Love me three times

I built a guitar with three outputs because I love effects

There's a pickup on the low string, another for the top three and then the bridge for all six.

Willie Nelson on heavy thoughts

Some folks can live with heavy thoughts for a long time. Not me. I turn heavy thoughts into song. And the turning hardly ever fails to lighten the thought. It maybe even makes the thought disappear into thin air. 

Alan Moore on art

Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language about magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events. A grimmoir for example, the book of spells is simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness. 

Disquiet Junto 0773 Garden Glitch

 

The Junto prompt this week is "Record a piece of music that sounds like a once healthy garden going to waste, growing wild, collapsing under its own weight, or some other form of decay." 

It follows from the gardening analogy last week and brought to mind that I recorded three takes at that time. 

I went back to the recordings and found the final take was somewhat unruly. 

There was clipping, which led me to re-amp the guitar with the Woodrow emulation.

Then I added some reverb to give it more weight.

Disquiet Junto 0772 Garden Grow

 

The Junto this week is "Tend to your music like Brian Eno might." 

Brian Eno has a lot of cool things to say about making stuff. 

I remember the gardening idea was one I found along with sprouting about generative systems. 

This board let me plant a few seeds, starting with a loop on the Blooper pedal and then a shorter one on the Mood. 

Afterward I added a couple of synth parts, which were generated as MIDI in Live. 

I kept adding things and it probably needs a prune to open it up a bit and let the light back in.

When someone starts coiling cable

 

naviarhaiku666 – speak of the devil!

The haiku shared by Naviar this week prompted me to swap back to an older pedal board.

I put these Chase Bliss effects together a few months ago, then set up the board with two Habit pedals.

This one gets unlikely sounds from my ukulele, because the loop is tuned down two octaves and made into a synth sound while the other output puts Lossy into Mood. 

Homie starts singing