This is the music from a video I'm
featuring this week called “Warming the Seats”. I tried writing
this song a little differently.
I call it the vomit technique. Some
may call it steam of conscious. Some may call it learning from
mistakes. Some may call it think-tanking or brainstorming. Just put
it all out there, throw it all up, put all your raw materials on the
table. No matter how terrible, how putrid, how vile it may be, get
it out there. I find when I sit down to write or compose and I don't
produce more than I really need, then I don't say all I want to say
and the product turns out inferior. Though it may start out clumsy
and inarticulate, once you vomit all your creativity out you can
sculpt it into something refined. My sketchbook is full of stream of
consciousness writing just waiting to be sculpted with meter and rhyme
into a verse and a song.
For this piece I wrote one foundation
part, bass and percussion, then added as many other parts as I could
think of and that would be appropriate—two acoustic guitars, three
electric, two keyboards, and a synth. Then I edited and mixed to
taste. In essence, a recipe for the sounds of the end of the world.
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