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Tupperware Barriers

from Oscar by TestTubeBaby

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While (at least compared to the recently-departed pandemic) in 4 months I hadn't produced much music, I did remaster a lot. At one point I remastered the album that, in some ways, my "Stewarding Experience" master's thesis was based upon. The thesis mostly ruminated on my experience of producing the album, which chronologically covered my "memories" of what led me to calling myself an "addict," and then what led to me stopping. While that was the content, it was the process that felt, not new to me... but worth trying to define. Anyway, as I was remastering the song, "Fear of Drinking" (from what had been one album, but which, in the course of remastering, I decided to break into three... so this one falls at the end of the middle album, "Alcoholics Anonymous"). The density of the "background music" on the song seemed overwhelming, so, among other things, I stripped away a lot of what might be called "crackle" in one pass, and then reduced what could be called harmonic "hum" in another pass. But I didn't just remove the crackle and hum, I also outputted the crackle as one file and the hum as another. Then I used those files to start creating something new. Oscar forgot he could back up, so he'd end up stuck in lots of places... mostly corners. Thankfully he was a mini-dachshund with very short legs, so I could put rounded, plastic Tupperware containers in places where he might otherwise get stuck and anxious. I might find a circumscribable correlation between Oscar's "forgetting how to back up" and the process or content of this song... but, really, what does "forgetting how to back up" NOT have to do with?

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from Oscar, released May 11, 2023

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Just walked
On a long slab of concrete
Probably hundreds of metric tons
To the store
Thinking about the similarities
And differences
Between me and a squirrel

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