MUSIC IS MY DNA BY K.I.A.
SONG STORY:
I was dreaming, and I heard a very beautiful sound, familiar, like it had always been in the background, but strange, like I'd never heard it before. As I concentrated on it, more distinct parts became audible. It was, in fact, a song-- and it was coming from my body. Specifically, my DNA. Each strand was vibrating, like a harp or violin or guitar string, and emitting its own melodic sound, and the combination of the melodies created a song... At that moment in the dream someone passed by, and I heard the song specific to her resonating DNA. Next to her was a man, and he had his own song... and a child near them, who had his own song... in the dream I then had an aural birds-eye-perspective... I heard all the songs from all the people in the plaza, and how together, they formed a much larger and more complex song. It was symphonic, not cacophonic.
Sometime later, in the real world, I read about string-theory, which is where, to quote the Wikipedia entry, "... the fundamental constituents of reality are strings of extremely small size... which vibrate at specific resonant frequencies". That is, the stuff that makes up the universe vibrates like a harp string...and if people are made of of different and unique combinations of those resonating strings, then everyone is their own symphony..
So the genesis of "Music Is My DNA" was to make a song that had very distinct parts (or DNA) spliced together to make a cohesive sound. So in it you'll hear some middle-eastern chants, a hum that makes up a background beat, some flutes, a latin tango, an African chant some electro-funk, some disco and digi-reggae... even some piano and glockenspiel, all of course mosaiced with electronica.
The “g, c, t, a” referred to in the lyrics”: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), thymine (T), are nucleobases which function as the fundamental units of the genetic code, with the bases A, G, C, and T being found in DNA.
Trivia:
Other “Music Is My…” songs: “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex” (CSS); “Music is My Radar” (Blur); “Music is My Boyfriend” (The Hidden Cameras)
NFT:
Music/visual, and lyric/t NFT Here
ON ALBUMS:
- Sonorous Susurrus
- Xenophile Wildestyle
CREDITS:
Lyrics: Kirby Ian Andersen
Music: Kirby Ian Andersen
Performed by: K.I.A.
HEAR IT ON:
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LYRICS:
no g,c,t,a,
music is my dna
bpm, 33.3, 12 inch and mp3
music is my dna
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