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an amazing year 2013 slowly turns towards its end which gives us time to take breath and look back.... thank you all for your encouraging comments, for liking, sharing, reposting, listening and feeling my music... YOU make the difference to me :-)

All the best and a wonderful christmas to you and your families !

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Dirk

Dirk Maassen - The little Things (pls. read description)

A remix of https://soundcloud.com/ascoltadi/dirk-maassen-nowhere

All likes, shares, comments and reposts are very appreciated!

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Dirk Maassen - Nowhere (Cüpe D'etat Remix)

I always wondered why,
the past is not the future.
When timelines combine,
in an infinity of illusions.

And then there were only memories,
left to decide, which dreams were meaningless.

The ego's central core is disrupted. Lies become truth after an eternity of deceit.

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Fall~ on Spotify

Diaries of a Madman

I'm proud to present a collaboration between Fivos Valachis and myself.
I arranged a complete orchestral sound to uplift his piano lines.

This is a Charity Collab Project, and all it's proceedings will be donated to Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org)
For more information you can always check Fivos' Soundcloud -  and Facebook page.
soundcloud.com/fivosvalachis
https://www.facebook.com/events/350378298456096/
Enjoy!

Color Your Life Orange

Color Your Life Orange - Fivos Valachis feat. Koen Janssen

Finally I´m somewhat happy,,  after some tinkering I think I arrived at how to set up my mic´s and how to play my upright for this project that has been building up for a long time -  And last night I did the first session of the hours albums.

The idea is to sit down and just record, and thats what I did last night, recorded 8 songs and this one is number two. Each album will be 8 songs named after the monastic hours, the circle of christian meditation that has mostly become lost in today society. 
https://steinthor.bandcamp.com/album/december-hours-2014


I really hope you like this idea and sound, and that some of you might even buy the whole album on itunes and bandcamp when the time comes. The other album Skuggaskil (physical release) is coming out next week,,, cover is finished and now they only need to print and put everything together.

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2 Lauds - From December Hours Now out on Bandcamp

3 rd final sketch of my 8 piano project, where I am going to record 8 piano pieces on 8 different pianos all over europe in summer 2015

Dirk Maassen - Zenith

November

A track from my first album revisited and rearranged for Piano Day 2016-03-28.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJPXNNpUT34

Hej (Revisited & rearranged for Piano day 2016-03-28,video link in description)

Improvisation for Piano Day 2017

Through sound, emotion seeks new dimensions, not as an escape from reality but rather in a search for the image of a new reality. Music that creates emotion, is like a wind that purifies, rendering visible all the obstacles and divisions. It is rather like a piercing arrow that alerts the parts of our mind we do not normally go to, in our daily lives. It opens up unknown and obscure landscapes, like a ray of light that filtering into a dark room, banishes the darkness and leaves nothing to hinder vision. 
”Canone degli Spazi” is about the sound that journeys in all directions, the sound that travels through endless space - through the outer world and the inner space - through the unconscious and the senses. 
When I play with precision and with specific intent, the emotion that rises inside of me is the mirror of the one that arises in the person who is listening - it provokes a sense of union and communion with those sharing the same moment. Music becomes a vehicle of an objective feeling, which is almost the same for most people. Similarly, if I am not One with the sound and my intention is not clear, the same notes played carelessly are empty - they lose their power and their intensity. The level of clarity of my expression depends on what I can make arise inside of me. When that happens, the inner nature of the melodies that are being played spreads out into space, into the air, into the earth and out to the whole atmosphere. A real spell takes place between the performer and his public, creating a magical aura of deep harmony and sharing. This is the wonder of a sound that has come from a long time ago, through myths and mythology, and returns us to the essence of Music, that most supreme of Arts. 
I composed “Canone degli Spazi” around essential elements - the harmony of the triads, the melodic repetition and the cycles that follow the orbits of the planets and the structure of harmonics - the very same fundamental rules that Pythagoras followed to make the laws of the Universe coincide. Sound can help us to realize that our inner space is as vast as our outer space and that in reality there is no difference between them. Sound travels through walls - the walls of the mind too – transcending both time and space. 

Canone degli spazi - Michael

Fall~ | Maury van Loon

No longer trying to make sense out of the world.