all the tracks I made - or which I have been involved in - this year

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big thanks and hugs to the friends and colleagues who helped me to keep the music flowing

(2024) all the works

Fave listenings of this month 
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In the pic: Somei Satoh

“musica assoluta” (luglio 2024)

the pieces I made - or which I have been involved in - this month

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hugs and thanks to the friends and colleagues who helped me to keep the music flowing

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luglio 2024

(2024) July works

Marco Lucchi : synthesizer, piano and tape
Henrik Meierkord : cello and viola

found sounds:
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/709287/

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5 gennaio 2024
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"I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark
Near the Tannhäuser Gates.
All those... moments... will be lost in time,
Like tears... in... rain.
Time... to die..."

Rutger Hauer

Like tears in rain [Lied ohne Worte] w/Henrik Meierkord

Diogo Lopes : electronics
Marco Lucchi : synthesizers

gennaio 2024

Diogo Lopes & Marco Lucchi - Drowning

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers

for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2024/01/11/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers/

15 gennaio 2024

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Separation is the stage where we make our thoughts and emotions more defined by practicing introspection, self-awareness, and self-analysis.

A simple example of this process is understanding the difference between our anger and our grief or the conflicting desire to isolate ourselves but also connect with other people.

The process of separation involves truly becoming aware of our authentic feelings towards others and ourselves. In this stage, we choose to experience our anger, frustration, or disappointment towards another or ourselves, rather than reverting back to the old habit of dutifully trying to “forgive and forget” because it is the “right” or comfortable thing to do (or, on the other hand, to react and hold a grudge).

Separation is closely entwined with shadow work in that we must allow all feelings and thoughts within us to surface side by side and become aware of our “darker side.” This practice helps us to isolate particular elements of our character to honestly see and assess them, then to eventually consciously embrace and transform them."

https://lonerwolf.com/spiritual-alchemy/

The 3rd Stage [disquiet # 0628] 447 hz

The 3rd Stage [disquiet # 0628] 447 hz Lucchi/Meierkord

Delay Impro I

Here is the text used here. The idea of the DIALOGUE CIRCLE is to listen to listening, to be mindful of thought’s tendency to identify with likes and dislikes, etc., and especially in good faith help one another by looking for contradictions. It’s a practice. Just like flute or violin. We have to work at, alone and together, every day.

Please forgive my own poor, always-almost-out-of-breath, performance. I deliberately composed the text in two very very long complex sentences, with more phrases than I can count on the fingers of one hand. I’ll post another take ASAP… LOL!

THE NEW MUSIC DIALOGUE CIRCLE:—tuning up our thinking in the daily practice of philosophy

Be simple.  A primary cause of the spiritual poverty of Western Musical Culture is not just the objectification of music and musicians, the result of more than 100 years of a vicious, all-pervasive predatory capitalism, or our tendency to force sound itself beyond its natural limits, the result of the now ubiquitous excessive use of electronic amplification, or to over-emphasize the athletic dimension of music by focusing obsessively on competition and awards, but it is also our tendency to instrumentalize music itself—that means to misuse and abuse it—for mere self-centered gain. 

For example, getting excited about what we are told are  “beautiful, talented, young female conductors” I fear mistakes obviously essential yet still mere outward gender emancipation for the primary problem of what are conductors good for in the first place? Like Generals “leading” their troops, I would argue that conductors are not only generally worse than useless, but essentially artifacts of an outmoded, highly misguided, deeply dualistic and divided culture that is still tacitly held captive by its own self-generated ensemble of illusions, illusions based largely on power, force, mechanical hierarchy, and control. Remarkably, these are the very same self-destructive desires and fragmentations the Muse and Music are there to help us heal and transcend in the first place. Think of that!

IMAGE: Leaf venation patternation, six levels of nested hierachy.

THE NEW MUSIC DIALOGUE CIRCLE, tuning up musical thinking…

Improvisation III of and by Franck Douvin
Composed on March 2020 and Perhaps my most accomplished piece so far for solo flute…
My playing & recording on Monday, July 1, 2024
Franck Douvin © 2024 Contemporary chamber music
Thanks for listening & sharing
I hope you'll enjoy !

Improvisation III of and by Franck Douvin

Step 1: Choose a favorite short story.

Step 2: Compose a piece of music that follows the arc of the story’s narrative or otherwise conveys something about the story you want to express. You may closely follow plot points, or convey an overall atmosphere, or incorporate related sound effects, or do something else entirely.


Giovanni Boccaccio - Decameron
Giornata quarta - Novella prima

Tancredi, prenze di Salerno, uccide l’amante della figliuola e mandale il cuore in una coppa d’oro; la quale, messa sopra esso acqua avvelenata, quella si bee, e cosí muore.

E velati gli occhi ed ogni senso perduto, di questa dolente vita si dipartí.

Reaktor`s Ensembles:
mfFX  Metaphysical Function's effects bank
K-Teck Slicer 0.52: Step sequenced grainy slicer  etc......

01062024

E Velati Gli Occhi(disquiet0652)

Marco Lucchi : organ and synthesizers
Jacques Lemaire : synthesizers

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luglio 2024

Marco Lucchi & Jacques Lemaire - Impromptu in D [variation]

Marco Lucchi : organ and ring modulator

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for the current Naviar Haiku challenge
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku548-the-sound-of-silence/

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The sound of silence
is all the instruction
you’ll get

 Jack Kerouac

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9 luglio 2024

The Sound of Jack [Naviar Haiku # 548]

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tape

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found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/710537/

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10 luglio 2024

L'homme armé

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

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luglio 2024

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Impromptu In D

This compilation is an ethereal blend of ambient tracks inspired by the mystical allure of gems, minerals, and ancient stones.

Cover picture by Dionis Afonichev with AI
Cover design by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Gems and Minerals

Opal

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers, glockenspiel and tape

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for the current Disquiet Junto challenge
https://disquiet.com/2024/07/18/disquiet-junto-project-0655-soothing-sounds-ii/

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23 luglio 2024

Fados 1988-2008 [Webbed Hand wh105]

[1988] lullaby 1977 [disquiet # 0655]

Experimental ambient music label.

Surreal music for a deep listening experience.

Opal

Chitra Records