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you ever find yourself having a setting you use for something, be it bass, vocals, synths, etc. and it seems like it works, but over time you just start hating how it sounds?
yes
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like, i found a bass setting that works (worked) really good, yet now i cant stand using it. why?
a certain percentage of what makes music good is freshness (newness). so when you hear a great new song you like, this is partially because it's good, and partially because it's new to you
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What's a moment that boosted your confidence?
when i learned that 'would' and 'should' used to be the past tense of 'will' and 'shall'
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Do you have any plans to annihilate the sun on August 12, 2113?
no
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can you tell me a funny joke
the huge clock in the center of most towns tells the wrong time usually
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Do people still call you "mr. Wurtz" or have they forgotten about that? wait I think I might have reminded them oh no (jingle)
it's normal for people to think i might appreciate Formality as much as, well, the next guy. in fact i don't so much, but i don't normally wear that on my sleeve, or maybe i just wear it on 1 sleeve, not sure
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bill, I really love your music. can I thank you for everything you've made because it's made me feel lots of happy feelings :)
holy smokes you are very friendly
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if guess what is chicken butt, what is guess how?
also chicken butt
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Do you own a unicycle?
i potentially have 2 unicycles, .............. some disassembly required
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what should I do
what you were going to do
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opinion on the trumpet
iconic
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What caused the mars rebellion of 2353 that resulted in the loss of earths supremacy over the solar system ?
sounds just like a matter of time
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write me a song about writing a song and then that man has to write you a song
that sounds a little too inside the box for me
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will you ever disclose the question damien maymdien skipped
indeed you just did
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if, then
that pretty much sums it all up
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How to pronounce Poughkeepsie?
pkipsie
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in "got some money" you mentioned that we could warm the world with a little bit of true love. CO2 and Methane is much better at achieving this, and they're cheaper than love
was talking about emotion, not actual heat
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do you regularly partake in tomfoolery
bobfoolery
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did you ever figure out what everything means?
every time i get closer, there's more new things
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7.1.23  11:50 am i've thought about this for the last two weeks and have realized that you're probably correct. i think part of the problem is that there are lots of things i'd like to start rather than just one. for example, i'd love to start a charity for a nonprofit childcare center, but i also want to write stories, make music, and commentate on important issues. i suppose i'm interested in many things, and have no idea on where to focus my energy on, especially considering that i have no experience in any of these respects. this became more of a rant and less of a question, but i've always looked up to your creativity and would love your feedback.
list them all, describe them all, and figure out what the tangible next step is for each one. you don't have to do it, but start describing the actual tangible next steps for each one. the good news here is you don't have to do anything. you can just spend the day fantasizing about how you could do all these things you want to do
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how to chair
attach a small wall to a table
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what is the colour of the sky
plaid
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What instrument did you use in got some cash at 0:20?
synth
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Ive heard that sound many times, but cant figeure it out.
the trick is to let a gentle LFO vibrato, and set it to the mod wheel so you can control how much vibrato. then add speck of delay
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how many times have you been asked about your opinion of bread
probably about 500
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Have you ever played the banjo?
not a real banjo, but i've played things that sound like banjo
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I'm asking because I think it would be cool to play in one of your songs. It's quite a unique instrument.
i use banjo-like sounds so frequently in my music that it's usually on a 'hot list' of instruments that i should cool down on because i use them too much
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do you prefer to go up the stairs, or down the escalator
that's not a complete set of options, but i enjoy both of those things you mentioned, and they are nice in alternation
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What's your favorite weather?
rain
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did you eat ice cream for ice cream day
no
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Have you ever used a green screen
yes
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Is here comes the sun(your song) about climate change?
sure, if you can get the verses to be a metaphor for the problems, and the chorus (sun) to the a metaphor for the solutions. does not work if the sun is the villain. the sun is not the villain in that song
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what is bossa nova
a general style of making music that may have been first popularized (and named) in rio de janeiro in the 1960s
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what does it mean to be funny
it has to be something different from what you thought it would mean
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what key/mode is Eb Gm Bb F in
probably Bb
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what to do if don't know what to do
do everything, just to be on the safe side
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Why should I be king?
because you already are king, and you held an election and voted for yourself unanimously
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when will i ascend?
you're on your way up now
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Isn't it a little strange that we have so many words for different quadrilaterals, but not for different triangles? We got square, rhombus, rectangle.... "equilateral triangle" is a mouthful. I wonder if there are any languages that have a special word for that, or other types of triangle, like how the Inuit have tens of words for snow.
i can't find any languages that have a single word for equilateral triangle. however, most languages do have it for square. I think the reason boils down to the fact that in our 3-dimensional world, the dimensions are at 90° to each other. which is what makes the 'square' and 'cube' so essential in our languages
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I'm still pretty stuck on rhombuses... rhombi? Rhombodes....? wiggly squares
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how are you so silly?
am not
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and what is your secret?
changing what the secret is
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how to learn music theory?
a good start, i think, and quite an important breakthrough to have as soon as possible, is to realize that the term "music theory" does not actually refer to anything in particular
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opinion on cube watermelon?
iconic
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Do you like playing bass guitar?
yes
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how much do you like the letter h
not very much
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Have you ever forgotten something that you shouldnt.
probably
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Can you speak chinese?
no
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if you rank all the planets from the solar system, which planet would be in first and last place
earth
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why is dog spelt backwards god?
they're both common, so they are both short words with common phonemes. so, amonst such words, many palindromic pairs can be expected
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do you think putting cream cheese on tortilla chips is a bad idea?
no
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what are the coordinates for 0:53 of "if the world doesn't end" where the person is riding on a scooter?
that's fake. that's why it's so empty and desolate
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bill do you like the day May 15, 2019?
sure
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hello, good evening, i hope you're doing well. music question: i'd like to make music, but for a myriad reasons never do, even when i have the time and will. one of the reasons is, of course, knowing that it'll never be as good as i want it to be. the only time i can feel at ease and just let things out is late at night when i'm improvising on whatever instrument, but that never results in a fully completed piece and any kernels that show promise never get planted and nourished, they're lost to the moment. which is fine, but ultimately i want to share the fruits of these moments with others. i've tried making them intentionally bad (usually when my friends ask me to make something for them), and that is definitely fun, but that method hasn't worked for my personal projects. wat do?
get yourself a pet list. (the list being your pet, not a list of pets). You say you generate a lot of starting points from improvs, and then they are "lost to the moment" because you're not in the mood to go into the office and do a full day's work immediately right on the spot. that's fine, and there's no need to do that. it's 2 different job positions. idea generator, and songworker. All you need to do, to complete your duties as an idea generator, is memo-record them and drop them into a list. Then, sometime later, on your other job as songworker, select items from the list and work on them. part of the problem could be that you were expecting yourself to do both jobs at the same time, which might not be reasonable. it's 2 different ways of thinking
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Are you an idiot?
let me perform some calculations
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In "i'm a huge gamer most of the time" what game does he play most of the time
so many different games, none of them would take the majority share of the time
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what is the stupidest word
it's a tie. no individual words have any intelligence
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tell me a joke
1. a2-a4
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What is the most efficient way to carve a watermelon
try the sledge-o-matic
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Where did you travel to on the trains in La de da de da de da de day oh?
not specified, also that is not specifically about me. the location probably goes best as a different location each time. because it's somewhere "new"
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How about going to the mall?
that sounds lovely
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Are you working on anything
yes
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What is a thing?
'this'
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its been more than a year since u made the first episode of wfaoie, whens the next episode?
i'm still embarrassed about the broadness and incoherence of the frolic
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Hi My birthday's coming up what should I do?
get older
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have you ever thought of eating your own songs
no
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opinion on sausages
they are somehow too long and too short at the same time
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Why do you always write lower case?
it's normal
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what are the "vacationing" videos supposed to mean
i have never made a 'vacationing' video
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why is it called oven, when you oven the cold food of out hot eat the food.
the oven was named after John Oven, who is not the inventor of the oven, but he was just a guy who liked renaming stuff. unfortunately the 'oven' was the only thing he got a chance to rename, before being thrown in jail after the police caught wind of his plans to re-name everything 'oven'
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to settle a debate: is putting water on your cereal "psychopath behavior" or is it a relatively common thing that i didn't know about?
neither. not common, not psycho
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Wondering whats your process with lyric / melody writing and if you had any advice to share in regards to that? Always get stuck in 8 or 16 bar loops and my melodies never have much of a "journey" and tend to stay within the loop I've created. Love your work Bill <3
try to deliberately write something terrible on purpose. it sounds like you need that sort of shock-treatment to blast yourself outside of the norms here
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do you have some advice on how to train your internal metronome? I'm trying to get myself into drumming but that's one of my biggest weaknesses 9I already play other instruments so I know how to work with a metronome, but once that goes away I go all over the place)
i have a bizarre theory, which is that the internal metronome improves with age
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You like this in real life
almost, except i don't actually use the word 'perhaps'
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How many musical instruments do you play?
approximately 5
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What other places in some of your videos are based off of real world locations?
the video "wild frolicking adventures of informational education" features the Amundsen-Scott Station
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Could you share the co-ordinates?
90,0
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Are you aware about the scary demon behind you right now?
no
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What are your thoughts on hexaflexagons?
can be used for both good and evil
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What's 4*36
gross
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is it possible to freeze water?
yes
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if a piano could fight, would it?
no
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was having all the letters in the alphabet in 'i like to wear soft clothing cause it makes me feel like i'm rough in comparison' intentional
no, but for a song of that length it doesn't seem terribly out of the ordinary
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What's your favorite kind of cheese?
venezuelan beaver
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What's your general opinion on goats?
"aaaaaaaaaaa!"
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what is your opinion on onions?
ridiculous
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you've mentioned that some song sessions end up at as many as 600 tracks, what does your organisation look like? do you organise your sessions to deal with that many?
the major categories for me are 'DRUMS', 'BASS', 'NON', 'VOC'. within those categories there are some sub categories, but the system starts to fall apart as it gets more ambiguous. 'NON' means any non-bass non-vocal, pitched instrument. 'DRUMS' usually means any non-pitched instrument
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Are wind chimes microtonal?
they can be made with any tones you want. the ones i've heard most recently, were beautifully tuned in the key of G (C, D, E, F#, G) so that would probably not be considered microtonal by anyone's standards
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JON KILLED LYMAN AND KEPT ODIE.
close, except it was jim who did this, not jon
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Are you pregnant with aliens?
no
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do you have a villainous alter-ego yet
not that i know of
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Help me how to escape from la
lax
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do you enjoy making music equally as much as you enjoy animating or do you prefer one of them over the other
music is perhaps slightly more important, but i find them both heel cool
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have you ever seen a hamster in the wild
no
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do you ever look at a letter or number and be like hey that looks funny
yes. they all look funny. otherwise they wouldn't work properly
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What's the first thing you usually recall from a song you made in the past? For example if you were asked to remember the song "outside" would the first thing that comes to your mind be the lyrics, melody, music video, or something else
the first thing i recall is the title line, which includes the melody and chords with it. that's probably because that's all that existed of the song when i first came up with it
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would you like to go on a campaign with me to destroy all stars, except the one in the middle of our solar system, for the sole purpose of getting rid of constellations that make up astrological zodiacs (it is for fun, and refreshments will be provided)
no
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is mayonnaise an instrument?
no, but it can be used to enhance other instruments
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Barbie or Oppenheimer
for me it will be barbie
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can you tell me when 'at the corner store' was written?
the first 4 bars of melody/chord (with a TEMP dummy lyric 'at corner store' blah blah 'brand new world') are from oct 18, 2021. everything else was written april 3-4, 2022