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MoBead's third single. Canadian suburb mowing ritual June through
September, then bracing for winter. The riding mower as bassoon,
the electric as oboe, the trimmers as the string section, the
catch-the-stone clatter as percussion. The conductor is the sun.
Bridge captures the September turn ('The oboe quit last week.
The bassoon yesterday.'). Final verse: the last mower of the year,
a solo, then the long white quiet coming on.
Three production interpretations shipped — Tee picks one (or all three):
- A: Pastoral Chamber (88 BPM, G major) — chamber strings, oboe, French horn
- B: Musique-Concrète Field-Recording (110 BPM, F# minor) — the mowers ARE the orchestra
- C: Lo-Fi Indie Folk (76 BPM, D major) — fingerpicked porch-step intimate
Bead-click foley preserved across all three styles (MoBead signature).
Lore beats woven subtly: Mississauga + SAUL-TEE under tarp.
Deliverables:
- tracks/sunday-lawn-mowers-symphony/lyrics.md (3250 / 5000)
- tracks/sunday-lawn-mowers-symphony/production-notes/A-pastoral-chamber.md (741 / 800)
- tracks/sunday-lawn-mowers-symphony/production-notes/B-musique-concrete.md (778 / 800)
- tracks/sunday-lawn-mowers-symphony/production-notes/C-lofi-indie-folk.md (794 / 800)
- tracks/sunday-lawn-mowers-symphony/README.md (track card + style picker)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sunday Lawn Mowers Symphony — Production Style B: Musique-Concrète Field-Recording
Lens: the mowers ARE the orchestra. Field-recorded foley pitched and looped into the entire instrumental bed. Gallery-installation patience meets suburban tenderness. Electroacoustic, avant-garde, slightly fierce.
TITLE: Sunday Lawn Mowers Symphony [STYLE B: musique-concrète field-recording]
ARTIST: MoBead
GENRE/STYLE: Electroacoustic musique-concrète field-collage
BPM: 110
KEY: F# minor
VOICE: Dry close-mic baritone, half-chant verses, sung bridge, no reverb.
INSTRUMENTATION: Pitched-down riding-mower idle as sub-bass; two-stroke drones tuned to F#m; trimmer-whine +2oct shimmer; stone-clink/blade-tick percussion; sprinkler 16ths; bead-click foley; bridge harmonium pad.
AMBIANCE: Gallery patience meets suburban Sunday tenderness — cul-de-sac air, distant dogs.
REFERENCE VIBE: Cul-de-sac through pitch-shift; a lawn rebuilt as frequencies.
STRUCTURE: 0:00 foley bed / 0:20 V1 / 0:50 CH / 1:15 V2 / 1:45 CH / 2:10 BRIDGE harmonium / 2:40 V3 / 3:05 FINAL CH / 3:25 OUTRO Doppler fade.