/ j / 2015-02 / 02_r0318

Nature's Brain

This is exactly what I was thinking of doing for the concept album.

The subject matter comes from a lesser known Frank Herbert novel, except with the titular brain transported to an alien planet. Exact names have been gently scrubbed for copyright reasons.

This song's music is composed of the music from three different (public domain) hymns arranged in a manner to loosely simulate modern music.

The album concept (repeated from my bio): This FAWM, I want to write songs for an art album I'm working on. Abstractly, it's an art album about copyright... in the guise of hymn filk. The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1926 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.