awesome track, great sounds and vocals !!!

D A Y A

Photo: Capilla de Sallaco - chapel on the high altiplano, Abra La Pampilla, Valle Sandia, Puno, Peru (c 4,600 m asl), 2013. On route to amigos at Cecovasa & San Juan del Oro coffee communities.

Was looking for soundscape intro for this one, followed by some lofi funk before veering off in a slightly Latin jazz chilled direction. Anyway, thanks for listening...

Drums: NI 40.
Bass: Warwick 5-string Corvette through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Suhr Classic Custom through a few NI Guitar Rig and Archetype Rabea patches.
Keys: various NI, Spitfire (piano), Crow Hill (Small String Gestures), Baby Audio and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 10 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 11.

In The End

The Last Generation

The Last Generation (Baby Mix)

Help!

Introduction in English

Sometimes I have to smile a little when I think about the fact that John Lennon was only 24 years old when he wrote these lyrics. 
He certainly didn't know about the cries for help that come with ageing from 60 plus. The experience of gradual physical decline and the increasing dependence on the support of other people. The gradual loss of autonomy, which is so important for one's own dignity. And the subliminal threat of retirement and nursing homes approaching, which then temporarily pulls you out of your increasing mental derangement by singing old Beatles songs.
But apart from that, he certainly already knew a lot about the hardships of being different, of not belonging; the longing to experience something like love in the worldwide recognition and at the same time having to suffocate and drown in this wave of adoration. 
In the pop era of the time, his desperate cry for help was reduced to a tolerable two minutes
I turned it into a leisurely three-minute waltz. And tried to express my increasing need for help in certain areas of life in different ways: shy and fragile, desperate and humble, angry and almost accusatory. 
And towards the end, I find myself in an almost otherworldly limbo in which a part of me comes to peace with the cry for help and finds its own new dignity in it.

Einführung auf Deutsch
Manchmal muß ich ein wenig schmunzeln, wenn ich daran denke, dass John Lennon erst 24 Jahre alt war, als er diesen Songtext schrieb. 
Da wusste er mit Sicherheit noch nichts von den Hilferufen, die mit dem Älterwerden ab 60 plus einhergehen. Die Erfahrung des allmählichen körperlichen Zerfalls und die sich zunehmend anschleichende Angewiesenheit auf die Unterstützung von anderen Menschen. Der allmähliche Verlust von Autonomie, der für die eigene Würde so wichtig ist. Und das unterschwellig drohende Herannahen von Senioren- und Pflegeheimen, die einem dann mit dem Singen von alten Beatles-Songs vorübergehend aus der zunehmenden geistigen Umnachtung herausreißen.
Aber abgesehen davon wußte er sicher schon viel von den Nöten des Andersseins, des nicht dazu gehörens; der Sehnsucht, in der weltweiten Anerkennung so etwas wie Liebe zu erfahren und zugleich in dieser Verehrungswelle geradezu ersticken und ertrinken zu müssen. 
In der damaligen Pop-Zeit wurde sein verzweifelter Hilferuf auf allseits erträgliche gut zwei Minuten eingedampft.
Ich habe daraus einen gut dreiminütigen gemächlichen Walzer gemacht. Und dabei versucht, meine in gewissen Lebensbereichen zunehmende Hilfsbedürftigkeit auf verschiedene Weise auszudrücken: Scheu und zerbrechlich, verzweifelt und demütig, wütend und beinahe anklagend. 
Und zum Ende hin befinde ich mich in einer fast schon jenseitigen Zwischenwelt, in der ein Teil in mir mit dem Hilferuf in Frieden kommt und darin eine eigene neue Würde findet.

Help!

Help! (Lennon/Mccartney)

Original soundtrack from short movie: Tikàl National Park - Guatemala 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mhgTdRrCNI

TIKAL

This song is dedicated to my homeland Ukraine - to all Ukrainian women who survived difficult trials in this war.

Вільна

This work won the Third Prize at the Fidelio International Piano Competition in Spain. In this piece, Alex merges a classical monopartite Sonata form with a Fibonacci-based growth structure. He uses a distinct “musical marker”, to differentiate between the thematic elements within each main theme. These elements follow the progression of the Fibonacci series (1,1,2,3,5,..). However, in the Development stage, this musical marker starts to evolve into a third theme, which develops also according to the Fibonacci series, and plays a different role in the Recapitulation, together with the two main themes. The overall atmosphere is somber, with sudden mood changes.
Pianist Ben Gimm premiered this work in June 2023 at The Ligeti Odyssey:First 100 Years in Portland, OR, where this live recording took place. The work was selected as Ligeti had interest and used in mathematical concepts, such as the Fibonacci series, in his music.

Fibo-Nata | piano - Ben Gimm

Neon Bass

"I'm Asking You...?"  - live demo, written and recorded 30/3/24

I think its one of my better songs, but still needs some work......

---Lyrics--------

Whatever I say 
Always a mistake
Whatever i say
Whatever I mean never comes out my mouth
And im asking you right now
Nothing I wouldn't give
And im asking you right now
For nothing I wouldn't do

Whatever I say
Always a mistake
Whatever I say
What I mean never comes out my mouth
Whatever I say
Isn't what I mean
Whatever I do
Is always wrong
And Im asking you right now
Nothing I wouldn't give
And Im asking you right now
Nothing I wouldn't do
And Im asking you right now
For nothing but you

Asking (Demo)

Art Expressed in Music – Leonardo's Genius	
April 2024
Duration: 3:30
Listen to the Playlist: soundcloud.com/bruce-klepper-1/sets/art-expressed-in-music-i
Painting: Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519) was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer.  His “Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa” are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance.  His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. He is renowned in the fields of civil engineering, chemistry, geology,  hydrodynamics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics and zoology.  As an engineer, Leonardo conceived ideas vastly ahead of his own time, conceptually inventing the parachute, the helicopter, an armored fighting vehicle, and the use of concentrated solar power. The unique fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime has remained undimmed to the present day rests largely on his unlimited desire for knowledge, which guided all his thinking and behavior.  As an artist, Leonardo considered his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge; to Leonardo, sight was man’s highest sense because it alone conveyed the facts of experience immediately, correctly, and with certainty.  He used his superb intellect, unusual powers of observation, and mastery of the art of drawing to study nature itself, a line of inquiry that allowed his dual pursuits of art and science to flourish.  In Florence between 1500 and 1506, Leonardo began work on the “Mona Lisa”.  The “Mona Lisa” set the standard for all future portraits. The painting presents a woman revealed to likely have been Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocond.  The picture presents a half-body portrait of the subject, with a distant landscape visible as a backdrop; the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape has placed this work in the canon of the most-popular and most-analyzed paintings of all time. The sensuous curves of the woman’s hair and clothing, are echoed in the undulating valleys and rivers behind her. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting—especially apparent in the sitter’s faint smile—reflects Leonardo’s idea of the link connecting humanity and nature, making this painting an enduring record of Leonardo’s vision and genius.  In 1517, a drawing by Giovanni Ambrogio Figino depicted an elderly Leonardo with his right arm wrapped in clothing. The latter, in addition to the record of an October 1517 visit by Louis d'Aragon, confirms an account of Leonardo's right hand being paralytic when he was 65, which may indicate why he left works such as the “Mona Lisa” unfinished.  He continued to work at some capacity until eventually becoming ill and bedridden for several months.  Leonardo only produced about 20 paintings in his lifetime. It is estimated that Leonardo produced between 20,000 to 28,000 pages of notes and sketches spanning across 50 different notebooks about work related to whatever topics that interested him – painting, engineering, philosophy, warfare, engineering, physiology, landscape, proportion, perspective, geography, and geology.... Unfortunately, Leonardo's interests were so broad, and he was so often compelled by new subjects, that he usually left projects unfinished.  Leonardo died at Clos Lucé on 2 May 1519 at the age of 67, possibly of a stroke.   Leonardo was described as lamenting on his deathbed, full of repentance, that "he had offended against God and men by failing to practice his art as he should have done”. 
For virtual voices, piano, marimba, tubular bells, virtual instruments, sound effects and percussion.

Art Expressed In Music - Leonardo's Genius

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ExT372wLyoE. This is a poem set to music. For relief from the "pandemic," I hiked in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, hoping to see a Bald Eagle. Instead, perched up on a mountain peak was a crow. See the hiking path: https://youtu.be/9XYtnA9uAwo
POEM
VERSE1
Went to the mountains
To break the status quo.
For the reasons people go, to grow.
The eagles, the elk, the clean air.
Myself - to get to know.

VERSE2
Climbing up the ridge,
From the meadow below,
Arriving at the peak, rocky trail plateaus.
Stones loomed above me,
Fighting rain and snow.
Million years of winds that blow.

CHORUS1
Why do we go? Why do you ask?
To see such beauty that may not last.
Just like you, let me be free.
Let us have peace. Let me be me.
Agree?... See?.. This is key!

BRIDGE1

VERSE3
Something moved, casting shadows below.
What lives there?
What wildlife will show?
Expecting an eagle to spread its wings,
Then I hear a sound I know.

VERSE4
The call of an old black crow.
Not dressed for the occasion.
Not moved much by persuasion.
Wrong equation. Odd sensation.

CHORUS2
Crow looked down,
At the people on the ground,
In a way, as if to say, “Hey”
Just like you, let me be free.
Let me have peace. Let me be me.
Agree?... See?.. This is key!

BRIDGE2

VERSE5
Independent bird,
Follows his own tempo.
Doesn’t take orders well.
Like to keep it simple.

VERSE6
Clever bird. Often met with abrasion.
Perhaps you are a better symbol,
Of this nation.

VERSE7
If we want to make it for the full duration,
We better show more toleration.
No tomorrows. Too many sorrows.
Time, you just can’t borrow.

BRIDGE3

VERSE8
Climbing down the mountain,
That day I had to go,
To find out who I was,
And met the old crow.
Old black crow, what do ‘ya know?
Helped me today. A favor I owe.

CHORUS3
I’ll see you next time. When I climb.
When I go, on top of the rocks.
You’ll watch me below.
I know.

DAVEHEFFNER.COM

The Crow (in Eldorado Canyon) A Poem

Colorado Songwriter, Electronic Musician, Producer. ASCAP member. Ballads, Dance, Rock, Electronica, Jazz, Hip Hop, with a mix of everything else. All original compositions with live artists on most tracks. Piano study began at 5 years old, continued through university study and incorporated with electronic music since the introduction of MIDI. Have taught, consulted and composed electronic music. Primary platform is Pro Tools, with which I also do training and consulting. Open to collaboration. More information at my website.

The Crow (in Eldorado Canyon) A Poem

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