Ahwooga is a popular sound made by old timey cars, lusty cartoon wolves and construction workers. Even old timey submarines were submerging to a loud loop of ahwoogas. The guy who invented the Klaxon horn also invented hearing aids, so you do the math there. In the early aughts, the City was just beginning to […]
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My Car Horn
View this post on Instagram My car horn's got the minor 3. G# and a B. I always hear car horns as the top part of a Major chord for some reason, despite the lack of a root note. I guess I'm the root note. Most car horns play a similar interval, which is actually […]
Black Out!
Side-B of e’rebody starts with the punk-wop industrial song “Black Out!”—a song constructed from American choruses and the rhythms of the railroad, describing a post-collapse world where “rolling blackouts” are “rolling home” and the reactionary power-down militia has no recourse but to “get an acoustic.” A rolling blackout is an intentional blackout, a partial shutdown […]
Black Unstemmed Noteheads
The second song off our new album is a bright up-tempo tune with a whole-tone hook. Drag over the black stemmed noteheads. “Black Unstemmed Noteheads” is a song about songs—a kind of metasong if you will, and I know you will. If this blog could write songs, it would sound like this. A kind of […]
Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Signal)
The classic Car Turn Signal is a sloppy shuffle. Like a horse walk, the turn signal clip clops along at a swinging uneven beat. Perhaps the turn signal of the automobile was designed to mimic the turning of the equestrian’s steed, harking back to that ole clippity-clop. Compare with the equine version. The Car Turn […]
Car Arm Alarm Bug Nuts
The popular Car Arm Alarm is a duplet of flat B’s that bend upwards. Within this short mechanical musical phrase, one can hear the ten thousand voices of nature crying out for an audience. Like the quick stridulation of an insect or the glissando of a bird, the Car Arm Alarm is followed by long […]
The Train in Spain Falls Majorly on the Fade
Trains are in major keys, just like cars. The rhythms of the railroad helped shape Jazz and Rock music, like the shuffle of the human heart and the swung gait of a walking horse, major trains in 4/4 paved the way for the dominance of drumming in all music (after a brief buoyant classical period), […]
