Trying to come up with new Sac stuff...and can't think of where to begin

this sucks

maybe i'll just mash a whole bunch of stuff together that doesn't make sense and call it our grindcore song

I find that all you really need for a solid song is to get a few themes and just develop them

it worked for all sorts of classical folk.

i was thinking that...but that's where i don't know where to begin

we've done a lot of slower stuff so i was thinking a balls to the wall song but everything i've come up with sounds like a song i've already heard before

write a song about a nuclear bomb

anyone ever hear that piece about Hiroshima? just sounds like people screaming and sirens and all that jazz...done with strings and what not?

who did that?

I don't remember...I need to dig through my old music theory notebooks...I'll try to do some quickie research now, since it's buggin me now.

Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

found it

from 1997 to 2001, I made tons of shitty little electronic songs. they were so much fun. I put out a bunch of CDs caulked full of crappiness.
in nov 2001, I stamped a CD with all the stuff that I wanted to put in there.
the next night, I made a new song. slept. listened to it the next day and was like "that's the same shit I made before!"
DELETE

the next night, I made a new song. slept. listened to it the next day and was like "that's the same shit I made before!"
DELETE

and I haven't done anything since.

listening to this now...really hard to listen to though...so dissonant.

meaning the Penderecki thing.

lucky for me i found a tape of some shit we jammed out about a month or two ago at practice...totally bringin it to practice tomorrow and fuckin with it after we finish the other new one

hey aaron i did the exact same thing with fruity loops, made up like 3 or 4 songs, listened to em in a row, and realized that they were the same thing just with different sounds...it doesn't mean you should give up though!

i think i'm gonna download that hiroshima thing

one cool thing about it was the way the score was written...it was like...graphic notation, not normal musical notation. There score is just like a sequence of big black blobs to show note ranges. A lot of notes on emotion of the moment and just basic notes with guidelines for what should be going on for each section in a given moment. It was arranged for 52 stringed instruments...fucking crazy.

that's a whole lot of stringed instruments

i heard something a couple years back of this new music writing software that uses colors and grids as opposed to your standard sheet music and some kindergarten-2nd grade students in europe were writing some brilliant music with no training whatsoever...just goes to show you how universal music really is

fuckin weird