And that’s the path I walk on

In repetitious circles

I just go round and round and round

Sometimes I think that

That I have found

 A line that is straight

But I’m still on the ground

I’m still going round

 O Yea

Wait a little while with me

Wait a little while and see

The magic of a symmetry

Of 3 and 6 and 0 degree

 

Is the wine any less fine

Just because you’ve tasted it

Once more

Once more

So come on by and knock on

And knock on my old door

So come on by and let’s sit

Let’s sit on my floor

Let’s pourout all the whiskey

Pour it into dirty cups

Let’s pull out a bit of a bit of something

That we never ever ever grow weary of

All these starry thoughts

Of forever… and above…. and beyond…. and between….

In the light of the trees

And the evenings cool cool cool breeze

I am waiting waiting you are waiting waiting

Why are waiting

Why are we frustrating

When we could

Be turning round as the wheel

And to feel what is real

Is the motion of eternal

Again … again


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Fractal Radio| Episode 7 – Caught in a Storm with Goethe and Bach (Music and Ideas)

 


Lucky that I was close to a Gazebo when the downpour started. Gave me an opportunity for some nice atmospherics and I recorded a couple of musical bits for you. Which I used as a transition to talk about Goethe, Bach, enlightenment values, and make a brief critique of modern nostrums regarding prose.


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Artie – Steampunk Concept and Musical Theme


The recording is a voice memo I left to myself Thursday night after listening to Matt Elliots drinking songs and trying to fall asleep. I also added a slideshow of hastily sketched concept art set to a little musical theme I worked out on acoustic guitar.


Story Introduction

Artie grew up in a grimy city. His toys always broke. The children of the better off would often mock him. He vowed that one day he would break all their toys.

He was good with his hands and a passionate tinkerer. A hobby that came from equal parts necessity and genius. With this gift, he would make toys, toys which soon sprang to life with the minutest whirring of gears.

When the machine wars came and society became even more bifurcated Artie would finally get to break all their toys.

Of his chief companions and tools is Cecilia a mechanical spider with highly dextrous arms abuzz with a Luddite itch.


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Fractal Radio| Episode 4 – Sustainable Bags


 

In this episode…

1) Fiddling

2) Virtue Signaling

3) Virtual Water and E-guilt

4) Why is it so satisfying to create art, music, prose, code, furniture whatever…

5) Strategies for maintaining creativity

6) The New Yorker Cover Art

6) The plight of native populations in the Amazon according to a lazy writer

7) Wetlands are a litmus for social and environmental health

8) The shill – please support if can/want cause stuff costs money and I like beer


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References

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140403-brazil-peru-amazon-rainforest-uncontacted-tribes-finai-illegal-logging-world/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/07/author_s-surprising-journey-reveals-the-dark-side-of-the-amazon/

http://www.kimmacquarrie.com/peruvian-journalist-suggests-napalming-amazonian-natives/

Drink the Wine (Poem and Song)


So you’ve got some wine and you’ve got some time

But you just won’t drink it in

Cause you’re always waiting for some dream to begin

Yea excuse you need an excuse for each and every use

Cause tasting grapes for the sake of life

Is a foul abuse

So you take a knife

And cut a portion

Carefully and gingerly

To keep up with the notion

That you’d better be so very spare with joy

Because you can’t stare at the common fact

That we’re a million miles from Troy

And each and every act Is a circle and a line

So you’ll sit and wait and wait and wait

And you won’t drink the wine


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Fractal Radio| Episode II – Friday Fuzz


Yeah Laurie Anderson’s music is more coherent” -Moldovan Peasant-

There is music! If one can call it that.

My internet was being slow so I guess it’s more Saturday fuzz at this point.

Just a bit of fun where I discuss the woes of setting up a non-private domain and make a couple of jam tracks.

Stefan Mischook does a much better video on the techie thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA1IJS5R5DI


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Miles From October (Super Rough Song Version)


Many of my poems start as little tunes I come up with to a simple chordy background.

On January 12th I dedicated my book The Sketch of Sam Monroe to Terrence McKenna. I had no idea that Dennis McKenna would be on the Joe Rogan Experience today. Which happens to be the day when I finish part one of the book a work spanning months and being some hundred pages in length.

I’ll continue to post on Tuesday and Thursday. The book is free to read on my website http://www.fractaljournal.com Hope you enjoy my barbaric little song (i felt like celebrating with a rough draft release) thanks so much for stopping by.

Miles From October (The Poem)


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Hanging with Cecilia – Moody Piano Impromptu and Poem


There’s a wee spider beneath my keyboard…

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so I’m…

Hanging With Cecilia…

Lady Cecilia Meenor Spider spun her silken web

Lady Cecilia Meenor Spider controlled the flow and ebb

Of the weird ocean known as time

Even though lady Cecilia Meenor Spider was no greater than a Dime

Running up and down and back and forth

Up to the south

and down to the north

For gravity, she had nothing but derision

For all her, goings were her own decision

Lady Cecilia Meenor Spider

This masterful seamstress

Was a divine glider

Keeping the magic staying distress

Though the fly’s plight might seem tragic

When caught in her net

His permutation for her satiation

Is a communion without regret

Drunk on her poison feeling no pain

The six-legged flyer releases his soul but not in vain

For Cecilia spider has sent him on home

Where he’s a light beneath a magnificent dome

Thus is the keeping of time and its half

So darling don’t fear

For death is a laugh

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Image Credits: https://torasaurr.deviantart.com/art/Fancy-Spider-334495559

https://catherinetterings.deviantart.com/art/Steampunk-Spider-Watch-Lapel-Pin-343441685