Name: Tribute To Jandek
Channel: Mr. Roboto
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Tribute To Jandek

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a song in the key of Jandek

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Song Info

Genre

Electronic • Experimental Sounds

Charts

Peak #832

Peak in subgenre #25

Author

Mr. Roboto

Rights

Dirty Old Squalor Productions

Uploaded

June 13, 2005

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MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00

Story behind the song

I wanted to see if I could do a song in the key of Jandek.  I took  information on how Jandek tunes his guitar, and
created a random sequence of those notes.  As best I can remember, he
picks individual notes, so I set up a long sequence of those notes (in
the proper octaves) with lots of rests.

I figured he changes chord by just barring straight across the neck
and moving up and down, so I transposed chunks of
my midi file to minor third, minor 5th, 5th, and 6th. I let band in a
box generate the accompaniment.  There has been a lot of discussion on the Jandek list
about Son House and other early blues guys on the Jandek list, so I
selected "Country Blues" style. I kept my original midi file as the
guitar part.

I had Microsoft Sam read the lyrics from Sitting in a Chair. 

Then I used the one of the features in BIAB 2005 to harmonize Sam’s
voice with the guitar part (this is why it's so much bigger now - it
was just midi before, now you can import audio into it, and it will do
interesting things with your audio).  Furthermore, I applied a voice
style that is supposed to make it sound like Dylan (to me it makes it
sound a bit like Billie Holliday, but what do I know?)

Then I took the whole thing into sonar and groove quantized the whole
thing to Microsoft Sam’s part

Lyrics

Then I took all the lyrics from "Sitting in a Chair" and not wanting to make people I was trying to do a direct cover of one of his
songs, I used a creative and complex algorhythm to rearrange them (I put them in alphabetical order!)

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