| "AIN'T NO HIDING IN A DIGITAL WORLD" | |
| Produced, Arranged, and Mixed by: Michael Foster Engineered by: Mark Easton Recorded at ROUGH CUT STUDIO...Eastford, Conn. in June-July, 2007. Mixed at GOLDEN SUN STUDIO...North Palm Beach, Florida in August, 2007. PLAYING CREDITS: Michael Foster: GENERAL MUSIC PRO 2 Digital Clavinet, KORG MS-2000 Synthesizer, Electric Guitar (left), Vocals, All Guitar solos. Michael Corsini: Bass. Mark Easton: Electric Guitar (right) Barry Easton: Drums. This song features our bass player....Michael Corsini...who did some amazing work on this track. As our technology continues to leap ahead...the potential for it to be misused and abused by those in positions of power becomes a greater and greater threat. Over the last few years...it has become painfully obvious that this is so...as laws are "adjusted" to allow for just such abuses. Constitutional guarantees and all reasonable rights to privacy are systematically vanishing in the United States...and actually...all over the world. I wanted to write a song about this...because there are still a great number of people who actually believe that the things that they have always done that they considered personal and private things...are still personal and private. Now, all of those things are under total scrutiny by Governments, Intelligence Agencies, and Major Corporations...at all times. There is virtually nothing they don't know...or can't find out very quickly...about any of us...if they decide to devote the resources and that technology to that end. On the beginning of this song...I try to simulate the sound of a "spy satellite" orbiting above us and gathering information on many different things. High resolution cameras and infra-red devices allow those who control those satellites to see right into buildings...or see individuals as they walk on a street...and all from orbital positions...unseen and unheard. I accomplished this by playing a Clavinet with a sustain pedal "floored"...and played through a MORLEY POWER WAH pedal...while I "drummed" the keyboard starting from the very lowest notes...and then gradually moving up to the middle range of the keyboard...and then back down to the lower registers. The WAH pedal and sustain pedal smooth the sound so that the individual strikes on the keyboard are masked...and the WAH pedal simulates the "Doppler effect" of increasing volume and changing pitch as something moves closer or further away from the listener (or observer...in this case). The "radar sounds" are also played on a clavinet...manually played on the high registers of the keyboard in specific (digital sounding) note patterns...and the tone changes are also accomplished with the MORLEY WAH pedal. Those sounds are recorded on a completely different track...and then mixed with the first "ship" sounds...and both are panned from left to right to simulate the "movement" of the satellite going by. | |