#9. THE CREEP has three named parts.. The first is “Stumbling in the Dark with Marge.” The second is “Stumble Then Freeze” and the final one is “The Creep.”
”Stumbling in the Dark with Marge” began with its title. I was thinking about how pizzicato strings could be the musical cousin to the painter’s technique of pointillism. Which led to the title as a textual rhythmic nod to “Sunday in the Park with George.” In “Stumbling” I wanted to play with extra beats, stressing normally unstressed beats and have generally a lot of lurching and angularity.
It moves into “Stumble and Freeze” which is about things you hear, or imagine you hear, when it gets dark, really dark. But then even this resolves … into “The Creep.” Thank goodness, or maybe not? I just can’t imagine a better illustration for all of this than what Scot Howard came up with.
The actual Creep theme came to me while I was testing out a new reverb plugin. I ultimately got rid of the reverb, but I kept the theme.
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THE CREEP is the ninth of ten tracks released on YouTube and Tumblr for the album TUNE by composer Myles Marlow. TUNE is the first album ever to be released solely by means of Social Media only, with no physical, digital, or buyable product. Every Monday for ten weeks, a subsequent track, including a new Scot Howard illustration, is released here and on http://MylesMarlow.com
But there’s nothing to buy here, so if you enjoy it, please share it with your friends, link to it on your web pages. We appreciate the support. Here’s a link to cut and paste for the YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi66DLbDwwE
The tenth and final track is called RUDELING ARRIVES and will be released here next Monday, March 28, 2011. Illustration by Scot Howard, The Digital Butterfly Project, http://DigitalButterfly.com
