FAWM : Liz (@tunecat)

Liz

@tunecat

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Whitby UK

Hello everyone! It’s 2023 and 5090 is starting. Looking forward to hearing you and maybe collaborating.

I do tend to mix the ‘spoken word’ offerings ( none of which I’ve done this year so far!!) and regular lyrics and do the same musically sometimes writing songs and at others getting into ‘tracks’- I’ve had a long spate of loving to experiment with apps like thumbjam, figure, beatwave and so on. Not sure what I will be doing this year.
I play a smattering of instruments but here you’ll most likely find me on keys.
FYI anything I put up is open to collaboration and I love joining forces with other people.

Update: it’s now august and to my surprise I’ve clocked up quite a few songs. This year there seems to have been a ‘cabaret style ‘ (who knew?) trend. Apologies that these are mostly incredibly rough single takes warts and all - often working out the music as I go along. But for me 5090 has already proved to be so much more than ( and now I can’t complete the sentence because wgat would one think it is??) .. it’s been amazingly positive.

I’ve uploaded a few purely electronic numbers. I like to play around with different approaches and genres.

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We want our Earth Back by @tunecat +1 more 1w #psychedelic #dream #girl_with_piano

I will hold you by @tunecat +1 more 1w #lo_fi #girl_with_piano #serene

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@ayais 2w

Thanks for all your comments! No pressure on additional haikus. I've got to get the programming done to make them presentable anyway. Don't know what you mean by a 10x10 challenge - I'm new to FAWM this past Feb. and this 50/90 have done one skirmish and some enjoyable collabs. Sure! - glad to add spoken voice; any approach you like. And all 10 of the ones I put up are fine to work with - re-dos would be interesting. Onward!

@odilongreen 5w

Quick question, if you see this in time: I'm truly not sure if it's formally a part of the lyrics or just a comment directed at 50/90 commenters, but I'm tempted to leave in the "No innuendo" interlude -- I think it's pretty charming, and actually fits in well -- but if you want, I'll take it out. Let me know! (Or if I don't hear from you soon enough and I include it, I can always repost and take it out if you hate it.)

@tunecat 6w

Great to see some fawmer s in person @marilisa , @brisk @daveyboy103 … and I’ve met a couple online @jtsteam and @davidtaro and ( not sure of hashtag spoken word poet) just once before. Thanks to @wobbiewobbit for organising and for the fab ramshackle collective thanks @dragondreams for driving me from s yorkshire.
What a wonderful community! Hopefully now @steve2705 aka ‘the Steve’s’ ( I think that’s his name) will be joining ramshackle along with another friend of mine in London . Another newbie was the very talented ‘Evans’ who we all met for the first time last night.

@billwhite51 6w

not christmas..new years. you dont ring in the new years? re..tom waits. he is was an friend of mine in the late 70s (before he married and disappeared) and while i liked his music, especially when he was sitting at the piano, i have never felt a personal affinity for it. i dont sing in that fake louis armstrong voice either. (The singers who have influenced me are elvis, donovan. jim morrison, van morrison, brett anderson, and john lydon)

@jeff9 7w

Many thanks for the kind words about Devil Holds the Throttle and TS Blues, Liz.

I can't take credit for doing all that amazing instrumentation, either live or otherwise. I use Band In a Box software on every track except the vocals in both of those. If you aren't familiar with it, you compose an initial sketch of your song (I do it on acoustic guitar) and then enter the chord changes and song structure into a sort of spreadsheet with options to designate which chords go in which measures (or half or quarter measures). You also designate where you intend there to be verses, choruses, bridge, etc, as well as what tempo and key you want. Then you audition samples of various instruments and combinations of instruments in the appropriate styles (played by actual pro studio musicians for BIAB) and try them on for size with your initial composition. It's almost magic how well the right samples can adapt to your setup. Even if they don't quite work, you can often manipulate them so they fit better. You can select and deselect to your heart's content and you can even instruct the playing on any track to give you a series of options for any particular segments of the song--not just the whole thing. It allows you to have certain instruments hold for a number of beats or to "shot" and even to come in and out off the primary beat. You import all that into your DAW (I just use Garageband) as a music bed and then you can add any additional tracks you might want to play or sing yourself. Or you can go back to BIAB and grab additional tracks from there. Then you get to play around with automation, effects, EQ, panning, etc. on the individual tracks and then eventually do further refining tweaks to the master.

So, I'm just sort of a composer/bandleader/singer. I can't play anything but some half-assed guitar and maybe peck around a teensy bit on a keyboard. Maybe I'll post a couple of more raw acoustic numbers for a change of pace and to de-slick things a bit.

@berni1954 7w

Thanks for looking at my lyrics for "Try THE TRUTH". I think the abandonment of any semblance of telling the truth by politicians and other leading figures in society is the worst social change I have witnessed in my lifetime. When it comes down to "my fantasy reality is as valid as your verifiable truth" we are allowing society to slip back into the dark ages.

I'm glad you looked that one up, because I had a melody for it, but I didn't record it on my Zoom H2n (my usual procedure for drafts) and I must try and get that jingle feel back and do a demo (when my voice is back to normal).

@barbara 8w

Hi Liz, I appreciate the read-through and your offer to assist with music on "Do the Chili Pepper!" I don't really have a hard and fast idea of a melody for it for you to work with. Is there any chance you are interested in doing the whole shebang? I just seem to be only about cranking out words so far this time, even if I have a sense of the meter. No worries if that's not what you want. Just thanks for the offer regardless, my friend. And be my guest, if you are interested. :)

@marthie 8w

thank you for popping in- yes my phone is in for repairs and I usually write while I walk- and was using my hubby's phone: so I wrote the lyric directly into FAWM. And it is still under consdtruction- I dont know how to hide it or make it private. But the lyric iabout listening to the yellow canary when he makes alarm because their future is also your future. I have a thingk with yellow canaries- they used to use them in mines to indicate poisonous gasses.

@kiffa 8w

Thank you for your comment on "The Witching Hour", Liz! It's been nice chatting in the Wednesday Zoom meets. Congrats in advance on what looks like it will be a very handily-accomplished 50/90 win!

Edit: Oh, and you commented on my other one too ("I Could Not")! Was she "all that"? Well, I certainly thought so at the time, but that's young love for you. She definitely had her own issues, and it could be argued that *both of us* dodged that bullet. I've written a song or two that explore that side of it, but I keep coming back to *this* side. I guess the bottom line is that she and I were not right for each other, but that still doesn't stop me from wishing that we had been.

@barbara 12w

Hi! Shall I call you tunecat or Liz?
I definitely remember that collab you created with my words! I’ll be looking for it in my archives to refresh my memory of the sentiments. I hope I might be able to even inspire something else in you this summer. I’m not likely to do much recording this summer, so I’d be glad if I could channel some lyrics that appealed. It’s another way to keep creativity alive and be surprised by someone else’s at the same time!
Cheers!

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