Let's put together a song about autism!

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Know what we need? We need a song about autism. But not about the big issues. Something kind of in the vein of My Favorite Things (raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens...), just listing the little things. Especially good things, but bad things are fine.

One person can't put that together by virtue of only being one person. I'm not the greatest poet in the universe, either.

So, any composers? I'm decent but not great at that. Also, any of you care to do a little poetry? I'd especially appreciate stuff about common experiences that I don't share (such as hand-flapping, shutdown, any type of visual processing oddities, synesthesia). And I'll post back here once I've figured out some verse about the parts I do experience.

Am I doing this alone or are you with me?

I think the bridge should go something like this:

2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29
31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71
73 79 83 89 97 101 103 107 109 113
127 131 137 139 149 151 157 163 167 173
179 181 191 193 197 199 211 223 227 229
233 239 241 251 257 263 269 271 277 281
283 293 307 311 313 317 331 337 347 349
353 359 367 373 379 383 389 397 401 409

Sounds cool.

I'm a mediocre poet and I didn't MEAN to channel Poe here, but... I dunno. I think my love of The Raven shows in this bit of verse (if it can be called verse, but it does have a rhythm to it that I'm happy with):

Water trickling slowly down a sidewalk dusty, lowly,
Carrying long-forgotten treasures to the gutter as I stare.
Few but me would ever stop to think about the way the dirt and needles gather,
Gorgeous standards or obstructions at the end of one small stream that makes its way down to the lawn.

Anyone else got anything?

I think you're a pretty good poet, and I'm pretty fussy when it comes to poetry. Your verse sounds quite nice, especially the first sentence.



Ah, a challenge to stop me going to sleep for another half hour. Mhh...if we get the modulo eight of each number, assign a chord to each number, filter out the sevenths, group the numbers into triplets, and take the second, third, fifth and seventh triplets, and play the third chord in each triplet two times we get:



Passable, at least for music by formula. Funny, no one but an aspergian would find it amusing to turn prime numbers into music. This whole post has turned in unintentional ironic self-satire. Damn the whole thing anyway!! *wanders off

Would anyone be bothered if it were a comedy parody of another song I might could think of something if it can but don't hold me to that; it depends on if inspiration hits

ryan93, thanks. I'm afraid I don't understand what you did with the numbers. Could you clarify?

nick007, I at least want an original song, and that's what I'll work on regardless of whether anyone helps. But, though I can't speak for anyone else, I love song parodies, too.

Oh, I was only joking. I just turned that set of primes into chords using a few mathematical manipulations

Here's where I confess that I don't know what your notation for the chords means, though. I'm a decent musician, but I have no grounding in theory.

Oh right. I cant read sheet music very well, but chords are pretty easy

Em,G,C
Em,G,G
G,Em,G
Em,C,C

translates to:

Em = the chord E,G,B
G= the chord G, B, D
C = C,E,G

Thanks. I guess I'll think about tempo when I have a chance to play it. Do you guys think this song should be fast or slow?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8nfFypyAQY[/youtube]

Ow.

Koji Kondo has already done it back in 2001:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VOdF7ASFY[/youtube]

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Zelda is awesome.

Also, ow. I didn't recall the music hurting me that much when I played that game.

Already dood it! Two actually.

The first on the play list ("My Shoes") is more of a "generic" interpretation that probably more Aspie's might identify with.

The second on the play list ("Everyone I've Known") is kind of a personal interpretation that some with AS might identify with, and others might not, but such is the "spectrum," I think.

Check the player at www.airweavers.com if you'd like to hear them.

I can't tell what the lyrics are. Would you mind writing them out?