Around this time last year, I did a rare thing for me, and wrote/produced a complete song, the first I had done in years.
This stemmed from what I call a "syno sequence" that had been running around in my head rent-free since 1992, associated with the word organism.

Being a blind, autistic Synesthete, pretty much anything goes.
Words can be associated with indescribable sounds, musical motifs, smells, other words, colors...
Ideas and concepts can have that, too. It's very hard to explain this particular brand of synesthesia even to other Synesthetes.

Did you know, for example, that all saxophones are called Steve, but Steve itself, not any particular person, just the word Steve, is usually a pizza box? Well, now you do!

If I took all the filters off, I could write about this for days.

Anyway, in late 1992, during my third grade science class, the topic of the day was organisms, and their different classifications.
As soon as my teacher said the word organism, this little four bar sequence in C miner popped into my head, and just never left.

Finally, almost 32 years later, I couldn't stand it anymore, and wrote and performed a song around that little motif. I played all the instruments on this piece, except for drums and bass, provided by @FreakyFwoof, who also helped with the mix, and tightening up my crappy rhythm guitar playing. I'm not great with stringed instruments. I'm much more comfortable with buttons and knobs.

This features acoustic guitar, melodica (actually a melodion, because Hammond-Suzuki calls it that, probably for Hohner trademark avoidance reasons), clarinet, mandolin, piano (Spitfire Labs Mrs. Mills), an emulated Casio VL-tone 1, a doorstop, a Hammond XK-2 pretending to be a B3, drums, bass, and me clapping and yelling random stuff.
Except for the drums, bass, piano and organ, everything is acoustic, so about half of it, I guess.

I don't get to play music at home anymore for various depressing reasons. This was recorded in my parents' living room. I can't explain, after years of virtual musical silence, how much joy I got from making this silly thing happen. We could all use some of that right about now, so, in that spirit, I'm sharing this with the world again.

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the Organism Song

In late 1992, I was sitting in third grade science class. The topic that day was organisms.Just the word organism caused this little musical motif to pop int...

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