/ j / 2015-02 / 25_r0511

Shipping Containers

I'm really unhappy with the quality of the vocal track. It's a long song and there are a lot of opportunities to mess up. I suspect that this will be one of the songs that only attains quality by splicing multiple takes together.

This one is taking some creative licensing with the source material. Perhaps I need either a new verse or to alter a verse to explicitly state that the ship is blue. Because a blue ship (or other vehicle) with a "conductor" and a "fat controller" should be pretty easy to put together.

In my world, the reason the show has vehicles with child-like personalities is because they're operated by children's brains in jars. Why do you need children's brains in jars for a coal boiler? Simple: You don't. But you might need them to operate a futuristic reactor in a space ship so moving the scene to space is quite logical.

The album concept (repeated from my bio): This FAWM, I want to write songs for an art album I'm working on. Abstractly, it's an art album about copyright... in the guise of hymn filk. The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1926 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.