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gennaio 2022

in the picture Peter Michael Hamel

"musica assoluta" (gennaio 2022)

am.1.010122

FULL - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/album/snow-silence

My father's hometown is an area with a lot of snow, and I spent some time there in the winter when I was a child.
It was then that I first experienced the feeling of silence when it snowed.

That sense of silence as I walked through the falling snow may have been the catalyst for my current work in ambient music.

This music is dedicated to those snowy, beloved winter nights.

Snow / Silence - Sample

Murmet [part 1]

“Leaving together, Leaving apart” is one of 6 pieces I recorded using my 8th mosesa
In November 2018. I have since made several other models,, but recently rediscovered this album in my files.

It anticipates many things that I am doing currently, namely playing and responding to overtones and instrument body resonances. Tuning is by ear as well as all playing. I tuned the instrument to resonate with my wishes when playing.

The mosesa 8 is composed to 2 guitar strings, a cello bridge resting on a thin, patched and pressed wooden bowl. I used a DPA microphone, external guitar pedals and internal Logic Pro filters to create the sound that you hear.

The emotional background for these pieces, “Leaving together, Leaving apart” was the coming and goings between myself and one of my children of college age. I felt so much joy at being together, then sorrow with leaving.
The music is not illustrative, and I think focuses mostly on the joy of relating each moment with another.

Happy New Year and enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies
January 1, 2022

Listen to or purchase the album here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/leaving-together-leaving-apart-2

Leaving Together, Leaving Apart, 4, 11 - 17 - 18

From a couple seconds of a door creak.

Photo credit: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360721

To The New Ear

A remarkable composer (on SoundCloud) and I were discussing the different aural colors of the notes.  In particular, he called my intention to D and E and their painterly aspects.  I find color/sound to be fascinating, so following his advice...I sat down to explore the different Ds and Es and their relationship to themselves and their playmates and this was the result.  A meta-funhouse ride through a changing dreamscape of colors and gradations.

Meditation On Color (Feat. D and E)

Gently Float While Sipping Invisible Tea

2.Horror

No  Time For Me

O escuro na luz

And now this is the concluding track 10, "Stay with Me", in my just completed album "New Beginning" (2024): composed in Garage Band iOS in the late evening of 3 March 2024 and arranged, mixed and recorded in Logic Pro in the late evening of 4 March 2024, with final arrangement and mix in Logic Pro in the late evening of 5 March 2024, by Alex M, then posted on SoundCloud on 7 March 2024 (together with the album as a whole).

The album artwork cover, also used as the cover of each constituent track, was created in PowerPoint and annotated in Mac OS Preview on 19 July 2023 (and 5 January 2024, changing the year from 2023 to 2024 in the brackets of the album title).

Duration: 3:19 minutes
Tempo: 124 bpm
Time Signature: 4/4
Key Signature: Bb

Digital instruments used, in the order of composing and recording:

1. Piano - Boesendorfer Grand Piano
2. Bass - P-Bass
3. Keyboard - Alchemy Synth - Mallets - Spacetime Keys (Breathy)
4. Drums - Electronic - Simmons SDS-V
5. Synthesizer - Strings - String Decay
6. Cinematic - Textures - Tranquility
7. Synthesizer - Sound Effects - Thunderous Ambience
8. Cinematic - Ambient Drone - Twilight Splendor

Stay with Me

Movements of a simple mind

Noth Crudhe (2023)

with samples from:
https://soundcloud.com/cecilia-special/no-more-wars-accas-special-cecilia
https://soundcloud.com/specialececilia

thank you Cecilia

All Nations - ReverbNation (w/ Special Cecilia)

My most rabble track (dec'93), although it's got a mystic surprise. As a novelty, dialog between voice and guitar (take into account that this album was recorded at once, consider it a live show).

Mi tema más "canalla" (diciembre de 1993), si bien con una sorpresita mística. Como novedad, el diálogo entre voz y guitarra, recordad que está grabado del tirón.

Lyrics/Letra:

Bonita de cara, escasa de carne;
fría por fuera, caliente su sangre.
No la volverás a ver, no la volverás a ver.

Tiene guardado un secreto muy dentro de sí;
tú no supiste saberlo, y fue para mí.
No lo pudiste saber, (oh) no llegaste a conocer,
sólo te faltó insistir, y yo...
yo insistí.

Ven a buscarla a donde guarda el secreto, 
es un bosque escondido en el fondo de su mente.

Vas a perderte, vas a perderte, porque...
ya no habla igual, ya no piensa igual,
ya no viste igual, ya no vive igual.

Bonita de cara, escasa de carne;
fría por fuera, caliente su sangre.
No la volverás a ver, no la volverás a ver.

Bonita de cara (Yo insistí)

Recorded sounds provide a rich and extensive palette of colors and textures.  I like to glean what I can from single short samples of sound.  I particularly like squeaks and creaks.  Lately, I've become enamored with the enormous selection of vinyl records available on archive.org.

"I'm a mellow artist, aging 67. I love and release eclectic music, from post-classical to drone. My fave instrument is the Mellotron."

Così, sinteticamente, di solito mi presento.

In genere compongo musica partendo dal suono delle tastiere, ma il mio vero strumento è il registratore.

O i software di registrazione.

"I was made for loving and making recorded music."

Confido da sempre nel potere evocativo e orfico della musica, nella sua capacità di riconsegnarci a mondi più veri e più giusti, più belli di quelli in cui di solito viviamo.

"Ich bin ein kosmische Kurier"

I'm using these tools: Mellotron micro, Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer, Behringer Crave, IK Multimedia Uno synth, Roland Juno synth, Volca keys, Casio digital piano, micropiano Korg, Manetron (iPad app), iTampura (iPad app), Eko 11 (...) string acoustic guitar, electric violin, Orla analogic expander, tenor, treble and descant recorders, soprano and tenor tin whistle, Akai, Roland, Alesis and Arturia controllers, upright piano, Squier 3/4 electric guitar, melodica, Bubble Harp (iPad app), Schoenhut toy harp, soprano ukulele, Eko acoustic guitar, Peavey Composer acoustic guitar, Kurzweill micropiano, Boss and JamMan loop stations , Behringher multi-fx, Olympus portable digital recorder, Phonic, Behringer and Yamaha mixers, Audacity, Paulstretch, various players and plug-ins .. (that's all, folks, I think ..)

latest releases
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/suggestiva
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/album/venusia
https://hibernate.bandcamp.com/album/as-riddled-as-the-tide

for further works please go to my bandcamp page
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/

and to 
http://webbedhandrecords.com/
http://www.laverna.net/home/
https://silentflow.org/

iTunes and Spotify as well ..
feed and share ..
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1TRilVaDaQw0ksGqU5tuCh?si=zXD-0xFWS-2yrUs542SH9A

SoundCloud è la piattaforma musicale che preferisco perché è soprattutto il regno degli amateurs, di quelli che fanno musica per sé e per gli amici .. come quando da ragazzi si condividevano con gli altri le invenzioni e le creazioni .. io sostanzialmente sono rimasto lì e così .. non sempre, ovviamente, ma spesso ci trovo delle cose che valgono altrettanto - se non di più - rispetto a quelle più affermate e conosciute

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