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Another great complex and engaging piece from you! Nice dark feel to this one.

Somatic is my new track, set to officially release on March 2nd, but available now on Youtube. 

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As a consumer, I never really thought about what I could do to support the artists that I liked. Since I’ve started creating and distributing my music, I’ve gained a lot of appreciation for those little things I can do to help other artists. Especially during a pandemic. Things like:

Pre-saving: These links are a huge help. The more people pre-save a song before it’s release, the higher the chance that Spotify will place it on it’s main playlists, which means a lot of people will stream it. This is definitely a home run for the artist. 

Subscribing to Youtube Channel: Youtube won’t pay a content creator until they reach a minimum amount of subscribers and hours streamed. Subscribing helps your favourite artists get closer to their goal, and to start making a bit of money off Youtube. It also helps you keep track of their new content. 

Following on Social Media: For obvious reasons... the bigger the following, the more “reach” their exposure will have. 

Sharing Posts: This is probably what helps the artist the most in growing their social media, but also getting their music known. Hey, you could be the one that sent them a “gem” that you found before it became really popular!


All of this is free for you and takes virtually no time at all, and it’ll mean a great deal. For anyone willing to do any of the above for me, I sincerely appreciate it. 


Now! Let’s talk about the track...


Somatic. This one is a reflection of where I am in my music creation process. While I’ve been a musician (not professionally) since I was 6 years-old, I’ve only started producing electronic music since 2020. When I first started, and got the hang of it, it was amazing (it still is, but it was even more-so at first). Think of it like this: Imagine you’re in a really good mood, there’s nobody else around, a good tune is playing, you start singing as loud as you can. You know all of the words, you know how the song goes, so you’re belting it out. Now imagine that instead of your voice that comes out when you sing, it’s actually dozens of voices. That’s the feeling you get when you go from creating music on a single instrument, to doing it electronically. 

Problem is, I was all over the place. Not only could I use any number of instruments, but I could create music of so many different genres. The ones I wanted to focus on the most were Old School House, Progressive House, Deep House, Techno, Trance, and combinations of some of those. The production and the sound is very different between genres. Think about a song from Martin Garrix and then a song from Kygo. They’re both electronic music, but very different genres.  As I was coming up with all of these awesome chords, melodies and sounds, I went a bit too far, and added a few too many layers to some of my tracks. So this time, I practiced some restraint. The thing that I learned and that I appreciate the most about this track is that by simplifying it, the elements come out clearer, and better. I hope you enjoy it!

P.S. Thanks for reading this, I had no idea I would go on this long...

Somatic by Valix

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Honoured to announce that my track “Loose Up Yourself” will be release on @r-srecords as part of the RV Trax Vol.5 
Pre-order here https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/loose-up-yourself
Release date 22nd of May!
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Loose Up Yourself

Dacanal - Loose Up Yourself [RSRV05]

New track, finished this ages thought I might as well put it up!

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Thursday
for Soprano and Piano
Duration: 12’
Text by Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds
Performers: American Modern Ensemble; Nancy Allen Lundy, Soprano, Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=889
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/thursday.fs.all.bound
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/thursday

PROGRAM NOTES
The text for Thursday was conceived and written by two close friends, Bridget Meeds and Kenny Berkowitz, both excellent writers who possess an acute and often exquisitely wry sense of humor. Each movement attempts to paint a literary picture of the central character by introducing various people who are related to her. The work has six short movements, each one representing a different character.

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Wind Quintet
Duration: 18'
Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas; Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_137&products_id=909

PROGRAM NOTES
All of the movements of this wind quintet are connected and inspired in some way by American icons, surrealism, collage, post-1950s imagery and suburbia.

The first movement, Andante, begins with the ending and ends at the beginning. Some instruments mimic others and just when you think an idea might go in one direction, it goes in another. I gleaned many of my ideas from studying cinematic character development and the unusual forms used in many modern films such as the 1994 film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino.

The second movement, Suburban waltz-fantasy, contains quotes from 1960s-70s TV show themes: The Jetsons, All in the Family, Green Acres, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch and Leave It To Beaver. The movement begins with a waltz-like feel and two of the players mimicking “suburban chicken lady housewives cackle-gossiping across a backyard fence.” An obnoxious stray dog interjects with loud barking and then the movement takes off in a different direction. Some of the quotes are re-composed to sound like bird songs, others are textural and a few are so subtle that they are not easy to discern. Some of the parts even sound like they are mocking each other. This movement is a strange, surrealist collage.

The most immediate and obvious reference in the title of the third movement, Melting Clocks, is to Salvador Dali’s famous 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory in which there are images of melting or limp watches. I imagine a room full of clocks all ticking away, yet slightly inaccurately, the “baby clocks” a little faster than the “old grandfather clocks.” The middle section contains a few brief quotes form the first movement, and the “slightly melted” end of the movement brings back the cuckoo, but this time it melts as if it is in a house consumed by fire.

The fourth movement, Klezmeshugeh, derives its title from my combining the words ‘klezmer’—which is a combination of the two Hebrew words, kley and zemer, meaning ‘instrument of song’—and meshugeh, which is a Yiddish word meaning ‘crazy’. Essentially, this made-up title means “crazy instrument song.” In this movement, there are a few “wrong notes” that allude to the players pretending to sight-read. The end also concludes with a few thematic fragments from the second movement.

Wind Quintet was commissioned by Quintet of the Americas and underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

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