You might be interested to know that during some of my time on the hull, I had the Console fold up a virtual multitrack studio. I then arranged bass lines, and keyboard chords whatever struck my fancy. It was a good way of dealing with my anxiety of never making it back to Earth. It’s not like I was in a fury of inspiration for hours on end. I had the program open and then I added another bit, upon the bits I had put down. I don’t know if I ever spent over ten minutes at a time.
While in the hull, I didn’t have a guitar to lay down those tracks, but as you know a Console’s Synth is good at following requests like I want a G Major chord to happen here, and then sync it all up with a drummer who would also play according to my instructed arrangement.
Anyway, (after my return) I recently replaced the guitar tracks because I wanted hands-on influence to that degree at least. I got my hands on a guitar bass and put down those tracks as well.
The voice is me. I'm not a pro so I did what I must and created the melody for each song on my guitar, and then single note played the vocal melody for each track so I had a reference to follow. I then listened to the reference melody and got it as spot on as I could. Like I say, I’m not a pro, so if you are a singer and think you can do a better job, forge ahead.
I call my virtual band OutsideHello. Named after the greeting phrase Ionee's Others asked us to deliver to Earth.
Each song is inspired by what I experienced, and what I experienced is in my journal.
What inspired me to write, what song, with what event I documented, is more my opinion than fact, because my response to my experience was all more organic than I can define in a left-brain way. However, having said that I will have a go because quite frankly some of the lyrics are Angela’s. (all songs and my explanations can be accessed via the Songs menu. )
Sometimes when I returned to a song to add more bits, Angela, (still Angela at the time) would have added a few phrases. Even Ionee, later on, did the same. The music however is all my doing.
If you haven't read my journal yet, sure listen away. I'm just saying you’ll have a better context as to what each song relates too as you read the book. I put links in the eBook according to where the song in my opinion relates. You might think the songs belong in different places but as the author I have to put them somewhere so that's how it goes.
While in the hull, I didn’t have a guitar to lay down those tracks, but as you know a Console’s Synth is good at following requests like I want a G Major chord to happen here, and then sync it all up with a drummer who would also play according to my instructed arrangement.
Anyway, (after my return) I recently replaced the guitar tracks because I wanted hands-on influence to that degree at least. I got my hands on a guitar bass and put down those tracks as well.
The voice is me. I'm not a pro so I did what I must and created the melody for each song on my guitar, and then single note played the vocal melody for each track so I had a reference to follow. I then listened to the reference melody and got it as spot on as I could. Like I say, I’m not a pro, so if you are a singer and think you can do a better job, forge ahead.
I call my virtual band OutsideHello. Named after the greeting phrase Ionee's Others asked us to deliver to Earth.
Each song is inspired by what I experienced, and what I experienced is in my journal.
What inspired me to write, what song, with what event I documented, is more my opinion than fact, because my response to my experience was all more organic than I can define in a left-brain way. However, having said that I will have a go because quite frankly some of the lyrics are Angela’s. (all songs and my explanations can be accessed via the Songs menu. )
Sometimes when I returned to a song to add more bits, Angela, (still Angela at the time) would have added a few phrases. Even Ionee, later on, did the same. The music however is all my doing.
If you haven't read my journal yet, sure listen away. I'm just saying you’ll have a better context as to what each song relates too as you read the book. I put links in the eBook according to where the song in my opinion relates. You might think the songs belong in different places but as the author I have to put them somewhere so that's how it goes.