Nothing a true lover yearns more than The Beloved and non-being
Bemoans 
You and no I

You And No I

Haven't you heard! Mirror fallen in love with his own reflection!

Production Notes:

I call this style Pareh-Pareh, Farsi for (torn) piece by piece, the idea is to stitch together pieces different in styles and arrangements and yet in composer's butchered heart they are manifestation of a singleton love.

Hasten attempts to stitch pieces by the thread and needle of sorrows and regrets, yet all the composer endeavours ... some noises.

Cover Photo by Fares Hamouche

https://www.vfrhub.com/article/re-experiencing-symptom-self-monitoring-as-an-early-step-in-the-treatment-of-posttraumatic-stress-disorder/fares-hamouche-dv7rtvn_c6q-unsplash/#

Derivative Image Processing by Dara.

Mirror In Love With Reflection

About 10 years back, I needed repeatedly to listen to Art of Fugue (AOF) and problem became patent that Classical Chamber performances were acoustically too mangled to listen to different passages/voices independently. 

Listened to organ performances, though much better left much more to desire. 

So I took a small piece and rearranged the instruments to be able to listen more attentively, in order to learn the art of Fugue composition. 

And as I always I had to throw in kitchen sink full of synthesizers and rock drums and basses and yes Indian Tabla!

Dara Shayda's Album

Listening Etude: Contrapunctus 1, Art of Fugue, JS Bach

Darwishaan is the plural in Farsi for Darwish or Pauper:

http://www.untiredwithloving.org/araqi_lesson_20_pauper.html

Production Note:
Same as:
https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/beloved-midst-the-carbon  

Melodyne output was in polyphonic:
files.lossofgenerality.com/icy_dunes_poly_QT_PC.mid 

Darwishaan Sob in Polyphonic

A Brief History of Saad 
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/saad.html 

 
Carnal nature of our mammalian birth causes irreparable amnesia. Saad 
is the phoneme of the language of the Arab, representing the frequency 
ranges for clanging sounds of the unbaked pottery, indeed a Harf 
(Divine Alphabet) immixed with the human genesis, inexorably linked to 
his being to serve as an acoustic reverberation, echos from infinite 
past, reflecting off the Harf Ka as in Rabbi-Ka, a mirror like 
acoustic memory system. 

The Prophet has passed on, his family has been killed and dispersed, 
weird violent men and women propagating odious ideologies under the 
name of Islam and its spiritual core of Sufism. The Arab has lost all 
sense of their language, barbers and tailors are made the gatekeepers 
of Eden.
 
In such time an 'Abd (Servant) finds no sanctuary but within the 
phonemes of the language of the Dhikr, for him there is no where else 
to seek certitude, for him the hum of Saad is everywhere guiding him 
to his grave, to reach the final and absolute form of certitude: The 
all encompassing cessation. 

A Brief History of Saad

New Algorithmic Improv:

Wolfram Mathematica code:
https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/ccn2/Published/knn_partition_similarity_air.nb

Knn Bach Air Euc 5 40

Knn Bach Air Euc 2 5

Knn Bach Air Cos 2 20

Knn Bach Air Canberra 2 40

For discussions please join:

https://twitter.com/ccn_studios

Knn BWV974 Learns BWV1068 Euclid Offset 1 K 2 Size 90

Knn BWV1068 Learns BWV974 Euclid Offset 1 K 2 Size 80

Knn BWV1068 Learns BWV1068andBWV974 Euclid Offset 1 K 2 Size 80

Knn learns composition of two Bach's original works and then stored into a Cloud system for later retrieval. 

A simple tune was fed to the Learned cloud function and improv-ed a new tune!

Wolfram Mathematica code:

https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/ccn2/Published/learned_function_air_adagio.nb

Sample Tune Learns Knn BWV1068andBWV974 Euclid Offset 1 K 2 Size 40

Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/

A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand. In this image, the lowest energy X-rays that Chandra detects are colored red, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are blue. Astronomers think that B1509 is about 1700 years old as measured in Earth's time-frame (referring to when events are observable at Earth) and is located about 17,000 light years away.


Image Edge Detected and then scanned, left to right, sonified, then midified using Melodyne (Poly) and instrumenation by Logic Pro.

B1509 Laguna

For Kobra Khodayar, a true human being, a teacher and a true mother, may her last breath fly her to lofty assemblies by The Regal Beloved.

Khodahafez in Farsi means Farewell and may God protect. 

The original tune comes from the image in:

https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/b1509-laguna

However the image was transformed using the Corner Filter:

http://files.lossofgenerality.com/B1509_cornerfilter.jpg

 and then sonified using AAVAA, then midified using Melodyne(Poly). The arrangement in LOGIC PRO, with Broadcast Quality output  filter. 

 
Production Notes: Using the Midi editor in Logic PRO some of the notes were removed for most of the segments in the tune. This is a form of improvisation.



Khodahafez (Farewell)

Image: http://alanfriedman.tumblr.com/image/52660008958 
By Astro Artist www.avertedimagination.com/main1.htm  

Image processed by Edge Detect Transform, to find general edge-caricature of the magnificently complex Sun's Corona, to trace to melodify. 

The Edge Detected processed image, then scanned vertically from left to right and sonified by AAVAA at 30k samples per second. Then Midified by Melodyne (Poly) and arrangements in Logic PRO X.

Scale
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200000 Miles Long Snake In Magnetic Grass

Source:http://www.riken.jp/en/research/rikenresearch/highlights/7994/

Notch-Active(green) separated from  Delta-Positive (red), sonified scanned vertical from left to right, each assigned to left and right channels accordingly. Midified by Melodyne (POLY). Improvised by muting some notes. Arrangements in Logic PRO.

Code and images:

http://files.lossofgenerality.com/notch.pdf



Motet: Notch Active, Delta-positive

Source:http://www.riken.jp/en/research/rikenresearch/highlights/7994/

Notch-Active(green) separated from  Delta-Positive (red), sonified scanned vertical from left to right, each assigned to left and right channels accordingly. Midified by Melodyne (POLY). Improvised by muting some notes. Arrangements in Logic PRO, Chorus for Red (Delta-Positive), Transistor  Radio Piano for Green (Notch Active). 

I usually choose Transistor Radio Piano to render infinite distance in time or space. 


Notch Piano, Chant Delta-Positive

Source:http://www.riken.jp/en/research/rikenresearch/highlights/7994/

Notch-Active(green) separated from  Delta-Positive (red), sonified scanned vertical from left to right, each assigned to left and right channels accordingly. Skeleton Transform applied to compute the medial axis and metric distance to background:

http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SkeletonTransform.html

 Midified by Melodyne (POLY). Improvised by muting some notes, volume change for others. Arrangements in Logic PRO, Ghost Piano for Red (Delta-Positive).


Notch Lamenting Delta Positive Skeleton

Source: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/04/Saturn_s_sponge-like_moon_Hyperion 

Image transformed by Morphological Perimeter algoritm:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MorphologicalPerimeter.html

 scanned vertically from left to right, midified by Melodyne (Poly). Counter Point arrangement in Logic Pro. Each counter point was arpeggiated, two speeds used with two different patterns.

Production code and notes:

http://files.lossofgenerality.com/Hyperion.pdf

One of the Dubliners' pianists had accused me of composing dark tunes, so this was a response :)


Super Fugue for Hyperion's Beloved

Source: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/04/Saturn_s_sponge-like_moon_Hyperion 

Image transformed by Morphological Perimeter algoritm:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MorphologicalPerimeter.html

 scanned vertically from left to right, midified by Melodyne (Poly). Counter Point arrangement in Logic Pro. Each counter point was arpeggiated, three speeds used with two different patterns. First pattern opens the composition with lowest speed, then the same pattern repeats (counterpoints) each time with higher speeds. The beginning two counterpoints again initiated in the middle of fugue. 

Production code and notes:

http://files.lossofgenerality.com/Hyperion.pdf


Fugue Hyperion

Source: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/04/Saturn_s_sponge-like_moon_Hyperion 

Image transformed by Morphological Perimeter algoritm:

https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MorphologicalPerimeter.html

 scanned vertically from left to right, midified by Melodyne (Mono). The mom-midification was then echoed higher (a copy of the midi moved to the right of the keyboard 1 note)  with a slight time-shift (see the production code).

Counter Point arrangement in Logic Pro. Each counter point was arpeggiated, three speeds used with two different patterns. First pattern opens the composition with lowest speed, then the same pattern repeats (counterpoints) each time with higher speeds. The beginning two counterpoints again initiated in the middle of fugue. 

Production code and notes:

http://files.lossofgenerality.com/Hyperion.pdf


Mono Sponge Fughetta

See Also:

https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/notch-lamenting-delta-positive-skeleton

Arpeggiator derived by the Notch Active Skeleton Transform.

Notch Active Skeleton Fugue

To Sufi belongs nothing and s/he belongs to no one and nothing. His or her only possession this few beautiful sketches of Divine Alphabets, his or her voyage through the acoustics of the letters. 

Now that my eyes see nothing, let them then hear the light.



Production Notes:

The original Arabic text of Basmala without Tashkil (dots and inflections) was scanned and pasteurized from top to bottom and bottom to top and one was played into the right channel and the other in the left stereo channel.

Software:
http://www.densitygs.com/  by Petrolati. 
http://photosounder.com/ by Rouzic. 

Sufi Research:
http://www.untiredwithloving.org/tafasir_basmala.html  


Eyes Hearing the Light

Image EdgeDetected, then scanned vertically from left to right, the sonified, and midified by Melodyone. Instrumentation and arrangement in Logic PRO.

Production Code:
http://files.lossofgenerality.com/otolih.pdf 

See:
https://humanphysiology2011.wikispaces.com/file/view/the_otolith_organ.jpg/218917154/487x516/the_otolith_organ.jpg

https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/184/flashcards/1904184/jpg/picture61352569073487.jpg

http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/otoliths.html


Otolith Ear Stones Fugue

See: https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/otolith-ear-stones-fugue 

Otolith Ear Stones Fugue2

For details:
https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/darwishaan-sob-at-new-crater-impact

Tabla Fughetta Darwishaan Dance

Sardine Run is a video by Shawn Heinrichs has been turned into counterpoint music. Video strips of 8 256x256 frames have been decomposed by Daubechies Wavelets to capture the features of the animal and water motility. 

The strips are not suitable for sonification, indeed Wavelets were used to extract FEATURES of the animal motion. Similar method was successfully used to extract the glitter of the sun rays without the large over-exposure of  sun reflection that disturbs the sonification. 

Feature Examples: Dolphins tend to be the same colour as the ocean water, the silhouette of dolphins automatically appears in the Wavelets decomposition without any explicit programming. The whale torso is fully extracted while the water surface/waves removed all together!!! Seagulls body extracted while the water surface, cloud and the sky is eliminated. 

Oddest phenomenon in this investigation: Sounds similar to the water motility as well as sounds similar to dolphins chirping were generated from the video-image strip without any special effects!!!

Soundcloud textual annotation is used to describe the different aspects of the hunt and identify each animal.

A new method was deployed, each individual sonification of each strip was played (in counterpoint) in three different keys:

A, C#, G# 

Remarkably the key differentials are audible and recognizable, testament to the prowess of the MethaSynth developer. This technique shall allow the composer to overlay a melody or a chord into the sonification of the video strips!


Files:
svn://svn.devzing.com/lossofgenerality/SardineRun 

Use '*' for user and no password.

Software:

http://www.uisoftware.com/MetaSynth/index.php

Sardine Run

Rotifer Edge Detect filter 

See Also
https://soundcloud.com/dara-o-shayda/darwishaans-rotifer-fugue-dance-in-chamber-of-non-being

Rotifer Edges

Improv on Yamaha P-125.

Instrumentation and arrangement by LOGIC PRO.

Research

Listen to this Nay (Reed-flute) how it complains
How it tells the tales of (long lasting) separations  

Since I have been chopped off the marsh-reed
Men and women moan listening to my screams

http://www.untiredwithloving.org/masnavi_1_1.html

meiBELOVED: grá mo chroí   حبيب من

Toccata D minor k-nn learned with Cosine Distance Function. The improve computed by apply the learned algorithm to the original composition. 

Bach portrait was re-styled by Van Gogh's cherry blossom brush.

Midi
http://files.untiredwithloving.org/knn_toccataD_cosine_midi.zip

Knn-improv Toccata D minor

k-nn learned Toccata D minor and then applied to the same midi and improvised a new version. 

n=43  BrayCurtisDistance, 43rd nearest note was computed with BrayCrurtis Distance Function. 

Cover: Neural Net brush style repainted Bach's portrait.

https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-370.php

Knn-improv Toccata D minor n=43  BrayCurtisDistance

A  Darvish's gift for the good friend Joseph Umo, The Sorrower.

A testament to the sorrows of all Persians:

You made night, I made candle 
You made dust, I made goblet 
Deserts and mountains and valleys you made 
Streets and meadows and orchards I made 
I! who from the stone makes shiny mirror 
I! who from the toxin makes sweet drink 

The original Farsi poem and the actual are song are not the works of Dara. The Translation and arrangement are. 

https://soundcloud.com/mahsaesfand/ghazal-shakeri-song-of-red-dervish

شب آفریدی، شمع آفریدم
خاک آفریدی، جام آفریدم
بیابان و کوه‌سار و راغ آفریدی
خیابان و گل‌زار و باغ آفریدم
آنم که از سنگ آیینه سازم
آنم که از زهر نوشینه سازم

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