EmergenceThis tune was a ton of fun to put together. It differed significantly from my usual way of working on a couple of major points. First of all, the track has and focuses on a lead vocal. Because of this there was a whole new dimension to the music. Some might view this as obvious - but I hadn't anticipated the new world of expression and art that this opened up. So this was really exciting. Further - I had a writing partner! Mr. Scott Ruch wrote the vocal melody and the lyrics and performed the vocal part on the recording. This was really fun and interesting on a number of levels in itself - it was fun working with a good friend - but it also taught me a lot about the freshness and energy that can come through having just one other person to work a song out with. And for a little bit of the story about how I found my collaborator....I had thought it would be interesting to make a song with my co-workers at my day job - maybe a fun tune with some clever inside jokes - maybe a company theme song or something. So I asked a few folks if they'd be interested in writing or singing for it. Mr. Ruch took me up on it - and wrote some excellent lyrics that are far better than anything I had been imagining. Here's the story from his perspective... "It was actually an experiment in using some of the ideas that the gentleman who owns the company I work for is always talking to us about. He's a big proponent of the "mastermind" principle, which is about the power of collective problem solving and collaboration. Kyle originally suggested something along the lines of a company theme song, but I thought it would be more creatively satisfying to come up with something that expresses some of those ideas without overtly referring to them or by using the terms directly. My own idea was that the mastermind is kind of like the concept of emergence (see Wikipedia) but not on the level of physical or societal phenomena; more of the level of synthesis of new ideas from competing or collaborating ones. I don't know if I got that across or if it's even a valid analogy, but it was an interesting and challenging exercise." |
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