Name: REAL FUN - MAY - 06 - REAL LIFE IN HIGH FIDELITY by allanjswan
Duration: 4 min 41 s
Description: promo single for REAL FUN and their contribution to Album Writing Club 2023

This is great from the start and get better - that skittering synth line on the bass and drums is inspired. Expert changes of pace and direction. Someone, somewhere is doing something in a speeded up montage to this.

Cool beat, catchy riffs, and great counterpoint between the main parts! I like how you explore the initial motif in dynamic ways using different instruments.

Really like the way the theme weaves through the instruments and changes of pace – nice

Lovely drop out and build up 🎶 dig the unexpected turns 😁🎶

We Are Dust

Hommage to Giacinto Scelsi & Terese Mörnvik

Myggornas Dans

I'm on the Upright Grand Piano for this one as Tim accompanies me on both his Fender Telecaster, and at times, his Taylor guitar.  
This one is full of the Winds of Autumn by the way, so let it sweep you up and take you away! 😁

Free flow Improvisation is what we love, even if it becomes a bit uneven at times.  And apparently many of you Listeners do as well.  
But we're making it up as we go along... so cut us a bit o slack, ok. 😉

We Thank you for all the lovely comments, Re-posts and General support, people. 🤗

And we promise, we'll try to make our recordings even more Listenable as we continue our 'conversations'.

But in the meantime...  May you enJoy!  😊

© Gary Courtland-Miles & Tim Elliot 2022
℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2022 Gary Courtland-Miles  & Tim Elliot 2022

Autumn's Flow * Anomon & Elliot

Like An Outsider

Air 2023 II

This piece is created from a variety of experiments with speech sounds. The piece refers to a beautiful, melancholic poem by Jorge Luis Borges entitled Descartes. But this is not a setting in the classical sense. Instead, I took a few lines of the English translation of this poem and put together the words as best I could from phonemes taken from language teaching videos of over 50 languages - spoken by women and men - letter by letter. This was the basic material and all the sounds of this piece are developed from it without exception. Of the poem itself, no words or fragments of words appear in the piece that might be intelligible. Everything is pure sound. The harmonic-melodic material of the piece is derived from the Liebestod of Wagner´s opera Tristan und Isolde. Although I am not a great fan of Richard Wagner, this is a touching piece of music whose grand, romantic gesture is (at least for me) nevertheless admittedly outdated in these disillusioned times. So it is a reminiscence that also plays with the idea of the multilingual recitation of Borge´s poem by women and men - maybe a strange love story across language barriers. The harmonic sequence of Wagner´s piece was mirrored on a twelve-tone row and the resulting material was then subjected to various other serial processes and microtonal pitch changes according to the pitches of the phonemes. In a few places, however, the original music has remained recognizable, appearing for moments like a shadow.

For the sonic transformations, I worked with spectral software, such as Steinberg's Spectral Layers and TS2 from Ircam labs. Later, granular software came into play, such as U&I's MetaSynth and accSone's Crusher X. I also converted individual phonemes and whole words into wavetables for further processing using the Waldorf Iridium.

Air 2023 II

promo single for REAL FUN and their contribution to Album Writing Club 2023

REAL FUN - MAY - 06 - REAL LIFE IN HIGH FIDELITY

The rhythms or the riddles of the universe. A quick synth session @ Via.

"Stoned Kraut Picnic"

Disquiet Junto Project 0607: Silence Wave
The Assignment: From close to zero and back again, alter the relative amount of sound to silence in a piece of music.

There’s just one step to this project:

Compose a piece of music in which the relative amount of sound to silence starts at zero (that is, no sound), rises to approximately 40 percent (that is, 60 percent silent) and returns to zero again. Keep the pace fairly steady.

Rhythmic Wave(disquiet0607)

Disquiet Junto Project 0624: Fresh Pair
The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be.

This piece of music is a fusion of two opposing philosophical influences: Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Kant motif is structured and simple, reflecting his emphasis on rationality and moral imperatives. It has a friendly tone consistent with Kant's belief in ethics. His motif also has a preachy element that is meant to remind us of Kant's belief in universal laws and also that his writings are frankly quite boring. In contrast, the Nietzsche motif is darker and wilder, reflecting his challenging and often provocative and mostly interesting ideas. The more chaotic (and randomnized) nature of his motif reflects Nietzsche's commitment to individual will and his rejection of social norms (or even his own ideas). However, they also had some things in common, such as a great interest in the emerging natural sciences or the fact that they struggled with the idea of a God. Ultimately, the Kantian theme prevails and has the last word, as Nietzsche is frowned upon for influencing the difficult to understand and often misunderstood "Ubermensch" idea, whereas today we (some of us) actually try harder to act according to Kant's theory of reason, even if a glance at the news teaches us that we as humankind simply don't succeed in doing so.

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This was fun, even to make the cover image with Dall-E 3, which in no way was able to make both philosophers really recognizable. The prompt: "A 19th-century style painting, more abstract than realistic, featuring a recognizable Immanuel Kant on the left and an older, recognizable Friedrich Nietzsche with a beard on the right, engaged in a passionate debate. Kant, shown in his middle years, is in 18th-century attire, exuding a calm and refined aura. Nietzsche, depicted in his later years with an iconic beard, is dressed in typical 19th-century clothing, with an intense and expressive demeanor. The setting is a music studio library, filled with books and modular synthesizers, blending a deep intellectual atmosphere with the spirit of modular synthesis."

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More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

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Kant - Vs - Nietzsche [disquiet0624]

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REAL FUN - MAY - 06 - REAL LIFE IN HIGH FIDELITY

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