another good idea

Milo: "Dad, I have a good idea."

So many of our conversations start this way. I love it.

Today Milo's idea was to play one CD on his laptop while a different CD played on the stereo. "We can make a new song by playing two songs at the same time," he said.

I was impressed. After all, I didn't have this idea until college, when, as a DJ for WHRW, I had Cecil Taylor spinning on one platter and "Theoretically" by Tim Berne and Bill Frisell going on the other. That actually worked pretty well, thank you very much.

Instead of going this route, we did something a bit different. A while back I had acquired Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. It is a four-disc set, but unlike most such sets, the listener is supposed to play all four discs at the same time. I never got around to doing it, since I never had four CD players in the same room at once. But now, with a desktop computer in one room and two portable laptops and a stereo in the adjacent room, four disc synchronicity was within reach (not quite literally), and Milo's request was the perfect opportunity to try it out. So we did. Glorious noisy chaos for all to enjoy. (Or not. Said Sara: "The only way this could be worse is if these were King Crimson discs.")