Jonathan asked me to put together some snippets of these songs to be sung as backup to scenes from ground control.
Kid Cudi
Alive (Nightmare) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Purub08zwJI
Sky Might Fall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwI3CS2CHE8
Man on the Moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKD2EWLKcNU
Embrace the Martian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzZet_pQ58
Alive (Nightmare)
CHORUS:
Everytime, the moon shines I become alive, yeah
and everytime, the moon shines I become alive, yeah
Nananananananana, whoooa
nanananananana
Nananananananana, whoooa
nanananananana
You're fate will be whatever it shall be (be, be, be, be)
We'll fight no more, I let these things just be (be, be, be)
Sky Might Fall
CHORUS:
'Til then I call
The sky might fall
The sky might fall
But I'm not worried at all
C'mon C'mon
The sky might fall
The sky might fall
But I'm not worried at all
Hey Hey
OUTRO:
i keep running yea
i gotta keep up gotta keep up yea
gotta keep up i gotta keep up
and i keep running yea
i gotta keep up gotta keep up yea
gotta keep up i gotta keep up yeaaaa
cause im gone
yea na na na na na na
na na im up and awayyy
na na na na
na na na na hey heyyy
Man on the Moon
And my mind is all (crazy crazy crazy crazy)
They got me thinking I ain't human like I came here from (above above above above)
Feeling like an airplane in the sky
But then they say I'm (crazy crazy crazy crazy)
They got me thinking I ain't human like I came in from (above above above above)
Feeling like a bird sitting high, I
(Chorus)
I'll be that man on the moon
I'm that man on the moon and I'ma do what I do
So do you (hey hey)
I'll be that man on the moon
I'm that man on the moon and I'm up up on the mooooon.
Whoo-hoo-hoo (hey hey)
Embrace the Martian
CHORUS 2x
Embrace the martian, embrace the martian
I come in peace, but I need ya’ll rockin wit me
Please, embrace the martian
And this is how it sounds
Oo oo, and this is how it sounds
In my mind, ooo
Star Trek lingo
Engage / engaging / engaged
Mister xxx
Yes sir
Captain/ seargeant/ lietenant, First names for serious moments
Aye aye
Commencing
Set a course / plot an intercept course
Stand by
I'm getting something on the distress channel
Your message is breaking up
Can u give us your coordinates? My position is gamma hydra sector 10
I've lost their signal
Alert!
Audio.
Activate shields/photons/etc
The frequency is jammed
Get em out of there!
Damage report
Main energizer down / out
Try/ Engage auxiliary power
All hands on deck
Permission to speak candidly?
Granted
Carry on
On approach to...
Any change in the surface scan? Negative
Limited atmosphere dominated by craylon gas, sand... High velocity winds
Incapable of supporting life forms
We've picked up a minor energy flux on one dyno scanner
Maybe the scanner is out of adjustment
Please respond / respond please
Let's give it a little more time
Open the airlock
Permission to come aboard? Granted
Aye sir
Ahead one quarter impulse power
Regulation
Prepare speakers
Try the emergency channels
General order 12 states that when...
Yellow alert
I can't get power sir
Damage report
Visual / on screen
Indeterminate life signs
Impulse power restored
Full stop
No response
Time from my mark
Great quote from an episode: "I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness in love, especially when every day is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days, and the years ahead are worth living for. One day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies - maybe even the atom. Energies which could ultimately hurl us to other worlds, and in some sort of - spaceship. And the men that reach out into space, could find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their diseases. They would be able to find a way to give each man hope, and a common future. And THOSE are the days worth living for."
Kirk giving advice to a woman on a 'past Earth' that they visited.
I love that our show would 'be able to find a way to give each man hope, and a common future.'
Mister xxx
Yes sir
Captain/ seargeant/ lietenant, First names for serious moments
Aye aye
Commencing
Set a course / plot an intercept course
Stand by
I'm getting something on the distress channel
Your message is breaking up
Can u give us your coordinates? My position is gamma hydra sector 10
I've lost their signal
Alert!
Audio.
Activate shields/photons/etc
The frequency is jammed
Get em out of there!
Damage report
Main energizer down / out
Try/ Engage auxiliary power
All hands on deck
Permission to speak candidly?
Granted
Carry on
On approach to...
Any change in the surface scan? Negative
Limited atmosphere dominated by craylon gas, sand... High velocity winds
Incapable of supporting life forms
We've picked up a minor energy flux on one dyno scanner
Maybe the scanner is out of adjustment
Please respond / respond please
Let's give it a little more time
Open the airlock
Permission to come aboard? Granted
Aye sir
Ahead one quarter impulse power
Regulation
Prepare speakers
Try the emergency channels
General order 12 states that when...
Yellow alert
I can't get power sir
Damage report
Visual / on screen
Indeterminate life signs
Impulse power restored
Full stop
No response
Time from my mark
Great quote from an episode: "I don't pretend to tell you how to find happiness in love, especially when every day is just a struggle to survive. But I do insist that you do survive, because the days, and the years ahead are worth living for. One day, soon, man is going to be able to harness incredible energies - maybe even the atom. Energies which could ultimately hurl us to other worlds, and in some sort of - spaceship. And the men that reach out into space, could find ways to feed the hungry millions of the world, and to cure their diseases. They would be able to find a way to give each man hope, and a common future. And THOSE are the days worth living for."
Kirk giving advice to a woman on a 'past Earth' that they visited.
I love that our show would 'be able to find a way to give each man hope, and a common future.'
BioMotion Lab
Jerry asked me to post this -- check it out, it's awesome:
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
Hocketing
The song that Marc was teaching Jerry and I last night reminded me of this video I had seen of the Dirty Projectors demonstrating "hocketing", which is basically sharing a melody between two or more people, alternating singing/playing notes, giving a ping-pong effect.
Dave Longstreth talks for a while about it, but skip to minute 7 to see the ladies demonstrate.
This hocketing example might be more useful for a group song. This is a group of flute players from Ethiopia. It gets pretty crazy and dissonant, but a melody could work on top of something sparer. We could try something like this as a vocal improv.
Dave Longstreth talks for a while about it, but skip to minute 7 to see the ladies demonstrate.
This hocketing example might be more useful for a group song. This is a group of flute players from Ethiopia. It gets pretty crazy and dissonant, but a melody could work on top of something sparer. We could try something like this as a vocal improv.
Twin Peaks song
Holy Shit! Over at the Twin Peaks Archive (which I didn't even know existed until today) they've just released 4 previously unreleased songs, which are downloadable today only.
CHECK OUT THIS CLIP -- it features so many of the elements we've been toying with, like:
- dark haired twin-like girls singing backup
- an 'alien' or unexpected voice coming out of someone's mouth
- wierdly nostalgic yet creepy home-like environment
And it's also a lovely, understated song. I'm not suggesting we use it in the show, just as inspiration:
CHECK OUT THIS CLIP -- it features so many of the elements we've been toying with, like:
- dark haired twin-like girls singing backup
- an 'alien' or unexpected voice coming out of someone's mouth
- wierdly nostalgic yet creepy home-like environment
And it's also a lovely, understated song. I'm not suggesting we use it in the show, just as inspiration:
White Vinyl Design
Came across this design firm, White Vinyl, which featured two things (among others) that really charmed me.
SolarBeat: "A simple ambient musicbox, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system." Go watch & listen here.
Micro Fantasy -- these photos kind of reminded me of Jerry's etude!
SolarBeat: "A simple ambient musicbox, with sounds generated using the orbital frequencies of our solar system." Go watch & listen here.
Micro Fantasy -- these photos kind of reminded me of Jerry's etude!
