June 2008

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• 06.30.08
  That’s Why We Drove To San Diego
  2008, Photography, General (3)

  
  by Shaun Spalding, click to enlarge

  
  by Shaun Spalding, click to enlarge

  Thirty-nine days until I relocate to San Diego, California and here’s what I’ve learned so far…

  Best big cities rank: 5
  Population: 1,255,500

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• 06.19.08
  Space Beauty Pageant (Demo)
  2005, Lost and Found on My Hard Drive, Audio (2)

  So this is old… Flashback to early 2005 when a perfect storm of events occurred.

  • 1. I found out the keyboard I had at home (that we assumed was broken) still worked as a midi controller.
  • 2. I was trying to re-learn how to use audio editing programs after having problems with them on a project.
  • 3. I’d bought the cheapest vocal mic I could find at Best Buy to do a voice over for that same project.
  • 4. I’d just downloaded Fruity Loops 5

  And that’s how ended up “writing” a song called Space Beauty Pageant.

  
  “Space Beauty Pagent (Demo)” by The Baby Whales off of their debut record “Songs from the Distant Future: 1973″

  

  I wanted it to be like The Fat Lady of Limbourgh by Brian Eno from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) — an album where he actually out-Bowie’s Bowie. It ended up sounding like… well… this. It’s an interesting failure.

  I blame the questionable instrumentation partially on my not being able to hear the notes as I played them on the broken keyboard, and partially on my inability to figure out how to hear midi sounds in Fruity Loops until I exported them. It’s hard to write a song that you can’t hear until it’s finished.

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