Ball of Wax 44 Songs: Ken Cormier – Auto Composition 27: Ding Dong

“Auto Composition 27: Ding Dong” is a goofy, free association little vocal ditty by one Ken Cormier, an unknown-to-me but accomplished Ball of Waxer from Connecticut. According to his bio, Ken is a teacher, performance poet, independent radio producer, and musician as well as the author of two collections of stories and poems and an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Quinnipiac University. “Auto Composition 27: Ding Dong” is the kind of silly, satisfying tune you might make up in the shower or walking the dog or doing some other mundane task. It’s a squirt of creative juice that’s simple and brief, a humble and eminently accessible choice to close out volume 44, a volume that captures a wide range of vocal experiments and arrangements. Nice sequencing, Levi.