We Choose To Go To The Moon

By jegasus on May 18, 2024 3:50 am

Welcome welcome welcome, my friends! It's such a pleasure to have you back!

So this week's submission is a weird one. Yes, again, hahahaha... I wanted to use some public domain vocals, so I thought about digging through some old presidential addresses. I thought about JFK because he had such a distinct voice. Also because he was one of my favorite characters in Clone High, and old cartoon I adore.

Anyways, I did some searching and found this incredibly famous speech where he says the timeless line "... we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Thankfully, the recording offered by the presidential library is labeled as public domain, so I snagged it and started chopping it up on the M8.

I had quite a bit of fun with this one, finding cool ways to slice chunks of the speech that worked musically and making them sound interesting. I don't think I was able to get that many cool sounds with the rest of the instruments, though. The percussion patterns ended up pretty cool, but I don't think I gave it enough variations, so it ends up feeling repetitive quite early. I do like the hypersynth instrument I was able to put together for this! It's got some fun randomization in it, but I don't think I used it to it's fullest. It too ended up sounding a bit repetitive.

It's also worth mentioning that I'm submitting this tune a couple of days early because a huge storm (and tornado) hit Houston and I've been out of power since Thursday evening. (It is now Friday evening and it's looking like we won't have power back before Monday... Yaaaay...) And because my dog can't be left alone (she's recovering from a small medical procedure), I can't just take my laptop and work at any coffee shop. So I ended up having to take the Friday off, which meant I got a sequence of several good hours to work on my song. Way to go portable battery-powered music-making devices!

My apologies for having been almost completely absent this past week - I barely listened to or commented on almost any songs... Hopefully, if I get power back soon, I'll be able to spend some time doing so!

Hope y'all have a fantastic week!

PEACE!!!

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May 20, 2024 12:28 am

PeterM

Good work getting a song in a power outage! I like the randomness in this one. I like the vocal chops too. I always feel like mine vocal chops need more work to get things refined, but I think you are doing it better than I am! Nice work.

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May 20, 2024 8:13 am

ddmm64

Nice, good to hear battery-powered M8 came in clutch. As usual, great work at incorporating chopped up vocals in a track. Somehow this makes JFK sound a bit sinister, like going to the moon is part of a nefarious plan!

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May 20, 2024 9:35 pm

MRDRCAT

This is great! You really have an ear for chopping vocal samples, like hearing the invisible rhythms in a spoken string and figuring out how to make them better. I wasn't hearing anything repetitive. Hopefully your power wasn't gone too long!

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May 21, 2024 8:32 pm

fetalface

Why does Rice play Texas????

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May 21, 2024 8:37 pm

fetalface

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May 22, 2024 3:01 pm

jwh

fetalface wrote:

Why does Rice play Texas????

WE NEED TO KNOW

thanks, jegasus, this was really cool! hope you are all powered up!

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May 26, 2024 6:50 am

moloko

Hope you're doing well there! I never thought a JFK speech could be catchy but here we are. You're self-aware of the compositional things that bother you and that's awesome! Fortunately, in the end the result wasn't so repetitive, especially because of the lead synths that join the tune halfway through.

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May 26, 2024 5:54 pm

Devieus

Personally, I prefer if the slicing wasn't so heavy. The speech has strength and power, and slicing it randomly cuts down that power.
Objectively speaking though, it goes really well with the other sounds.
- V

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June 10, 2024 12:55 am

jegasus

PeterM wrote:

Good work getting a song in a power outage! I like the randomness in this one. I like the vocal chops too. I always feel like mine vocal chops need more work to get things refined, but I think you are doing it better than I am! Nice work.

Than you, thank you! Working through the aftermath of the tornado was... Interesting, hahahaha... And thanks for the kind words about the vocal chopping! Yeah, I find it hard to find vocals that actually sound interesting to loop or that can somehow be musified. Just a bunch of trial and error, I guess. Anyways, thanks for the compliment!!!

ddmm64 wrote:

Nice, good to hear battery-powered M8 came in clutch. As usual, great work at incorporating chopped up vocals in a track. Somehow this makes JFK sound a bit sinister, like going to the moon is part of a nefarious plan!

Thank you so much for listening and for the compliment!!! I was secretly hoping that the line about going to the moon would be picked up by some crypto enthusiasts, hahahaha...

fetalface wrote:

Why does Rice play Texas????

fetalface wrote:

Yeeeeah, I heard about JFK having just penciled that line it, since the speech was at the Rice campus! Hahahaha... Thanks for listening!!!

jwh wrote:

fetalface wrote:
Why does Rice play Texas????

WE NEED TO KNOW
thanks, jegasus, this was really cool! hope you are all powered up!

Thank you so much!!! It's bow been several weeks since the incident, so we've been back to normal for a while by this point. But still, thanks for the well wishes. We got super lucky, almost no problems at all. Just an old wooden fence that got knocked down.

moloko wrote:

Hope you're doing well there! I never thought a JFK speech could be catchy but here we are. You're self-aware of the compositional things that bother you and that's awesome! Fortunately, in the end the result wasn't so repetitive, especially because of the lead synths that join the tune halfway through.

Thabk you so much for the kind comment! Yeah, I'm starting to get a good ear for what bothers me in my compositions. But I still don't have the skills to fix them! Hahaha... I still need to work on that =P

Devieus wrote:

Personally, I prefer if the slicing wasn't so heavy. The speech has strength and power, and slicing it randomly cuts down that power.
Objectively speaking though, it goes really well with the other sounds.
- V

I totally hear you. That's also why I let the whole speech play (almost) unedited I'm the beginning, because it's so powerful. But then I couldn't help myself, I needed to fiddle with it agter that, hahahaha...
Thanks so much for listening and commenting!!!

[quote=PeterM]Good work getting a song in a power outage! I like the randomness in this one. I like the vocal chops too. I always feel like mine vocal chops need more work to get things refined, but I think you are doing it better than I am! Nice work.[/quote] Than you, thank you! Working through the aftermath of the tornado was... Interesting, hahahaha... And thanks for the kind words about the vocal chopping! Yeah, I find it hard to find vocals that actually sound interesting to loop or that can somehow be musified. Just a bunch of trial and error, I guess. Anyways, thanks for the compliment!!! [quote=ddmm64]Nice, good to hear battery-powered M8 came in clutch. As usual, great work at incorporating chopped up vocals in a track. Somehow this makes JFK sound a bit sinister, like going to the moon is part of a nefarious plan! [/quote] Thank you so much for listening and for the compliment!!! I was secretly hoping that the line about going to the moon would be picked up by some crypto enthusiasts, hahahaha... [quote=fetalface]Why does Rice play Texas????[/quote] [quote=fetalface][img]https://airandspace.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/body_large/public/media-assets/JFKPOF-040-001-p0032_KB%20RESIZE.jpg?itok=aIhIbmjo[/img][/quote] Yeeeeah, I heard about JFK having just penciled that line it, since the speech was at the Rice campus! Hahahaha... Thanks for listening!!! [quote=jwh][quote=fetalface]Why does Rice play Texas????[/quote] WE NEED TO KNOW thanks, jegasus, this was really cool! hope you are all powered up![/quote] Thank you so much!!! It's bow been several weeks since the incident, so we've been back to normal for a while by this point. But still, thanks for the well wishes. We got super lucky, almost no problems at all. Just an old wooden fence that got knocked down. [quote=moloko]Hope you're doing well there! I never thought a JFK speech could be catchy but here we are. You're self-aware of the compositional things that bother you and that's awesome! Fortunately, in the end the result wasn't so repetitive, especially because of the lead synths that join the tune halfway through. [/quote] Thabk you so much for the kind comment! Yeah, I'm starting to get a good ear for what bothers me in my compositions. But I still don't have the skills to fix them! Hahaha... I still need to work on that =P [quote=Devieus]Personally, I prefer if the slicing wasn't so heavy. The speech has strength and power, and slicing it randomly cuts down that power. Objectively speaking though, it goes really well with the other sounds. - V[/quote] I totally hear you. That's also why I let the whole speech play (almost) unedited I'm the beginning, because it's so powerful. But then I couldn't help myself, I needed to fiddle with it agter that, hahahaha... Thanks so much for listening and commenting!!!

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