The Most Rational Thing I've Heard All Week
By Cosmic Cairns on January 16, 2018 8:14 pm
I was at my local library waiting while my girlfriend went to the restroom. She's notorious for taking a REALLY long time, so I was checking out this art gallery there while I waited. Well, there also happened to be this crazy lady sitting on a bench in the middle of the room ranting to herself continuously. It had seriously been going on for like ten minutes and she had barely stopped to take a breath. Weirdly I was standing right by her and I couldn't understand a word she was saying. At first it was uncomfortable, but then it started to get funny, and then I just started noticing the room had a natural reverb to it and she was creating this barrage of sound that was really quite amazing and I realized it was something I could never re-create on my own. So I made a field recording of it. I managed to get about two minutes before my girlfriend finally emerged and I had to take off.
The recording unfortunately doesn't even come close to doing justice to what it sounded like in person, but I still thought I'd try to build a track around it. I started off by tapping out a janky little beat literally on the arm of my chair. Then I threw down a bass line and a few electric guitar parts. Then I thought I needed to weird it up more to fully capture the spirit of the original inspiration so I started piling on some strange noises including some amateurish warbling on an ocarina I bought on vacation last summer in San Diego along with some other found sounds. I think I also accidentally got a second or two of my dog's collar jangling when he decided to burst into the room while I was recording and jump on my lap.
I'm not sure exactly how I feel about what I ended up with, but I think I kind of like it and hell, it's one more week down!
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