Friday, June 04, 2004

Drive-thru music


One of my favorite They Might Be Giants songs is the brilliant "Fingertips" from their 1992 Apollo 18 album. Actually, "Fingertips" is more of a suite of song fragments. If you get the CD version, you'll see that it actually spans 21 tracks, with the average track clocking in around 13 seconds. If you set your CD player to shuffle, it makes it pretty interesting. You can preview it here with either Windows Media Player or Real Player..

And my point is...?

Andrew, the creator of Songs To Wear Pants To makes little songs like "Fingertips", but you get to decide how they get made. Go ahead and send an email describing your song idea, and if he chooses your suggestion, he'll write a song to your specifications. The songs are 1:11 long or under, though if you want to commission him for a longer piece, you can pay him some $$.

Here are a couple of examples from STWPT, but it's worth browsing the archives for more:

SUPER MARIO BROTHERS THEME (ORIGINAL NINTENDO IS AWESOME REMIX)
Could you make a song about how great the original Nintendo is?

-anonymous


I AM THE FIRST FIFTY DIGITS OF PI
Please compose and record a song extolling the virtues of your Web site in which the lengths of the words can also be used as a mnemonic for at least the first 50 digits of pi. In other words, the first word has three letters, the second word one letter, the third word four letters, and so on.

[For your convenience, STWPT provides the first fifty digits of pi:

3.
1415926
5358979
3238462
6433832
7950288
4197169
3993751]

-Fuldu

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