{"id":776,"date":"2010-04-18T02:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2010-04-17T20:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T19:01:44","slug":"jutze-52-16-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Jutze 52 #16 – Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a little homage to WatchTower<\/a>, written in anticipation of their show next Friday.<\/p>\n

Eleven years ago I wrote a song called “Golden Future” for From Thy Ashes (my band back then). It was an attempt to combine a whole bunch of complicated parts. The result wasn’t very impressive. But I figured back then that the ideal unit for writing such material wasn’t a couple of bars; much rather does it boil down to chunks of maybe three or for notes. If you have a big simple thing and start adding details, the music just gets weary. So this time I didn’t really bother with the big picture and concentrated on making every single note count.<\/p>\n

I started out with the drum track, programming some wild, odd bars of hectic noise with only very vague ideas of guitar riffs in my head. I have little (meaning no) advanced harmony knowledge, so I just played what I’d never play in an ordinary e minor setting. Half-step runs? Yes, please. I wrote pretty much every single note by trial-and-error as I went along, recording the tiniest bits separately, one by one. I was baffled how flawless it all sounded once I stuck everything together. I played the bass on keyboard, as usual. At that point I was close to keeping the song an instrumental. Most of you probably wish I had. But then I figured I could mirror the title of WatchTower’s third album, Mathematics, by singing about my profession: statistics. I dare to say that it all made sense in the end. At least to me. I know, I sound somewhat ridiculous when I try to channel Alan Tecchio’s vocal style. Still, I’m very happy with the overall outcome!<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object><\/span> #16 Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n

When I say what I do for a living
\nThe response is silence
\nStatistics: misunderstood and ignored
\nStatistics: valuable and powerful<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love data
\nI love Stata<\/a>
\nStatistics: misunderstood and ignored
\nStatistics: powerful and valuable<\/strong><\/p>\n

(words and music by Johannes Schult)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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