{"id":59,"date":"2007-09-17T23:49:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zingman.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-09-17T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T04:49:13","slug":"new-recording-angel-or-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/new-recording-angel-or-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"New Recording: Angel or Alien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well it’s not all been home improvement projects of late, so shifting gears here: My new song, Angel or Alien, is getting close to done. <\/span>It’s a quasi-autobiographical number, a sort of sci-fi reverie based on contemplating the wonder of the night sky, combined with some speculation about things that can be seen but not readily explained.<\/p>\n

As mentioned before, it features an analog-style synthesizer solo in the middle section. <\/span>Now in the old days I would have played this on a real synthesizer and twiddled the knobs live. <\/span>I’m particularly keen on sweeping some lowpass filters and adding some big FLO here as an effect here and there. <\/span>But my setup has gone all digital and fully computerized, so I ended up using a software synthesizer inside proTools for the patch, and the keyboard I played has only the basic pitch wheel and modulation control. <\/span>So I’m hoping I can map some continuous controllers to the software synth model and either perform these moves as essential an overdub, or just pencil them in.<\/p>\n

More importantly, I finalized the lyrics in the last week and laid down a vocal track just the other night. <\/span>I normally do several takes on my vocals and edit them together to form a master lead vocal track. <\/span>As soon as this is done, I’ll post a rough mix. <\/span>Still to do is possible backing vocals and sweetening instruments (backing synths, etc.), and the aforementioned lead synth knob twiddling. <\/span>But I want to listen to the song a few times before I get to that, so it won’t stop me from posting the first rough mix.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, you can meditate on the lyrics.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Angel or Alien<\/strong>
\nby John Szinger<\/p>\n

Walking home alone the other night
\nWhen looking up the sky ahead I saw a light
\nI quickly identified it at as a UFO
\nBut what it really was I don’t know
\nWas it an angel or an alien ?
\nOr was it something else again ?<\/p>\n

Hover above the world we weave with our machines
\nOne giant step or small leap it’s of our means
\nFor what could be more human than to
\nMake a thing to do the thing you do?
\nBut is it a demon or is it a dinosaur ?
\nIs it something more?<\/p>\n

Walk on said the man in the moon
\nWhy do the stars in the sky ?
\nWalk on said the man in the moon
\nMoonchild teach me to fly
\nThey know you’ve walked miles alone
\nAll that has shone upon soon will be shown
\nWalk on said the man in the moon
\nGo home, go home yeah<\/p>\n

Twelve thousand years that they’ve been gone
\nAn outer orbit on that big wheel one time ’round
\nBut they’re on their way now, yeah they’re coming home
\nThe stars are aligned man in the moon will leave his light on
\nAll night long<\/p>\n

And do they come to enlighten and set us free ?
\nOr to blind us with bling and enslave us with TV ?
\nAnd will they bring death to the world of illusions
\nIdeas categories ambitions confusions
\nA shooting star is a sign in the sky calling
\nSo is it a meteor or just a metaphor falling?<\/p>\n

Look up said the man in the moon
\nHow can the stars in their turn?
\nLook up said the man in the moon
\nMoonchild teach me to learn
\nThey know you’ve walked dark years in dreams
\nLook deeper and see that it’s not what it seems
\nLook up said the man in the moon
\nGo home, go home yeah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well it’s not all been home improvement projects of late, so shifting gears here: My new song, Angel or Alien, is getting close to done. It’s a quasi-autobiographical number, a sort of sci-fi reverie based on contemplating the wonder of the night sky, combined with some speculation about things that can be seen but not … Continue reading “New Recording: Angel or Alien”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}