sonic tunic, a remix after Tunic (Song For Karen) by Kim Gordon & Sonic Youth for violin and vibraphone

(2021)

I love Sonic Youth. Like my other loves (The B52s, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, etc.), it is all about the time and place in my life. The later 1980s/early 1990s were the edge of my true youth, and it was sonic in many ways. Kim Gordon's Tunic (Song for Karen) is an all time favorite song of mine, from an all time favorite album of theirs (Goo). As a child, I remember Karen Carpenter, and when I first heard this song by Sonic Youth, it landed with an explosion of irony and relevancy and truth. For the uninitiated, I strongly recommend watching the original music video for this song! My remix, like all my remixes, is not an arrangement. It's my weird re-imagining of the song using the forces I have been given to work with. In this case, it is violin and vibraphone. All my remixes are pieces I make for my friends. That keeps it real for me. And that is without any irony, but with a lot of relevancy and truth. This is for Shalini.