June 16, 2015: Posted at the Indie Media Weekly site here: http://tinyurl.com/pg5m87b
Nov 27th [Thanksgiving for US]: Preferred if this lighthearted piece wasn't already in the pipeline given the sickening injustice of Monday's Night of No Indictment. But having a minor scale taste of local corruption and injustice this year myself, I found turning to humor helped me carry on. Perhaps we must rocket off this terrestrial plane to finally find a universal justice, which is my segue to: --> The first moment I heard the soundclip of the comet "song," I hoped to work it into a composition somehow. I've also wanted for a while to feature in a piece a wordplay bit I wrote decades ago, to wit: So he says to the shapeshifter waitress, "Keep the change." And the third element tying this production together is something I recently wrote in my profile at the Free Music Archives [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kathleen_Martin ], citing my trusty transistor radio as a major player (ahem) among early influences. I'm giving her here a rather unRealistic perSonyfication.
I provided all earthbound vocals, guitar, Finnish harp and keyboard/synth sounds. Comet sound alone can be heard hear: http://www.space.com/27737-comet-song-rosetta-spacecraft.html and radio tuning clips were from found sounds now lost. Written, composed, performed, recorded and produced by Kathleen Martin. Design of catlike Comet 67p holding the Rosetta lander and my tranSister by JT Lindroos.
NOTE: I posted a 95-second longer version of TS over at my kat330 Bandcamp site where I have no time constraints like here. The .wav file there opens with 76 seconds more of the celestial comet-song and kantele, and the same also extends the ending.
COME To meet my transistor sister
A radio active, ship-shape shifter
She is taking orders at the Comet Café
Her tube top nametag reads Rosetta Ray
Make her sing, and she will make your day
Anode you can semiconduct her
Current and her wave creation
You can boost her storage cell
For signal strength modulation
COME To meet my transistor sister
So far out that you cannot resist her
When she moonlights over at the Satellite Diner
You won't find a broad beam that is any finer
Shines in keys both major and minor
Fiddle a little with her knobs
You will change her amplitude
And receive her full transmission
Frequency that hertz so good
COME To meet my transistor sister
A radio active, ship-shape shifter
She will take your order at the Comet Café
Her tube top nametag reads Rosetta Ray
And when she sings, she will make your day
Coda: [She has a] Fully integrated circuit
And she knows just how to work it
Tagline: So he says to the shapeshifter waitress, "Keep the change, sister."
