bookmark_borderA Songwriting Mess

After having thought about the Mess, it seemed time to put out another album or two. The writing is happening in a bunch of different ways.

For a while, I had pretty much stopped recording and preferred to play before a live audience. Quite a few songs came from it that were never recorded. I’m recording various tracks for these songs. For instance, I will hook-up an electric guitar through a Digi-tech effects pedal and into an M-audio portable digital recorder.

Some songs in the works are coming from the moment. The other day I flew to San Diego. In flight, a bunch of lyrics came to me, so I wrote them down.

Stay tuned in for the pieces to start showing up here.

Then, I plan on collecting the parts and producing songs.

bookmark_borderCompositions And Quasi-automated Composing

Sidd wrote:

Hi,

Here are some of the references I was thinking of during our
conversation on Saturday afternoon. I shall keep looking for more,
and would love to hear your thoughts as well.

First a couple of research papers, will references to some people
we might want to contact.

http://gsd.ime.usp.br/sbcm/2000/papers/wassermann.pdf
http://www.citeulike.org/group/532/article/514131
http://www.rivier.edu/journal/ROAJ-2006-Spring/J43-DION.pdf

then a small toy like program from japan
http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~mcs/emc.html

and lastly perhaps something more up your alley
http://amc.sourceforge.net/

Sidd