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OK, this is a pretty mad idea, but there is some history to it...
In February this year I organised a Darwin Day meeting (see http://www.darwinday.org) at my university and invited the Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah to read out some of Charles Darwin's anti-slavery poetry and Erasmus Darwin's anti-slavery prose. Then a Jamaican colleage and I thought it would interesting to follow up on Benjamin Zephaniah's readings by celebrating the Origin of Species in Dub in time for next year's Darwin day (Feb 12th).
Here is a first draft of one track, dealing with Chapter 4 of Origin of Species. I have a few more sketches, which I would be happy to share if people are interested.
And I would be keen to enlist the help of a saxophonist in getting the meoldy from the reggae classic Satta Massa Gana into Garageband format, for a track celebrating the advances in our understanding of human evolution since Darwin's time and the fact that first hominid fossils come from Ethiopia. Any takers...?
And I getting tired of the same old reggae loops in Garageband. Has anyone any experience with other reggae/dub loop collections?
In February this year I organised a Darwin Day meeting (see http://www.darwinday.org) at my university and invited the Rasta poet Benjamin Zephaniah to read out some of Charles Darwin's anti-slavery poetry and Erasmus Darwin's anti-slavery prose. Then a Jamaican colleage and I thought it would interesting to follow up on Benjamin Zephaniah's readings by celebrating the Origin of Species in Dub in time for next year's Darwin day (Feb 12th).
Here is a first draft of one track, dealing with Chapter 4 of Origin of Species. I have a few more sketches, which I would be happy to share if people are interested.
And I would be keen to enlist the help of a saxophonist in getting the meoldy from the reggae classic Satta Massa Gana into Garageband format, for a track celebrating the advances in our understanding of human evolution since Darwin's time and the fact that first hominid fossils come from Ethiopia. Any takers...?
And I getting tired of the same old reggae loops in Garageband. Has anyone any experience with other reggae/dub loop collections?
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"Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive" from Could you be loved by Bob Marley
From Origin of Species:
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species
"It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapses of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only see that the forms of life are now different from what they formerly were."
"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications."
From Origin of Species:
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-origin-of-species
"It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life. We see nothing of these slow changes in progress, until the hand of time has marked the long lapses of ages, and then so imperfect is our view into long past geological ages, that we only see that the forms of life are now different from what they formerly were."
"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications."
nobunaga
garage band is really tricky to do a propper dub mix since you cant vary the echo and reverb across time like you would in the studio. I'm still working out how I can get the deep dub sound without using a hundred tracks.
You got the keys and drop beat and a steady bass here so your track has a good backing. I'd mix the bass a bit thicker to give the whole thing a solid foundation.
Its hard to know where to go with a speech in any dub. Do you keep it whole without too much reverb or send it far out into space and cut it up? I tried a few things with some Marcus Garvey myself, but never got the sound I wanted.
Anyways, keep it up, Im glad I'm not the only one here who likes dub.