"Consume art with your heart" gets to an argument I believe about the emotional connection that humans expect in the media they consume.
Fender pretender
Anyone had experience with Chinese copies?
So I bought this copy, just so I can not worry about scratching the paint on my real Fender Meteora.
It'll be interesting to see how close it lands when it, um, lands.
Disquiet Junto 0724 Work It
The prompt this week is "Do that thing you’ve been meaning to do."
At first my mind turned to the folder of lyrics that I'm yet to record, but as I opened it I noticed another on my desktop.
The track I recorded for the "Dense Fog Advisory" Junto was one that I'd been meaning to tidy up, in the same way that I'd gone back to refix that track last week.
I had been surprised how well the guitar breaks worked, as I recorded them quickly and at the same time as the vocals.
It was good to clear space in the mix and then I had an idea to shift the key.
I dropped the instruments down a fifith, but took the vocals up a seventh.
The result makes me sound a bit like Neil Young, I think.
Partscaster
Recently I had an idea to change a single coil
pickup near the neck with a humbucker for a guitar that was tuned closer
to being a bass
I looked on Marketplace and a
bloke in Deni was selling a loaded pickguard with all these switches
for about the same as buying one pickup.
When
it arrived it wouldn't fit and I didn't want to pull apart a working
guitar or chisel a bigger cavity, so I decided I'd get a cheap
Stratocaster copy.
This used SX brand came from Cash Converters and the strings sit a bit too high because the bridge is bent.
Despite it feeling too light, I was surprised at how smooth the neck and frets feel.
Then I soldered in the new pickups and it has been remarkable.
The
humbuckers make only a little noise with the nastiest of Devi Ever's distortions,
and those little switches can make the pickups sound like mellow single
coils.
Now I'm thinking I'll change the bridge and it'll still only be around $250 in total.
A young Karl Marx wrote how the worker must see themself in their labour, and I'm finding the effort invested is developing into an attachment not shared with my other guitars.
Disquiet Junto 0723 Do the Collapse
The Junto prompt this week asked for a piece of music with a tendency to fall apart repeatedly.
I usually have an idea that forms when the email from Disquiet arrives and then find myself looking for ways to justify it.
This week my mind turned to a song about glass breaking that I recorded in September as a response to a poem by Half Unusual shared by Naviar Records.
There were some drums that fit the piece, so I added a bass part.
Then I went on Archive.org and looked for video of glass smashing, using "toughened glass smash" by tim hunkin and "Glass Door Breaking Meme" by Richie.
naviarhaiku617 – an autumn nightfall
Murray cod are Australia's largest freshwater fish and, as a freshwater person, I kinda relate to it.
In particular, the line about the skeleton prompts me to share this remarkable discovery:
These fish are known to be protective fathers and travel long distances, like salmon, to return to their home to spawn.
They nearly were made extinct by large-scale fishing and, in recent years, have become an aquaculture crop.
The story is that Lake was told a cod had taken residence in a neighbouring dam, where he found it used a 44-gallon drum like it was a treehollow for spawning young.
Anyway, I can talk about cod for a while since I put together an exhibition about them.
Chillin' like Bob Dylan
I've been spending too much time looking at guitars, but among all the photos I saw last night was this screenshot puportedly from Bob Dylan about a musical process.
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