Vertigo

A piece of music (?) recorded on my phone

According to my voice memo app, this recording, titled “Vertigo,” was saved to my phone on May 12, 2018.

About six months ago, fumbling around for content, I uploaded the recording to a Substack draft, thinking I would pair it with a brief note on context — a kind of apologetic liner note — based on the belief that I didn’t think the recording could stand on its own as a “piece of music.” For what it’s worth, I still believe that. It certainly wasn’t recorded with the intent of being a “piece of music.” It is not “polished.”

But — that original post is now around 3,500 words and still incomplete. I don’t know what to do with it, and I doubt it makes sense to publish on The Happy Few. In the meantime, in keeping with this no-news newsletter’s whimsical, desultory, frivolous, and foppish spirit, I figured I’d go ahead and post “Vertigo,” sans apologetic liner note.

I’m using Soundcloud because it seems like the best option for embedding purposes. That may be a mistake, I don’t know; Substack won’t allow Bandcamp to embed.