it is beautiful as it is, but there are real voices like synths and synths producing vocals

Are the vocals real or syths. If they are they are a synth sound they sound so real, Awesome piece.

Soothing and atmospheric at the right point. Very well done.

Simply awesome piece 🤗 such depth n feel 🤗🔥👏👏

Art Expressed in Music

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Frida's Wings – The Skeletons
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Frida Kahlo, Four Inhabitants of Mexico (cropped).  Frida pictures herself at 4, with a Judas, a pre-Columbian symbol from Nayarit, and a skeleton.
Music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) who will be performing Frida's Wings, a ballet based on the life and works of Frida Kahlo, June 2024 in Colorado.
This piece will also be included in the upcoming “Art Expressed in Music” series.
Thanks to John-Marc Ventimiglia @john-marc-ventimiglia for creating the “rattling bones” sound library
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self portraits and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.  Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. She is also known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. In most of her self-portraits, she depicts her face as mask-like, but surrounded by visual cues which allow the viewer to decipher deeper meanings. Aztec mythology features heavily in Kahlo's paintings in symbols including skeletons and skulls.  In the painting, Dream of The Bed, painted in the year of 1940, Frida expressed her feeling and interception of death, which depicts a skeleton on the canopy of her bed (as she had in her real life). Her husband, Diego Rivera called the Juda, Frida's lover, but Frida said it's just an amusing reminder of people's mortality. Frida Kahlo spent much of her life in pain.  As As a teenager she suffered a horrific bus accident which left her unable to have children and meant she needed more than 30 operations on her spine. Eventually her withered leg had to be amputated and she died at 47. She said in her diary: “Feet, why do I need you, if I have wings to fly”

For guitar, accordion, trumpet, violin, double bass, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Frida's Wings - The Skeletons

Art Expressed in Music – Hokusai's Immortality
November 2023
Duration: 2:40
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Painting: The Inume Pass in Kai Province from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji 
Katsushika Hokusa.(1760 –1849), known simply as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave of Kanagawa,  In addition to his woodblock ukiyo-e prints, Hokusai worked in a variety of mediums including painting and book illustration. Starting as a young child, he continued working and improving his style until his death, at 88. In a long and successful career, Hokusai produced over 30,000 paintings, sketches, woodblock prints, and images for picture books in total. Innovative in his compositions and exceptional in his drawing technique, Hokusai is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of art.  At the age of seventy-five Hokusai defiantly referred to himself as ‘the old man mad about painting” as he railed against his mortality by declaring that he would live past 100 years and in so doing, achieve artistic immortality. “From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the forms of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish. Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.” Told by Gakyo Rojin Manji (Old Man Mad About Painting). 
For strings, shakuhachi, koto, english horn, bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone, cloud chamber bowls, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Hokusai's Immortality

Art Expressed in Music – Bruegel's Drollery
December 2023
Duration: 2:30
Listen to the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Wedding Dance
Drollery: something whimsically amusing or funny; an oddly amusing story or jest.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 – 1569) was one of the most significant Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painters known for his paintings and prints of landscapes and peasant scenes. He was one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the dominant subject matter of painting. Bruegel was free to express the feelings and emotions of the day and his insight into human life.  The Wedding Dance reflects a degree of ambiguity. It can both be seen as a commentary on the revelers’ oversexed behavior or as an entertaining and comical composition.  In the sixteenth century, dance was subject to a strict code and regarded by the authorities and church as a social evil. In polite society, people could not swing their arms or legs or laugh too loudly.  The painting expresses the rural liberation from the stricter limits on the urban classes and the times’ expected social standards.  All of Bruegel's paintings come from a period of little more than a decade before his early death, when he was probably in his early forties, and at the height of his powers. 
For violin, viola, clarinet, flute, english horn, heckelphone, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Bruegel's Drollery

Art Expressed in Music – Vincent's Imagination
December 2023
Duration: 2:50
Listen to the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: The Starry Night (cropped)
Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 – July 29, 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.  Only one of his paintings was known by name to have been sold during his lifetime.  In the aftermath of the December 23rd, 1888 breakdown that resulted in the self-mutilation of his left ear, Van Gogh voluntarily admitted himself to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole lunatic asylum on May 8th, 1889.  During the year Van Gogh stayed at the asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, the prolific output of paintings he had begun in Arles continued.  During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the “The Starry Night”.  Van Gogh had the subject of a blue night sky dotted with yellow stars in mind for many months before he painted the picture.  Some of the elements, such as the mountains in the distance and the existence of the village are true to the view van Gogh would have seen from his window; meanwhile, many other parts, such as the church, are imagined.  Van Gogh wrote to Theo: "It would be so simple and would account so much for the terrible things in life, which now amaze and wound us so, if life had yet another hemisphere, invisible it is true, but where one lands when one dies." "Hope is in the stars," he wrote, but he was quick to point out that "earth is a planet too, and consequently a star, or celestial orb." He stated flatly that “The Starry Night” was "not a return to the romantic or to religious ideas."  On July 27th, 1890, aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest.  The shooting may have taken place in the wheat field in which he had been painting, or in a local barn. 
For stings, piano, celeste, organ, bowed chamber bowls, tubular bells, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion

Art Expressed in Music - Vincent's Imagination

fire sale

Art Expressed in Music – Monet's Evanescence Feat. Oddrun Eikli, vocals 
December 2023
Duration: 3:40
Listen to the Playlist: https://soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Listen to Oddrun Eikli at: https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
Painting: Water Lillies, 1906
Evanescence: the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly, impermanence.
Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14th, 1840 – December 5th, 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to outdoor landscape painting.  In 1899, he began painting the water lilies that would occupy him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.  At his home in Giverny, Monet created the water-lily pond that served as inspiration for his water lilly paintings. Depictions of the water lilies, with alternating light and mirror-like reflections, became an integral part of his work.  By the mid-1910s Monet had achieved "a completely new, fluid, and somewhat audacious style of painting in which the water-lily pond became the point of departure for an almost abstract art.  He would ultimately make over 250 paintings of the Waterlilies.  In 1911, Monet began to develop the first signs of possible cataracts.  In the following years, his perception of color suffered; his broad strokes were broader and his paintings were increasingly darker.  He eventually underwent cataract surgery in 1923.  Now "able to see the real colors", he began to destroy canvases from his pre-operative period.  Upon receiving tinted Zeiss lenses, Monet was pleased with the results, although his left eye soon had to be entirely covered by a black lens. By 1925, his visual impairment was improved and he began to retouch some of his pre-operative works, with bluer water lilies than before.  Monet died of lung cancer on December 5th 1926 at the age of 86.  Although critical acclaim was slow in coming, Monet attracted the dedicated support of collectors throughout his career, most notably from Americans who discovered his work in the 1880s.  Monet's popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century, when his works traveled the world in museum exhibitions that attracted record-breaking crowds and marketed popular commercial items featuring imagery from his art. 
For bamboo flute, shakuhachi, bass quenacho, skiddaw stones, piano, harp, double bass, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed in Music - Monet's Evanescence Feat. Oddrun Eikli

Art Expressed in Music – Leonardo's Genius	
April 2024
Duration: 3:30
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer.  His “Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa” are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance.  His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. He is renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology,  hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics and zoology.  As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, and the use of concentrated solar power. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behavior.  As an artist, Leonardo considered his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge; to Leonardo, sight was man’s highest sense because it alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty.  He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish.  In Florence between 1500 and 1506, Leonardo began work on the “Mona Lisa”.  The “Mona Lisa” set the standard for all future portraits. The painting presents a woman revealed to likely have been Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocond.  The picture presents a half-body portrait of the subject, with a distant landscape visible as a backdrop; the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape has placed this work in the canon of the most-popular and most-analyzed paintings of all time. The sensuous curves of the woman’s hair and clothing, are echoed in the undulating valleys and rivers behind her. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter’s faint smile—reflects Leonardo’s idea of the link connecting humanity and nature, making this painting an enduring record of Leonardo’s vision and genius.  In 1517, a drawing by Giovanni Ambrogio Figino depicted an elderly Leonardo with his right arm wrapped in clothing. The latter, in addition to the record of an October 1517 visit by Louis d'Aragon, confirms an account of Leonardo's right hand being paralytic when he was 65, which may indicate why he left works such as the “Mona Lisa” unfinished.  He continued to work at some capacity until eventually becoming ill and bedridden for several months.  Leonardo only produced about 20 paintings in his lifetime. It is estimated that Leonardo produced between 20,000 to 28,000 pages of notes and sketches spanning across 50 different notebooks about work related to whatever topics that interested him – painting, engineering, philosophy, warfare, engineering, physiology, landscape, proportion, perspective, geography, and geology.... Unfortunately, Leonardo's interests were so broad, and he was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually left projects unfinished.  Leonardo died at Clos Lucé on 2 May 1519 at the age of 67, possibly of a stroke.   Leonardo was described as lamenting on his deathbed, full of repentance, that "he had offended against God and men by failing to practice his art as he should have done”. 
For virtual voices, piano, marimba, tubular bells, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - Leonardo's Genius

The remains of love cherish every  moment.

All That Remains

✨🇫🇷 Ce n'est pas facile d'écrire un texte sur un coin de table, pour rappeler à quel point la République Française mérite mieux qu'une politique basée sur la Haine et des boucs émissaires. Alors j'ai fait de mon mieux dans un laps de temps contraint, j'espère que vous apprécierez.🤟❤️
✨🇫🇷 It's not easy to write a text on the corner of a table, to remind us that the French Republic deserves better than a policy based on Hate and scapegoats. So I've done my best in a short space of time, and I hope you'll appreciate it.🤟❤️

Date de publication : 04 juillet 2024.
P-line : ℗ 2024 ✨6Carfeli6🤟 
Ce travail est sous licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0© 2 

[Verse 1]
Dans un monde où les cœurs se divisent,
Où la haine s’affiche en toute franchise,
Ou la peur domine comme un sortilège,
Les plus riches préservent leurs privilèges.
Stigmatisé, certains vivent la précarité,
On leur reproche de ne pas se bouger,
De rester affalé dans leur canapé,
Pendant que la majorité va travailler.

[Verse 2]
En ces temps difficiles, on se ressemble,
Face à l’adversité, on se rassemble.
On laisse entrer les lumières, pour ne pas être amer
Dans nos cœurs, on trouve de nouveaux repères.
En ces temps difficiles, Je ne vais pas vous mentir, 
Ce n’est pas si facile, il y a eu des déceptions
On a eu du mal à retrouver l’espoir et repartir,
Pour refonder notre grande nation.

[Chorus]
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle est en nous, dans notre identité,
L’interculturalité peut la préserver.
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle nous réunit en fraternité
D’un cœur commun face à l’adversité.

[Verse 3]
République, souvent je t’ai nommé,
Trop souvent, je me suis senti isolé,
Alors j’ai pleuré, dans l’indifférence
Et tu as perdu toute ma confiance.
Souvent, j’entends les chants de l’espoir
J’ai peur de vivre de nouveau déboire
Dis-moi, est-ce que tu m’entendras ?
Dis-moi, est-ce que tu me pardonneras ?

[Bridge]
On avance ensemble, dans la même direction,
Chaque pas qu'on fait est une révolution.
Dans la solidarité, on trouve notre liberté,
Main dans la main, vers plus d’altérité.

[Verse 4]
Né en France de parents étrangers,
J’ai grandi dans un quartier appelé Europe
Malgré tout j’ai été stigmatisé, victimisé,
Alors je me suis réfugié dans le Hip hop.
Adulte, je suis devenu un bon ouvrier,
J’ai toujours bossé, participé à la cité,
Je me suis libéré, j’ai même pardonné, 
Ceux qui ont tenté de me briser par le passé

[Chorus]
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle est en nous, dans notre identité,
L’interculturalité peut la préserver.
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle nous réunit en fraternité
D’un cœur commun face à l’adversité.

[Outro]
Alors travaillons ensemble, pour un monde meilleur,
Où les solidarités vaincront les peurs.
Ou l’équité sera notre âme-sœur,
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, sont nos valeurs !
Alors travaillons ensemble, pour un monde meilleur,
Où les solidarités vaincront les peurs.
Ou le respect sera notre âme-sœur,
Liberté, égalité, fraternité, sont nos valeurs !

[Chorus]
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle est en nous, dans notre identité,
L’interculturalité peut la préserver.
J’en appelle à la solidarité
Elle-seule est notre chant d'unité,
Elle nous réunit en fraternité
D’un cœur commun face à l’adversité.

Solidarités

Astrarium

Rhizomorph

Jumping Fish Competition

Unboxed August 2024

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A View From Here

I just bought simple keyboard Yamaha PSS-A50 and testing it.  Aside guitar other instruments are from keyboard.

Popol I.

free album

when everything get quiet

Far Out Among The Stars * Instrumental

This is Charnia.
Charnia is the oldest extinct  organism known to man.
We still dont know if it was a plant or animal.
What we do know is that it lived alone in the bottom of the ocean in freezing temperatures and total darkness.
Charnia died .... without ever feeling the warmth of the sun.
Art work idea by me,done by SamBuddz.

Charnia

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Bruce Klepper is a Colorado based composer with thousands of listeners worldwide. Klepper studied music composition in the 1970's and received a degree in music composition and theory.  After writing music for many years and starting a tech company based in Colorado, Klepper retired in 2014 from business so he could devote myself to his true passion, composing music. Klepper's music premiered in Carnegie Hall, September 2022.  Klepper writes music in a number of different styles, including contemporary classical music, jazz, soundscapes using field recordings, ambient music, and ballet music.  Klepper has been composing music for Danse Etoile Ballet (www.danseetoile.org) since 2016. Klepper has been collaborating with Parlando School of Musical Arts (www.parlando.org) faculty Britta De Groot and Sergei Govorov for over a year now, composing and arranging new music for the dynamic piano and saxophone duo to premier around the United States. Klepper's music can be heard on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and SoundCloud. 

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Art Expressed In Music - Leonardo's Genius

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