backspace this

Latest collaboration betwixt my son and I. I combined an earlier recording of him on aM Labs’ Tonematrix with a fresh one I did today. Adding in some text he typed & spellchecked (leaving on default), we have ‘backspace this’.

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This summer, Nelsie, Sophie, & I are participating in 5090. It’s a songwriting contest. You can read all about it, and my reaction.

Property

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This summer, Nelsie, Sophie, & I are participating in 5090. It’s a songwriting contest. You can read all about it here, and my reaction here.

This song is called Property, by Ralph & Nels Hogaboom. Just a regular jam is all.

the water dripping (volcanoes at the end)

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I tried to do this song as an instrumental piece, as though it belonged in a movie soundtrack. The tapping is the water dripping out our basin faucet when I woke this morning.

Doap

So, there I am, shredding some pot-roasted pork for tonite’s Mexican meal, when Nels approaches. He just woke up, and he’s hungry. However, Nels understands that a trade must take place. Like the savages of old who traded valuable furs for gold trinkets, Nels offers me a toy ViewMaster and then says “Hung-ee?” Unfortunately, this savage can only speak broken English, and not enough for us to communicate fully. As for his native tongue, it’s a Godless, pagan one I do not comprehend.

This savage also understands intuitively the role that status plays in our modern world. At the end of the bath time, I prompt him “Say goodbye, soap.” He looks at the soap, but catches the trick. Addressing the Enhancing and Revitalizing shampoo with a serious look, he says “Good-bye, Dampoo.” Then, and only then, can he address the lowly surfactant with a simple “Good-bye, Doap.”