Thread: A universe from nothing

I released this track on Saturday 5th April. The first one for 2014.

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Top work Beanz.

Well done mate.

Cheers Andre and Rich.

It is quite challenging to use an old Russian manual focus lens with extension tubes to do macro close ups of your own face whilst lip syncing. Using extension tubes means the lens is only a couple of centimetres away and removing a contact lens whilst trying to remain in focus leaves little margin for error. Having said that,once you have gone out on the piss and forgotten that you don't have your contacts in and pinched your own eyeball a few times it's a breeze.

Good vid.
Are you related to david bowie..

I quite liked it in a strange Bowie circa 1995 period way. You also seem to be mutating into Brett Anderson. And the eye close ups were very weird Bowie. Good to see you writing again.

I'm doing much the same, but just on an acoustic and traditional structuring. I finished 'The Ballad of Tony Blair' today and sent it in to the Galloway documentary, but its a week late so no expectations. It's perfect for their film though, the lyrics are on the ball.

Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

Cheers Andre and Rich.

It is quite challenging to use an old Russian manual focus lens with extension tubes to do macro close ups of your own face whilst lip syncing. Using extension tubes means the lens is only a couple of centimetres away and removing a contact lens whilst trying to remain in focus leaves little margin for error. Having said that,once you have gone out on the piss and forgotten that you don't have your contacts in and pinched your own eyeball a few times it's a breeze.

Do you think you could make Brock a STAR, how about a cover version of California Dreaming
Brocky Cass I can see it now in my minds eye.

A UNIVERSE FROM NOTHING

I make a Universe from nothing
from roughing
new shoes are meant for scuffing
apply treatment like an ointment
and liberate the touching
the hands, the bands
the made up and the strands
tie them all together
and release the pigeon fans

The outside is inside
and all because the bitch lied
the lady loves
the trodden dove
betray a tray for drivers
in a pit they rescue miners
trample down they said they would
they scampered off like spiders

And it tumbled out like treacle
the people, all stuck together stucco
rendered in the peep hole
and mended like a sheet hole
the boat it sinks majestically, interestingly
this world was never meant for me

Accidental karma
no Pharma sue to call
like cuticles and booty calls
and vapour trail conspiracies to distract me
when mankind dies through lethargy
inaction, no traction
a positive infraction
of your rights is wrong
your guns are so far gone
way beyond the shooting
and looting the rusted safety catch jammed
and I am
really something
a real thing
created out of nothing
a universe
within a new verse
a new curse
a gypsy
with a new thirst

A thirst at once for knowledge
your college
is all about the dollars
the life school
you blew from is
better than the new one

A Universe from roughing
from nothing
empty save for something

@Greenbeanz

first of all you psychotic Transylvanian Beatnik, that was a very refreshing and neurocortical composition which refreshed the current state of music quite welcomingly, and I thoroughly enjoyed it both for its mood/tone as well as for its sincerity. It was sincere, and sincere music is inspiring. Great job Beanz, you are the Whirlwind of Mood.

Good job on putting the lyrics together. You are very articulate and put words together in a very dexterous manner. That's a lot of words for 150 seconds, but because the track flows so smoothly you don't really realise that. I particularly like the seamless blending of words, unusual collocations, and the way you rhyme words that are not at all obvious.

Just a few questions because I'm curious about your process. How do you record your music? Do you have all the instruments yourself? What instruments are they? Do you record with other people? What equipment do you use for production? Also what is your typical routine for composing a track? Does the music always come first? Do you have a topic and then work around that?

I ask these questions because I think it is an interesting topic and we don't really have many threads on things like how to make music, and various creative things like that. There's a lot on the stuff we like, but not so much on the stuff we do ourselves and I just think maybe that could be something constructive and useful.

Originally Posted by Gandalf

Good job on putting the lyrics together. You are very articulate and put words together in a very dexterous manner. That's a lot of words for 150 seconds, but because the track flows so smoothly you don't really realise that. I particularly like the seamless blending of words, unusual collocations, and the way you rhyme words that are not at all obvious.

Just a few questions because I'm curious about your process. How do you record your music? Do you have all the instruments yourself? What instruments are they? Do you record with other people? What equipment do you use for production? Also what is your typical routine for composing a track? Does the music always come first? Do you have a topic and then work around that?

I ask these questions because I think it is an interesting topic and we don't really have many threads on things like how to make music, and various creative things like that. There's a lot on the stuff we like, but not so much on the stuff we do ourselves and I just think maybe that could be something constructive and useful.

How do you record your music?

With a microphone/s and a PC unless I am on location or in a studio. In this case though the valve on my microphone had gone and so the vocals were actually recorded with binaural condensers which look like in the ear headphones and are used to maintain a genuine recreation of the stereo spectrum as experienced by human ears. My sound card had also given up the ghost and so this negated the need to use it's pre amps and actually recorded the vocals on to a Hi-MD (16 bit Pro Mini Disc) before transferring back into the PC.

Do you have all the instruments yourself?
What instruments are they?

No. Although until recently I did have quite a few, my dire financial situation has necessitated me gradually selling them off. I still have my Bass guitar and a couple of synthesizers, a theramin and various hand drums and percussion instruments.

Do you record with other people?

Generally not when working on my own material though I have often collaborated both as an electronic duo and in various bands. I have recorded many bands and solo artists as both sound engineer and producer but not for a while now. Virtually all the acts on Tough Pigeon Records are me under different guises.

What equipment do you use for production?

I have and continue to use whatever is at hand. Your equipment and the technology employed to record are only tools and it is my job as an operator to use them creatively and think outside of the box when innovating new solutions for unique problems. Signal path is important so a range of decent microphones is a good starting point and then a decent pre amplifier or interface/compressor to maintain that quality as it goes into your recording device whether that is a PC,Sound Recorder or tape machine. I use my PC most now a days but I have used tape machines and Hard disk recorders etc in the past. Record Decks and hundreds of old records and my own field recordings.


Also what is your typical routine for composing a track?

Does the music always come first? Do you have a topic and then work around that?

For me there really is no typical way of doing so. The journey may start with a sample or a flash of lyrical inspiration late at night, scribbled on a post it note. In the case of UNIVERSE the track above, If I remember correctly (it was actually recorded late last year) It started with me sampling some old Jazz Lps looking for drum hits and loops for another project and coming across a couple clear upright Bass notes, distinct and clear from any other instruments on the recording. I think two notes came from a track on one side of the LP and the one note from the other. These were cleaned up in Sony Sound Forge and pitch shifted until so that I could create the riff the track Hangs on, The drums are old library loops that I collected a long time ago and are a combination of a friend playing and an old soul record. The strings are arranged from a virtual sample/synthesiser inside a software program called Reason and the track itself was put together mainly in Sony's ACID wav editor. I rarely have a topic and often come up with Lyrics in a stream of conciousness like trance by simply jamming aginst loops much like an MC would with his DJ or in a battle with others. This is for a trip hop style track like this but if I am working in a band then I will often Jam or write traditionally often with the guitarist.

That's a good post and I appreciate the detail. Also interesting to see how you put your lyrics together. You seem to be able to improvise and work in the moment very effectively. I'm always fascinated by how musicians come up with their songs. Do they just sit at home with a guitar and a pen, do they get together with other musicians and tell them the chords and to interpret them how they like, or is it someone like Eno with his oblique strategies? Where do the songs come from? I assume most have to work hard at constructing them, then there are people like McCartney who dream them up and can seemingly play every instrument in the book to recreate the sound. It's interesting because people seem to work in so many different ways.

Thank you all for the kind comments. I have always had a kind of OCD compulsion to create and the song is really about that. Whether I am writing songs/tunes, taking photographs, shooting and editing video,writing, drawing,painting or creating art I have an insatiable need to keep doing it often to extremis. Without it I would wither away and die. It is very difficult and probably half the reason why I am completely exhausted. I can very rarely sit down and be merely passive. Even though I really enjoy films I probably only sit though one or two each year because it feels like a waste of time much like sleeping. We are a long time dead and there is so much to see,do and experience that I want to use that time to make stuff and express myself.