Music Business Project
I think Amy already posted about my project for music business. I’m doing a presentation on bands that are influenced by books. So far I’ve got:
Nirvana-”serve the servants”–based on Perfume
The Decemberists-The Crane Wife–based on an old chinese story
Obadiah Parker-taken from a character in a Flannery O’Connor story
Arcade Fire-The Neon Bible–taken from the novel of the same name
Belle & Sebastian-taken from the french children’s story Belle Et Sebastian
The Decemberists-the Tain EP– it’s based on some old story (I’ll have to find out what it is)
If anyone can think of anything else please let me know. It doesn’t even have to be a band that I like.
So what’s new with everyone?
I know I haven’t been posting at all.
Today in class we tracked a guitar player. We were working on the Neve VR console in studio C and set up 9 microphones in the proper:
2 SE Electronics SE2A in x/y on the acoustic (hypercardioid polar pattern)
2 Neumann TLM103, spaced pair on the acoustic
2 Audio Technica ATm23 on the electric guitar amp
2 Shure SM57’s on the electric guitar amp
and 1 Audio Technica AT4050 (omni) for the talkback mic.
It was pretty awesome. First we tracked him playing acoustic guitar on tracks 1-4 of the Otari MTR-90.
Then he switched to electric and we tracked 3 seperate parts onto seperate tracks. It was kind of a spanish KILL BILL sounding song.
What else?
I guess that’s it for now.
Bye.
Hmmm . . . Radiohead has that song 2+2=5 off of Hail to the Thief from 1984. I guess it’s kind of it’s own phrase apart from the book at this point though.. I’ve also heard that Kid A is a literary reference.
Crannberries have a song called Yeat’s Grave on No Need to Argue.
That Glenn Kotche song is about a myth so I don’t know if it counts as a book.
Sufjan Stevens has that song A Good Man Is Hard to Find which is another Flannery O’Conner short story.
And if you count the Bible you could have a million things!
I remember Kevin listening to a band that was named after a book or series of books or something. Maybe Amy remembers…was it Coheed & Cambria or am I getting that confused with something else? Kevin will have to tell you…maybe it’s not related at all.
As I Lay Dying got their name from the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
The Black Crowes were originally names “Mr. Crowe’s Garden” from a childrens book
Collective Soul is a term used in a novel “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand
The Doors came from a poem from William Blake
Heaven 17 got their name from a band in “A Clockwork Orange”
Steely Dan and Soft Machine got their names from two William Burrough’s book
Veruca Salt got their name from the character in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” by Ronald Dahl
I also found this website… http://www.coudal.com/bookingbands.php
They are taking book titles and mixing it with band names. Pretty cool. Has nothing to do with what you’re doing, but I thought you might like it.
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