as always a true work of art, satisfies the soul and the mind : )

Boring Music (I)
String Octet

Matthew Lee Knowles
June-July 2025

FULL SCORE VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpP8hqivmgE

Boring Music

A collaborative work by Babacane (https://soundcloud.com/babacane) and FaceOnFigure
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In a cave afar, unreachable by the living
Its mechanical jaws chopping up the dead, the unrepentant and vile
Separating the true from the rotten
So that the true can take a new form
And start its journey anew
While the rotten meets its rightful end
O sinful souls, listen to the sounds of prayer
Travelling through dimensions from a temple afar
Let them touch you and wake you and save you
From the jaws that is the Saw of the Dei'on
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The Saw of the Dei'on

method: LIMBO! - all of the sounds you hear have traversed a low pass filter at some point or other
narration: I can't hear you - reception is bad - there is a lot of interference and stuff
image, sounds, poem, composition and everything else: copyright jo richter

limelight horror, body terror
your past on a celluloid leash
hauled in to mask the hapless tremor
of neurons and genes, mirrored and selfish

a sky full of stars and the moral law
induce, produce, extrude and include
a common man’s somewhat hesitant awe
while AI assures it is ready to reboot

government agents raid homes in the nude
who will have seen claim that they saw
man’s not as nubile as a lemur
earth holds more ocean than there are fish

this is all dead weight, in the interim
learn to let go, the weltgeist insists
your heart is as pure as the code on the bin
a bird, a feather, an item, no lists

tally categorial - not for the faint of hearing

Love Light

"Kissikit" (Side A of the rare Via Kosmische single, 2018).

The latest in a series of medley compilations I've got going, featuring some of the better bit of stuff I've recorded. This one covers stuff I've posted on Soundcloud between 2023-2025. A handful of the tunes feature other musicians  (details in the posted full song), and a couple tunes include some loops or sound clips, but for the most part I'm playing everything here.  Thanks for visiting!

0:00 -  Cut 2: "The Chase" (intro)
0:52 -  Modern Times
2:16  - 1 For The Money, 2 For The Blues (part 1) 
3:21  - 1 For The Money, 2 For The Blues (part 2)
4:16  - Caveman
5:46 - Splice of Life
6:41  - Floot Loops
7:51   - Walk With Me
8:58  - Oh My Darlin' Palestine
10:15 - Travelling Circus
11:45  - Red Flag
12:43 - Clyde's Glide
14:00 - Pick Me Up
15:14  - Box o' Rox
16:06 - Dark Arpeggiator / Electric Twilight
17:16  - Mellotron Choir
17:55  - Blue In The Middle 
19:32  - Most of the Time (Funk in 7/8)
20:25 - New Funk City
21:43  - Nowhere Is Here, Never Is Now
22:30 - Cut 2: "The Chase" (outro)


-Mosaic image created from 'portraits' taken using a colour scanner. If you ever try this at home, don't EVER open your eyes while scanning your face, trust me.  ;)

Mark Music Medley (part 4: 2023-2025)

SOUND   SELF   SOUND   XX2

One of Morry's late 80's  or early 90s recordings that I have always really liked. I think this was recorded on an early Tascam cassette recorder, probably 4 or 8 track model. Panning and added harmonics during the outro sound especially good to me. All the guitar tracks were likely on his ovation roundback he had at the time. Pic is apartment building where we lived after college for a while - top right balcony was a good place to play music.  Hope all our SC friends are doing well.

Discovery

1383 JAZZ

Many people associate serialism with what late composer Humprey Evans III used to call "twitchy music."   Here I explore a novel serial technique for a music I might describe as protean or fluid.   

Rows control configurations of attributes rather than pitches or other simple parameters.   In particular they control substructural justly tuned harmonies and the evolving mixes of outputs of six different filters (related related to difference tones) applied to those harmonies.  The pitches matter...but the effects also relate to some of the more purely "sonic" music of our day.

Let the title invoke not only the various meanings of the English word, but the rather different sense it has particularly in Dutch.

Drift

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