On Tue, 12 Jul, 2005 at 02:19PM +0000, jmstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thus: > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jul, 2005 at 11:33AM +0200, Christian Schumann spake thus: > >> Hi James, > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:20:30AM +0100, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> > I've been going back over some stuff I did a while ago, and found > >> > something that I decided to take in a slightly different direction. > >> > > >> > I have a rough cut of the new track at > >> > http://dis-dot-dat.net/content/music/sv_WIP.ogg > >> > > >> > What I want now is a collaborator or collaborators. Mainly vocals and > >> > guitars. > >> > > >> > There're plenty of open spaces in the track for focusing on the new > >> > parts, so you can show off in the breaks. > >> > > >> > If anyone would care to have a listen and knock up some parts, I'll > >> > fiddle with putting them in the track. > >> > > >> > Vocalist must bring own "lyrical skillz" - I've tried writing lyrics > >> > before and ended up with the most puerile and naive drivel. > >> > > >> > I hope someone takes the bait, er, I mean opportunity; it would be > >> > interesting to see how something like this would work. > >> I downloaded it, and I kinda like it. I think I can come up with some > >> guitars to that. I did some fiddling around to the track Thorsten posted > >> some time ago, but did not post anything of it, since I was not that > >> satisfied with my playing on it. > >> > >> My vocal abilities are just enough to sing some background in my band. > >> So I won't do any vocals for that. But in order to get along with vocals > >> it would be better for a potential vocalist to come with some lines > >> first, so I can accompany them and we don't get into each others way. > > > > I agree that working together rather than in turn is probably best, I > > wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a vocalist. > > > > Singing is a lot more personal than playing or composing and I think > > people will be far less likely to come forward and bare themselves. > > > > I hope somone proves me wrong, of course! > > > >> I'll take the track home tonight and see with what I can come up. I > >> think I can post that tomorrow. > > > > That's great. I very nearly wrote about what kind of thing I'm > > looking for in the original mail, but then decided not to. If I > > specified the kind of sound I'm after, it would influence people and > > give us less room to explore. > > > > I'll share later, of course and maybe what I'm expecting and what you > > intend to do will match up. Either way, it should be fun. > > > > Really nice backing track! > > In my opinion, the best vocal accompaniment to this track would be a > spoken voice piece, preferably with a scottish accent (think a cross > between Iggy Pop and Prolapse in their more laid-back phases, possibly > Coil). Interesting. I was thinking more like muffled, soulful, slow-paced singing with lingering notes, cutting to sparkly, faster, more urgent pieces when everything crashes back in. Sigur Ros meets Portishead and Bjork. > If I think of some good lyrics I will certainly have a go, but > I don't think South-Eastern UK accent is quite so up there in the cool > stakes! Haha, well it's better than what I've got - High-speed dumb-sounding Blackcountry. Ow am ya? > I'm sure there are hundreds of other ways to go with this track > though. It will be interesting to see what people come up with. Yup, I can't wait. > James > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
