October 26, 2010

Grad School Therapy

Music in my head: Steven Wilson - Home in Negative
Today's weather: Getting colder

It's been a long time. Why? Grad life sucks.
I've been doing homework after homework, and after a point, it just seems an exercise in futility. What's the point? So I decided to mix things up a little. It had been a long, long time since I really did something with my guitar, so I decided to record some shit, to relax, maybe reduce the rate of brain cell death.
And I found that just closing your eyes and playing whatever comes to your mind is extremely relaxing, therapeutic even. I accidentally played this riff with a nice ring to it, and decided to set one of my old poems to tune over it. What do you know, it actually sounded half decent. Then I decide to become really pretentious, so I add a little slide guitar bit in, using a small bottle of mouth-freshener as my slide. Add some echo on audacity, and voila. Here it is. Listen to it, ignore the crappiness of the recording, and tell me how it is. You'll be contributing to my therapy!

Moondust by krishnac

6 comments:

Anurag Mishra said...

Nice stuff. Will use this as the standard audio sample for my noise cancellation experiments henceforth. Or whenever I do it. Sometime. Soon. Maybe. Let's see. Why not? Hmm...

So, in conclusion, nice!
(4 out of 5 marks for the length of the answer? Saar! :P)

Krishna Chandran said...

Thank you. and please do. sure. why not? go right ahead. all yours. and yeah, 4/5. 1 mark deducted for using a smiley in your answer. Kids these days... what has the world come to? :)

/urgu said...

Wow, dude - feels like Pink Floyd! You've cause the poem to really come alive, great work. Please do keep composing, and posting on your blog :)

Krishna Chandran said...

thanks man! i will probably keep posting music. it's one of my only stress-busters! Thank you for the encouragement :)

Himanshu said...

Nice one.. Loved the slide part.. Awesomeness!! :)

Krishna Chandran said...

Thanks budhs! You too 'busy' or do get time to play these days? :P