as abstract as this is it still manages to be jazzy. great work

Cool laidback atmosphere! It's like playing geometry with sound structuring! Trick work!  It almost reminds me of taking unique puzzle pieces & forming a bigger picture, only this is a sonic portrait that comes to life! ;)

Like how you're doing the slap baselines...sometimes sparse arrangement is the way to go...well done here, thumb's up!!!

Interesting piece. I like the pacing of the elements. Cool bass tone. Dig it.

An itriguing romp... this piece. I really like how it feels like walking through musical spaces

Wheelwright: voice, vocal melody and harmony, lyrics @wheelwright

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

Fictive Sisters is a transatlantic collaboration of Wheelwright and Beckenstein. Our album Immaculate Distraction is available at https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction

image by Lani Maynard

Crossing time-zones
Godforsaken deserts
Midnight in transit stations
The illusion of freedom
Written in blood written in stone

It's just an idea
It's just an idea

The twisted wreck
Of a helicopter gunship
A distant call to prayer
Sweet liquorice and bitter cigarettes

It's just an idea [...]

He carries her in his heart
She's all he had now all he has
White knuckles holding fast
His mother's photograph in a young man’s hands

Now everything is lost
Now everything is lost

They say half the future’s buried in the past
But the fallen will not weep for us
When it’s our time to choose

It's just an idea [...]

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Sweet Licorice And Bitter Cigarettes (with Wheelwright)(Fictive Sisters)

Tea plantations on the planet Athoek, the location of some intrigue in Ann Leckie's book, Ancillary Sword.
I took inspiration from the early work of Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (Vangelis)RIP. I loved how he combined traditional Greek instruments with electronics on "Earth".  "Heaven and Hell"  remains a personal favourite. 



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Plantation On Athoek

Abstract B

Darkness

Witnessing the fascinating conjunction of Venus and Jupiter from my hostel window prompted me to revisit one of my early attempts at writing music for solo MIDI electronics. 

"Celestial Dance", composed in May 2019, is in three parts, each following the other attacca, without pause. The harmonic structure of the work is derived from the clash (conjunction!) of two diminished seventh chords, with their root notes a semitone apart. Pierre Boulez had used such a chord in Sur Incises (and Incises)  which piqued my interest in its sonority. The instrumentation albeit MIDI oriented (which allowed me to push the instrumental performance to superhuman virtuosity) is made up of the instruments Boulez used in Sur Incises - with the addition of an electronic piano and solo strings. 

Celestial Dance, for electronics (2019)

Updated June 7, 2023: Synline has made collaboration work for me.
https://soundcloud.com/synline/the-river?si=d85aada01c7b4a0a9c8e26a590f06cce&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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In January this year, we lost the great musician and drummer of YMO, Yukihiro Takahashi. As if following him, last month, Ryuichi Sakamoto also passed away. Having lost two respected musicians, I find myself without emotional support and have been creating music daily, tracing their music and lives. Unconsciously, the songs I create are heavily influenced by their music. This song is one of them. When I listen to the finished piece, I feel it somewhat resembles YMO's "Expecting Rivers." These days, I find "HOPE" in the Milky Way, the heavenly river that spans the sky.

Rivers of Aspiration

This track was made with CS 80 Pigment 4, Synthmaster One, Cube CMI V & Spatk 2 (Perc/Toms/Congas,FX)

On the other side

Video for track is here...
https://youtu.be/tyJwjwgFSxU

naviarhaiku508 – Deep, dark Summer night

Deep, dark Summer night
A sudden shaft of moonlight
Blesses the temple

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in multiple projects: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland), ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott), Szukanie (with Michał Wojciechowski), and Meadowlight (with Emma Reed).

Moonlight blesses the temple (naviarhaiku508)

Fuzz：22世紀 SILICON BABY
https://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/nijuuniseiki/22lab01-01.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PVLyS1YKJY

フルートにFuzzを使用して、トランペットのような音にしました！
フルートの音をマイクを通して、エフェクターへ出力して作っています。
DAW側のフィルタープラグインでフラッター・ビブラート効果をつけています。
ボコーダーの歌詞は「do you feel the same,Same as to you it's too…」です。深い意味はありません。

使用機材
Drums : CT-310(Casio)
Synth&Keyboard : CT-310(Casio) PC-100(Yamaha)
Vocoder : FANTOM-6(Roland)
Flute : Muramatsu Flute 
Piccolo : Yamaha Piccolo
Fuzz： SILICON BABY

Future Antique 22 (Fuzz+Flute=Fun!!)

FUCK!!!

This track is included in my new collaborative album HIGHFLUX: ariad.bandcamp.com/album/highflux I collaborated with my amazing friend @primaloop. I hope you will like the result as we do. The full album contains a bonus track.

primaloop: original drums and effects
ariad: clarinet, glockenspiel, keyboard

More infos: https://ariad-music.com/music/highflux/

HIGHFLUX

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Ambient and electronic music. Hardware, software, acoustic, and electric instruments. Dipping my toe in hardware modular synthesis. Might still work on a Bandcamp release. . .

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