Every Building on the Sunset Strip
This track is based on the photo series and book of the same title by Ed Ruscha.
For Strings: Every Building On The Sunset Strip by meta4s
Left and Right are the orientations out a car window and would be hard-panned/antiphonal in the recording.
The genesis of the piece was from singing the title as if it was a chorus, then played all minor chords against it for a somewhat "Bond" vibe, with a music production at that time (1966), with a AM radio compressed sound. It's the shortest pop song I've ever written at 1:48, and even has a middle-8.
The
numbers recited at the beginning are text-to-speech, a kind of
anachronism because obviously it didn't exist then. I chose British
voices because I wanted an Avengers vibe (Emma Peel/John Steed)
replete with sticky Cecil B. DeMille strings and french horns. At the
end as an outro I did a short guitar duet (Havenhurst) based on
the bridge chords which crossfades between a lofi radio sound to full
stereo. Behind the guitars is a binaural field recording of traffic
sound and a group of teenage girls promoting a $5 car wash at a BP
station.
My vlog post:
For Strings: Every Building On The Sunset Strip by meta4s
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