glibberish.

Something I made about a week ago as a requiem for grandma.

Guitar sample from Duncan Sheik’s “Sad Stephen’s Song” and strings from Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa”. Title lifted from my sister’s eulogy.

For the 6th Monome Community Remix Project we remixed Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Was supposed to sit this one out so I could work on other projects, but I just coudn’t pass up remixing a famous internet-meme-level pop song.

The title surely is a reference to the song remixed, but it’s actually less that than the fact that I made music of a type that I ordinarily don’t do. But it’s great sampling and remixing workout and I had tons of fun making it.

I am happy to report that modulogeek.com is up!

While I’ve produced several musical output in the recent months, they were all made with the help of samples created by other people. So it’s been a while since I completed and released a song that’s entirely my own.

All the elements of this song were conceived, recorded and looped more than a year ago. It took me this long to put everything together, arranged in a way I am satisfied with. It’s a good thing I guess, since I have learned much more about electronic music production since I started doing the monthly remix projects by the monome community.

So here it is – warts, occasionally out of tune vocals, and all:

As for inspiration? Let’s just say this song has a muse, a harbinger of joy and doom in one complete package ;)