shut up and listen

• spoken word/found sound
  journalist narrates a live painting event
• backing music kicks in after 8 seconds
• percussion and 2 chord pattern
• bass gtr runs, wooden percussion?
• music cuts right on the final word of narrative

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. score an existing narrative – documentary? news story?
2. music cuts right on the final word of narrative

• percussive opening, wide image
• elect gtr plucking, xylophone hits,
• percussion/drums increase
• melodic singing, back in mix, room ambience, wordless or unintelligible
• main vox comes in, interspersed with spoken word samples
• drum accents match spoken word accents from a certain point
  ‘he is forty two, five feet eight inches tall …’

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. drum accents match spoken word accents
2. do the above with singing

• banjo? acst gtr arpeggios
• swelling strings, bass enters, chord changes
• speaking doesn’t enter until 2 mins into track
• spoken word found sound – american teacher
  voice breaks
• spoken word – woman talking about how ‘he couldn’t stop’
  she repeats her point
• music cuts suddenly
• final spoken word sample, male, dry, slightly distant
  ‘no chorus (laughs)’
• no other vox

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. voice breaks – keep a flaw/mistake, make it a central point of focus
2. lyric: repeat a point but worded slightly differently – as i do in everyday speech

• a lot of words delivered very quickly
• 3/4
• bird calls
• 4 chord pattern in 7 bars
  1 / / 2 / / 3 / / 4 / /  / / /  / / /  :

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. a lot of words delivered very quickly
2. 4 chord pattern in 7 bars
   1 / / 2 / / 3 / / 4 / /  / / /  / / /  :

• portamento – melody sliding between notes
• tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
• ducking

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. portamento
2. tremelo vocal effect – like butthole surfers ‘hurdy gurdy man’
3. ducking