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by Carlcat
Mon Jun 27, 2005 5:59 pm
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: INTUITIVE "WRITING"
Replies: 9
Views: 8311

KIT

Keep us posted, so we can hear some, if you don't mind.

Sometimes I forget to PLAY music, to PLAY around. Some of the best stuff comes about by playing.
by Carlcat
Sun May 29, 2005 3:38 am
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: On The Subject Of Sampling In Music
Replies: 22
Views: 34371

Thanks. Interesting you could hear the Ministry influence, yep I used to listen to them a lot.
by Carlcat
Sat May 28, 2005 10:08 pm
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: On The Subject Of Sampling In Music
Replies: 22
Views: 34371

Great Stuff!!

Yes I can definitely hear the Zappa influence (the ooze coming from the TV set)... I'm going to have to buy your album, once I get some cash in my paypal account. It's great. I love it. I have a song up online, that has a lot of bush and news quotes, I didn't know what to do with it as far as words ...
by Carlcat
Sat May 28, 2005 9:33 am
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: On The Subject Of Sampling In Music
Replies: 22
Views: 34371

On the Shatner part...

Shatner's latest album, 'Has been', btw, is surprisingly good. But I didn't believe it until I actually listened to it. Ben Folds was able to work the music part well and to steer Shatner to get it to work, it in some places is reminiscent of Zappa, Laurie Anderson, or some of Jello Biafra's words ...
by Carlcat
Fri May 27, 2005 6:49 am
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: INTUITIVE "WRITING"
Replies: 9
Views: 8311

Building up the intuition...

It can be encouraged, too, jamming with others can help. Also, laying down some musical idea and adding tracks intuitively, jamming on top of old layers, and doing this like an hour every day for a week, can get the juices flowing.
by Carlcat
Fri May 27, 2005 6:24 am
Forum: Song writing - Lyrics & Collaboration
Topic: On The Subject Of Sampling In Music
Replies: 22
Views: 34371

Yes it was better for music then... but...

It seems to me that Rap and various forms of expression that use a good bit of sampled parts of other songs/phrases that other people wrote, are at best, about the craft or art of arrangement and the art of poetry or word-smithing. Chanting or word-smithing or poetry over drumming, is art. To sample ...

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