songwriting – ExperiMental Music

Written at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Made in the USA (Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, Montgomery County, PA and West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.)

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From the album Terrestrial Planet
By Daniel Brouse

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Ear In-Funktion

Posted on April 19, 2009 by admin

by Mess

lyrics
Are you out there?
And, can you hear me?
Or, is this not exactly
What you wanted to see?
Does this bother you
Bother you
Bother you
Terribly?

Are you out there?
And, can you hear me?
Is this not
Is this not
Your reality?
Does it bother you
Bother you
Bother you
Terribly?

Are you out there?
Are you listening?
Can you look
Deep within
Can we start again?

In the darkest night
It brings on the fright
Can we get things right
In the darkest night
Can we bring on the light?

Are you out there?
Can you hear me?
Is this not your
Reality
Does this bother you
Bother you
Bother you
Terribly?

Is there anybody out there?
Can you hear me?
Set us free

In the darkest night
Does it bring on the fright
Can we ever get things right?

In the darkest night
Do you feel like the blight
Are you out there
Can you secure
Being part of the cure
Not so far offshore?

Maybe it’s not too late
Don’t wait!

ABOUT THIS SONG
The song was recorded in an impromptu session. It was suppose to be a multi-track recording, but the computer kept failing. Instead, it was captured as a 1 track stereo 48kHz MP3 on an M-audio digital recorder. The drums and keyboards were made on a Casio workstation. The lyrics were sung off the top-of-my-head. Its intending meaning is that a voice from heaven is talking to humankind about what man is doing to the planet and each other.

Ear In-Funktion Free MP3 Download
Ear In-Funktion Instrumental

About This Songwriting Mess

Is There Life On Ours?

Posted on March 24, 2009 by admin

While looking down on the human race from high up in a jet airliner, I started thinking about the meaning of life. What will I make of my time on Earth? I have free will. It is my choice whether to take advantage of this gift.

Is there intelligent life on this planet of ours?

lyrics
From a mile high
In the sky
How big am I
Are we all
Rather small
In the big
Picture

A rapture
Of conjecture
To conglomerate
Our fate
Is it destiny
Or self-inflicted
Tragedy
A travesty
Of conflicted
Travelings
From the birth
To the death
Is there intelligent
Life on Earth
Or merely worthless
Time spent

Dis-mist

Posted on March 24, 2009 by admin

The lyrics were written while looking out the window of an airplane. I am not sure what I was looking at… but, my guess is we were flying through some ice crystals. The way the sun was hitting them caused them to act like little prisms… and, because of our elevation they were not falling to earth. Instead, they were dancing around. Rather than dismiss the mist, I thought about how the Earth looked like a giant brain with the dancing ice crystals looking like synapses making connections to neurons.

lyrics
Through the mist
I see the mist
Is what I see
And, curiously
I get the gist
Of ice crystals
Dancing
Like neurons
Synaptic
Appear spastic
At first glance
Then the dance
Comes into focus
Less ridicules
Not hocus pocus
A rhyme to the rhythm
A reason to the rhyme
Defeating time
Defeating space
Define the race

Sea Of Clouds

Posted on March 17, 2009 by admin

These lyrics were written looking out the window of a jet. Flying coast to coast across America gives you a different perspective. The clouds looked like snow covered mountains. Although, if you tried to land on them, you would sink through them like landing on water. When there was a break in the clouds, you could see a giant quilt of landwork. It made me realize — the layers of matter that make-up our planet are an amazing gift that I can tend to take for granted.

lyrics
A sea of clouds
Appears
As arctic mountains
Above the clouded see
Of mountains
Is there land
From sea to sea
When I can’t
See
Below the sea
Of clouds
That appears
As snow covered
Land
Though I can’t
Land
Upon this land —
The sea of clouds

The layers of particles
That give birth
To this particular
Place called Earth

Then the sea
Begins to part
And I can see
The quilted parts
The particular
Parcels
On which we’ll land
For what it’s worth
Coming down to Earth

The World Viewed Through Google Eyes

Posted on March 17, 2009 by admin

Sidd wrote:
turn on java
and javascript
then go play at
http://www.touchgraph.com/TGGoogleBrowser.html

(remember to turn off java and javascript when you are done)

So, I went and played… and thought….

I put in one of our domain names… and played and thought some more….

There were quite a few things that stood out. The ones that had to do with music that were fun to play with were:
after extrapolating, it looks like we are one of the top ten MP3 sites on the web. Being that we have original music and own the copyrights, it brought a smile to my face.

Another interesting thing was how Google ranked our bands — it looked like Mess was number one.

The Mess Website

Perhaps it’s time to put another Mess album out?

CHARGE IT!

Posted on February 22, 2009October 31, 2013 by admin

The working name for the new project is Charge It! There are a few reasons why this body of work has taken on that name.

Most of the songs took on a new age social commentary based on old age prophecy. When most people think of prophecy, they think of The Book Of Revelations. But, there is a book that is much older, The Book Of Daniel. The Book Of Daniel can be a frightening read. Even more frightening, is that it’s quite possible Daniel’s revelations are coming true in our day and age.

Chapter 12 (the official last chapter) is entitled “The End Of Times.” We started putting a website together that looks at Daniel’s End Of Times and what is going on today — CThru.com.

Much of the music.ChargeIt.com project is based on The Book Of Daniel and our new Chapter 13.

About Human’s Self-annihilation
Zombies Part I
Zombies Part II
Can’t We Quit?
What Can I Do?

It seemed only fitting that our response to the dead rising up and zombies at the end of times should be — Charge It!

IN THE RECORDING STUDIO

Posted on February 21, 2009 by admin

by Daniel

Back in the recording studio probably isn’t the best way to describe what is going on. Yes, we’re recording. But, no… not exactly in a studio. Unless you want to say, all the world is a studio. There are bits and pieces of tools and equipment that have been accumulated over the years. You could acquire most of it even if you’re on a low budget. Almost all of it is portable… making the world your studio.

To date, the following equipment has been used in our quasi-studio:

Acer laptop, Xbox 360, Guitar Hero World Tour Recording Studio, Presonus Inspire 1334 firewire computer recording system, M-audio keyboard, M-audio Session Studio, Steinbrg Cuebase LE recording software, DigiTech RP3 effects pedal, a dynamic microphone, Bose headphones, several 1/4 inch patch cables, a Lo-Z mic. transformer, Razor Lame MP3 software, Mp3tag, Western Digital mini USB harddrive, Knoppix, Linux operating system, Apache server, Core FTP, and WordPress blogging software.