John Dyhouse

Another early poem, set to music. Most of my poems were short and humorous, this is no exception. Set to a brass band sound with the tuba taking the bass line, Just a little fun, hope you like it?

Another experiment... Browsing Sound Cloud, as you do, and heard one or two tracks with some fantastic guitar work. Well, it set me thinking; could I cover one or more tracks from my old keyboard tapes/CD. Purely because guitar music is for me the ultimate experience - you may disagree, I won't mind. But I hope you can enjoy this guitar instrumental. I like it and may even see if the old keyboards still work/are in tune.

I still seem to be involved with emotions, I did not mean to write this but lacking inspiration, I used what I call the "David Bowie" method. Also known as the "Cut-Up" method. When I need extra help with starting to write a lyric I have used this a number of times in the past few decades - not often - but it can be useful to write something different. Basically, it depends on discovering potential lines/phrases/words in a newspaper or magazine. Cut the found results out and sift and build a lyric. Of course these days there are online apps to do the cutting up, etc. I also allow the use of anything else (textual!) to complete a meaningful lyric. Anyway, I found a couple of titles, this one was chosen for no particular reason and starting building the lyric from the randomly (with a little thought) cut-up collection. I saw a TV interview with Bowie just after he had had a couple of hits, and he described this method when the interviewer asked where he got the ideas for his songs. I have occasionally used it since that time. It can work in difficult times!

In an experimental mood again. I wanted to try to add some vocals to one of the classical pieces which I recently uploaded. In a lazy mood so used some lyrics from Suno (my title / theme) as I did not have a lot of time. I simply prompted using the same prompt (Plus vocal information) and this is the result. Not quite what I expected, but then I did not know what to expect. Daniel True is a Suno Persona/Voice. You learn something everyday! But I did like it and so after a little thought, decided to upload to Sound Clound. BTW the remix was to change/edit two lines in the lyric, needed to be changed.

A new song at last, Used an old David Bowie technique, Saw an interview on video a long time ago in which he described where he got some of his song lyrics from. Cutting headlines from newspapers/magazines/etc he used to assemble them into lyrics. Saying this was where he got some of his stranger lyrics from. I don't use his technique as is but do get some inspiration from the odd phrase or maybe a word that I might not use. On this song, I let Suno develop the music, with some judicious prompting.

For more details read the description of the aim of the experiment on the album, "Variations On A Theme" The genre prompted was CLASSICAL full orchestra. The track is based on a piece of music, written/created on ACID /FORGE in the eighties. It can be heard as track 5, ROCK ME, on the playlist/Album at https://on.soundcloud.com/E0aVjYnVNCA63izi3Q The fifth of 6 tracks in a experiment to judge if music can "easily convey emotions".

For more details read the description of the aim of the experiment on the album, "Variations On A Theme" The genre prompted was CLASSICAL featuring solo violin. The track is based on a piece of music, written/created on ACID /FORGE in the eighties. It can be heard as track 5, ROCK ME, on the playlist/Album at https://on.soundcloud.com/E0aVjYnVNCA63izi3Q The fourth of 6 tracks in a experiment to judge if music can "easily convey emotions".