graysummers

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And so the story goes, to where? No one knows. But it involves a Volkswagen T2 Crossover Bay Bus called Billie Bud (known to most people as ‘WOW, a camper van’); a Pentax LX SLR camera loaded with black and white film; cooking vegetarian food on a basic set up of Cobb cooker, a couple of gas rings and an open fire; reading books; listening to music and the ruminations from a retired Staff Nurse. Well......got to fill the hours outside of being a pensioner somehow.

January the First. Couple of days before, was thinking and regarding lack of using the recording Apple stuff. So…..:

Switched on the Apple Mac and opened GarageBand. Microphone for one voice recording and keyboard set up to record simple tunes in simplicity.

Opened up a percussion drum and extras track and elongated it to suit a bit of musical overlay.

Overlay? Chose 3 bass notes. Next?

Call and response maybe. So chose a different up to the down note sequence. One little melody down. One little melody up.

Then an elongated synthesised pulse rhythm. One note expansion.

The choice of a simply sung phrase. ‘Hey I know’. It’ll do as opposed to a Native American similar chant or Medicine Buddha mantra familiar choice. Avoid the spiritual for the sensible. May delete ‘Hey I know’ to expand later. Probably, and in realty? No. Not. Silly idea. This is no song. It is simply seeing if the recording groove still exists four to six weeks out of the experience of burgeoning reality.

Result? Hey, I know. There is a comfort in realising recognised patterns again.

You go into a recording system you were getting slowly familiar with again and spent 15 to 20 minutes in ad hoc capturing to relearn. Simply? It is something that I can hang my current hat on. I wanted to go from full to less sound wise. So fuller at start to less beyond.

If you have patience, close your eyes, and when the last ‘real’ vocal ends…….wait a while, chill……and a little double phrase keyboard notation exit. Then say…..’Aaaaah! Noice’.