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The Secret Life of an Angel: Girl Singing in a Word Cloud

      (by and © Aileen Ibardaloza)

[Note: Music by Parageet, who writes:

Hi Aileen,

with this I give you the permission to use my piece "Sprouts" for your project.
Of course I`m curious, so it would be great if you could send me a copy [upon publication] ...

If you make any money, we would have to make a contract - if you need anything written or signed please send me a form!

Kind regards from berlin, Parageet.

Ed. note: Thank you, Parageet. Upon publication, you'll be sent a copy. But don't put a down payment on the Lamborghini while waiting for royalties!

For info re: sources: please see note to the text version of 13 Oct 2008]

Girl Singing (Weeping Guitar Remix)

      (by and © Lucy Morris/Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “Contains guitar and vocal samples from "Una guitarra llora", by LosTemerarios (included in Camino del amor, Fonovisa, Mexico, 1996). Voice by Lucy Morris. All assembled in my MacBook”]

Girl Singing (Latin Beat Angel Re-Remix)

      (by and © Lucy Morris/Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “The trumpet was sampled from Arturo Sandoval's rendition of “Angel Eyes”. (Included in Arturo Sandoval & Winton Marsalis, "Los Elefantes", In-Akustik, 1999). Voice by Lucy Morris. All assembled on my MacBook...”]

The Public Song of an Angel (Reverse Strip Hay(na)ku Remix)

      (by and © Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “I found a video posted on YouTube by Renabette covering Secondhand Serenade’s “Fall for You”:

I took a screenshot of 0:22 in the video, tweaked the image on iPhoto and then created a reverse strip hay(na)ku on Comic Life with it.” Thank you, Renabette, for allowing us to include you]

Girl Singing (Latin Angel Eyes Remix)

      (by and © Lucy Morris/Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “The trumpet was sampled from Arturo Sandoval's rendition of “Angel Eyes”. (Included in Arturo Sandoval & Winton Marsalis, "Los Elefantes", In-Akustik, 1999). Voice by Lucy Morris. All assembled on my MacBook...”]

The Winter Of Shrieking Electric Guitars

“... The old man

of winter ...
with a lengthening shadow ...”

      -Eileen R Tabios, “THE SECRET LIFE OF AN ANGEL”

Winter 1. All In Twilight

Winter 2. Frost

Winter 3. Where Will I Find Flowers

The Blackbird Variations

Although My Eyes Were Open (They Might Just As Well've Been Closed)

Fantasy On The Streets Of Laredo

Blues For Two Electric Guitars (Remix)

      (By and © Robert Rissman)

Girl Singing (Phrasr Remix)

Girl Singing (Phrasr Remix)

      (by and © Ernesto Priego and numerous unknown uncreditable flickr photographers)

[Note: Ernesto writes: I dropped my favorite stanzas of the poem on Phrasr and this is what it came up with … (ed. note: this one will have to live only in virtual spacetime, i.e., on the web …)]

Girl Singing (Lucifer Remix)

      (by and © Lucy Morris/Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “This is a mix by Lucy Morris and moi. She read the poem aloud in English and Spanish (the Babelfish version). We recorded them in GarageBand. I mixed the Spanish in the background. I made a copy of the Spanish and slowed it down to make it sound like the Demon speaking (a very low voice) and mixed it again. Then I took everything to Audacity and mixed it and sequenced it using effects from the GarageBand stock. The rest of the processes (equalizing, normalizing, et cetera) are the same as in the other remixes”]

Girl Singing (Angelic Remix)

      (by and © Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “I got carried away and I made this video remix using iMovie and Audacity. I wanted again to play with the idea of spectrality, echo and juxtaposition of darkness and light and memorable lines. For this I've sampled and processed a snippet of Elliot Smith's "Angeles" from his Either/Or album”]

Girl Singing (Deep Bass and Shaker Mix)

      (by and © Ernesto Priego)

[Note: Ernesto writes: “Here's another remix. To be honest, I can't remember anymore how many processes were involved in this one. I started sampling a bit from Slayer's Angel of Death, of which only a distant echo remained in the end, I must say. I had the computer read the poem aloud using the “Vicky” speech preset and recorded it using Audacity again. I then cut, pasted, delayed, cut again, recorded again, changed pitch, tempo and speed, passed everything through low and high filters, added a bass which I cranked up, added two types of shakers, messed around with the gain levels, et cetera. It's not all random: I wanted to sample and repeat the lines that had remained in my memory by attempting a rewriting of the poem by what I could remember without looking at it. You will realize the order of the poem has been altered. I wanted several voices to invoke both the hope and the despair that poem evokes in me. I wanted to translate the light and darkness of the poem by juxtaposing the very high and the very low frequencies. This is a fallen angel speaking, seduced by the chant of a beautiful girl. Because desire burns, and most of us would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven...”]