When are we gonna hear your music?!?!?
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When are we gonna hear your music?!?!? *
NOW!
My mom sang to me the 9 months prior to entering the world and every morning of my childhood- Hank, Elvis, Everly Brothers, Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee…
When I was five Santa brought me a Sears Silvertone guitar. Darnell Miller, the C&W singer who mom drove me to for lessons said “he’s never going to be able to play that big of a guitar”…
February 9 1964!
These songs are the ultimate result of those primordial inspirations.
Linked you will find rock/pop songs, gypsy jazz, and instrumentals that maybe someday will find their way into TV, movies, advertisements...
I wrote all of the songs, music and lyrics. With two exceptions (Chip McNeill sax solo on “How Will You Know” and my daughters’ singing on “The Child Inside”, I performed all of the sounds.
Most were recorded on my home studio
Musings: Frisson
From Webster's -
frisson (noun) fri-ˈsōnz a brief moment of emotional excitement : shudder, thrill
From Hal -
the last Yeah in the chorus of She Loves You
the violins in Walk Away Renee
the violins and Gulbransen organ of Wichita Lineman
piano intro to Apocalypse Please
the prechorus to Colours to Life
In his book "Why You Like It, the Science & Culture of Musical Taste" Nolan Gasser (who was instrumental in developing Pandora’s algorithms) traces frisson back to prehuman history as a response to cold and later in the evolutionary process, to fear. According to Gasser this classical response is referred to as a "piloerection". This helps explain young males interest in hard rock.
In a recent Wall Street Journal I've also read of Sulinna Ong on who's ears Spotify relies to give a human touch to the algorithms they use to discover new artists and music for their playlists. I'd be interested in knowing how much frisson plays into her choices, or whether hers is a more analytical approach.
I'm pretty sure AI technology is or has been developed to measure the frisson "fix" required to hook the ears of the most profitable target market(s) of the music streaming world. I'm also pretty certain that AI technology is or has been developed that will create the combination of sounds best to create piloerections among that same audience.
We can add this to the mix that results in everything being played exactly on the beat and every note being autotuned to a pristine pitch, thus training future generations' ears to not recognize any human element. Even with the imperfections of recordings in the analog world there was usually an exuberance to the performance that was far more important in creating an enjoyable listening experience.
Asking as one who experienced the frisson that occurred on the evening of 2.09.1964, would a 2 minute 20 second imperfect recording written, performed and recorded by a group of four humans have any impact today?