cool techno track 😎 interesting sound design

In memoriam, the bombing of Guernica, Spain, April 26, 1937. A lamentation in music.

And in 2024, for the injured, displaced, and departed around the world as invading forces of tyranny rain down death and destruction upon innocent people.

I literally cried as I updated my old composition about the bombing of Guernica. 

Originally composed in GarageBand, I finished the first version of this song on April 26, 2013, not consciously aware that the date was the anniversary of the atrocity committed by fascists against civilians during the Spanish Civil War. I had had ambitions to create an animated short about its history and Picasso’s famous painting when I could afford the technology. So my first step was to use available resources and create the music, which I did 11 years ago. I have yet to produce the animation. Maybe someday. The cover art gives you an idea as to how I envisioned the graphics for the animated short.

This Guernica composition is my first attempt at composing neoclassical music. As a girl I would sing and hum made-up symphonies as I conducted an imaginary orchestra. I’ve got hundreds of improvised concertos, sonatas, fugues, and arias deep in my memory banks that sometimes creep into my contemporaneous music.

This week, as the anniversary of Guernica approached, I imported my old music file into my current DAW and refreshed it, adding French horn, the first instrument I played as a young student. I also added audio of propeller planes recorded live in March and April 2024. And I pushed the previous violin and cello parts to the limit, so if you hear a screeching violin or a groaning cello, it’s intentional; war gives millions of reasons to scream and wail. The composition’s 8-chord structure is repeated as if to state the obvious — we, humans, have yet to contain our violence individually and collectively. We witness and experience the horror of mass murder and war around the globe. Every. Damn. Day.

I realize my song probably isn’t going to be a favorite for listeners, not my usual chill music. But I’m also a firm believer in the idea that sunlight is the best disinfectant. With this music about Guernica and the history of 1937, I am reminded how far we’ve come, and yet, how little we’ve changed. But change we must, and I believe humanity will change for the better. The question is when.

Guernica

D.T.3 -Whutt Up Doe

Techno Steam Locomotive Ride

we're going to rebuild you from the ground up 
you won’t be so impressive you won’t be so tough
we're going to rebuild you from the ground up  
you won’t be so aggressive you won’t be so rough

first comes the ladder then comes the fall
we’ll keep banging our heads on the wall 

the way you treat your mother
the way you treat your father
the way you treat your sister 
the way you treat your brother
the way you treat your lovers
the way you treat your neighbour
is getting me down 

we're going to rebuild you from the ground up 
you won’t be so impressive you won’t be so tough
were going to rebuild you from the ground up  
you won’t be so aggressive you won’t be so rough

the way you treat your mother
the way you treat your father
the way you treat your sister 
the way you treat your brother
the way you treat your lovers
the way you treat your neighbour
is getting me down 

were going to rebuild you from the ground up  
you won’t be so aggressive you won’t be so rough

first comes the ladder then comes the fall
we’ll keep banging our heads on the wall 

after we rebuild you will you come back improved?
will you treat your lovers like they treat you?

or will you lead you life to hurt and offend?
will you show contempt for your family and friends?

will you bite the hand that reaches to help 
you know you need rebuilding can you do it yourself

will you keep climbing to the top of that heap?
a whole new you just out of your reach

Total Rebuild

Photo: Scout in a potato bag
After nearly losing one of my new kittens, Scout, to the deadly parasite Toxoplasma gondii (Toxoplasmosis), which caused some horrifying neurological symptoms, including body twitches, I decided to express my feelings about the experience in song using my new DAW. The song is upbeat because she recovered, and is now parasite free! 
Please feel free to download and add to it, if you are inspired.  
Kitty vocals by Pixabay
 :) Nadia

Toxoplasmosis (Instrumental) FREE DOWNLOAD by Nadia Selvaggi

My Last Cold Breath

Ready For My Walk About

takechee

Temptation

Syzygy

Marble Fox

Berlin-based Caedite Eos presents its new various artists EP 'Neque Deditionem', featuring music from Hurtado, Neurite, TKNS, and the label boss SlugoS. 

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100% dedicated to music.  This account is mainly for Techno and EDM .  I will post and repost other types of music which I also like, especially Dark Ambient  at times, but not so freqently. 

Some of my favorite artists apart from many on SoundCloud  are Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus, Bach, Beethoven, Surgeon and Sara Landry and Charlotte de Witte.  

Discovering every day that there is so much interesting music around the world.  Have learned a lot from DJs on SoundCloud.  They concentrate on making people dance.  Techno for me is starting to become like “Zen”.  I am beginning to realize the beauty in shedding a lot of this and that to reach a single point.  Some might call it the “centre”.

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