A Cold Freezin' Night - Música

Frogtoon Música - Información de la canción: A Cold Freezin' Night

The-Books - The Way Out

From Zammuto's Wordpress "This Track Was One Of The First Tracks We Made For ‘the Way Out’ And We Knew When We Started It That It Was Going To Push Things In A Very New Direction For Us. A Little Back Story The Movie Home Alone 2 Lost In New York Was Released In 1992 And You Might Recall That Macaulay Culkin Used A Tape Recorder In That Movie To Disguise His Voice I Believe . Kids Wrote Letters En Masse Requesting That A Retail Version Of The Tape Recorder Be Made And Sure Enough In 1993 Tiger Electronics Released A Version Of It Called The Talkboy. Many Many Were Sold You May Have Had One! You Can Still Get Them On EBay In Fact Http //media.Tumblr.Com/tumblr_L4gz904FRl1qasnx6.Jpg The Salient Thing About The Talkboy Is Its Speed Control. You Can Adjust The Speed Of The Tape During Playback And Recording To Get Very Strange Vocal Effects. The Opening Sample In ‘A Cold Freezin’ Night’ Is A Perfect Example…listen Very Carefully… You Will Unmistakably Hear A Line From A Well Known Kids’ Song Distorted To The Edge Of Recognizability But I Promise You It’s There! You Know Since We’ve Started Touring We’ve Been Raiding Thrift Shops Looking For Good Audio And Video Tapes. We Have Many Thousands Of Them Http //media.Tumblr.Com/tumblr_L4gzk3VZNB1qasnx6.Jpg Among These Tapes Were At Least A Half A Dozen Talkboy Tapes. And As You May Know First Hand When A Kid Gets His First Tape Recorder All Inhibitions Disappear. These Tapes Are Full Of Outrageous Moments That No Fully Conscious Adult Could Ever Duplicate. The Primary Tape That You Hear In ‘a Cold Freezin’ Night’ Is A Game Of One-Upsmanship Between A Brother And A Sister I Think . Their Conversation Escalates Until The Younger Sister Has No Choice But To Drop The A-Bomb. It’s Very Musical How It Unfolds So It Was Not A Stretch To Turn It Into A Pseudo-Techno-Dance Mix. The Rest Of The Sounds In The Mix Range From Bass Guitar That I Recorded With My Brother Mikey A Collection Of Amazing Vintage Synth Samples That Paul Collected From Various Sources Fragments Of Outdated Radio Jingles Including The Best Harmonica Solo Ever And An Electro-Acoustic Polyrythm Generator That I Invented. I’ll Describe It Along With Some Of My Other Inventions Later. --- A Cold Freezin’ Night Also Came Very Early In The Process Of Making ‘The Way Out’. The Talkboy Tapes As I Described In My Blog Entry Of June 23 Were Another Highlight Of Paul’s Sample Library. Since We Leaked This Track Last Month The Responses Have Ranged From Unbridled Joy To Bitter Commentary On My Parenting Skills. It’s Funny How Many People Assume That These Are Our Kids And We Scripted The Whole Thing . I Found A Tape Recorder For My Boys Not A Talkboy But A Fisher-Price… So Far The Highlight Has Been Sepp Singing Variations On The Theme-Song For NPR’s ‘All Things Considered” Entirely Using The Word ‘poop’ Over And Over. He’s 4. His Most Prized Possession Is His Fisher-Price Turntable Http //media.Tumblr.Com/tumblr_L638f78ftE1qasnx6.Jpg On Constant Rotation Recently J. Geils - ‘Freeze Frame’ Bobby Vinton – ‘Is There A Place Where I Can Go ’ And ‘5 Minute Hoe-Down’ Which He Calls The ‘fiddle One’. Sometimes Sepp Complains About Having To ‘work All Day Everyday”. If You Ask Him What His Work Is He Says “I Have To Play My Record Player”. He Must Think That’s What I Do All Day Out Here. And He’s Right Pretty Much. Since I Covered The Backstory Of This Track Before I Want To Write About The Creation Of The Percussion Part Which Involved My ‘electro-Acoustic Poly-Rhythm Generator’. This Is The Part Of The Track That Sounds Like A Cross Between A ‘nail Gun Set To Automatic’ And ‘a Guy In A Subway Banging On A Five Gallon Bucket On Methamphetamines’. I’ve Never Taken Speed But I Do Own A Nailgun A Bostitch F28WW Pneumatic Which I Love But It Was Not Used In The Making Of This Track At Least Not Directly. Here Are Pictures Of The Rhythm-Generator Http //media.Tumblr.Com/tumblr_L638npKLfv1qasnx6.Jpg
http //media.Tumblr.Com/tumblr_L638qihsig1qasnx6.Jpg It’s A Four Inch Subwoofer Attached To An Oddly Shaped Flexible Mirror Using A Copper Plumbing Fixture. Why A Mirror? No Reason It Was The Best Piece Of Plastic I Could Find For The Job At The Autozone. When You Put A Low Frequency Sound Through The Woofer It Sets The Mirror Vibrating And Since It Is Oddly Shaped Different Areas Of The Mirror Move In Different Ways Given The Chaotic Relationship Between The Root Frequency And Their Own Set Of Resonant Frequencies. What I Did For ‘A Cold Freezin’ Night’ Is Send A 20 Hz Sound And A 30 Hz Sound Through The Mirror Simultaneously And Held A Ball Point Pen Gently Against Different Parts Of The Mirror And Recorded The Result. Of Course At This Point It Just Sounds Like A Buzzing Nightmare I’ll Try To Post The Sound Later Tonight But If You Slow The Sound Down By Two Octaves All Of This Amazing Rhythmic Structure Becomes Apparent. The Chaotic Relationship Between The 2/3 Sound Wave The Vibrating Mirror And The Tip Of The Pen Gives An Astonishingly Expressive And Superhumanly Accurate Drum Solo. It Was Pretty Easy To Massage The Rhythm Into Shape Using My Wave-Editor After That. There’s No Real Way To Reproduce It Live So For The Purposes Of The Show We Use It As It Is. Gene Has Been Working On Copping That Crazy Harmonica Solo On His Fiddle So That’s Fun To Watch. I Remember First Listening To Aphex Twin And Squarepusher In College. Drill-And-Bass Was All The Rage Back In The Late Nineties Like Aphex Twins ‘Girl-Boy Song’ And Tom Jenkinson’s ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ And ‘Big Loada’. Very Guyish Very Awesome. It Was A Great Paradigm Shift In Music. The Drums Through Some Kind Of Coup D’etat Usurped The Role Of The Melody As Lead Attention Grabber In Music And The Melody Slunk Back Into The Role Of Holding Time Together. It Was A Very Freeing Moment For Music. Drums Didn’t Have To Be Humanly Playable Anymore. People Were Beginning To Accept Cyborgs As Just Another Member Of The Band. It Was Key For Setting Up The Musical Landscape That Made ‘the Books’ Possible And I Think Of ‘a Cold Freezin’ Night’ As A Bit Of A Throwback To This Era And Maybe Sort Of An Updated Version Of This Aesthetic."