What can I say? I adore creepy music! Doubling an octave down, instead of up, toned down the creep factor by a lot though, which is good. My baby sister listened to one of the mockups and said it was creepy. Keith found a way around this limitation by doubling it at an octave lower artificially (via plugin?) for the actual recording. I didn’t want the double sounding Minnie-Mouse high but the octave down was too low for my range so I had to sing it an octave up on my mockup. I used to be in an indie rock band in a former life and I applied something I learned from that recording project to “Ruby, 6.” To make it sound full and slightly eerie, I doubled the lead vocal at the octave. I highly recommend them for artists and other people making stuff.īelow is the key phrase we kept in mind throughout the recording and mixing process for “Ruby, 6.” New dog learns old tricks The affable attorneys there talked me through the risks and gave me their opinion on how to proceed. I didn’t know what to do but thankfully, I stumbled onto New Media Rights, a wonderful nonprofit based in Southern California that provides legal services and advocates for creators at no to low cost. Frank Baum book that the film is based on is in the public domain, the ruby slippers were an adaption made for the film (they were originally silver) and the phrase is used in both the movie and the book. I do have a tendency to bark here and there.Īnyhow, after we finished recording, it occurred to me that my reference to the slippers and use of the phrase “There’s no place like home” in the lyrics might be seen as copyright infringement. Speaking of dogs, Keith, Ross and I were in the control room as usual during our mixing days when the chihuahua started yapping outside and Ross looked over and said, “What’s that, Joyce?” I could see Keith shaking trying to suppress his laughter but I wasn’t offended per se. I got to thinking that I’d like to do a revue, all from the viewpoint of dogs (excluding musicals that are already told from the snouts of canines). I was sort of thinking of this as my spin on the musical, à la Wicked, only from the viewpoint of Toto. The “6” is for my shoe size and also the meter that the song begins in. “Ruby” in the title refers to the ruby slippers from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the quintessential American tale featuring Judy Garland. The portrait used as the backdrop in the “Ruby, 6” lyric video above is by Gianina Ferreyra, an exceptional photographer/artist I know from high school, and the translucent layer covering half of my face is 모시 ramie fabric that’s over a hundred years old, passed down from my 외할머니 grandmother.
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