Slipping
31 Aug 2009
"My request is a little bit different from normal, but something I hope fits your style. I'd like this song to be made nearly entirely of 'found sound' from your area- anything from creaking doors to engines to halogen lights to wind. The theme is up to you, but to get you started I might suggest day/night cycles. Lyrics as necessary."
-PTTG
The sounds are, in order of appearance:
0'00" - a small mechanical clock
0'00" - a hand drill
0'06" - a cordless electric screwdriver
0'06" - water being poured onto an extremely hot metal surface
0'24" - kick - a big cardboard box open at one end being hit
0'24" - bass - a lathe motor running with the mechanics detached
0'40" - arp - the same lathe running with the drive belt tightened
0'40" - a bicycle bell
0'40" - snare - a carrot being cut on a wooden chopping board
0'48" - pad - more lathe
0'48" - a boatswain's call
1'10" - cymbals/open hi-hat - the trailing edge of the water onto hot metal sample
1'11" - closed hi-hat - a low-decay section of the water sample
1'44" - bell arp - a double-edged hand saw
This was a paid request.
This track is a part of Volume 3 of Music for the Blind, which is currently incomplete.
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Lyrics
i've been slipping out of sync i've been sleeping out of sync i've been slipping out of sync and every time i blink it's like my mind is undergoing an attack again and when i have returned i think "by now i should have learned" i fall away again i suddenly come back again ---- CHORUS i'm out of sync the world is losing hours every day i fall behind the clock inside me badly misaligned but life goes on i'm waking up at six PM, i fall asleep at ten and i can't get in sync again ---- i've been slipping out of sync i've been sleeping out of sync on average, i would say i've lost three hours every day that means my months are consequently three days shorter and every time i go around i think there must be solid ground before i know it i have lost another quarter i'm out of sync i'm out of sync i'm out of sync ---- CHORUS ----