It was certainly a dark period of my life dealing with the external and internal forces that were pulling me. My life was being clouded by white noise, there wasn't any way for me to predict what was going to happen from day to day during this period of time. Unknown to me at the time, stochasticity was becoming a theme in the songs I was writing at the time. One episode that I was listening to in the fall of 2009 was about stochasticity (the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan). It's like a science version of This American Life.
It's an hour long program that examines different aspects of life and human nature, and is highly entertaining. The theme and title of the album came from the Radiolab podcast which is produced by WNYC. In May of this year, we recorded the new Ghostbeard album Stochasticity. Enjoy! (and ignore my late-night ramblings about the categorization of music, I already disagree with it) Since I don't have a bass guitar on hand, I ran my guitar through octave and chorus pedals with some EQ and a little distortion to get the bass sound. I recorded it with a Tascam US-122mkII audio interface and a couple of cheap vocal mics. Maybe someday when my life isn't so screwed up and my head starts functioning properly, I'll be able to write a good ol' fashioned love song, but until that happens, here's a new song I recorded on Halloween. I'm uncomfortable listening to them, though. I have a lot of issues in my head that I constantly struggle to deal with an overcome, so I suppose these personal songs are a way of working them out. The songs I've written recently are still very personal.
#Usb tapedeck download#
Both albums available to download for free. Those songs were released on Stochasticity. More personal, in fact, than anything I had written previously. Those songs were released on What's The Word Bird?Īs I began writing some new songs in 2009, they all turned out to be very personal. For the first time, I had written songs that I would be happy to play for people. It was very detached and very different from what I've always done, but I loved them. They were stories about people told from a fictionalized narrator, with a few common themes and imagery used in each one. When I started writing songs for Ghostbeard in 2007, the majority of them were impersonal, that is, not directly about an episode of my life. I've always written personal songs, mostly about me, mostly about heartbreak, mostly awful.
I've been attempting to do it for 12 years now and am always my worst critic. I've never considered myself to be a good songwriter. Of course, there are a million subcategories to be found, but I tend to place songs into these very, very broad categories. That's not to say that impersonal songs aren't strongly emotional or heartfelt, but they are certainly different than a first-person narrative. Impersonal songs are cryptic, open to interpretation, and not seemingly related to the writer's experience. Personal songs are often very specific and convey a strong emotion from the writer your love songs or heartbreak songs, for example. Songs tend to fall into two broad categories: personal and impersonal. Bryan owned everything and he was kind enough to introduce me to the concept of a Digital Audio Workstation, which soon replaced my cassette deck for recording songs. We recorded this using an SM57 and a cheap USB interface, using Cakewalk Sonar to track everything. This was still at a time in my life where I tried to sing in a higher range, which does not sound pretty. This also marked the first of a couple songs where we dabbled with changing time signatures, alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures in the outro. I think it also allows for a greater range of notes to be strummed and produces a nice, bright tone. At the time, we wrote a lot of songs using open-D tuning which allows the player to form a major chord just by barring any fret. Bryan penned the first verse and I put it to some music and wrote a chorus. My friend, Bryan, and I wrote this song for a Christmas compilation that was being put together by a small Houston label (and ultimately never came to fruition). In honor of the season, here is a song written and recorded in November 2003. We've had some mighty cold weather, but luckily no snowfall so far. I trust everyone is having a wonderful holiday season.
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