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On a Saturday
Words and music by Allye Baker and Karen Howe
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP
All rights reserved
Allye invited her friend, Karen, over to my place one Saturday and I turned on the instruments and mics in my studio room and let them play around.
Later I extracted bits and pieces from a song they had made up and then added instrumentation behind it. They were age 7, I think, so that makes it 25+ years ago. i believe I was using Acid Pro DAW on this one. That’s a drum loop with me finger keyboarding a bass from the Alesis QS7. Time flies. I looped the rest of the sounds from the kids playing around.
In 2024, I began working on the new Blind Mime Ensemble AI-glitch project and the “troupe” came up with this:
I uploaded an excerpt from the original.
I love to play
I love to play
I love to play in any weather
I love to play on a saturday
I can play the guitar
I can play the guitar
I can play the guitar
I can play the guitar
Dum dee dum dee dum…
I love to play
I love to play
I love to play in any weather
I love to play on a saturday
Na na na na na na na na
I can play the guitar
I love to play
I love to play
I love to play in any weather
I love to play on a saturday
On a saturday…
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Blind Mime Ensemble is a multimedia art project by Briyan Frederick.
Blind Mime Ensemble is virtually fronted by Riyan and Freyd, two enigmatic, mimes who navigate a surreal, ever-shifting world of sound, silence, and absurdity. Their blindness is fluid—sometimes self-imposed, sometimes real, sometimes performative—as they search for meaning, expression, and each other in an evolving landscape of experimental and electronic pop music, visual storytelling, and conceptual art.
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