Isn’t the Whitman poem a beautiful read?

I like to juxtapose happy with sad, for effect, although it would be interesting to slow the pace to dirge speed and then add dirge effects. But I went this way this time, and I hope it works.

From wikipedia.org:
“The Humanatone nose flute is a musical novelty, a sort of plastic shield held under the nose that directs the player’s breath through a whistle slot lying over the mouth opening, acting as a resonator. The tones produced are varied by changing the shape of the player’s mouth cavity with different vowel and consonant formations”

I have lots of nose flutes. If you’d like one, then drop me a line, and I’ll mail you one. It’s surprisingly easy to play ~ an octave, but it’s an amazing way to create samples for synths.

I love his voice. It’s got a Karloff solemenity coupled with a really human delivery.

When I hear things like this, I always want the music to subordinate to, and contrast with, the voice. That somehow makes it easier than even silence for the reader to connect with the spoken word track. Thanks for commenting!

Great to see you back here. I don’t make samples nearly as cool as the sample you gave me which I used for “Ending the Drought”.

I was just thinking yesterday what a primitive casio/commodore 64 vidgame sound I got here, but I didn’t flash on frogger. But you’re right—it’s a frogger state of mind.