My first foray into generative music, decided to take on the one note challenge over at FAWM.org

I settled on B because why not, and fed ultra-long midi notes and instrument samples in B into some great sounding Plugins:
There's "Frozen", "Rain" & "In Suspension" chained together, "Twins at Sunset" with a Probability Arp, "Wood Drip" Percussion with Rotating Rhytm Generators, an arpeggiated Synth Bass, lots and lots of Spring Reverb as well as fiddling with virtual knobs, switches and faders.

Listening through it, I had this unsettling feeling of being trapped in the piece and I wanted to escape. But there was no escape, it was chasing me and I had to listen until the end, where it finally got me. So yeah, I confess: there is an end to the escape, but I will technically never *really* escape it because now it's here, on the internet, forever.

I added some field recordings of steps in the snow to emphasize the escape "theme" and used this sample of a guy saying "There is no escape" because I liked it better than my own recordings:
https://freesound.org/people/Dpoggioli/sounds/213612/

Couldn't hold myself back with the Wilson scream at the end. I hope you understand. :)

Mood Reel #08 - The Endless Escape

lyrics: 

hold out your coffered circles

caught a bully on the news

ask us how often are you

I’ve become unglued

but “not like this” she said

she’s got it in her head

that everybody loves her too

she’s not a super freak

she’s not a jesus sheet

she’s not a ghost inside your room

she’s not a dial tone

she’s not a chapel stone

she’s not a drunken moan of truth

she’s painting my name out to be some sort of curse

her dialect is a natural threat

for an unmade bed and a well-tided ocean’s view

and so are you

take down my insurrections

I’ve been running loose

i am running out of walking shoes

walking all over you

but “not like this” she said

she’s got a second bed

made up just for two

she took it from my book,

wrote her a letter took

all the letters from the news

it’s not a ransom note

it’s not a dial tone

it’s not a fiction sown as truth

wake up someone new

you wish you could wake up someone new

nobody’s gonna change (x2)

unless they have to, and they don’t have to

they’ve got their minds to make

the same mistakes

the laughing circles drew

a square for you

nobody’s gonna change

Nobody's Gonna Change

eclectic song written for continuation of FAWM.org online songwriter's group--on the word prompt "Lucky" we had an hour to write and record this song as part of this online forum. 

Lyrics

moss covered stones
in a river bed rising
me and you
walking 'cross their
slippery surfaces
but we hold each others
hands

and I knew that 
you would be
and I knew that 
you would be

Lucky for me
Lucky for me

We're standing 
at a crossroads
deep in the woods
and you kiss me
square on the mouth 
and

I never saw it coming
no I never saw
even a glimmer and
it's funny that way
life goes

We keep walking 
on this path
we tread lightly
and we sing 
a little song
babbling brooks 
and all that

but if you told 
me last week 
what was coming 
yesterday
if you told me
I would have 
shaken my head
anyway

I'm a lucky girl
I'm a lucky girl

And if this 
unspools in the way
nature does
it will grow into 
a tree of love

but it's fine just 
to let it go
and be itself
alone in the woods

it's fine just to let 
it grow without too 
much tending to

and I 
I know that
I'm a lucky girl 
I know 
I'm a lucky girl





I'm a Lucky Girl by Tenney Whedon Walsh

Wrote this song with my daughter for FAWM 2017

Pugs Not Drugs

14 tracks made in the month of february for FAWM.

13 A Burnt Mattress

12 Restless And Average

2 Pulled Me Out

Future Kings of Denmark
is Steven Wesley Guiles and Amanda West
and sometimes lovely other people who join us.

Stay With Me (w/Amanda West)

Let's Get Started

a song of gratitude. my 4th or 5th FAWM song this year.  Give or take.

Burr Settles I Owe You A Debt

An actress who began writing songs when she was living in NYC and now lives in Taos, New Mexico. 

Steven is a musician and indie artist.
He produces, sings, and records at John Cash Studio in San Dimas, California.

You can contact him via the contact form at New Cool Now's website.  
http://www.newcoolnow.com

Amateur producer, master procrastinator.
Established (but not really) in 2022.

All tracks are free to download.

Don't drink and derive.

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