Since (thankfully) I don’t have to write music as my dayjob, I can keep to the more experimental side of things. By that, I mean that I like to set up little musical experiments, and then try to make them work. Most times, the experiment is a bit of a failure, or ends up not being particularly musical. Here are a few examples:
I like the name Bach Sabbath. But unlike either Vitamin String Quartet or Beatallica, it would use individual pitched samples of Black Sabbath songs to recreate Bach pieces.
Or a track that started as vinyl pops and clicks and eventually morphed into something rhythmic.
Or, upon noticing that both the Marilyn Manson and Eurythmics versions of Sweet Dreams were in the same key, that they could be layered.
Or a song that perpetually slowed down (at 50% BPM you might notice that it’s fooled you into really being at 100%, or at 33% it’s triplets at 100%)
Or this, which is the lowest form of musical humor.
In my defense it was the punchline of a coffee-shop open mic night involving some repetitive and pretentious electronic nonsense that slowly morphed into this.
The original parade was a similar experiment, but a really basic one: a 45 minute long piece that didn’t get (too) boring, using the limited tools I had available.
We’ve already set up one experiment for the new version — the remix contest — but there will be more.