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Friday, October 8, 2004

Dept. of New Sounds
"A Trip To The Stars" (QuickTime stream) is the new song by my favorite purveyor of Cambridge Psychedelia (who's currently working), Paul Brazier. Currently, it's in heavy rotation on my iPod and in iTunes.
It's a bit of Bowie, a bit of Syd and a bit of Be Bop Deluxe, with a Brazier edge that's totally unique. Give it a listen, you'll be glad you took the trip!
Download the MP3
Also check out Paul's epic tribute to his fellow Cambridge tripmeister- "emeralds and diamonds" (QT stream) or download the MP3
And while you're at it, give "So Beautiful" (QT stream) a spin- it's a Who-ish trip through the land of the Kinks, yet thoroughly contemporary. MP3 download

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Dept. of Typing

A picture named monkeybob.jpg Plugging in a Musical Visionary's Next Ideas. Musician Brian Eno, who has been turning ideas into visionary music for decades, is looking to create software that will write song lyrics. By By JON PARELES. [The New York Times > Technology]

Eno HAS to name the software "The Infinite Monkey!"

There have been very few technological advances for creating songs, he said. "If you think of all other aspects of music-making, they've all become much easier. But the song is pretty much where it was in the days of Chaucer. It hasn't moved on. It's still as difficult a problem. And particularly this applies to lyric writing."
"I'm trying to develop a software that will become a repository for the kind of lyrical ideas you like," he continued. "You might include in it all your previous lyrics and other people's lyrics that you somehow respond to. Then, when you come to writing a new song, what you enter into the machine is the phonetic and rhythmic structure. And it starts looking through your database for matches."

Shakespeare Monkeys would be good, too.

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