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Posted by Bee K
on 5/14/2009, 1:40 pm
Sidewalk Cafe:
94 Avenue A (at 6th)
212-473-7373
http://www.sidewalkmusic.net
This Sunday at the Sidewalk, following an 8pm set by Melissa Cox, an NYC Songfight Conference will take place. I've been a part of songfight for a few years. In their own words:
"Song Fight is a free Web site where Internet musicians enter their work into competition. Every ten days or so, one or more titles are posted, the competitors write a brand new song inspired by one of these titles, and the Internet at large is invited to vote for their favorite song for each title...[Winners receive] bragging rights. Satisfaction. The jealous glances of strangers sitting next to you on the subway."
So allow me to brag. I've won twice. Both times, everyone else submitted a song while I submitted a rock opera written and recorded in under a week's time. I will be playing some selections from the operas, as well as other "hits" on Sunday. Also performing selections from their songfight catalog will be Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints, Jim Tyrrell, Glennny & Friends, X-Tokyo-River-God, Caravan Ray and JB.
Learn all the words now! Here are links to my winning entries (woo hoo!) and a synopsis for each (spoiler alert!).
"CABLE BEACH"
Synopsis: In a not-so-distant-future, overpopulation has driven senior citizens to spend their golden years in a virtual retirement community: Cable Beach. Joseph Goldberg says goodbye to his daughter, plugs in his brain and proceeds to spend the rest of his life in digital bliss. He develops a passion for sculpture and realizes that Cable Beach's limited virtual program is unable to simulate the art he attempts. Confronting the Cable Beach Council about this, he discovers the horrible truth about community, but ultimately finds peace and immortality (of a kind) with a little help from the oracle and those nutty digital pigeons. A rock opera classic.
Listen to it here:
http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=cable_beach
"ROBOT CANDIDATE"
Synopsis: In a not-so-distant-future, a senile, ailing rebel scientist creates a robot son, Miah 727, who is programmed with the ambition to unite humans and robot slaves as a single race. The humans have grown fat, lazy gadget addicts and dreams of space travel have long since been forgotten. His human father long dead, Miah 727 works soldering the joints of his robot brothers in the factory, dreaming of utopia. He starts a pirate radio station and when the powers that be attempt to silence his message of hope and change, Miah 727 retreats to the catacombs under the city. There, the robot scientists place his positronic brain inside the body of a human and name him Jerry Andrews. Now he can run for office and fulfill his dream!!! Things don't end well (courtesy of the powers that be). Disjointed, rushed, but ultimately moving, this rock opera has some killer guitar solos, synth work and Who-like drum programming.
Listen to it here:
http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=robot_candidate
See you Sunday!
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