Cut Up Fest - Golden Outages

[WarpCanada]

This is the weirdest thing I've ever made and it doesn't feel like it was ME that made it, except at the very end, where in the last few lines of the song, instead of the song going wherever the crazy cutup generator phrases selected, I tried to take the randomness and find a point of coherency in it.

So, basically about 60% to 80% of the original lines in the song, are either phrases from the cut-up generator, or slightly altered ones, so that there could be some sense of grammar, and connective tissue of language continuing from one line of the song to the next.  But I wanted to be as much "the wind" speaking here as there was me speaking.  SO here we are.  I used a web cutup tool and pointed it at CNN and then printed out the pages and then selected phrases of 4-5 words and then made some connective and editing changes, and then inserted things after trying to sing or chant the song.

The title, I think comes from the fact that in cut-ups the text might contain "Golden Age" and somewhere else, the word "Out", somehow got stuck onto the word Age, causing the phrase "Golden Outage" to appear.   Since Golden Age makes sense and Golden Outage makes almost no sense until you wonder about it, I think that's the most interesting thing to come out of this song's use of the cut-up technique, other than the overall weirdness of it, which is quite large.  It's very weird.

After the song started to emerge, the sense of the title that I have is that Golden Outages are where some powerful person can manipulate things. Take the internet down, if the peasants are revolting.  Control us.   Manipulate us. Take over our minds and our lives.   And thus the title, Golden Outage.  Every decade has it's paranoias.  The covid line in this song feels like something a covid truther would say. And other parts of the song seem to be hitting out at the political right wing screwballs. Have I told anyone how much I hate that stupid Clapton/VanMorrison "Stand and Deliver" song?

Like a slum in need of a drivethrough
Death was felt in church
Then we drove out of tennessee
Like a funeral party for the iceberg
We left at dawn
Your haircut is so California
But your politics are straight from Georgia
Like a prayer for emergency use only
The elephant in the room kills
Without warning
All the best foreign language students
Read about you
When they are
Doomscrolling
During golden outages the truth is for sale
To the highest bidder
Set out the chicken to sell
Wrap it in yesterday's newspapers
Remember newspapers
Worship the churches reasons
Antifa has your Kryptonite
And covid is your own device
Ignorance your undoing
In this foregone
Altercation
Can't trust the news in this
Divided Nation
Is it Breaking news.
Or is it broken
The news has broken.
The night is over.
The truth no longer slumbers
she has awoken
If you don't know
what is true
then it is you
who are broken

Anyways the overall effect sounds political, and apocalyptic and the voice of the person speaking in the song sounds to me like some crazy drunk prophet, rambling out loud and nobody's listening to him. 

[BerryPatch]

Very cool and interesting to see what what lines got spit out. A bit like the more out there   Doors stuff. "Is it breaking news, or is it broken?"

[TPB]

Well I am glad you took the plunge as well am not quite sure how this cut up things work had that 60 vibe going on you hear the doors doing something like this well done
Tim

[Bluesberry]

weird and wild.....and it works

[StephenM]

This is cosmic cool....I love it...and if you hadn't said anything about the cuttup i would not have known... I love random singing...the idea of the music producing the lyrics is wonderful to me....
this reminds of something used in a movie or TV show....
Warren i like your voice too... especially on this... I hope one day you make a track and randomly do the words like this but just from what pops in your head as you listen...

[Greeny]

Wow! You really got to the essence and soul of cut-up with this. It comes over like a Kerouac poem - 'Mexico City Blues'. And you deliver it like he does in old recordings. Which is all amazing, because he was THERE with Burroughs and Gynsin in Paris when they were starting their cut-ups. I'm somewhat of a scholar (nerd) on The Beats. So you've somehow gone straight to the heart of it.

It really works. The backing is cool too. Kind of middle eastern, which Burroughs and his love of / life in Tangiers would definitely have approved of.

There are some absolutely killer lines in there.

You really nailed this one.

Bravo!

[Farrell Jackson]

I'm not exactly sure how this cut up fest works either but now that you've dipped your toe in the water, it makes a bit more sense how to put the lyric together. Well done on the 60's vibe music and the cut up lyric Warren!

Farrell

[Hilary]

I liked your voice on this too - it definitely works.

[Pine]

Man i don't think i could ever pull this off. The instrumental backer, which is perfect, lays out the carpet for the lyrical ramble. You put it together well. Shades of Jim Morrison to my old ears. This is avant guarde and mind expanding. Good on you for your fearless adventure!

[Ferryman_1957]

I love this Warren! It's really great. Fantastic use of the concept, the lyrics you have generated/written are really good, they work so well in creating a mood and a feeling with some great use of words. And the soundscape is fantastic, really interesting and atmospheric. It's also really well put together and recorded. There's lots going on, it's always interesting and also somewhat unsettling, very effective.

Overall this really works. It's different, beguiling and very effective. Well done for taking this on, and well done for doing it so well!