This is a song about gloves that won't let go of things that slip away from you underwater. It's also a song about my friend, Bernard Schober, who slipped away. More here:https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2022/07/24/song-octopus-gloves/

Octopus Gloves

A minimalist piece for two cellos and Indonesian percussion, filled with yearning and counterpoint.

Lament And Fugue 22-08

A song recorded in 2002 or 2003 about AI and nanotechnology creating sentient deserts that yearn for something better. Wistful grey goo, floating on the wind.

Harry Monkhorst added baritone guitar and drums. I played other guitar and the toy piano solo.

nanomites

For reddit's Cover Swap project, from the We Are The Music Makers sub-reddit. 

Original here: https://soundcloud.com/ajallulli/particlesofattraction

I'm also using this as my penitential cover for blowing my December deadline on http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com. 

Particles of Attraction (original by AJ Allulli)

An Irish folk-tale, read from one of my favorite books, for my son, who is traveling. 

(Unfortunately, the story we were up to was one with plenty of Irish Gaelic in it - a language I've never really learned to pronounce! But we muddle through.)

The Palace in the Rath, from Eileen O'Faolain's Irish Sagas and Folk-Tales, 1960 edition

Additional guitars, harmony vox and drums from Harry Monkhorst. 

Lyrics originally written for http://reddit.com/r/GameOfBands/.

THERE IS ONLY ONE RIVER, INFINITELY LONG. 

[V1a] 
Thales... told the general 
how to cross the river 
how to reach the other side 

[V1b] 
"Hey, we... simply give the men some 
shovels & forget about the bridges 
& this river, we'll divide" 

[CH x2] 
This river, we'll divide 
This river, we'll divide 
This river, we'll divide 


[V2a] 
Things change... or so said Heraclitus 
While there's a spark inside us, 
We can't wash away our names 

[V2b] 
Kings, sages, poets, farmers, madmen, swimmers 
Stick toes in like beginners 
But the river's not the same 

[CH x2] 
The river's not the same 
The river's not the same 
The river's not the same 

[BRIDGE] 
Zeno held a race 
Across one half the space 
Then half the half, 
And half half that, 

Just sign your name 
On half this blank 
Once you're halfway 
to the bank 

if half the boats 
that sailed have sank 
their teeth into 
the autocrat 

& wiped the half-smile 
From his face 
He'll never get 
past second place 

[BREAK] 
Even if the river breaks 
The river wouldn't ever 
No the river wouldn't ev- 
The river wouldn't 
No the river would 
the river would 
the river 
river 
riv 
er 
r 

[CH x4] 

The river wouldn't break 
The river wouldn't break 
The river wouldn't break 



[V4/ANTIPHON?] 
This river, we'll divide 
And keep our powder dry 
Though we're all water inside 
We keep bursting into flames 
Try to wash away our names 
The river's not the same 
The water always changes 



There Is One River, Infinitely Long

The Earth is a container, but is it packaging? 

A monkey has left our atmosphere seeking dark matter. Go, Monkey King, go!

More about the song, and the Chinese space program that inspired it, here: http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2015/12/23/song-aware-of-emptiness/

Aware of Emptiness

A tribute to Negativland's Richard Lyons that is also a song about a D-list superhero. 

See here: http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/2016/04/24/song-meat-man/ 


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SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016,
as used in the post Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals.

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ABSTRACT: Of course, the world is mourning the loss of a great musical genius this week, and so am I – but in my case, it’s Richard Lyons, one of the founding members of Negativland. This group… well, they weren’t a band, really, and I don’t think you could even call them musicians (although maybe musique concrete counts), but meant so much to me for so long….

Negativland was the art of recombination.

So. There’s this song. I’d starting plinking away at a little guitar figure. Then, I saw a prompt on Song Dojo about doing a theme for a D-List superhero, and maybe making part of it in 5/4. So I started tweaking the plinking, thinking about words, and then…. And then.

It’s not even funny.

But I had to do a thing that I thought Mr. Lyons might appreciate.

It’s about Neanderthals who changed their body shape by eating protein. Meat. It is not really a song any more, but there are all the ingredients of a song in there.

Long may you shine. Perfect. Scrambled. Eggs.

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LYRICS:

Meat man
Break flint here
Meat man
Make sharp spear

Meat man
Bring meat home
Meat man
Blow through bones

Meat man
Make ribs wide
Meat man
Change inside

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SOURCES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHy9FOblt7Y (YT: Neanderthal Bone Flute Music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2hfcYv0ZhA (YT: How To Prepare Deer Meat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdcM7GeoJjA (YT: Eat Like a Caveman – Train like a BEAST)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf03vpxk96M (YT: Best BBQ Ribs Ever – Recipe from AmazingRibs.com – BBQFOOD4U)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxobgkPEAo (YT: From RNA to Protein Synthesis)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlBypnWxL3M (YT: Neanderthals: Smarter Than You Think)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53XvhE6caSc (YT: Five Questions Answered for Smoking Grandpa Bones)
https://www.facebook.com/Negativlandland/posts/850676704960075?fref=nf&pnref=story
“U2” – Negativland (stems)

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Image from the British Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11289392224/in/photolist-icB5Zw-idzA54 

Grant - Meat Man

This track is from the album something to believe in and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/grantimatter

this sentence

gravity song

hey, shaggy

A yule-tide carol, written as a response prompt #10 for SongFu 2012. It's about the real, original Santa, the ithyphallic Freyr. More on him ( and the REAL reason for the season) in this smutty essay what I wrote years back: http://web.archive.org/web/20080827220952/http://www.flyingfists.org/archives/003113.html#003113



(There's a) Little Man (who's very glad to see you in the tree)

A song from the 90s. About 90s things. Like girls, and mystical visions of the emanations of God. You know, kids' stuff. 

grantimatter

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