MefiMusicDuel
April 20, 2012 8:12 PM
I think we should have some musical duels.
Maybe it's the second Martini talking but I love the idea of musical duels. The challenger issues a challenge; the challengee responds with a counter challenge. A default is a loss. Winner stays on.
Sort of inspired by Chococat talking about belting in the Creep thread over on the Blue. Desperately wanted to hear some Chococat belting. Impotent to produce it.
Man, I love Martinis.
posted by unSane (87 comments total)
Maybe it's the second Martini talking but I love the idea of musical duels. The challenger issues a challenge; the challengee responds with a counter challenge. A default is a loss. Winner stays on.
Sort of inspired by Chococat talking about belting in the Creep thread over on the Blue. Desperately wanted to hear some Chococat belting. Impotent to produce it.
Man, I love Martinis.
oh my
posted by chococat at 11:50 AM on April 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
posted by chococat at 11:50 AM on April 21, 2012 [2 favorites]
Ah yes, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Totally Wrecked. A condition I'm embarrasingly familiar with. You are hereby forgiven and excused.
If it's any comfort, I narrowly averted what would have been, sober, a horribly maudlin upload on Friday night based on a bit of Pete Frame-style You Tube surfing. A jaunt that took me from Colin Blunstone via The Zombies (Rod Argent) and Argent (Russ Ballard and Bob Henritt) to Unit 4 + 2 and this charmingly innocent, gauchly literal (a construction site, I ask you) and entirely artless piece of pure nostalgia from the days before things got quite so cynical and corporate. I think it was going to form the centrepiece of a rant against overchoreographed, blinged-up, risk-managed Cowellshit culminating in an invitation to others to reveal their nostalgic triggers. But I didn't. Whew.
posted by MajorDundee at 1:12 PM on April 22, 2012
If it's any comfort, I narrowly averted what would have been, sober, a horribly maudlin upload on Friday night based on a bit of Pete Frame-style You Tube surfing. A jaunt that took me from Colin Blunstone via The Zombies (Rod Argent) and Argent (Russ Ballard and Bob Henritt) to Unit 4 + 2 and this charmingly innocent, gauchly literal (a construction site, I ask you) and entirely artless piece of pure nostalgia from the days before things got quite so cynical and corporate. I think it was going to form the centrepiece of a rant against overchoreographed, blinged-up, risk-managed Cowellshit culminating in an invitation to others to reveal their nostalgic triggers. But I didn't. Whew.
posted by MajorDundee at 1:12 PM on April 22, 2012
Oh, fuck, I came across that Concrete & Clay video a couple of weeks ago and posted it to Facebook... SO GREAT... not just the construction site but the SUITS... they all look like members of the Young Conservatives or the local Board of Commerce.
I'd still like to hear Chococat doing some showtunes a la Ethel Merman though.
posted by unSane at 5:07 PM on April 22, 2012
I'd still like to hear Chococat doing some showtunes a la Ethel Merman though.
posted by unSane at 5:07 PM on April 22, 2012
I thought they just looked like half-a-dozen young 'erberts with office jobs amazed at sudden success and not quite sure what to make of it all. I found it oddly touching for some reason - the innocence of it and all so very long ago now.... Love the geezers in the background now and then with flat caps - you can almost hear them muttering about "bloody long 'aired layabouts, out to be in the fuckin' army, never did me any 'arm"
The Ethel Merman Sings Chococat idea is a cracker. I'd also like to hear George Formby Gives UnSane A Thick Ear While He's Cleaning Windows 7. Not to say Henry Crun: My Personal Tribute To Flapjax At Midnight. I could go on, but unfortunately it's the working week so I'm stone cold sober.
posted by MajorDundee at 12:43 PM on April 23, 2012
The Ethel Merman Sings Chococat idea is a cracker. I'd also like to hear George Formby Gives UnSane A Thick Ear While He's Cleaning Windows 7. Not to say Henry Crun: My Personal Tribute To Flapjax At Midnight. I could go on, but unfortunately it's the working week so I'm stone cold sober.
posted by MajorDundee at 12:43 PM on April 23, 2012
I want to see someone post a link to a single instrument recording, and then someone else responds "I've got it for two hours" and has to return with a link to a dual instrument recording (or else forfeit), and so on, until we have something desperately, desperately pointless and awful.
but I never get what I want
posted by davejay at 2:46 PM on April 24, 2012
but I never get what I want
posted by davejay at 2:46 PM on April 24, 2012
and, uh, the dual instrument recording is their own single instrument added to the original single instrument, just in case that wasn't clear
posted by davejay at 2:47 PM on April 24, 2012
posted by davejay at 2:47 PM on April 24, 2012
Wait, so is this like exquisite corpse/layer tennis, or something else? That sounds kind of cool.
posted by Doleful Creature at 4:03 PM on April 24, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 4:03 PM on April 24, 2012
I'd happily do my worst at whatever counter-challenge might be the price to hear MajorDundee Sings Any Song From INXS's First Album, Backed By CarrotAdventure's Interpretation of the Sweet New Wave Synth Riffs of Andrew Farriss.
(A strange game...the only winning move is...not to play.)
posted by mubba at 6:39 PM on April 25, 2012
(A strange game...the only winning move is...not to play.)
posted by mubba at 6:39 PM on April 25, 2012
Ok, this is maybe going off on a tangent, but remember that website "in Bb"? What if there was a MetaFilter version of that.
Call it M# or MetaChordProject or something rad like that. Someone creates the guidelines (single key, chord, whatevs), then everybody has like a week to create a track (preferably a youtube of you actually playing it if possible!) and then it all gets compiled onto one page.
posted by Doleful Creature at 11:53 AM on April 26, 2012
Call it M# or MetaChordProject or something rad like that. Someone creates the guidelines (single key, chord, whatevs), then everybody has like a week to create a track (preferably a youtube of you actually playing it if possible!) and then it all gets compiled onto one page.
posted by Doleful Creature at 11:53 AM on April 26, 2012
what The World Famous said. Either there'd have to be a prearranged order to send the files, or... something. Maybe via dropbox would be easier, uploading the additional files and numbering each additional take... I dunno.
I kind of like the duel idea, but I'm trying to think of a way that it could be done where it's more inclusive than exclusive. Coming up with a title/style that's a funny contrast to what someone normally posts is great, but it also is heavily skewed towards people who are already frequent contributors or who have a distinct sound. My personal desire for the challenges is to come up with ideas that get more people contributing or commenting.
I like the idea of more mini-challenges - doleful creature's seapunk suggestion was a good one, i thought - but wonder if there's a risk that more challenges results in fewer submissions per challenge. According to the tags, there were 6 submissions for Feb, 5 for March, and 3 for April (thus far). So 14 songs out of 141 posted in that same time frame.
posted by dubold at 12:04 PM on April 26, 2012
I kind of like the duel idea, but I'm trying to think of a way that it could be done where it's more inclusive than exclusive. Coming up with a title/style that's a funny contrast to what someone normally posts is great, but it also is heavily skewed towards people who are already frequent contributors or who have a distinct sound. My personal desire for the challenges is to come up with ideas that get more people contributing or commenting.
I like the idea of more mini-challenges - doleful creature's seapunk suggestion was a good one, i thought - but wonder if there's a risk that more challenges results in fewer submissions per challenge. According to the tags, there were 6 submissions for Feb, 5 for March, and 3 for April (thus far). So 14 songs out of 141 posted in that same time frame.
posted by dubold at 12:04 PM on April 26, 2012
FWIW, I consider the seapunk mini-challenge to be an open challenge, in that I'm still working on my personal opus in that hallowed genre.
posted by Doleful Creature at 12:44 PM on April 26, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 12:44 PM on April 26, 2012
Wait, so is this like exquisite corpse/layer tennis, or something else? That sounds kind of cool.
Yeah, totally that.
This would be awesome, but a two-hour window would mean there's no way a lot of us could participate, given limited times when we can actually get with our music gear and do the thing.
Yeah; the idea is to allow someone with the time and the inclination to "block off" a given window of time in the moment, enough time to do something interesting, but not enough time to obsess over it or have it interfere with life too much..and of course if the time expires without that person posting, then someone else can claim it.
Two hours feels right to me, but that's negotiable; the important thing is that, for each layer, someone else can grab it, and everyone knows it has been grabbed so nobody wastes effort (like that one person who grabs an image in layer tennis, works on it, then comes back to find three other people have already extended the same image.) Gotta have some kind of time constraint, to accommodate the fact that music production has longer turnaround time, even when half-assed.
Having said that, this is probably more a fantasy than an executable idea, but I find myself tempted. Heh, or have a prearranged time that a single instrument will be posted, then give everyone one hour to do whatever they want to it, and collect 'em all and assemble them into a cacophonous nightmare. That would probably the opposite of anything good, though.
posted by davejay at 1:05 PM on April 26, 2012
Yeah, totally that.
This would be awesome, but a two-hour window would mean there's no way a lot of us could participate, given limited times when we can actually get with our music gear and do the thing.
Yeah; the idea is to allow someone with the time and the inclination to "block off" a given window of time in the moment, enough time to do something interesting, but not enough time to obsess over it or have it interfere with life too much..and of course if the time expires without that person posting, then someone else can claim it.
Two hours feels right to me, but that's negotiable; the important thing is that, for each layer, someone else can grab it, and everyone knows it has been grabbed so nobody wastes effort (like that one person who grabs an image in layer tennis, works on it, then comes back to find three other people have already extended the same image.) Gotta have some kind of time constraint, to accommodate the fact that music production has longer turnaround time, even when half-assed.
Having said that, this is probably more a fantasy than an executable idea, but I find myself tempted. Heh, or have a prearranged time that a single instrument will be posted, then give everyone one hour to do whatever they want to it, and collect 'em all and assemble them into a cacophonous nightmare. That would probably the opposite of anything good, though.
posted by davejay at 1:05 PM on April 26, 2012
Oh, and the whole thing isn't over in two hours, or a day, or however long the time period is; that's just how long someone can claim the file to work on exclusively.
posted by davejay at 1:06 PM on April 26, 2012
posted by davejay at 1:06 PM on April 26, 2012
Ok so who's gonna start this hoedown?
posted by Doleful Creature at 3:05 PM on April 26, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 3:05 PM on April 26, 2012
I've got a really simple repetitive guitar riff (quite a good one) which I'm happy to donate. It's two simple chords that really could be taken in any direction. I've been trying to come up with something to go over it and failing. I could post it tomorrow AM if it would work. I might just post eight bars of it, say... it's the kind of thing that's extremely easy to chop up.
posted by unSane at 5:53 PM on April 26, 2012
posted by unSane at 5:53 PM on April 26, 2012
Do it. WHy not? If nobody picks it up, then I look like an idiot, and if I get home from work and nobody's picked it up, then I'm totally picking it up.
posted by davejay at 9:21 PM on April 26, 2012
posted by davejay at 9:21 PM on April 26, 2012
Is dropbox an option? that way there's a central repository for all the files...
posted by dubold at 1:00 AM on April 27, 2012
posted by dubold at 1:00 AM on April 27, 2012
Oh darn, I can't because I already posted this week. Maybe someone else can do it.
Anyway, here's the initial MP3.
I've created a shared dropbox folder, so anyone who wants access just needs to memail me with their email address and I'll give access. It's a 320 kbps mp3 but I can do an aiff if required.
Corpse-unSane.mp3
130bpm. The chords are Dm and G. It's just an 8-bar section looped for about a minute. The count at the beginning is just to help you line it up if you need to.
Should I make a song post with it or not?
posted by unSane at 6:32 AM on April 27, 2012
Anyway, here's the initial MP3.
I've created a shared dropbox folder, so anyone who wants access just needs to memail me with their email address and I'll give access. It's a 320 kbps mp3 but I can do an aiff if required.
Corpse-unSane.mp3
130bpm. The chords are Dm and G. It's just an 8-bar section looped for about a minute. The count at the beginning is just to help you line it up if you need to.
Should I make a song post with it or not?
posted by unSane at 6:32 AM on April 27, 2012
For convenience, I say leave it here in this thread, and don't make a song post about it until it has sat idle for 48 hours, at which point we call it done. That's my two cents, anyway.
Oh, and: I hereby claim the track until 10:15AM PDT (two hours from this comment.) I'll post my contribution back to this thread.
posted by davejay at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2012
Oh, and: I hereby claim the track until 10:15AM PDT (two hours from this comment.) I'll post my contribution back to this thread.
posted by davejay at 8:15 AM on April 27, 2012
Still a 320 kbps mp3, the second half is the first half, repeated...
Corpse-round-two.mp3 -- unSane's contribution and mine, mixed.
Corpse-davejay.mp3 -- my contribution by itself for prosperity.
Whoever wants it next, claim Corpse-round-two.mp3 and get to work! Don't forget to give unSane your email address so you can upload to the shared dropbox folder.
Suggestion: when you write out your mp3 ID tag, use the same tag info and add your credit to the comments.
posted by davejay at 9:43 AM on April 27, 2012
Corpse-round-two.mp3 -- unSane's contribution and mine, mixed.
Corpse-davejay.mp3 -- my contribution by itself for prosperity.
Whoever wants it next, claim Corpse-round-two.mp3 and get to work! Don't forget to give unSane your email address so you can upload to the shared dropbox folder.
Suggestion: when you write out your mp3 ID tag, use the same tag info and add your credit to the comments.
posted by davejay at 9:43 AM on April 27, 2012
Thinking about it again, I suppose you could ask the mods to sidebar it to increase the contribution likelihood. Or make a new post pointing back to this one...I dunno, really. And we could maybe post each layer to Music, with a link back to this thread...what do you think?
posted by davejay at 9:45 AM on April 27, 2012
posted by davejay at 9:45 AM on April 27, 2012
Could just do the one post in music, and add each layer as a comment - that way it's all in one place?
posted by dubold at 10:02 AM on April 27, 2012
posted by dubold at 10:02 AM on April 27, 2012
Ok, as of this posting I've got it for the next two hours (sorry TWF).
posted by Doleful Creature at 8:08 PM on April 27, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 8:08 PM on April 27, 2012
Well I haven't heard back from unSane on the dropbox access yet so I've just added it to mine, can move it over later to keep things consistent but I didn't want anybody to miss out on doing the next layer, so here it is:
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 10:25 PM on April 27, 2012
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 10:25 PM on April 27, 2012
Whoops, let's try that again:
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 10:26 PM on April 27, 2012
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 10:26 PM on April 27, 2012
Sorry, was asleep! You've got access.
I'm on EST if anyone's wondering.
posted by unSane at 4:55 AM on April 28, 2012
I'm on EST if anyone's wondering.
posted by unSane at 4:55 AM on April 28, 2012
And here's the dropbox link:
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:30 AM on April 28, 2012
Corpse-round-three.mp3
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:30 AM on April 28, 2012
corpse round 4 mp3
I hope it's not unlistenably bassy, did most of it with really cheap headphones on and only did a wee test through the speakers afterwards as it's pretty late.
posted by pmcp at 7:33 PM on April 28, 2012 [1 favorite]
I hope it's not unlistenably bassy, did most of it with really cheap headphones on and only did a wee test through the speakers afterwards as it's pretty late.
posted by pmcp at 7:33 PM on April 28, 2012 [1 favorite]
Yes someone needs to add vox post haste
posted by Doleful Creature at 3:25 PM on April 29, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 3:25 PM on April 29, 2012
corpse_round_five
Swirly phaser arpeggio. Tried to think of what Tangerine Dream would do with Captain Beefheart...
posted by dubold at 3:07 AM on April 30, 2012 [1 favorite]
Swirly phaser arpeggio. Tried to think of what Tangerine Dream would do with Captain Beefheart...
posted by dubold at 3:07 AM on April 30, 2012 [1 favorite]
Am I allowed to do two tracks? Okay, if nobody else grabs it, I'll see what I can pull off tonight. Can't promise scat, though.
posted by davejay at 12:01 PM on April 30, 2012
posted by davejay at 12:01 PM on April 30, 2012
Reminder - if you've done a track, memail for dropbox access and put a track with your contribution on its own in there. That way we can remix.
posted by unSane at 12:05 PM on April 30, 2012
posted by unSane at 12:05 PM on April 30, 2012
By remix he means "make my guitar louder" :)
Thought this was going towards Fela Kuti when the horn came it, but it took an abrupt and interesting turn with the hyper beat laid down. I like where it's headed.
posted by grog at 5:02 PM on April 30, 2012
Thought this was going towards Fela Kuti when the horn came it, but it took an abrupt and interesting turn with the hyper beat laid down. I like where it's headed.
posted by grog at 5:02 PM on April 30, 2012
ha, actually I wanted to do more of a fading parts in and out thing.
I haven't been keeping up -- do we have a bassline yet?
I love the beat, whoever added that.
posted by unSane at 5:06 PM on April 30, 2012
I haven't been keeping up -- do we have a bassline yet?
I love the beat, whoever added that.
posted by unSane at 5:06 PM on April 30, 2012
I feel like it needs Flapjax wailing incoherently over it. I'm pretty sure he could do 'Oh Death' since he can do it over anything.
posted by unSane at 5:07 PM on April 30, 2012
posted by unSane at 5:07 PM on April 30, 2012
Hey! Whoa! This whole thing escaped my notice til now (thanks, unsane, for flagging me down).
So, just listened to corpse_round_five. I love it! Kickass! I'd be thrilled to wail over it, sure!
Downloading the mp3 now. So, we're just adding our track(s) to the mp3 and reposting here? Is that it?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:15 PM on April 30, 2012
So, just listened to corpse_round_five. I love it! Kickass! I'd be thrilled to wail over it, sure!
Downloading the mp3 now. So, we're just adding our track(s) to the mp3 and reposting here? Is that it?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:15 PM on April 30, 2012
yep -- there's also a dropbox thing going on if you use that
basically, slather your stuff on top of the mp3 and also post it as a solo track to the dropbox account. so we basically end up with a rough mix and a bunch of stems.
I'll send you an invite.
posted by unSane at 5:20 PM on April 30, 2012
basically, slather your stuff on top of the mp3 and also post it as a solo track to the dropbox account. so we basically end up with a rough mix and a bunch of stems.
I'll send you an invite.
posted by unSane at 5:20 PM on April 30, 2012
I woke up with a terribly hoarse throat this morning and was toying with the idea of some stream of consciousness nonsense, Beefheart impersonations but luckily for us all I didn't have time.
Go flapjax!
posted by pmcp at 5:48 PM on April 30, 2012
Go flapjax!
posted by pmcp at 5:48 PM on April 30, 2012
By the way, if anyone needs more than a minute, feel free to chop it up and loop it.
posted by unSane at 6:56 PM on April 30, 2012
posted by unSane at 6:56 PM on April 30, 2012
FAM, don't forget to tell us how long you are claiming it for, so that nobody gets impatient and steals your thunder. Two hours is the standard so far, but that's not a hard and fast rule. And thanks for joining!
posted by davejay at 10:08 PM on April 30, 2012
posted by davejay at 10:08 PM on April 30, 2012
I added my stem to the dropbox folder, now.
IDEA: Get a few more rounds of layers and stems going (definitely some vocals, maybe some more bass and percussions and some other random stuff) then:
Everybody who contributed a layer takes all the layers and make their own remix of the whole thing. You can chop it up and add as many effects as you want, but no more new layers (unless you're like overdubbing existing layers or something). Basically it becomes a whole album of different tracks all based on the same set of things.
I realize this could be way harder to execute but pretty pretty please
posted by Doleful Creature at 12:03 AM on May 1, 2012 [2 favorites]
IDEA: Get a few more rounds of layers and stems going (definitely some vocals, maybe some more bass and percussions and some other random stuff) then:
Everybody who contributed a layer takes all the layers and make their own remix of the whole thing. You can chop it up and add as many effects as you want, but no more new layers (unless you're like overdubbing existing layers or something). Basically it becomes a whole album of different tracks all based on the same set of things.
I realize this could be way harder to execute but pretty pretty please
posted by Doleful Creature at 12:03 AM on May 1, 2012 [2 favorites]
By the way, if anyone needs more than a minute, feel free to chop it up and loop it.
Well, unSane, I took that advice and kinda ran with it. Don't know if I violated the spirit of the thing, though... I sliced and diced and chopped and stirred and kinda turned it into a *song* fer chrissakes. Well, anyway, here's the mix I came up with:
I'm Thinking of a Number
And here's the vocal track only.
If I didn't do this quite right, guys, apologies!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:40 AM on May 1, 2012
Well, unSane, I took that advice and kinda ran with it. Don't know if I violated the spirit of the thing, though... I sliced and diced and chopped and stirred and kinda turned it into a *song* fer chrissakes. Well, anyway, here's the mix I came up with:
I'm Thinking of a Number
And here's the vocal track only.
If I didn't do this quite right, guys, apologies!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 12:40 AM on May 1, 2012
Thanks, dubold. I spent about three hours on it, start to finish.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:17 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:17 AM on May 1, 2012
Ha, that's fantastic, Flapjax -- it just turned into a song.
That arrangement really rocks -- I'd love to hear some dub plate echoes on it.. King Tubby style.
Can I put dibs on doing a bassline? I won't have time until tonight but I've got one in my head.
posted by unSane at 7:13 AM on May 1, 2012
That arrangement really rocks -- I'd love to hear some dub plate echoes on it.. King Tubby style.
Can I put dibs on doing a bassline? I won't have time until tonight but I've got one in my head.
posted by unSane at 7:13 AM on May 1, 2012
BASS! How low can you GO? unSane! Wha-what a brother know!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:15 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:15 AM on May 1, 2012
That's killer, Flapjax.
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:35 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:35 AM on May 1, 2012
That arrangement really rocks -- I'd love to hear some dub plate echoes on it.. King Tubby style.
Yeah, I wanted to go further with the odd bits of delay I added but I didn't want to totally drown everyone out.
posted by pmcp at 7:36 AM on May 1, 2012
Yeah, I wanted to go further with the odd bits of delay I added but I didn't want to totally drown everyone out.
posted by pmcp at 7:36 AM on May 1, 2012
Yeah, that was thoughtful. That's why having the stems is so useful. Layering on the original file gives the whole thing a kind of unity but it's nice to be able to re-engineer it too.
posted by unSane at 7:46 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by unSane at 7:46 AM on May 1, 2012
Listening to the latest version of this...well, goddamn I wish I wasn't at work right now. Not sure how I'll add something else to this with the kids asleep tonight, but I'm gonna find a way (assuming nobody else grabs it first; this is NOT me calling dibs.)
posted by davejay at 9:37 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by davejay at 9:37 AM on May 1, 2012
I'll definitely post when I grab it to do bass so absent that it's wide open...
posted by unSane at 9:41 AM on May 1, 2012
posted by unSane at 9:41 AM on May 1, 2012
It struck me that this is basically like checking out software. We could do a whole open source thing with trunks and forks and dev versions. Man, that would be nerdy.
posted by unSane at 9:41 AM on May 1, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by unSane at 9:41 AM on May 1, 2012 [3 favorites]
I think that was inevitable since the original riff was very static and repetitive. I did have a bunch of other bits that I could have put in to make a song but it felt like they were driving it in too specific a direction and I sort of saw it as a piece of lego which others could add to. What flapjax did was to take the tall pile that had been built and make something wonderful with it... I suspect that this is quite likely to be the way it always goes... you build a sort of critical mass of building blocks and eventually someone listens to it and goes 'I CAN BUILD SOMETHING WITH THAT'.
If so, it could be an interesting way to build songs.
posted by unSane at 10:59 AM on May 1, 2012
If so, it could be an interesting way to build songs.
posted by unSane at 10:59 AM on May 1, 2012
Shit....totally missed this. Perhaps there'll be another bus along shortly.....or three at once..
posted by MajorDundee at 12:25 PM on May 1, 2012
posted by MajorDundee at 12:25 PM on May 1, 2012
Major Dundee, you haven't missed a thing. At the moment, nobody has claimed it, so grab it, say "I have it for the next two hours" and then post your changed version. There's no set membership or direction, and it only ends when nobody feels like claiming it again. So add a layer!
posted by davejay at 7:57 PM on May 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by davejay at 7:57 PM on May 1, 2012 [1 favorite]
I'm not getting to the bassline any time soon so if someone wants to have a go at that, go right ahead. If I manage to carve out time I'll just post that I snagged it.
posted by unSane at 8:10 PM on May 1, 2012
posted by unSane at 8:10 PM on May 1, 2012
Major Dundee, you haven't missed a thing. At the moment, nobody has claimed it, so grab it, say "I have it for the next two hours" and then post your changed version. There's no set membership or direction, and it only ends when nobody feels like claiming it again. So add a layer!
Absolutely -- I feel like it needs another guitar part, actually.
posted by unSane at 8:11 PM on May 1, 2012
Absolutely -- I feel like it needs another guitar part, actually.
posted by unSane at 8:11 PM on May 1, 2012
(in a way the 'stacked' mp3 is really just a scratchpad -- I'm definitely intending to take this apart and mix it back again)
posted by unSane at 8:27 PM on May 1, 2012
posted by unSane at 8:27 PM on May 1, 2012
Kids are asleep and I'm feeling synth-bassy. Claiming it for the next hour or so.
posted by davejay at 9:42 PM on May 1, 2012
posted by davejay at 9:42 PM on May 1, 2012
I'm definitely intending to take this apart and mix it back again
I sprayed up her body, I strenghtened the frame
I stripped her right down and I built her up again
-Richard Thompson, MGB-GT
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:51 PM on May 1, 2012
I sprayed up her body, I strenghtened the frame
I stripped her right down and I built her up again
-Richard Thompson, MGB-GT
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:51 PM on May 1, 2012
Synthy Bass added
Synthy Bass by itself
Done and done. Wish I could have done vocals instead, but kids gotta sleep. Next!
posted by davejay at 11:02 PM on May 1, 2012
Synthy Bass by itself
Done and done. Wish I could have done vocals instead, but kids gotta sleep. Next!
posted by davejay at 11:02 PM on May 1, 2012
Okay, now I'm going to make it REALLY complicated.
I couldn't resist putting my bassline in, but it fought with davejay's, so I've forked the corpse.
I also added some backing vocals.
Corpse-Fork1-unSane-Mix.mp3
The bass and BVs are on separate files too in the Dropbox. I can also split out the three parts of the harmony if anyone's interested. Of course you're welcome to pillage this in any way you see fit.
posted by unSane at 10:14 AM on May 2, 2012
I couldn't resist putting my bassline in, but it fought with davejay's, so I've forked the corpse.
I also added some backing vocals.
Corpse-Fork1-unSane-Mix.mp3
The bass and BVs are on separate files too in the Dropbox. I can also split out the three parts of the harmony if anyone's interested. Of course you're welcome to pillage this in any way you see fit.
posted by unSane at 10:14 AM on May 2, 2012
(also something strange seems to have happened with the sync! It no longer matches up exactly to 130bpm... had me scratching my head for a while)
posted by unSane at 10:23 AM on May 2, 2012
posted by unSane at 10:23 AM on May 2, 2012
I think I had to cut out a few ms of lead in time for it to sync up perhaps there are still a few different versions that haven't done that. But that wouldn't make it wander out.
Love the backing vocals...
posted by pmcp at 10:45 AM on May 2, 2012
Love the backing vocals...
posted by pmcp at 10:45 AM on May 2, 2012
Yeah, I noticed the 130bpm drift the second time I had it, dunno what's up there. Anyhoo, go ahead and forget about mine, and just use unSane's. I personally don't think forking should become the norm, lest we eventually end up with a group of people each scribbling on their own pieces of paper -- an exquisite corpse that is not.
and by the way, this is why "claiming" the track is so important.
posted by davejay at 12:20 PM on May 2, 2012
and by the way, this is why "claiming" the track is so important.
posted by davejay at 12:20 PM on May 2, 2012
I'm not sure there's anything necessarily wrong with forking, although I completely agree it shouldn't be the norm. For me the endgame here is definitely to do a mix using all the different stems, and forks if there should be forks.
Davejay, did you suggest that the corpse is officially dead when no-one touches it for 48 hours? That seems like an interesting plan.
posted by unSane at 12:27 PM on May 2, 2012
Davejay, did you suggest that the corpse is officially dead when no-one touches it for 48 hours? That seems like an interesting plan.
posted by unSane at 12:27 PM on May 2, 2012
Eh, I dunno, it ultimately doesn't matter, so long as everyone is having fun.
posted by davejay at 12:50 PM on May 2, 2012
posted by davejay at 12:50 PM on May 2, 2012
I had the track at round 3, but had a bit of reading comprehension fail and didn't realize the track was at 130...so I eyballed it in Logic at like 128.9 bpm or something like that (and I had my metronome off during record so I didn't notice anything wrong with that setting)...but that shouldn't have affected it since I recorded the horn track live and didn't quantize anything...all it did really was change the measuring units in Logic itself, which maybe affected the end time? I swear I did not do any time-stretching at all, but if it is somehow my fault I deeply apologize and will buy you all beers/milks/fancy teas if we ever meet IRL.
*cheeks turn red*
FWIW my instrument-only track was bounced at 130 bpm, and I'm happy to re-bounce the layered track at the proper bpm too.
posted by Doleful Creature at 1:16 PM on May 2, 2012
*cheeks turn red*
FWIW my instrument-only track was bounced at 130 bpm, and I'm happy to re-bounce the layered track at the proper bpm too.
posted by Doleful Creature at 1:16 PM on May 2, 2012
the version i got had a slight amount of space before the first beat, so even having at 130 led to a slight lag. I trimmed a bit off the head, everything lined up at 130..
posted by dubold at 1:25 PM on May 2, 2012
posted by dubold at 1:25 PM on May 2, 2012
Yeah, mp3s never line up exactly because of the way they're encoded. I don't think any of these things caused it -- maybe slipped in when Flapjax was cutting and pasting? But it's of no real consequence I don't think.
Is anyone planning to grab it and do some more? I'd quite like to have a stab at my mix but I don't want to deprive myself of any riches!
posted by unSane at 1:30 PM on May 2, 2012
Is anyone planning to grab it and do some more? I'd quite like to have a stab at my mix but I don't want to deprive myself of any riches!
posted by unSane at 1:30 PM on May 2, 2012
I'm not planning to add new content at this point, but will be contributing a mix very soon.
posted by Doleful Creature at 1:34 PM on May 2, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 1:34 PM on May 2, 2012
I'll probably do a mix as well. When we've got final mixes we're happy with, we should start posting them to MeFiMu, no?
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:43 PM on May 2, 2012
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:43 PM on May 2, 2012
Absolutely! FWIW I still think it could use another percussion track -- tambourine, maybe, and/or handclaps (real ones) -- and a funky little steve cropper style guitar track too. Congas even.
posted by unSane at 7:45 PM on May 2, 2012
posted by unSane at 7:45 PM on May 2, 2012
Looks like rigor mortis has set in...
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:04 AM on May 7, 2012
posted by Doleful Creature at 7:04 AM on May 7, 2012
It's not dead it's just sleeping. I'll finish my mix as soon as I have the time.
posted by pmcp at 10:27 AM on May 8, 2012
posted by pmcp at 10:27 AM on May 8, 2012
As soon as I have some spare time (the semester is ending and work has been crazy busy), I'ma jump in on this.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:13 AM on May 12, 2012
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:13 AM on May 12, 2012
i want to contribute too! except idk if this is dead and i don't really know how...
posted by chongnosall at 9:38 PM on May 22, 2012
posted by chongnosall at 9:38 PM on May 22, 2012
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