with this I give you the permission to use my piece "Sprouts" for your project.
Of course I`m curious, so it would be great if you could send me a copy [upon publication] …
If you make any money, we would have to make a contract – if you need anything written or signed please send me a form!
Kind regards from berlin, Parageet.
Ed. note: Thank you, Parageet. Upon publication, you’ll be sent a copy. But don’t put a down payment on the Lamborghini while waiting for royalties!
For info re: sources: please see note to the text version of 13 Oct 2008]
[Note: Ernesto writes: “I found a video posted on YouTube by Renabette covering Secondhand Serenade’s “Fall for You”:
I took a screenshot of 0:22 in the video, tweaked the image on iPhoto and then created a reverse strip hay(na)ku on Comic Life with it.” Thank you, Renabette, for allowing us to include you]
[Note: Ernesto writes: I dropped my favorite stanzas of the poem on Phrasr and this is what it came up with … (ed. note: this one will have to live only in virtual spacetime, i.e., on the web …)]
[Note: Ernesto writes: “I got carried away and I made this
video remix using iMovie and Audacity. I wanted again to play with the
idea of spectrality, echo and juxtaposition of darkness and light and
memorable lines. For this I've sampled and processed a snippet of
Elliot Smith's "Angeles" from his Either/Or album”]
[Note: Ernesto writes: “Here's another remix. To be honest, I can't remember anymore how many processes were involved in this one. I started sampling a bit from Slayer's Angel of Death, of which only a distant echo remained in the end, I must say. I had the computer read the poem aloud using the “Vicky” speech preset and recorded it using Audacity again. I then cut, pasted, delayed, cut again, recorded again, changed pitch, tempo and speed, passed everything through low and high filters, added a bass which I cranked up, added two types of shakers, messed around with the gain levels, et cetera. It's not all random: I wanted to sample and repeat the lines that had remained in my memory by attempting a rewriting of the poem by what I could remember without looking at it. You will realize the order of the poem has been altered. I wanted several voices to invoke both the hope and the despair that poem evokes in me. I wanted to translate the light and darkness of the poem by juxtaposing the very high and the very low frequencies. This is a fallen angel speaking, seduced by the chant of a beautiful girl. Because desire burns, and most of us would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven...”]
[Note: Ernesto writes: “I read the poem from your blog and recorded it on my laptop using Audacity. Then I attempted a quick translation of the poem into Spanish, which I was unhappy with. It occurred to me I could use Babelfish, so I did, and then merged my version with Babelfish's, coming up with some sort of remix of both. The Babelfish translation is, of course, “meaningless” in Spanish, but some of the combinations are actually poetic and very musical, so I didn't allow “my version” to smooth out those mistakes but to leave only what was similar. I then read the result aloud and recorded it while listening to the English version at the same time on my headphones to try to improvise some sort of simultaneous translation by trying to keep up with it- the Spanish version is obviously longer. I boosted the bass and gain levels to make the Spanish come to the front while leaving the English slightly in the background.
Then I sampled a bit from “Pedacito de mi vida” a classic Colombian cumbia from the eighties, and added some amplified vinyl scratch effect. The loop has been cut and pasted several times and processed with echo and delay effects. I wanted to reproduce the effect of reading a poem in a foreign language, so I added 2 echoes to the English version, and phased the Spanish one in four stages, so it goes from left to right and right to left, creating an all-round spatial effect. I have also taken a picture of the Audacity screen as I saw it. (There are more channels than the ones shown, but it sort of transmits the idea I think). I normalized the whole thing to get rid of unwanted peaks and also passed everything through a Decca FFRR 78 equalizer”]