{"id":1527,"date":"2011-05-16T20:47:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2011-05-16T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:47:17","slug":"two-new-songs-rocket-to-the-moon-and-sea-of-tranquility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/two-new-songs-rocket-to-the-moon-and-sea-of-tranquility\/","title":{"rendered":"Two New Songs: Rocket to the Moon and Sea of Tranquility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here\u2019s the rough mixes of two new songs: Rocket to the Moon and Sea of Tranquility. I\u2019ll bet you thought I forgot all about Rocket to the Moon, after posting the lyrics a while back. Well what happened is it took me a while to finish it, and while I was deciding what to do I went ahead and made a second song. I find that it\u2019s sometimes better to work on songs in pairs.<\/p>\n

Rocket to the Moon is a straight-up, upbeat, uptempo, rockin\u2019 number. The arrangement features electric guitars (a first for me) and now a horn section consisting of a bari sax and two tenors. The original concept was to go for something reminiscent of classic Chicago, but once I got into it the sound morphed into something like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones or They Might Be Giants. Anyway here it is and I think it sound really good.<\/p>\n

Sea of Tranquility is sort of companion piece, a b-side if you will. (Do they even have those anymore?) And, apart from being just about the same length, a bit over three minutes, it\u2019s a study in contrast. It\u2019s an instrumental, soothing and hypnotic, based on a minimalist piano ostinato that begins in 5\/4 time but dances around different meters throughout the piece. Meanwhile the orchestration builds slowly but insistently, as in a bolero. The first half is just piano and percussion, then the second time thru the instruments enter one by one to create a layered effect. In addition to piano, guitar, and some synthesizers, I used a saxophone quartet, with each voice double-tracked for a full ensemble sound. To top it off, Lizzy appears a guest artist playing the flute.<\/p>\n

These songs are pretty much complete. All that remains is put some EQ and compression on the tracks and do the final mastering. I\u2019m planning on releasing these songs on iTunes as singles for digital download, rather than wait for an album\u2019s worth of songs to be completed. This means I have to figure out what software or technology I want to use for mastering. I think for a first pass I may just run my stereo mixes back into protocols and see what I can do with them in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/zingman.com\/music\/mp3\/buzzyThird\/RocketToTheMoon35.mp3 http:\/\/zingman.com\/music\/mp3\/buzzyThird\/SeaOfTranquility20.mp3 Here\u2019s the rough mixes of two new songs: Rocket to the Moon and Sea of Tranquility. I\u2019ll bet you thought I forgot all about Rocket to the Moon, after posting the lyrics a while back. Well what happened is it took me a while to finish it, and while I was deciding what … Continue reading “Two New Songs: Rocket to the Moon and Sea of Tranquility”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}