Merged / Part 3 / Treading Water

The dark: the recent passing of friend Paul Schreiber, owner of Synthesis Technology. Along with fellow rocket scientists Eric Brombaugh and Robert Rich, he engineered the E370 Quad Morphing VCO which I use everyday. He was a true genius, a snarky story-teller, a good hearted guy. I felt honored just to know him, occasionally helping with some demos and testing on various modules.

The light: the new addition to the family, as pictured

The Light & the Dark

This week's Disquiet Junto prompt asked us to use the first line of a favorite book as the inspiration for a piece of music. I selected David Byrne's "How Music Works", with the opening sentence "I had an extremely slow-dawning insight about creation."

I'm traveling this week, so away from my outboard gear, but I did bring along a mini keyboard and headphones so that I could still participate this week! Features several layers of software synths (mainly Alchemy) and a field recording made from the 3rd floor balcony of the flat we're renting while we're here.

I tried to keep this sparse (for me at least), following the idea of the "slow-dawning insight", while still capturing the chaos of the creative act. It's probably still unsettling, but I just can't help that.

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.


A Slow Dawning Insight About Creation (disquiet0705)

thinking of us
the sound of wind
among the pines

Andrea Cecon is a hearing aids technician, a traveler, and a haijin published all over the world. His first ebook won 3rd place in the Sharp Writ Book Awards contest in 2011 (category: poetry). Residing in Cividale, Italy, with his wife, Russian haijin Valeria Simonova-Cecon. He finds his inspiration in memories, travels, and everyday life…

Haiku by Andrea Cecon

Picture by Ali Kazal

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Separacion De La Realidad (Featuring Humanfobia)

"Supernova" carries the echoes of an ancient universe — a slow-burning wave of sound born from the heart of collapsing stars.
It is the silence before creation, the breath after destruction.

Supernova

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Peacock

Sun Beams

Ghost Bells

Sometimes we feel at one with our environment, as if our individuality blends into what surrounds us.
I experienced this at the seaside, watching the waves roll in.

Rolling Waves

My first encounter with ambient music was a happy accident in 2001. At the time, I was working for a company that managed the SNEP catalog: the French National Union of Photographic Publishers. We received entire boxes of new music on CD from most of the country's record labels. One of my colleagues was a music fanatic and had a keen ear for finding interesting works. One day, he put on Recoloured - The Remix Album by Nils Petter Molvaer.
I was expecting electro-jazz, but one track on the album really touched me. I'd never heard music like it before: "Kakonita" by Deathprod Mix, aka Helge Sten, a Norwegian musician. That's how I discovered ambient music.

Alongside my musicology studies at the University of Paris 8
I played bass and guitar in small clubs and cafes in the Paris région. Interested in ambient for a long time, I started to really compose it since 2023
in my small home studio.
My next goal is to be able to practice and create ambient in the street, to do featuring and improvise;

Rolling Waves

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