Ideas That Light Things Up¶
Monte Mder¶
Recommended by Monte Mader
The official visualizer for “True Believer” by Hayley Williams
Written by: Hayley Williams, Daniel James, James Harmon Stack, Eli Teplin
Produced by: Daniel James, Jim-E Stack
Doodle design by: Jordan Short at LUUM Studio
Nashville footage captured by: Jonah Lund
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LYRICS:
Tourists stumble down Broadway
Cumberland keeps claiming bodies
All our best memories
Were bought and then turned into apartments
The club with all the hardcore shows
Now just a greyscale Dominos
The churches overflow each Sunday greedy Sunday morning
Gift shop in the lobby
Act like God ain’t watching
Kill the soul, turn a profit
What lives on? Southern Gotham
I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I’m a true believer
They put up chainlink fences underneath the biggest bridges
They pose in Christmas cards with guns as big as all the children
They say that Jesus is the way but then they gave him a white face
So they don’t have to pray to someone they deem lesser than them
The South will not rise again
Til it’s paid for every sin
Strange fruit, hard bargain
Till the roots, Southern Gotham
I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I’m a true believer
I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
With my belief
And I’m the one who still loves your ghost
I reanimate your bones
Cause I’m a true believer
Notes¶
Thank you, Jack. I don't use AI in music: I wrote that piece in MuseScore:
https://musescore.org/en
A sounds Library called MuseSounds comes with MuseScore Studio, which enables you to do a fairly credible rendition of your piece. I say "fairly" because the technology is still not quite at 'Digital Audio Workstation' level: I use Reaper for that.
I took Music Theory back in the 70s - and bombed!, too lazy - and so had a bit of background on composition. Decided to have another go shortly before I retired. Got a leg up on orchetration by transcribing music of composers who I knew wouldn't be contesting copyright: for example, Carl Reinecke, whose Serenade for Strings in G took my fancy. You can hear the difference between MuseSounds and a proper DAW (I use Reaper) quite readily here:
https://art.tightbytes.com/assets/music/S4S6.mp3
https://art.tightbytes.com/assets/music/S4S6-r.mp3
In the Reaper version, the articulations are much crisper. As to Composition itself: it's part of how my head is shaped, I guess. We grew up with the classics right up to but not including Stravinsky, Debussy and Shostakovich. My parents couldn't get their heads around all the dissonance, I guess.