Except the drums, "Friktions" was entirely produced with Reason Studios "Friktion".

What a magnificent beast!

https://www.reasonstudios.com/blog/friktion-friday

Friktions

Experimental track produced in "Reason 9" with LECTRIC PANDA's "Nostromo" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-uSis8xSc) and "PSQ 1684" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mi-zWiiFPQ)

Experiments with PSQ 1684 - Track # 005

On June 27, 1982, a year after Reagan entered the White House, Ronald Reagan made one of his most famous alien remarks when he hosted Steven Spielberg in the White House. Spielberg was at the White House to present a private screening of his soon to be released movie called  "ET: The Extraterrestrial." The movie dealt with a young extraterrestrial who becomes stranded on earth and struggles to return, while U.S. government agents try to capture him.

Movies were a big part of Reagan’s life before he became President, and he spent a lot of time while President watching movies either in the White House theater, or on the weekends at Camp David. White House records list 377 movies that Ron and Nancy Reagan had been shown. These included most of the Star Trek movies, and most of Steven Spielberg movies. In fact, two days before Spielberg arrived in Washington for the special screening of "E.T." The Reagans watched Spielberg’s fictional ghost movie "Poltergeist."

Along with the Reagans and Spielberg, 35 people were invited to the special screening. Included in the list of distinguished guests was Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The event started with a reception in the Blue Room where the Reagans met with the invited guests. From there the group moved to the Red Room where the Presidential party had dinner. At 8:22 p.m., in the White House Theater the movie E.T. began.

The movie was one that moved the Reagans. "Nancy Reagan was crying towards the end, Spielberg recalled, "and the President looked like a ten-year-old-kid."

Following the screening the President leaned over, clapped Spielberg on the shoulder, and quietly commented, "You know, there aren’t six people in this room who know how true this really is." Unfortunately, the sudden press of people approaching Spielberg and the President, prevented Spielberg from pursuing the strange comment made by Reagan.

Spielberg stated that he had written the E.T. story as fiction based upon facts drawn from various UFO stories that had been told over the years. He must have been very shocked to hear from the President that it was all very true. (http://presidentialufo.com/old_site/reagan_spielberg.htm)

You Know, There Aren’t Six People In This Room Who Know How True This Really Is

Sometimes you just fail. And then, there are those days where you so royally screw up everything in a way, that can only be described with "perfection".

An epic fail.

How To Fail Epic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnGo6Qm0Wt8

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist."

The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity

Synchronicity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Tranquillitatis

The silence up there must be majestic.

Mare Tranquillitatis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1fMvLbE85E

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

(source: http://www.charliechaplin.com/en/synopsis/articles/29-The-Great-Dictator-s-Speech)

Video of Charlie Chaplin's speech:

The Art Of Keeping A Smile Under The Most Adverse Circumstances (Do not despair!)

Cannot remember, where in the internet I found this poem. But it stuck with me. The sea is a mystery. And the waves, they don't care...

"The Waves, They Don't Care (they Were Born Out At Sea, And They Live To Crash)"

"Spiritbox" was my contribution to the "Tribute Wavetable Synthesizer Song Challenge" hosted by reasontalk(Link: https://forum.reasontalk.com/index.php)

Except the claps and the kick, all sounds were produced with the "Tribute Wavetable Synthesizer".

During the production of this piece of music, no ghosts were harmed.

(Spirit box - Definition: A Spirit box or Ghost box is a paranormal research device. It uses a radio with a frequency scan mode meant to detect EVPs and communicate with spirits.

A spirit box is a device that rapidly sweeps the frequency channels of radio stations creating a white noise effect. This is said to allow spirits to use the energy to manipulate it to form words and phrases. Clear sounds, that sometimes are heard as intelligent respones, can be caught while the device scans a multitude of radio stations. It is thought, the faster the sweep, the clearer the information. 

Source: https://www.sinistercoffeeandcreamery.com/blog/spiritbox)

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