Teaser

Performance piece--conceptualized!

Note: I did most of this on the train on the way back from class on Wednesday night.
Note: The above note is no excuse for the piss-poor hand-writing.



<3 Glenn

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The Receiving End of Sirens - "This Armistice"
No weal words that don't rehash earlier things said about TREOS (or my selections)--epic, uplifting, harmonies, etc.

New post soon

On tap:

Responses to performance day
Where my piece is going (with my own hand-written, atrocious notes!)

More soon, I promise.

Per my last update

This is probably the most irrelevant/irreverent thing I've posted on this blog (I think), but a "short" list of songs I've "used" while writing. I think the quotes are right, here:

112 - It's Over Now
30 Seconds to Mars - Attack
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
Abba - Dancing Queen
Acceptance - The Letter
Ace of Base - Beautiful Life
Action Action - Druglike
AFI - Endlessly, She Said
AFI - Reiver's Music
AFI - Summer Shudder
AFI - The Despair Factor
AFI - The Missing Frame
AFI - This Celluloid Dream
AFI - This Time Imperfect
Al Dimeola - Egyptian Danza
Alien Ant Farm - Attitude
All That Remains - Six
Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal
Angie Stone - I Wish I Didn't Miss You Anymore
Anita Baker - Angel
At the Drive-In - Pattern Against User
Atreyu - Shameful
Atreyu - The Rememberence Ballad
Avant - Separated
Avenged Sevenfold - Chapter 4
Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight (Part 2)
Ayreon - Day Three: Pain
Bach - Allegro
Between the Buried and Me - Backwards Marathon
Between the Buried and Me - Camilla Rhodes
Between the Buried and Me - Mordecai
Between the Buried and Me - Shevenal (Take 2)
Between the Buried and Me - White Walls
Beyonce - Dangerously In Love
Blackfield - Pain
Brian McKnight - Never Felt This Way
Bullet For My Valentine - 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
Chevelle - Closure
Chevelle - Vitamin R
Chirs Brown - Kiss Kiss
Collective Soul - World I Know
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Dream Theater - In The Presence of Enemies
Dream Theater - Learning to Live
Dream Theater - Lifting Shadows
Dream Theater - Speak to Me
Dream Theater - The Ministry of Lost Souls
Dredg - Bug Eyes
Dredg - Ode to the Sun
Dredg - Sang Real
Earth, Wind and Fire - Fantasy
Earth, Wind and Fire - Lovely People
Earth, Wind and Fire - Pure Gold
Earth, Wind and Fire - Show Me the Way
East Clubbers - Walk Alone
ELP - Tarkus
Emery - So Cold I Could See My Breath
Every Time I Die - Ebolarama
Every Time I Die - Kill the Music
Fuel - Shimmer
Funeral for a Friend - Escape Artists Never Die
Genesis - Supper's Ready
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
George Gerschwin - Rhapsody in Blue
George Gerschwin - Summertime
Hikaru Utada - Hikari
Irena Cara - Flashdance…What A Feeling
It Dies Today - Marigold
It Dies Today - Radiance
It Dies Today - Severed Ties Yield Severed Heads
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
John Coltrane - Countdown
John Coltrane - Naima
Journey - Heartland
Journey - I'll Be Alright Without You
Journey - Never Walk Away
Journey - Separate Ways
Journey - What I Needed
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Killswitch Engage - Arms of Sorrows
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Lacrimosa Profundere - Again It's Over
Mahavishnu Orchestra - You Know You Know
Maxwell - Gravity: Pushing To Pull
Maxwell - Know These Things: You Should
Maxwell - Lifetime
Maxwell - Submerge: 'Til We Become the Sun
Maxwell - Symptom Unknown
Maxwell - Temporary Night
Maxwell - This Woman's Work
Miles Davis - So What?
Mr. Big - Take Cover
Nina Gordon - Tonight and the Rest of my Life
Norma Jean - Liarsenic
Opeth - Bleak
Opeth - Coil
Opeth - Isolation Years
Opeth - To Rid the Disease
Opeth - Windowpane
Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind
Porcupine Tree - Collapse the Light into Earth
Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby
Prince - I Would Die 4 U
Protest the Hero - Blindfolds Aside
Protest the Hero - Bloodmeat
Protest the Hero - Sequoia Throne
Prozzak - When I Think of You
Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - Roll The Bones
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Rush - YYZ
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Sarah McLauchlan - Possesion
Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back
Scooter - Faster, Harder, Scooter
Seal - Crazy
Seal - Human Beings
Sevendust - Disgrace
Sevendust - Skeleton Song
Sevendust - Ugly
Sevendust - Xmas Day
Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough
Slipknot - Vermillion Part 2
Snow Patrol - Run
Snow Patrol - Set the Fire to the Third Bar
Snow Patrol - Shut Your Eyes
Sonata Arctica - Shy
Sorskogen - Mordet I Grottan
Sparta - Air
Sparta - Breaking the Broken
Sparta - Collapse
Spice Girls - 2 become 1
Spice Girls - Viva Forever
Splender - Cigarette
Splender - I Apologize
Splender - Supernatural
Stevie Wonder - All I Do
Stream of Passion - Deceiver
Stream of Passion - Nostalgia
Stream of Passion - Passion
Stream of Passion - Wherever You Are
Tamia - You Put a Move on My Heart
Tatu - Friend or Foe
The Clipse - Grinding
The Clipse - Mr. Me Too
The Clipse - Wamp Wamp (What it do)
The Philosopher Kings - You Stepped On My Life
The Receiving End of Sirens - Smoke and Mirrors
The Receiving End of Sirens - The Rival Cycle
The Used - Blue and Yellow
The Who - Love Reing O'er Me
Third Eye Blind - Losing a Whole Year
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life
Third Eye Blind - Slow Motion
Third Eye Blind - Wounded
Thrice - Stare at the Sun
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
Underoath - A Boy Brushed Red (Living in Black and White)
Underoath - In Regards to Myself
Underoath - It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door
Usher - Moving Mountains
Weiß Kreuz - Mellow Candle
Yes - Close to the Edge
Evangelion - Komm, Susser Tod
Journey - Send Her My Love
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Jagged Edge - Tip of My Tongue
maxwell - bad habits
maxwell - possum playing
Maxwell - Silently
Nina Gordon - Tonight and the Rest of My Life
Omarion - I get it in
Omarion - Touch
pleasure p - under
Porcupine Tree - Trains
pretty ricky - grind on me
pretty ricky - playhouse
Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden
R Kelly - Echo
Robin Thicke - Lost Without You
Robin Thicke - Sex Therapy
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Sarah McLachlan - Possesion
sean garret - up in your heart
Shai - if I ever fall in love
Silkk the Shocker - Somebody Like Me
The Dream - Falsetto
The Trax - Knife
Trey Songz - Beat it Up
trey songz - I invented sex
trey songz - neighbors know my name
usher - little freak

Speed Rounds, three.

Really enjoyed doing each of these activities. I think for workshop, I will bring in my work (would poem be accurate?) based on Nate M's source. Other than that, it was interesting doing Nate B's exercise, as my handwriting already looks like I'm drunkenly trying to tattoo with my left hand (I'm right handed) in faux Sanskrit. I write very slanty when I'm not looking, and accordions popped into it. I've already noted my enjoyment of Perrin's source (I did write a program and was going to send it, but gmail is weird about what you can send [the end file is .exe], and Perrin himself had trouble running it). Maybe I'll just post the source code? It was interesting doing Kat's poem, as it reminds me of some of my earlier work (and by earlier work, my poem about a blue monster in fifth grade). Todd's was interesting for the fact that I tend not to write in fragments (and it was interesting trying to distill my mastertape into relatively succinct ideas). Is that everyone? Maybe? I dig collaborative work, so I enjoyed when we worked together (and by we, I mean the class).

In terms of being assign Joyce--I can understand why. I'm obsessed with precision and coherence--Finnegan's Wake (or, maybe more specifically, the excerpt given to me) relies on things that my poetry is not known for. From my notes, I noted (before writing) that the writing was "dense, German-esque language. Sound. Pattern. Spoonerisms. Nonsense?" For the German-esque, I just thought about the prevalence (or ease) with which German words become acceptable compounds. Writing in this mode helped "free" me from my own confines, if only a little bit. Afterwords, I saw that I mostly wanted to work with plays or texts in which weird things happen, and I think that's my attraction to narrative/sense coming back--the exchange of dialogue, even if heady, is pushing towards some goal, whether it's a revisionist look at a fairy tell or trying to accurately translate/transcribe real speech (a la Mamet/Mametspeak). Haven't written in response yet to Mamet, but will soon.

In terms of versions, this brings me up to approximately 24 versions of my mastertape throughout the semester. Wow, that's a lot of writing.

-Glenn

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Yes - Siberian Khatru

Staying in a prog vein, some good ol' Yes. The main theme/riff reminds me simultaneously of early Genesis/Nintendo games (a very definite Sonic feel), but at the same time, feels very anthemic. I keep using anthem or some form of it to describe songs I like--I need a thesaurus.

I think I may actually post songs that I've written in response to/used as inspiration/name dropped in poems--it's really obsessive, like, very literally.

Ok, later (now, with EDIT!)

I really want to make a choose your own adventure-esque story. Literally. I need to find/download a cheap compiler or something. The logic isn't too hard, but depending how sophisticated you want it to be, it'd be labor intensive.

Basically, it seems like it runs on a bunch of switch statements--switch statements literally can "switch" the flow of the program. In this case, the program waits for input from the keyboard (probably a cin to a string, but I think it'd be much easier with a cin to a char, only that's not as interactive). Anyway, based on this input, choices happen.

so, for example:

string decision;
cout<<"Text to respond to\n";
cin>>decision;

switch (decision)
{
case "option 1"
do_this();
case "option 2"
do_that();
.
.
.
default
cout<<"That is not a valid choice--please try again\n";
}

So, as you can see, not really "hard," in theory, especially if you do limit it to picking a specific letter choice. Can probably cut the work load by breaking the story into separate header files or different functions, but then again, nesting stuff is weird. Hmm.. Some pseudocode I may come back to:

//includes--iostream; maybe external defined files to compile with
void main(){

char decision; /*i think i may only have to define this one variable, since everything will be menu driven/dynamic, i just need to make sure i properly change the value*/
bool not_finished = 1; /*ok, i lied--booleans hold either 1 (true) or 0 (false)--the logic should be clearer later, but while, literally, the story is not finished, continue to run the story*/

cout<<"long introduction; compelling; wizards and goblins"<while(not_finished)
{
first_part_of_story_function_call(decision); /*obviously, in each function call, I have to remember to return a decision (passing a char isn't bad...just remembering it may be a problem, ha).
.
.
.
.
last_part_of_story_function_call(decision);
not_finished = 0; /*looking at the code now, since I'm not really looping, I don't even think i need the "not_finished"--I guess that limits the story. But then again, I could have the option here to run the story again (e.g., cout<<"'Play' again?' Y/N), which could take a char input and switch, e.g., case "Y" not_finished = 1 (which, really, I could probably just use a break statement, as its value is already 1) case "N" not_finished = 0; hmm, decisions.
}

return;
}

Anyway, maybe I'll bring this up in class and make an executable that can be hosted...I was thinking of trying to find Flash to do something cool with the other collaborative exercise, but while I still understand the logic behind ActionScripts, I've forgotten much in terms of tweening and other Flash specifics stuffs.

Hmph.

-Glenn

EDIT

So, created a quick version--not my mastertape, per se, but a representation from class. Not too bad to code, just tedious (as I haven't coded anything, really, in about 4 years). There's some visual stuff I want to work out, but for a command prompt with strict decisions, I think it's ok. I have to figure out a way to host the executable (and I'm not sure it will work on macs).


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UK - In the Dead of Night

Prog deliciousness. Allan Holdsworth--c'mon!

Bigger update tomorrow...but for now...

...remember like a few entries back where I was talking about the animé Neon Genesis Evangelion being a good visual representation for my mastertape? Well, I'll explain a bit.

The premise of the show is the world has experienced something called Third Impact, effectively a cataclysmic event in which sea levels rise, seasons get disrupted, lots of people die, etc (standard post-apocalyptic fare, I guess).

Anyway, things called Angels begin to emerge, which essentially want to kill people (note: I'm dumbing down the plot a lot as an in-depth description would be spoiler heavy and it's a really good series...plus, the mythology is being sorta rewritten as we speak by new movies [which are awesomer])...wait, where was I? Oh yeah, Angels. Turns out, the only way to stop these Angels are with mechas (please tell me you know what mechas are--if not, go here). Not compelling yet, right? Well, turns out, they can only be piloted by people born after the Third Impact, or more specifically, 14 year old boys and girls. So, we have science and Christianity covered. Music comes to play a lot--the main character, Shinji, is constantly listening to an SDAT player (although the audience is never privy to what, exactly, he listens to), and many of the battle scenes are set to epic, symphonic music. Like the following, taken from the movie End of Evangelion, which served as the close for the original series.

Bach's "Air on a G String" (music) + Mecha (science-->tech) + religious concepts (note the Lance of Longinus reference at the end) = epic win. Add to the fact that this scene simultaneously explores the pilot's (in this case, Asuka) relationship with herself, mother, and Shinji (among others) simultaneously...it's like...meta hot chocolate. Anyway, without further ado



Yeah--speed round three for me (which should be four...*sigh*) update tomorrow.

-Glenn

PS, did you really think I wouldn't have additional music!


Chris Brown - Deuces

Cliff Note's version: karma (if you believe in that sort of thing) solves everything--surrounding your life with the positive is a good thing, even if it initially hurts.