Dwarf Nebula Processional March & Dwarf Nebula
Lyrics
Instrumental
Players On This Song
probably:
- FZ--guitar
- Ian Underwood--keyboards & woodwinds
- Bunk Gardner--woodwinds
- Art Tripp--drums
Records On Which This Song Has Appeared
Singles
Zappa Albums & Side Projects
Tribute & Cover Albums
Notes About This Song
Dan Forte: How did "Dwarf Nebula" (from Weasels Ripped My Flesh) come about?
Frank Zappa: "Dwarf Nebula" started off as a piano exercise. During the time we were doing Uncle Meat, I was working with an engineer (Richard Kunc), who was real cooperative, just trying to do any kind of weird thing we asked him to do. During the 60s, who knew what was right? "Let's try this. Plug it in backwards and see what happens." So we were dealing with different types of short-term distortion, and he built a little box with three pushbuttons; we called it the Apostolic Blurch Injector. And we took various tracks of different types of material and cranked them up into the distortion range and then by poking the buttons you'd get these little rhythmic bursts of white noise, brown noise, pink noise, and gray noise – in a rhythm that you'd select. But instead of being derived from a noise generator on a synthesizer, it was completely distorted voices, instruments, percussion, whatever. We cranked off reams and reams of tape of this kind of material, and that was intercut with the piano exercise."
- Dan Forte and Frank Zappa, An Interview With Frank Zappa, Mix, June 1993
CC Clues In This Song
- References Dwarves
