Prosopagnosia

My son and I both have difficulty recognizing faces, particularly out of context. He has a job in HR now that requires interaction with a lot of different people, many of whom overlap a sharing of similar names and (what should be) distinguishing characteristics, which makes it a challenge to keep everyone clear. To illustrate his lament, he texted me a patterned list of those names, along with the comment, “To say nothing of the Ryans.” 

To me, those were clearly lyrics. Almost instantly, I was hearing the chorus.

So I went home and put together a simple tune, extended those lyrics, and told the AI that I was looking for a rondò. .. which all together rendered this song (to which I added some flourishes, and of course the gong).

What’s nice is that (a) the cover is derived from the blending of the faces of some very familiar people (to represent the feeling of ‘“Who is that?”), and (b) the voice on the song has a similarly familiar quality.

Here are the lyrics.