Text-To-Music
Re: What Searchable Speech Will Do To You At the coffee shop, they have pre-made bagels in plastic bins with labels on them. The "Plain" and "Everything" bins were right next to each other, which gave me a song title idea, which then led to the idea of "Plain Somethin'" or "Plain Nuthin'", perhaps with an old-timey blues shuffle feel. "Back in the day" (less than a mere century ago) Tin Pan Alley songwriters would use titles as a springboard. Usually, there would be a natural music in them, which would inspire a chorus idea. This is old hat now--in almost the absolute sense of the phrase; Who would want to write that way? Lovers used to sing to each other in musicals and who does that? Opera is still largely esoteric. "Back in the day" is almost like "Yesterday" when you sing it, spoken on a downbeat. No one says Yes-TER-day, let alone sing it that way. (If you pronounce "back in the day" on an u...
