Boring Music (I)
String Octet

Matthew Lee Knowles
June-July 2025

FULL SCORE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpP8hqivmgE

Boring Music


I remixed again an acapella track from looperman.com, provided by Cabilo (https://www.looperman.com/users/profile/4656643).


Cover Picture: Pixabay.com


Lyrics 

Been Looking For You 

I can 't hold on any longer, it's torture
Without you
I can't stand on both my feet, I've been beat
I need you
Cause On a golden thrown
Or deep in muddy grounds
It always seems to come back around 
To you
My heart and my soul are dancing in the dark 
You light them up with a single spark
All I need is you

All my life I've been running around
Trying to find a lover that wants to be found
And it's you
Look into my eyes and tell me why we cannot be
I remember the day that you fell for me, I'm trapped in our history
All my life I've been running around
Trying to find that lover that wants to be found
And it's you

I can't stop these waves
From washing me away 
I try to act okay
But I'm trapped in yesterday 
I can't stop these waves
From washing me away 
I try to act okay
But I'm trapped in yesterday 

All my life, All my life
All my life, All my life

Been Looking For You - OMCB ft. Cabilo

Thick & Thin - (Acoustic)

Life comes in waves — joy and hardship rising and falling over and over again.
Sometimes it’s a raging storm, sometimes just a gentle ripple.
This track was created from reflecting on the dignity of a life like that.
Thank you for listening.

Dignity

Pebbles of change.

In every dream home a heartache

oh Tannenbaum, happy Advent season!

The song isn't quite finished, but I'd like to upload it as early as possible in December, even though you can listen to it at any time of year. Since I don't have any more time this year, it's coming out now on SC. I'm happy with it as it is. I don't always like the vocals in the second verse, so I would re-record some parts. The bass is just a first draft and the mix (the volume of the individual instruments could certainly be improved). But I'm happy with it as it is. Anyone who doesn't like it this way wouldn't like the revised version either. Let's go it's:
December
I ride my bike through the frozen streets
memories of different past years meet
from the suburb to the city I go
while in the air there's a little bit of snow

there's to the right the street to my old school
where some of the boys often played the fool
I hear in a distance the sound of the sea
the harbor comes in sight
the boats lie silent and the sails are dry
the beach cafe has been closed for months
back next season in Mai I will be welcome
in summer I had ice cream and coffee there, was awesome

shops with frosty glass
as the day has passed
in the city the light shine bright
festive colors in the night
it's this peaceful month
it is Christmas coming
preparations running

while in my face the cold wind blows
in the shops with glowing windows
the Christmas season silently shows
the scent of cinnamon is in the air
decorated houses are everywhere
the market place ahead
with yellow busses and people widespread
it's this months the calm December
the good moments of the year you remember
as the year fades into quiet slumber
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Have a great Christmas time and December and rest of the year!


December

The light is fading....

Lyrics

the hours I had waited for the chance

wait all alone the any hour

always get the chance

oh there is nothing left to me I cannot

see the light in me is flickering out

oh the light in me is flickering out

I was going to expand this but think its a perfect short little tune. Will see if I change my mind lol

I hope you enjoy it and please feel free to leave a comment as your feedback is greatly appreciated and helpful.

Take a Chance (Demo)

Green Requiem (1985) - Joe Hisaishi - Piano Cover
A very beautiful piece written by Joe Hisaishi specifically for the film "Green Requiem". I hope you’ll enjoy it…🍀

Green Requiem - Joe Hisaishi - Piano Cover

Track 5 in "Beyond" (2020) by Alex M: composed, played, arranged, edited and recorded by Alex M in GarageBand iOS, 3 March 2020, and Logic Pro X, 11 March 2020, and mixed in Logic Pro X, 11 March 2020; posted on SoundCloud on 12 March 2020 (before the release of the album as a whole).

Duration: 7:50 minutes
Tempo: 100 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: B flat minor

Digital instruments used, in the order of playing and recording: 
1. Keyboard - Synth Classics - Neon Koto (Cutoff 69% Mix 100%)
2. Bass - Thumb Bass
3. Drums - Electronic - Prismatica
4. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Keys - Hammered Piano (Almost Pleasant 25% + Soft Atmosphere 50% + Seriously Damaged 17% + Broken Plucks 8%)
5. Keyboard - Synth Classics - Machine Language (Cutoff 25% Resonance 40% Attack 60% Release 30%)
6. Arpeggiator - Synth Chords - Deep Techno Chords
7. Synthesizer - Rhythmic - Metallic Fireflies
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The cover artwork for the album, "Beyond" (2020), and all constituent tracks uses image No. 9 (titled "Hubble sees galaxies galore") from the "top 100" images of NASA/ESA/Hubble available online at:

https://spacetelescope.org/images/heic0406a

To read more about this image, see the introduction/description to the release of the album, "Beyond", in section Albums herein.

Beyond Us and Them

I have always admired music, of diverse styles. Like most of us, I have tried learning to play a few instruments at a basic level in my teenage. But it is only now, in the 21st century, that modern software allows anyone to fool around being the composer, the designer of a whole composition, simpler or more complex, organising together the parts of the various instruments - and to hear the results of this experimentation or inspiration instantly! That is how I have recently begun enjoying the distraction of attempts at composing during my leisure, discovering an amazing dimension of life, and art, perhaps the most intangible, heightening and hypnotising one, and the closest to the soul... (21 August 2017) ... Forgot to mention: music is for sharing - that's why we are all here! (4 September 2017)