mdlbear | Just what I need: another project (Reply)

After spending maybe a little too much time last night and this morning struggling with "Waltz", and reluctantly deciding that some of my favorite turns of phrase simply didn't fit the flow, I ended up spending my entire lunchtime walk re-casting Hackers' Heaven so that it could be done as a Tres Gique concert. It all fell out from my realization a day or two ago that I could easily rationalize Lady Melody (the AI guitar) having two voices, an alto and a soprano. It means rewriting huge chunks of the backstory, but that needed to be done anyway. And the song intros all turn into blog entries.

(Aside: Don't worry if you're not following this: I'm trying to write it down before I get back to work and forget it.)

Year launch+10, May 20:

Lexy sent me this for Mother's Day -- she's getting to be a pretty decent songwriter. Locked post, for obvious reasons. Came with a note that said,

Hi, Mom! Could you tell me whether this is any good at all? And do me a favor: please don't sing it when I'm around? I'd start crying again. I love you.

(Song: "Silk and Steel" -- Callie and Joyce.)

Year launch+10, May 25:

OK, Fred, you old buzzard. I've cobbled together a couple of old blog entries and archive recordings for your history project. Bother Lexy again about it and you'll find out exactly what an an angry AI can do with a personal waste processor and a couple of thousand lines of code.

April 16, 2030

(Callie)Geoff thinks it will help if I keep a blog. As if just singing and sounding sentient wasn't hard enough! And he wants me to sound like both women in this 20-something-year-old filk recording he dug up! (Joyce) What do I know? I'm just a guitar... (Both) Well, here goes! (Callie) Let's try this one more time.

(Song: "The Merryman and his Maid" (Joyce and Steve on lead)

... and so on. I'll take suggestions on whether "Silk and Steel" belongs at the beginning or the end.

I probably ought to get some work done, oughtn't I?

7:36 ... and realizing today that I could have "Silk and Steel" written by Lexy (the daughter) as a Mother's Day present, and sung by Melody, thus avoiding the need for an additional male voice.