"Beginnings" is my own self made album comprising a selection of music tracks that I've written and produced over the years, they serve as the starting point of my interest in electronic music composition. Each track has been carefully edited and remastered before being compiled into an album format.

All music and artwork is copyright © 2021 Nigel Weeks

Beginnings

Forewarning

Don't Let It End Like This. Tell Them I Said Something.

Lyrics by Bill White
Music by Kate Stanton
Art by Molly Stanton

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A Species Evolves

as planets revolve,
a species evolves
in appearance
if not always in truth

the coffee is on
and the wild fawns
are gone

with the magic of wizards
and the instincts of lizards
they lead armies
of stunted, Jurassic youths

the coffee is on
and the wild fawns
are gone

as planets revolve,
a species evolves
in appearance
if not always in truth

the coffee is on
and the wild fawns
are gone

A Species Evolves (Feat. Bill White)

Aletfulfa

Air 2023 II

This piece is created from a variety of experiments with speech sounds. The piece refers to a beautiful, melancholic poem by Jorge Luis Borges entitled Descartes. But this is not a setting in the classical sense. Instead, I took a few lines of the English translation of this poem and put together the words as best I could from phonemes taken from language teaching videos of over 50 languages - spoken by women and men - letter by letter. This was the basic material and all the sounds of this piece are developed from it without exception. Of the poem itself, no words or fragments of words appear in the piece that might be intelligible. Everything is pure sound. The harmonic-melodic material of the piece is derived from the Liebestod of Wagner´s opera Tristan und Isolde. Although I am not a great fan of Richard Wagner, this is a touching piece of music whose grand, romantic gesture is (at least for me) nevertheless admittedly outdated in these disillusioned times. So it is a reminiscence that also plays with the idea of the multilingual recitation of Borge´s poem by women and men - maybe a strange love story across language barriers. The harmonic sequence of Wagner´s piece was mirrored on a twelve-tone row and the resulting material was then subjected to various other serial processes and microtonal pitch changes according to the pitches of the phonemes. In a few places, however, the original music has remained recognizable, appearing for moments like a shadow.

For the sonic transformations, I worked with spectral software, such as Steinberg's Spectral Layers and TS2 from Ircam labs. Later, granular software came into play, such as U&I's MetaSynth and accSone's Crusher X. I also converted individual phonemes and whole words into wavetables for further processing using the Waldorf Iridium.

Air 2023 II

Cosmos Sound Club – Кольца Времени - Ведение
Label: Cosmos Sound Club – CS-1005-2
Released: 2002

Ведение - Visions

Cosmos Sound Club - Сомнимбул

Ymblis [part 3]

Preludio Vicente Amigo Halion 6 Leo Reyes

⁂Dreaming While Awake/DWA/Espen Skaar
See track: https://soundcloud.com/dreamingwhileawakemusic/tik-tok

Don't Let It End Like This. Tell Them I Said Something.

Dave Does Ambient