"Alpha Nova"

image: green grass, leaves, blue dragonfly

media source: https://www.wallpaperbetter.com/nature-and-landscape-wallpaper/green-grass-leaves-blue-dragonfly-190615

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■ Roland synthesizers used on this music track, as follows:

○ System 100, Models 101, 102, 103, and 104
○ Jupiter 4
○ JX-3P w/ step sequencer feature
○ CR-8000
○ TR-707 u/ as a programmable trigger sequencer, (no audio output)
○ Roland RE-3 digital space echo / Fostex 3180 spring reverb

■ Recorded live to a Tascam CD-RW700 CD Audio Recorder

■ Disc.20.trk.10_Alpha_Nova

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Alpha Nova

"Vision Quest"

"The ancient Hebrew prophets said that without a vision, the people perish. How true this was then — and maybe even more true now than when it was first uttered thousands of years ago. Without a vision, without light on the trail, without a deep, intuitive understanding of what our lives are supposed to be about, we just lose our way in the postmodern, technological, existential confusion and jungle."

"A traditional vision quest is a very admirable and also a delightful thing. It connects us deeply with nature. When you go out there, and you’re fasting in your spot, you’re not wandering around, generally speaking. It’s not a walkabout. It’s a sit down and pray about. You become very connected to the animals, to the sky, to the stars, to the wind, the trees, the plants, and everything that’s there. It reconnects us to our mother, to the Earth. I think it was Alan Watts who said, “We don’t come into the world; we come out of the world.” I like that. We’re not aliens from some other place; we actually come out of this mother here."

Quoted from Web article: Vision Questing in the Postmodern World: Now More Important Than Ever, by John Dupuy.

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Media source: https://www.iawaketechnologies.com/vision-questing-in-the-postmodern-world-now-more-important-than-ever/

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■ Disc.30.trk.08_Vision.Quest

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Vision Quest

"Hymn to the Aten"

". . . . living Aten, beginner of life when thou didst shine forth in the eastern horizon, and didst fill every land with thy beauty. . . . Being afar off, yet thy rays are upon the earth."

Image: Pharaoh Akhenaten and his family worship the Aten sun disk.

■ Disc.11.trk.02_Hymn.to.the.Aten

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Hymn to the Aten

Title: "Yaramaika"

The spirit of “Yaramaika!” ─ Japanese to English translation ─ "Let’s give it a try"

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Photo: Ikutaro Kakehashi, accompanied by his wife Masako, along with all the company members on the day of the newly established Roland Corporation in April 1972, Osaka, Japan. (Photo credit: Roland Corp.)

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■ Disc.16.trk.12_Yaramaika

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Yaramaika

"Jupiter"

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Image: front panel of the Roland Jupiter 4, Model JP-4.

The Roland Jupiter 4, available in 1978 to 1981, it was a 4 voice polyphonic analog synthesizer. The JP-4 was known for a raw electronic tone, a sound found very similar to their 1970s SH model instruments. The JP-4 was Roland's first polyphonic instrument, and also, the first model to incorporate an arpeggiator feature.

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■ Roland synthesizers on this track, as follows:

○ Jupiter 4 ─ lead voice
○ System 100, model 101 ─ lead voice
○ System 100, model 102 ─ sound f/x's
○ JX-3P ─ bass pattern programmed with on-board sequencer
○ CR-8000 ─ rhythm percussion  
○ TR-707  ─ master clock and trigger sequencer, no sound output

Other equipment used, as follows:

○ Reverb effects ─ Fostex 3180 and Roland System 100, Model 103 Mixer
○ Delay effects ─ Roland RE-3 Space Echo
○ Mixer ─ Roland M-120
○ CD-Recorder ─ Tascam CD-RW 700
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■ Disc.20.trk.11_Jupiter_four

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Jupiter four

"Fessenden's Broadcast"

Reginald Fessenden and the radio... he was famous for his self-made radio broadcasts, he had created the world's first voice and music transmission using radio waves, and this across the Atlantic Ocean on December 24, 1906.

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"Reginald Aubrey Fessenden — or Reg, as he was known — was born in Quebec in 1866. He was the son of an Anglican minister, a lover of cats and he grew up to have the stature of a Viking. He also invented the first wireless system of transmitting speech. But he's been overshadowed by others, including fellow radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi."

"Imagine being one of the workers on a boat in 1906 sailing across the ocean at night; waiting around the wireless, which you've heard playing dots and dashes. Suddenly, for the first time in history, a voice comes over the air: Reginald Fessenden introducing a recording of Handel's Largo, a Bible reading and a little fiddle music. It must have been hard to believe what they were hearing."

Article: This Canadian radio pioneer dreamed of 'words without wires' by Chris Chang-Yen Phillips · for Canada 2017 · CBC

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Photo image: "Reginald Fessenden demonstrated that sound — not simply Morse code — could be transmitted over radio, leading the way for radio broadcasting." (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Media resources: https://www.cbc.ca/2017/this-canadian-radio-pioneer-dreamed-of-words-without-wires-1.4042893

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■ Disc.11.trk.17_Fessendens.Broadcast

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Fessenden's Broadcast

"Snow at Nezu  Shrine"

Glittering flakes:
The wind is breaking
Frozen moonlight.

Poem by Horiuchi Toshimi

Art work: original wood block print ─ Snow at Nezu Shrine (Woman in Snow) 1934 by Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1949)

Resource: http://www.jaodb.com/db/compareitems.asp?varPDindex=10561&varscholar=&varlanguage=E

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Roland synthesizers used on this track, as follows:

○ SH-09 w/ CSQ-100
○ System 100, Model 102 w/ CSQ-600
○ JV-1080
○ JD-990
○ CR-8000
○ M-240R mixer w/ out board effects
○ Tascam CD-RW-700 - master CD recorder

■ Disc.23.trk.01_Snow.at.Nezu.Shrine

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Snow at Nezu Shrine

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"Lifework is music: a dream for the development of electronic musical instruments." 

─  Ikutarō Kakehashi ─ (1930 - 2017) Inventor, engineer, educator, founded Roland Corporation (1972), Japan.
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○ This Soundcloud page is an electronic music archive dedicated to "Ikutaro Kakehashi" and his life work. A recognition to the many electronic musical instruments that Mr. Kakehashi and the Roland Corporation had invented, their dedicated work created a revolution in music making technology.

○ Note: all of the electronic music instruments used in the making of this music were from the Roland Corporation; they were used exclusively in producing the timbre and sound-effects of the music. These Roland synthesizers included both early analog and modern digital synthesizer models, such as, the SH-5, System 100, Jupiter 4, or the Alpha-Juno, JV-1080 and the JD-800, among several others.

○ Any other music equipment of a different manufacturer's name, served only to control pitch and articulation of the various Roland synthesizers.

○ Final sound modification came from off-board effects units, such as, reverb, delay and chorus; these were all Roland equipment, except for only a few.

* (Note: in the studio photo images, the Korg Prophecy keyboard functioned only as a secondary midi controller, and the Synthesizers.com sequential controller, model Q960, was used for processing only control-voltage, trigger and gate information; they provided no audio output)

○ The music compositions were all improvised, live recordings, including earlier works that were recorded using a multi-track midi software; Opcode's Studio Vision.

○  These music works  are unedited audio tracks that are available for download as high fidelity wave files.

♪ All rights reserved © Blair M. Cleveland, SOCAN member 1998.
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Film score and soundtrack works:

○ Cable TV Documentary: "The Steam Dream", 1992 ─  Maclean-Hunter Ltd.

○ Spoken Book: "David Cole's Story", 1997 

○ Feature Film: "Famous Dead People", 1999 / https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4958025/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr7

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