High Risk/High Reward: Stories from my Life in Technology

The End of An Error


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A very short and extra strange podcast. It features my first guest speaker. After a minute or two talking it goes directly into a song written especially for today January 20, 2021. The episode is called "The End of an Error" and the song is "End of Times". Rich had a little too much fun with geek toys. The podcast is spoken by a simply Python program using Joanne's voice, an AWS robotic voice, followed by a minute of the meat puppet before the synthesizers and 808 drum machines steal the show.

Never fear brave rockers. I have not abandoned neither my distorted maniacal guitar tones nor foregone the docile sounds of the acoustic. I was just feeling a tad discordant and wanted to make something nasty. The song fails at nasty and ends up with an uplifting lilt. I am still displaying the nervous tick from the extreme time signature tight rope I walked. Listen to the way the little riff slides in twice before disappearing into the half nothingland. My goal when writing the piece was to take all the rules of music composition I knew and toss them out the window. The song groves with a pure and perfect inner metronome bearing no resemblance to other devices of its ilk. For some reason I really like the tune. Warning: may cause you to convulse for the duration of the piece. Recorded entirely using Akai MPK Mini and assorted software instruments under a jazz shuffle played on electronic drums.
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High Risk/High Reward: Stories from my Life in TechnologyBy Rich Sadowsky