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4 - Blue Arabesque


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You can find lyrics in anywhere. In this song's case it was - paint samples.

Someone had left behind a Sherwin Williams paint sampler (the kind that splays out like an Asian folding fan).  I was absent mindedly flipping through it one day and realized that the names of paint colors are ridiculous and fantastic.  So I went to the color “blue” and pulled out ones that I thought sounded interesting and rhymed:

Indigo / Nautilis / Open Sea / Georgian Bay

In this episode we discuss:

  • How practicing doesn't necessarily make you better, but it does make you more observant and flexible
  • Paulstretch - the best way to make sound collages
  • How alternate tunings enable the familiar to become foreign
  • ...more
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    ScratchBy Kyle Evans