When we created this track it was pre-COVID and since then, things have only gotten worse.  Ecocide is a crime and needs to officially recognized as such.

Predatory Capitalism

This is a collaboration between between Dacé Whiteley and myself, it all started a couple of weeks back, I had gone for a riverbank walk with a good friend and when we got to his place, he introduced me to a Lady.  That Lady happened to be  Dacé Whiteley and we had great conversations around common interests; many of them, one of which was music, hence this track.  Stick around to the end, which is different.  This is  Dacés Soundcloud page...https://soundcloud.com/dace-whiteley

Tomorrow's Ego

There is such a widely spreading realization that our so-called leaders have made a complete mess of our biosphere and are either too greedy to stop, incompetent, evil or perhaps all 3!

What Have We Done?

Venice is in peril from sinking buildings and rising sea-levels and this is Alexandra Bwye's reflection on this from 12 years ago.

Il Verdetto

This is a re-telling of recent events, in Eugene Oregon.  It also forms the formal start of campaigns here to build up our resilience by forming circular living practices which aim to bring back the power of, The Village.

Eugene The Village

Cities make little sense to me.  More information here as to how they came about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure#The_end_of_the_Open_Field_system

Cities?!#

Real world value has been terribly distorted, in my opinion.  Most value is assigned to things which have no direct life-saving properties, in my opinion.  Stocks, shares, precious metals, etc.  In my world, seeds have the highest value and that is why I save them.

Here we have Dan Kittredge speaking to this, from his incredible series which can be found here... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im42xjLEk3A

Save_Seeds

This track contains a short excerpt from an incredible interview between Preston Pysh and Jason Lowry which we share a link to below.  That interview discusses "Proof-of-Work" which is used in the Bitcoin system.  There has been, sadly, successful propaganda circulated trashing #Bitcoin's power usage.  In reality, traditional finance systems use over 50-times more energy.

This is the interview and it is well worth listening to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikPnr23h7qg

Bitcoin - Proof Of Work Rocks!

This track came to me late one night and I was reflecting on the beauty of Ireland, its verdant landscapes which must surely be good for food growing and yet which suffered appalling famine and it was not just a potato blight but greed and avarice by those already rich.  There are two sound bites featuring different times in history.

Skiberdeen

A logical comparison between Proof of Stake and Proof of Work in Blockchain technologies.

POS vs POW In Blockchain-DLT Projects

Thoughts & Questions From The Mind Of A Cherished Child(ren)

Since mid-2022, we have been creating a sc-fi short story about #AI, #AGI.  This track uses a vocal spoken word from an incredible podcast on the philosophy of #AI and the likely-hood of its evolution.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuPKEsDQjhk&

Certainly we will all find out; eventually.

AI Alignment Philosophies & Theories

Sadly, so many feel compelled with the lives of others, this is particularly true in hierarchies, however, I have also seen it in relationships.  Persuasion is pernicious and completely disrespectful.

Anam Cara Soils

Around the controversy of creation.  I personally only believe the Universe.

Creation

This was composed by Alexandra,  the Janjaweed are killers of human beings emanating from Darfur.  This piece serves to emulate the meaningless fear they brought to innocent people for no reason other than savagery.

Janjaweed

This came to me early one morning in February 2010, it is an Ambient-Soundscape-Downtempo piece and I have often yearned to talk to non-human beings.  I often talk to plants and speculate on the thoughts of talking to spirits and aliens.

Conversations with ghosts

In March 1968 there was a diabolical incident in the Vietnam War where US soldiers went into a Vietnamese and slaughtered men, women, children and babies, they also gang-raped women and girls.  Alexandra composed this as a dedication to those who suffered.

My lai massacre

This was released on March 16, 2021 and is an essay by Sam Altman the figurehead of Open-AI.  It is both a speculation and a presentation as to how we might deal with the effects of artificial intelligence #AI both at societal, political and financial levels.

In Sam Altman's own words "Thanks to Steven Adler, Daniela Amodei, Adam Baybutt, Chris Beiser, Jack Clark, Ryan Cohen, Tyler Cowen, Matt Danzeisen, Steve Dowling, Tad Friend, Lachy Groom, Chris Hallacy, Reid Hoffman, Ingmar Kanitscheider, Oleg Klimov, Matt Knight, Aris Konstantinidis, Andrew Kortina, Matt Krisiloff, Scott Krisiloff, John Luttig, Erik Madsen, Preston McAfee, Luke Miles, Arvind Neelakantan, David Oates, Cullen O’Keefe, Alethea Power, Raul Puri, Ilya Sutskever, Luke Walsh, Caleb Watney, and Wojchiech Zaremba for reviewing drafts of this, and to Gregory Koberger for designing it."

Moores Law For Everything - Sam Altman

These are among the most beautiful words I have read on the subject of death.  They came from this lady https://sacreddeathcare.com/about/sarah/

Death Grace

As the title says "Reflections In A Garden".  Life reflections surrounded by food.

Reflections In A Garden

Tempest Yearning is a track evolved from a moment when Alexandra's path in life was particularly fluid following a difficult few years after the passing of her father and little understanding of where her life was going. She was figuring out how to still flow rather than be still and stagnant, but in a certain direction, rather than in any which way. Not a panicker generally speaking, she felt very alone for many months and spoke little of her feelings to anyone aside from her closest soulmates.

This track encompasses the energy she felt very often, practicing yoga and attempting meditation in her efforts to reach deeper within herself for answers, and often struggling to do so. Tempest signifies the significant storm blowing within, and Yearning of her intense desire to feel truly human in the most consistent, strongest, most joyful and passionate sense of the word. Simply listening to the feeling in this music may help bring you that urgent desire that she felt deeply at the time.

Tempest Yearning

Slowly but surely we are learning how brittle traditional finance systems are and investing there is not advised.  Invest in yourself instead.

Ill Fated Investing

What I wanted to emphasize here is the complete idiocy of our consumerist society, look at these numbers. "According to the latest data from Statista1, global advertising spending in 2022 is projected to reach approximately 781 billion U.S. dollars." That is $781,000,000,000.00.  As we consume we are destroying our biosphere.   COP(out)28 is a classic example of this.

CopOut

Back in 2011 I moved to Waiheke Island, New Zealand and set up a small recording studio there.  To me, Waiheke is like nowhere else on Earth, I felt completely immersed and enveloped in all around me.  

This is one track from an album I recorded there.

Dome of Light - 5

We created this to accompany meditation and yoga, it lasts for just under 1 hour.

Osmosis - II

This track features Alan Watts with some wise words for our times.

Inner Space 2

Earth; Endangered

This US Government animation of what is being called The Blob in the Pacific Ocean, is a large area of water where the temperature is as much as 3 degrees C above normal. Interestingly enough there is a similar yet smaller event in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Blob

Jim Morrison talking about the possible future of music back in 1969.

The Doors Of Intuition

The loosely defined term 'supervolcano' has been used to describe volcanic fields that produce exceptionally large volcanic eruptions. Thus defined, the Yellowstone Supervolcano is the volcanic field which produced the latest three supereruptions from the Yellowstone hotspot; it also produced one additional smaller eruption, thereby creating West Thumb Lake 174,000 years ago. The three super eruptions occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera

Yellowstone Super Volcano

It is good to know the roots of an infamous war, one where inferior forces defeated two nations with formidable power, France and the US.  This is how it all developed.

French Indo China (Vietnam)

Co-Opera's music follows three main avenues; Guided Meditation; Protest/Information; Soundscapes.  Almost all of them are created using Propellerhead Reason with added audio and voice.  We hope you enjoy it.

Co-Opera

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