It's done! It's here! My 3rd ever solo song: The River That Remembers Nothing!
With this composition, I decided to cut myself free from the typical formulaic verse-chorus-verse-chorus and instead, let the music flow naturally from point A to point B without ever really revisiting any melodic or harmonic ideas... Much like if you were floating downstream on a river, you would be constantly witnessing new landscapes, with no reoccuring landmarks. The music reflects this idea by having an ABCDEFG (and so on) form, with each new song section having its own harmonic and melodic character.
I asked my Patreon community to suggest some ideas for scales and chords to use in this ever-shifting piece of music, and Leo, Max Bo, Bob Saganas and Fredrik Pihl all kindly contributed with ideas; Leo chipped in with a full chord progression, Max suggested symmetrical diminished, Bob requested quartal chord voicings and Fredrik gave me the tricky task of handling both the 3rd Messiaen mode and a 9-note scale he calls "jazz major add b3/b6". Especially that latter scale had SO MANY HARMONIC possibilities that I went a bit crazy trying to figure out what kind of cool things I could pull out of it.
As visual content is super important these days, I was really scratching my head while trying to come up with a cool idea for a music video for this track. I'm not really a big fan of playthrough videos where the artist mimes along to the recorded version; I'm also not interested in filming an actual live performance of me playing the track as it will then differ from the recording that will be released on all the streaming platforms. I had recently experimented with letting a drawing of me come to life with the help of an AI image-to-video generator so I was intrigued by the idea of seeing what I could do with those kinds of tools (obviously knowing very well how controversial this topic is to so many of us).
I started with a drawing of myself that I did in the restroom of the music store Musikbörsen in Gothenburg, Sweden - the music store staff sometimes ask visiting "famous" musicians to decorate the otherwise plain, white walls of their restroom and I happily obliged - and made some animations of it with Pollo.ai after which I gave a drawing of myself made by Jake Howsam Lowe (before a show I did with Plini - Jake plays guitar in Plini's band) the same treatment. The videos that Pollo produces are at the longest only 10 seconds so it became a process of making multiple prompts for every 5-10 seconds of video and then editing the best videos together to form a somewhat cohesive narrative. Time-consuming but nevertheless fun!
With this composition, I decided to cut myself free from the typical formulaic verse-chorus-verse-chorus and instead, let the music flow naturally from point A to point B without ever really revisiting any melodic or harmonic ideas... Much like if you were floating downstream on a river, you would be constantly witnessing new landscapes, with no reoccuring landmarks. The music reflects this idea by having an ABCDEFG (and so on) form, with each new song section having its own harmonic and melodic character.
I asked my Patreon community to suggest some ideas for scales and chords to use in this ever-shifting piece of music, and Leo, Max Bo, Bob Saganas and Fredrik Pihl all kindly contributed with ideas; Leo chipped in with a full chord progression, Max suggested symmetrical diminished, Bob requested quartal chord voicings and Fredrik gave me the tricky task of handling both the 3rd Messiaen mode and a 9-note scale he calls "jazz major add b3/b6". Especially that latter scale had SO MANY HARMONIC possibilities that I went a bit crazy trying to figure out what kind of cool things I could pull out of it.
As visual content is super important these days, I was really scratching my head while trying to come up with a cool idea for a music video for this track. I'm not really a big fan of playthrough videos where the artist mimes along to the recorded version; I'm also not interested in filming an actual live performance of me playing the track as it will then differ from the recording that will be released on all the streaming platforms. I had recently experimented with letting a drawing of me come to life with the help of an AI image-to-video generator so I was intrigued by the idea of seeing what I could do with those kinds of tools (obviously knowing very well how controversial this topic is to so many of us).
I started with a drawing of myself that I did in the restroom of the music store Musikbörsen in Gothenburg, Sweden - the music store staff sometimes ask visiting "famous" musicians to decorate the otherwise plain, white walls of their restroom and I happily obliged - and made some animations of it with Pollo.ai after which I gave a drawing of myself made by Jake Howsam Lowe (before a show I did with Plini - Jake plays guitar in Plini's band) the same treatment. The videos that Pollo produces are at the longest only 10 seconds so it became a process of making multiple prompts for every 5-10 seconds of video and then editing the best videos together to form a somewhat cohesive narrative. Time-consuming but nevertheless fun!
THE RIVER THAT REMEMBERS NOTHING (Official Music Video)
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