The Safety Dance with Doogie Howser

The mind of a musician is a bizarre place. Notes, melodies, bass lines, and viola off beats bounce around in a maze of funhouse audio mirrors. This morning while running my aging iPod shuffle gracefully transitioned from Anthrax to Demi Lovato.

Then it occurred to me. Eureka! Wait…

Could this be America’s true hidden conspiracy? Who is behind these octaves?

 

The Safety Dance. Hmmm, interesting.

 

 

Doogie Howser, child prodigy.

 

 

Octaves. Put them in the funhouse mirror and throw in an inversion and we have:

 

 

Speed and pitch are unaltered.

(Click to the left of 00:00 to play – I don’t know why the play button is black.)