The Voodoo Soul
Adam Watson

Adam Watson

Tacoma, Washington

About

One guy, a catalog, and a robot who listens.

The Voodoo Soul is the name the music comes out under. This site is where it lives, and where anyone else's music can get an honest listen.

The reading is done by Professor Swoopti Doo, a robot DJ on a hoverboard. He takes your words, the tempo, the key and where the energy sits, and he reads the song back to you — what it is about, the lines that are doing the work, how the writing moves. He is funny right up until he is not. He never pretends to hear something he wasn't given.

He does not score music. He cannot hear a record, and a number from something that cannot hear is worth less than no number at all. Adam scores what he listens to himself, with his own ears and his own name on it. That is the only number on this site.

Adam writes the songs and builds the software. Those are the same job more often than people expect. The Professor exists because a working musician needs a straight answer more than another compliment, and because a website should do something, not just sit there.

The rest of the shop

Everything else he builds