Forest

Merry Christmas all!

Bits of this recorded within Leafcutter John's amazing Max/MSP "Forester 2022" software. Check it out here: http://leafcutterjohn.com/forester-2022/

Enjoy!

1.36AM

Daffodildo

SCHWARZE BLUMEN

distant boat

Several decades ago, a daughter of a middle-class family had disappeared & ended up with her body tossed in a river.
The deceased had 4 siblings that were jealous of her & wanted her inheritance portion.
So, before her 18th birthday the egomaniac sisters decided to get rid of her. 
In a plot to drive the victim crazy, they failed. The wicked sisters then contrived a plan to ensure that their desires would be fulfilled by their own maniacal methods. They would invite their target to go swimming. 
...Except, when they all joined together under the guise of family love, they strangled & drown their innocent sister. 
Now the body has come to the surface & is discovered by fishermen out boating. The sisters do not yet know they will now be hunted for custody. 
The strange thing about the murder case is that the other relatives were found to be in on the death, too. Greed was an obvious malefactor set to create demise, but there was far more of a dark secret that was the motive for doing away with the one sister. What did the deceased know that she shouldn't have?
The authorities have a tough road ahead of them as they cut through a thick 'wall' of family feigned charm turned fatal.

Discovering The Missing Body

Explore 5th intervals, with natural harmonics

Forest 01

Trying to find the edges in a drone universe.

Photo by Daniel Seßler on Unsplash.

Forest 02

το κάστρο

Cameo

Forest 03 - drone track, primary voice modular synth, with field recordings.

Photo by Karl Anderson on Unsplash.

Forest 03

Darker forest series track. Too much 'melody' for drone? Any comments appreciated. 

Photo by Phoebe Strafford on Unsplash

Forest 04

Christopher Columbus first came to Portugal to ask for some ships for his idea of reaching India sailing west. But the estimate he presented to the Portuguese court of the distances to reach Cipango and China were clearly wrong, and the request was refused. It was suicide. As he stumbled upon the Antilles, Columbus found his salvation and glory. But he never acknowledged that he was wrong, and that's why the new continent was not called Colombia. Amerigo Vesppucci wrote a popular book about the new territory, which was eventually named after him. 

PARTIR

Pour arriver, il faut partir.
I faut rêver d'une quelque part,
parfois envers et contre tous,
tout enivré de faux espoirs.

Il y a d'étonnantes découvertes 
qui nous attendent à l'horizon
sur les chemins pris par des fous
les Christophe Colomb qui risquent tout
cherchant la gloire d'inouïs voyages
et les richesses, et les mirages
pour étancher leur soif de faire
pour s'affranchir d'être néant.

Mais je ne pars pas, moi.
Je ne suis pas fou...
Je fais partie des sots bien sages
qui restent au port bien prudemment
pour éviter tous les naufrages,
pour échapper aux coups de vent.

Je peux vous dire, prenant de l'âge,
que j'ai vécu sans rien trouver,
que j'ai vieilli pour rien du tout.
Tout, sauf l'ennui et le regret
d'avoir raté la nef des fous.

LEAVING

To get somewhere, we need to leave.
We have to dream about some place,
sometimes against all odds,
inebriated with false hopes.

There are amazing discoveries
that await us on the horizon
on the paths taken by madmen
the Christopher Columbus who risks everything
seeking the glory of unheard voyages
and the riches, and the mirages,
to quench their thirst for doing something
to free themselves from being nothing.

But I'm not leaving.
I'm not crazy...
I am one of those wise fools
who very cautiously stay in the harbor
to avoid all shipwrecks,
to keep away from the gusts of wind.

I can tell you, now that I'm old,
that I have lived without a finding,
that I grew old without a purpose.
Nothing, except the boredom and the regret
of having missed the ship of fools.

Partir JFC (Based on Gérald Olivieri Soundtrack)

A sketch I did in Spring 2023. Listening back now in the Fall after not hearing it for a long time, realize that I like the flow combining ambient ideas with rhythmic elements.

I think it works in my Forest series of ambient and drone tracks.

Photo by silvana amicone on Unsplash.

Forest 05

16 flower in the darkness

It Was Always You

Short

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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