The episode begins with the distinction between pseudoscientific astrology and the scientific observations of astronomy. Sagan traces the evolution of astronomical observations, beginning with constellations and ceremonial calendars (such as that of the Anasazi). The episode is then devoted to the opposition between geocentric and heliocentric models, the beginnings of Claudius Ptolemy, the theories of Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and finally the achievements of Johannes Kepler (Kepler's laws).

Die Episode beginnt mit der Unterscheidung zwischen Pseudowissenschaftlicher Astrologie und den wissenschaftlichen Beobachtungen der Astronomie. Sagan verfolgt die Entwicklung der astronomischen Beobachtungen, beginnend mit Sternkonstellationen und zeremoniellen Kalendern (wie dem der Anasazi). Die Episode widmet sich dann dem Gegensatz zwischen Geo- und -Heliozentrischen Modellen, den Anfängen von Claudius Ptolemäus, den Theorien von Nikolaus Kopernikus und Tycho Brahe und schließlich den Errungenschaften von Johannes Kepler (Keplersche Gesetze).

Cosmos Part III - The Harmony Of The Worlds

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."

The keys of true love (Part II):

💕💜💕

The water teaches you never to poison true love with pain. If the love of your life ever feels mental or physical pain, the first commandment is to comfort her with your compassion and empathy. Compassion here is meant as sympathetic and based on your understanding of the pain. True to the maxim, "A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved," this will strengthen and nurture true love.

the five elements of love | part two - water

"Love is a gift from the innermost soul to another so that both can be whole."
The keys of true love (Part III):

💕💜💕

The air teaches you never to poison true love with unhappiness. If the love of your life is ever unhappy, your top priority should be to sow happiness back into the relationship. Because the filial self, which can enjoy many small things, helps your relationship to focus on the small, subtle and important things of true love.

Die Luft lehrt Dich, die wahre Liebe niemals mit Unglück zu vergiften. Sollte die Liebe Deines Lebens jemals unglücklich sein, so sollte es Dein oberstes Bestreben sein, die Glückseligkeit wieder in die Beziehung zu sähen. Denn das kindliche Ich, das sich an vielen kleinen Dingen erfreuen kann, hilft Deiner Beziehung, sich auf die kleinen, feinen und wichtigen Dinge der wahren Liebe zu fokussieren.

the five elements of love | part three - air

I initially wanted to add crash & cymbals, timpanis and effects....but then I thought to myself, "Nope, I'll leave it like this!"

All composed and played and recorded by me, by the way. Influenced by many things. 

17 tracks
13 libraries
3 sample packs
1x Magix 

How this comes about?
No idea!

Undying Thoughts

"For they know not that they seek only the chase and not the prey."
                                                   (Blaise Pascal)

Men have a blast hunting, completely independent of success, women are only interested in the prey and its size.

Renegade

https://youtu.be/sUBHNodYGdA

Why the hummingbird is the king of the animals?

When the lion, the king of the animals, died, the animals wanted to choose a new king. "The animal with the greatest strength shall be king," cried the elephant. He trampled back and forth and uprooted a tree, roots and all, to show that he was the strongest. "You have to be not only strong, but also fast," said the tiger. "Look at me. My paws are strong and my legs can run as fast as the wind. Choose me as your king."
"Stop, stop!" cried the rhinoceros. "A king must be strong in battle. Many a tiger has died fighting me. Choose me as your king!" Snorting, the rhinoceros stomped toward the throne and stood close to it. The animals marveled at the elephant's power, the tiger's speed, and the rhino's strength. But none of the three animals was particularly popular. If the elephant came in a large herd, he hardly left anything for the others. Some relatives of the animals had already fallen victim to the tiger, and the rhinoceros began to quarrel with everyone. At that moment a shadow flew over the heads of the animals. They looked up and saw the eagle flying through the air with his mighty wings directly at the king's throne. He looked around and said, "I am not only strong and powerful, I can also fly. Therefore, elect me king, for no one can fly higher than I can." The animals cheered, clapped and shouted, "The eagle can fly the highest, he shall be the king. Up! Up!"
But in the midst of the tumult, the hummingbird flew to the king's throne. He fluttered his little wings and said, "Who says you are the one who can fly the highest? Before you become our king, you must prove it." Then the crowd became silent. The eagle said, "I will prove to you that I can fly the highest. If the hummingbird can fly higher than I can, then he shall be king." When the animals heard this, they began to laugh. The elephant, tiger and rhinoceros shouted, "How will you be able to fly higher than the eagle, you are much too small!" The other animals also laughed at the hummingbird. "Now you have to race the eagle, it serves you right!" But the latter did not let himself be put off. "I'm ready!" he shouted. "Where do we want to fly from?"
The eagle pointed to a tall coconut tree. "There our race shall begin." He lifted his big wings and flew to a branch of the palm tree. The hummingbird flew quickly after him and landed just above the eagle on a small branch. All the animals stood in a semicircle under the coconut palm. The hare was to give the signal to begin.  When the hare gave the signal, the eagle rose into the air. The hummingbird, which had been sitting above him, settled on the eagle's back and let himself be carried up into the sky. The animals looked up and said, "We can only see the eagle. The hummingbird must be flying so high that we can't see it at all." The eagle flew in wide circles higher and higher toward the sun. Finally, the sun was burning too hot, so the eagle decided to fly back. At that moment, the hummingbird fluttered off the eagle's back high into the air and cried, "Look, I'm flying higher than you!" Astonished, the eagle looked up and could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the hummingbird flying above him in the sky. With his last strength he still tried to reach the hummingbird, but he was already too exhausted. With hanging wings he raced towards the earth and landed exhausted with the waiting animals. They had been watching the race closely and were waiting anxiously for the hummingbird. When it finally flew in, they shouted, "The hummingbird has won, he is our new king!" So the hummingbird became the king of the animals. The eagle, however, has not forgiven him for his trickery to this day.

A Fairytale from Nigeria.

Image: Cristina Roters

🎞️ Video

Soar Behind The Sky

Music composed, played, arranged & mixed by frank mehl 😃

"Listen" to the Video at https://youtu.be/3EtPeRihXR8 📹
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Childhood is a sweet dream - and at least it should be, but adolescence is the first awakening from it - a state between dreaming and waking, in which both are at war with each other, as it were, and the feeling of being only momentarily, but not permanently, enters consciousness.
Luise Otto-Peters (1819 - 1895)

Do you still see the heart that you carved into the park bench or the nearby tree at the edge of the forest back then? The heart you carved into the wood when you first wanted to immortalize it? Wood that has been exposed to the elements can still preserve that first, heavy heart. Is yours still as luminous?
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Die Kindheit ist ein lieblicher Traum – und soll es wenigstens sein, aber die Jugend ist das erste Erwachen aus ihm – ein Zustand zwischen Träumen und Wachen, wo gleichsam beide miteinander im Kampfe liegen und das Daseinsgefühl nur erst in Momenten, aber nicht auf die Dauer zum Bewußtsein kommt.
Luise Otto-Peters (1819 - 1895)

📼 Video 👀

I Was Here

Join My Journey (Extended Version)

A song for a very special person...this one knows about it.

Happy birthday 🌹😍❤️

https://youtu.be/sxa45U2Bzt4 LISTEN to the Video 😁

Silver Pearl

https://youtu.be/JA25Cl8A7Dc 🦅🧐

"What has wings, that flies, and had it been born in a mole hole."

I think I have succeeded here quite a beautiful song...🤔

In the video I use a "pimped" version of the song. I was missing a bit of the timpanis & rolls. Maybe I'll replace this one with the YT version 🤔 what do you think?

Video 📹

Upon Higher Wings

Yesterday was "The Today" Tomorrow.

The past is the truth,
the present is a coincidence,
and the future is a theory.
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Video 📽️🎵

Into The Future

My last track for now, based on my "Myriad Love". I wish you a good time, stay creative, keep your head up...and always be kind to each other 🤗👍🙏
THANK YOU ALL!

C U 🥰🤗

DL free 😊❤️

Myriads Of Thanks To All My Friends | LOVE YOU ❤️

Do you want to be an angel? -
"Yes, to show people on earth..,
that we exist."

TRITONUS/TRITONE__________________________________________________

Who knows to what extent the Church forbade composers to use this interval. According to musicologist Anthony Pryer, the tritone "...was recognized as a problem in music as early as the 9th century [and] as a natural consequence, and so they banned it [and] had rules to get around it. I don't think it was ever considered the devil residing in music".

Why is the tritone considered evil?
In the typical story about the tritone, many people believed that this interval had such an unpleasant sound that the people of the Middle Ages considered the tritone to be "the devil's work."

As we have already noted, we rarely hear the tritone as an independent interval. However, as with everything in music theory, there are many counterexamples. One such example of the devil's tritone can be found in the Black Sabbath classic " Black Sabbath ".

Listening to it, one might think that this is exactly what the church wanted to ban centuries ago!

The tritone interval is contained in every dominant seventh chord. The tritone interval gives the dominant seventh chord such a strong resolution to the I chord in a chord progression.

Fallen Angel

Väterchen Frost fegt übers Feld,
- der Winter kehrt jetzt ein.
Er pustet, was die Lunge hält,
hüllt Feld und Wiesen ein.

Ich sitze drinnen, in meinem Zimmer
und schaue hinaus, in die Natur.
Auf den Wegen, ein weißer Schimmer,
darin so manche feine Spur.

Die Tapsen dort, von Nachbars Katz´.
Sie schleicht gern um den Gartenteich.
Auch der kleine flinke Spatz,
stibitzt gern Futter in unserem Reich.

Im dicken alten Kiefernbaum,
hängen jetzt die Futterglocken.
Die Landschaft wird zum Wintertraum,
die Luft ist herrlich kalt und trocken.

Der Winter ließ lange auf sich warten,
jetzt ist er da, - zur Weihnachtszeit.
Lichterglanz erhellt den Garten,
wie schön wäre es, wenn es noch schneit.

𝒢𝓊𝒹𝓇𝓊𝓃 𝒩𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓁-𝒲𝒾𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓇

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Father Frost sweeps across the field,
- Winter is coming now.
He blows what his lungs can hold,
envelops the fields and meadows.

I sit inside, in my room
and look out into nature.
On the paths, a white shimmer,
in it many a fine trace.

The taps there, from the neighbor's cat.
She likes to sneak around the garden pond.
And the nimble little sparrow,
likes to steal food from our kingdom.

In the thick old pine tree,
the feeding bells are now hanging.
The landscape becomes a winter dream,
the air is wonderfully cold and dry.

Winter has been a long time coming,
but now it's here - at Christmas time.
Twinkling lights illuminate the garden,
How nice it would be if it were still snowing.

Väterchen Frost | Little Father Frost

THE SAD CORONATION 👸
 
There was a King Milesint, 
Of whom I will tell you: 
He assassinated his brother's child, 
Wanted to wear the crown himself. 
The coronation was celebrated with pomp 
At Liffey Castle. 
O Ireland! Ireland! were you so blind? 

The king sits at midnight 
In the empty marble hall, 
Looks astray at all the new splendor, 
As if drunk with the feast; 
He speaks to his son: 
"Once more bring the crown! 
But look, who has opened the gates?"

Then comes a strange play of the dead, 
A procession with silent footsteps, 
Hooded guests great and many, 
A crown sways in the midst; 
It pushes through the gate 
With whispers without words; 
The king, he is so spiritually dizzy. 

And from the black crowd looks 
A child with a fresh wound; 
He smiles with dying pain and nods, 
He makes the rounds in the hall, 
He paces to the throne, 
He hands a crown 
To the king, whose heart is deeply shocked. 

Thereupon the procession swept away, 
Intoxicated by the morning air, 
The candles flicker whimsically, 
The moon at the window listens; 
The son with fear and silence 
To his father would lean, - 
He leans over a corpse.

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Die traurige Krönung 
 
Es war ein König Milesint, 
Von dem will ich euch sagen: 
Der meuchelte sein Bruderskind, 
Wollte selbst die Krone tragen. 
Die Krönung ward mit Prangen 
Auf Liffey-Schloß begangen. 
O Irland! Irland! warest du so blind? 

Der König sitzt um Mitternacht 
Im leeren Marmorsaale, 
Sieht irr in all die neue Pracht, 
Wie trunken von dem Mahle; 
Er spricht zu seinem Sohne: 
"Noch einmal bring die Krone! 
Doch schau, wer hat die Pforten aufgemacht?"

Da kommt ein seltsam Totenspiel, 
Ein Zug mit leisen Tritten, 
Vermummte Gäste groß und viel, 
Eine Krone schwankt inmitten; 
Es drängt sich durch die Pforte 
Mit Flüstern ohne Worte; 
Dem Könige, dem wird so geisterschwül. 

Und aus der schwarzen Menge blickt 
Ein Kind mit frischer Wunde; 
Es lächelt sterbensweh und nickt, 
Es macht im Saal die Runde, 
Es trippelt zu dem Throne, 
Es reichet eine Krone 
Dem Könige, des Herze tief erschrickt. 

Darauf der Zug von dannen strich, 
Von Morgenluft berauschet, 
Die Kerzen flackern wunderlich, 
Der Mond am Fenster lauschet; 
Der Sohn mit Angst und Schweigen 
Zum Vater tät sich neigen, – 
Er neiget über eine Leiche sich.

𝐸𝒹𝓊𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝑀ö𝓇𝒾𝓀𝑒 (1804 - 1875), 𝒹𝑒𝓊𝓉𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝐸𝓇𝓏ä𝒽𝓁𝑒𝓇, 𝐿𝓎𝓇𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒟𝒾𝒸𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓇

par interim

A few weeks ago, Anna B May called for a remix competition to remix her song "In Another Life".

As you can see, my entry was unfortunately not among the winners. But I had a lot of fun and the words of appreciation from Anna, Kasique and lost.empathy were reward enough.

Feel free to watch the live contest with all the participants:
https://www.youtube.com/live/zH_1_kv5suE?si=yY0GMn9ojbWQaY53

You can listen to Anna B May's wonderful track in the original here: https://youtu.be/wbczVG3_esE?si=-Zb2gRTwGp1tAlgd

Anna B May's "In Another Life" |  remix by frank mehl

Voices Of War | Epic Version

Echoes Of Time

I particularly enjoyed working with Gabriele C. Kunz. I was very taken with her "Magical Melodies" and asked her if I could orchestrate it. Thanks to her enchanting personality and the inspiring original, it was an easy undertaking. Let yourself be captivated by the magic of this enchanting song...

Here is the link to the track on her portfolio and please, please visit Gabriele C. Kunz' page. Her music is so colorful and joyful.

👉🏻https://on.soundcloud.com/muopqBQSNEwJLbno9

Lyrics:
[Verse]
In a land of dreams
Where the moonlight gleams
There's a fairy creature
With mystical themes
With a voice so pure
And a heart so bright
She sings her song
To create a new light
[Verse 2]
With every note
The stars align
As she weaves her magic
In a rhythm divine
Her melody floats
In the soft night air
Creating a world
Beyond compare
[Chorus]
Her song soars
Like a gentle breeze
Unveiling a realm
Where dreams find peace
With each sweet word
Her power unfurls
The fairy creature
Who creates new worlds...

Magical Melodies w/ Gabriele C. Kunz

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest in all the land? “ Then the mirror replied: ”Madam Queen, you are the most beautiful here, but Snow White over the seven mountains with the seven dwarfs is a thousand times more beautiful than you...

Mirror, Mirror...

Leave it to time

If something seems outrageous to you,
You are outraged from the bottom of your heart,
Don't get up, don't try to argue,
Don't touch it, leave it to time.
On the first day you will cowardly scold yourself,
On the second, you will accept your silence,
On the third you will have overcome it,
Everything is important only for hours,
Anger is a consumptive and a poisoner of life,
Time is balm and peacemaker.
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Überlaß es der Zeit

Erscheint dir etwas unerhört,
Bist du tiefsten Herzens empört,
Bäume nicht auf, versuch's nicht mit Streit,
Berühr es nicht, überlaß es der Zeit.
Am ersten Tag wirst du feige dich schelten,
Am zweiten läßt du dein Schweigen schon gelten,
Am dritten hast du's überwunden,
Alles ist wichtig nur auf Stunden,
Ärger ist Zehrer und Lebensvergifter,
Zeit ist Balsam und Friedensstifter.

"Theodor Fontane (1819 - 1898), German writer, journalist, storyteller and theater critic."

serenity

SCATTER STARS

Take you by the hand,
to which you are given to us,
accompany the still small steps...
...attentively
stand by your side
and scatter stars for you
on a happy, bright path through life.

✨✨✨

STARGAZE

Different Fates

Tales Told In The Dark

Here I use the Intimate Grand Piano from Spitfire Audio. The track was recorded in one session, not quantized or edited. I usually sit down at the piano (keyboard) and play while the recording is running. Sometimes I forget the melody from three minutes ago while I'm playing, but then it comes back to me. That's how most of my songs are created.

Just a Piano

Mirror, mirror...in a new guise. I've given the title a new name to match the video on my YouTube channel.
https://youtu.be/vIhyvXdylUk?si=JIq8ouyEQCHkLlZT
I also gave the track more drama after the former end sequence with the help of Clara Sorace's wonderful yet epic legato soprano 😍

Lost in dark (searching for light)

Video 👉🏼 https://youtu.be/et4wrc6m8As?si=Aq_0MKSGwBMXlh8L

Video 🎦

Onwards My Heart Sings

The Envoy

A very esteemed colleague gave me the idea for this track. Her “Let's play” to the highly acclaimed computer game “Beyond Good & Evil” was the trigger. I wrote a trailer exclusively for her for the end card of her videos. Just under 20 seconds became almost 5 minutes. Please don't leave her unnoticed and check out her YouTube channel
👉🏼 https://www.youtube.com/@AniCatasTrophy/videos

👉🏼YT-Video

Beyond Good And Evil

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200. 
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying. 
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

Scepter

A small note on my own behalf: I have noticed that my playback figures have dropped dramatically. The statistics show that the number of playbacks has dropped from 2000 per week to just under 200.
On the one hand, this is frustrating, as everyone sees this as an indicator and confirmation of their work. On the other hand, figures are not particularly important, but one wonders what is wrong. In my opinion, SC has changed a lot, uploading tracks has become more complicated and constant security queries are annoying.
In addition, great artists are disappearing from the platform, partly by their own choice, partly because they have been banned, the algorithm has “recognized” them as spam and mercilessly deleted their account. I'm still a paying member, but my attitude towards this has changed...

Please let me know your experiences and impressions.

😮‍💨😔


When I don't have the time to actively listen to my favorite artists on soundcloud, I just leave the stream running...while washing up in the kitchen, for example 😆

By the way: this user-92853963 was my old link address and leads to the empty.... I AM NOT A ROBOT!

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A long, long time ago, there was an organ in the Christmas-decorated living room in his parents' house, where Frank grew up. Originally bought by his father for his two older siblings, they showed no interest in playing the organ. Frank, however, did. White and black keys and giving off strange sounds. 

So at the age of 9 he began to let his fingers circle on this instrument, searching for the right keys like on a typewriter. And another 9 years would pass before he could buy his first own instrument. Already at the age of 13 he made notes about the then current synthesizers, bought one magazine after the other and visited music fairs in Frankfurt, Germany.

His first keyboard was the Yamaha DSR-2000, which he bought in a music store near his hometown Biebertal. In installments! Finally he could develop himself further - away from the limited tonality of the small organ. The built-in 8-track sequencer helped him to reach unimagined heights. 
Little by little his equipment expanded and his ambition to create music like that of Jean-Michel Jarres came closer. Influenced by this and countless other musicians of the time, his interest grew, but he taught himself everything. Not even having attended a music school or being able to read music at all, he wrote one song after another and recorded them on the only medium available to him at the time: audio cassettes.
Many of these recordings are unfortunately lost forever, because cassettes are and were not the best recording medium. He has to try to play many of his songs from memory. 

In 2007, he fulfilled a long-awaited wish: to buy a KORG. He had always wanted to own one, but with the latest synthesizers at the time of their release having a purchase price of over 6000 D-marks (the currency of the time in the 1980s and 1990s), that dream of owning one was far away. So in 2007 he bought a used KORG 01W/FD at ebay. And as before with the purchase of the Yamaha keyboard, a completely new world opened up to him.

In addition, there were expanders and sound modules from Kawai, Roland and Yamaha (K1m, SC-55, QY10). Six years later his enthusiasm for making music ebbed and rediscovered his hobby (which it always was and still is). In 2018 in April he decided to present his music to a wider audience and uploaded his first song on the platform soundcloud. Since that time, thanks also to the ever-evolving software, he continues to evolve, experiment and relive his times through music.

Frank Mehl

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