"Beginnings" is my own self made album comprising a selection of music tracks that I've written and produced over the years, they serve as the starting point of my interest in electronic music composition. Each track has been carefully edited and remastered before being compiled into an album format.

All music and artwork is copyright © 2021 Nigel Weeks

Beginnings

Forewarning

Aletfulfa

tertiary vector calibration before descent

bouncing down backwards

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Wagner, this is a touching piece of music whose grand, romantic gesture is (at least for me) nevertheless admittedly outdated in these disillusioned times.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

These Hands

Nematology

Miami

Neon Jungle

🙉Neon Jungle ft. Kora(Beta)🙉

Music : Deepman
Words and voice : Luciole Langevine

Il était une fois, une très jolie planète fourmillante de rêves, de couleurs, de musiques et de vie.
Des singes, savants ou pas, en savouraient les fruits plein de pulpes suaves, et célébraient ensemble le bonheur d'y danser.

Mais les temps changent. 
Désormais, le doux soleil qui si longtemps l'avait baigné de vie dardait ses rayons brûlants comme divins châtiments. 

Il était une fois un Brouillard insidieux qui se répandit sur la planète des singes. 
Lentement, le Brouillard avançait sans bruit, vapeurs de haine et d'avidité abjectes
Et sous sa lourde nappe, le Brouillard implacable distillait sa grisaille et glaçait un à un le cœur des habitants, inexorablement.

Le monde entier n'en finissait pas de pleurer.

Comment faire pour couper le brouillard au couteau ?
Comment ouvrir les yeux aux cohortes d'aveugles ?

frenglish translation:

Once upon a time, there was a very pretty planet teeming with dreams, colors, music and life.
Monkeys, learned or not, savored the fruit full of sweet pulp, and celebrated together the happiness of dancing there.

But times are changing.
Now the gentle sun that had so long bathed her in life darted its burning rays like divine chastisements.

Once upon a time, an insidious Fog spread across the Planet of the Apes.
Slowly the Fog moved noiselessly, vapors of abject hate and greed
And under its heavy blanket, the Implacable Fog distilled its grayness and froze the hearts of the inhabitants, one by one, inexorably.

The whole world couldn't stop crying.

How do I cut the fog with a knife?
How to open eyes to blind cohorts?

Il était une fois - deepman & Luciole Langevine

songs used:
    
   HOBOCOP - TheReign (Instrumental)
       https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords/thereign
   HOBOCOP soundcloud:
       https://soundcloud.com/metrocityrecords

    Illos - J'espère
        https://soundcloud.com/illos/jespere
    Illos soundcloud:
        https://soundcloud.com/illos
    Illos youtube:
        https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUVZZ3mOHuKqJa4P0dZIH4Q
    Illos deezer:
        https://www.deezer.com/en/album/467397065?utm_campaign=clipboard-generic&utm_source=user_sharing&utm_content=album-467397065&deferredFl=1



I hope

Sitting naked on my bed
I sail like every night
on the 3D screen of my Sony-mega-virtual headset
I can't help it
I don't want to stop myself
I hope

I discover the metaverse
I recreate the universe
I beat down the immense walls of my own prison
An alternative world
Totally immersive
I hope

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency transfer
With NFTs you will really have fun
Don't worry about the intricacies of block chain
So shut up

My avatar is too classy
Dressed like a star
Like a Web 3 influencer stuffed with tokens
I love virtual art
The parallel market
I hope

When morning comes
Everything seems bland and vain
No more emotion of envy or love in life
I'm suspicious, I'm plotting
sometimes I take drugs
I hope

I discover the metaverse
I recreate the universe
I beat down the immense walls of my own prison
An alternative world
Totally immersive
I hope

Bitcoin and crypto currency transfer
With NFTs you will really have fun
Don't worry about the intricacies of block chain
So shut up

HOBOCOP & Illos with Julia - TheReign Jespère (dj baubau remix)

Legend’s Cataclysm

My meager attempts to combat leaf blowers, motorcycles, and circling airplanes.

Music For Cars

bouncing down backwards

sliding down stairs