FAWM: "This Is The Day"

This Is The Day

15 hours ago by @declan

Skirmish: Cut Up technique (@lyricslinger)

Liner Notes

This was a #skirmish. The Prompt was to use a cut up technique. I opened The British Library's collection entitled Spectral Sounds: Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird and opened on a short story - The Day of My Death by Elizaneth Stuart Phelps and found the line "Night after night mysterious fingers rapped at the windows, the doors, the floors, the walls" https://shop.bl.uk/products/spectral-sounds-unquiet-tales-of-acoustic-weird?srsltid=AfmBOooSb13KG1yGq9PvDUW_4q0WUXPpp6gvrJZlz2ZoYZQ-JiW94TSI

I used Beepbox https://www.beepbox.co for the music, mainly to try it out. Learning the ropes on that meant I went a bit well a lot, overtime for the hour. It's a fun little lofi tool. Doubletracked it and added fx and vocals in bandlab.

Whole thing is a bit of #gothic #hyperpop silliness, but I enjoyed making

Lyrics

Night after Night Mysterious Fingers Rapping at me doors Rapping at me winders

This is the day of my death

Day after day Troublesome trickers Are shakin’ me walls Are rattling me floors

This is the day of my death

Comments

@lyricslinger 15h

Very cool. I like the way you've used the slang of words such as 'winders'. Feels like a song to play (or not to play depending on your nervous disposition) at around about midnight when all alone ...

@rshakesp 15h

This is a short crazy assault on the ears - you gotta the promiscuity of the british library. I loved your combination of sounds - the bells, the low bell, with the swills, the alienised voices - the way it suddenly died and then came back - that was cool