Okay, Radiolab promotion over. Unknown to me at the time, stochasticity was becoming a theme in the songs I was writing at the time. My life was being clouded by white noise, there wasn't any way for me to predict what was going to happen from day to day during this period of time. It was certainly a dark period of my life dealing with the external and internal forces that were pulling me. One song that didn't make it onto the album was "Stochasticity Song".
It's the most elaborate and professional recording I've ever made on my own: utilizing different mics, a Presonus Firepod interface with my Macbook, tracked in Cubase, and mixed in Logic. The arrangement wasn't quite right and it didn't fit in sonically with the other songs. For the intro, I set up a microphone and my son, Jonah, just started talking into it after I hit record. I also used some bird and owl sound samples, an Edward R. Murrow news report, and reversed and stretched a couple seconds from another Ghostbeard song to build up into the chorus.
