wait a minute, November was 7 weeks ago !

An excellnt composition and arrangement Frank..Beautiful sound and production too.

Very beautiful epic- romantic track (great change at 2:56 more or less)

Great, how this driving string theme emerges @1:55 into the music and gives it that forward drive. You really got a knack for truly cineastic soundscapes 👍

In memoriam, the bombing of Guernica, Spain, April 26, 1937. A lamentation in music.

And in 2024, for the injured, displaced, and departed around the world as invading forces of tyranny rain down death and destruction upon innocent people.

I literally cried as I updated my old composition about the bombing of Guernica. 

Originally composed in GarageBand, I finished the first version of this song on April 26, 2013, not consciously aware that the date was the anniversary of the atrocity committed by fascists against civilians during the Spanish Civil War. I had had ambitions to create an animated short about its history and Picasso’s famous painting when I could afford the technology. So my first step was to use available resources and create the music, which I did 11 years ago. I have yet to produce the animation. Maybe someday. The cover art gives you an idea as to how I envisioned the graphics for the animated short.

This Guernica composition is my first attempt at composing neoclassical music. As a girl I would sing and hum made-up symphonies as I conducted an imaginary orchestra. I’ve got hundreds of improvised concertos, sonatas, fugues, and arias deep in my memory banks that sometimes creep into my contemporaneous music.

This week, as the anniversary of Guernica approached, I imported my old music file into my current DAW and refreshed it, adding French horn, the first instrument I played as a young student. I also added audio of propeller planes recorded live in March and April 2024. And I pushed the previous violin and cello parts to the limit, so if you hear a screeching violin or a groaning cello, it’s intentional; war gives millions of reasons to scream and wail. The composition’s 8-chord structure is repeated as if to state the obvious — we, humans, have yet to contain our violence individually and collectively. We witness and experience the horror of mass murder and war around the globe. Every. Damn. Day.

I realize my song probably isn’t going to be a favorite for listeners, not my usual chill music. But I’m also a firm believer in the idea that sunlight is the best disinfectant. With this music about Guernica and the history of 1937, I am reminded how far we’ve come, and yet, how little we’ve changed. But change we must, and I believe humanity will change for the better. The question is when.

Guernica

For my first track of 2024 i wanted to create a piece which has this spirit of optimism which i also have when thinking about the future.

Let there be more music to come cause 
"without music, life is a journey through a desert" - Pat Conroy

Enjoy!

The Journey Continues

Instrumental Composition, bass, guitar, mix by Garddwr Porffor: https://soundcloud.com/garddwrporffor
Vocals, Vocal Composition, Lyrics by Nadia Selvaggi

Player by Garddwr Porffor & Nadia Selvaggi

Yearning

Timelines

Morning Travelers

Hey Guys,

so this is my new Track Into the Multiverse.
I wanted to create something epic and big as the Tracks from Audiomachine which always have this huge soundscape. 
I really enjoyed working with the synths and effects and probably gonna come back to this style of music.

Enjoy listening and have a great day :) !

Journey's vast expanse,
Multiverse beckons, unseen,
Worlds await, dance on.

Into The Multiverse

I made my own version of Brad Fiedel's wonderful composition. I wanted to honor the original work, which I love a lot.

Terminator Theme Cover

Music: PJ Project & Janne Hennie
Lyrics & Vocal: Janne Hennie
Instruments & Mix: PJ Project

Lyrics:

I always felt alone
Had no one to lean on
There was heavy clouds over me..
I was let down as a child
And lost all trust in people
Had to find my own way to survive..
I was so afraid of being let down again
Of those who said they loved me
And said they were my friend..

So I built a wall
I built a solid wall
My own place where I could feel safe..
No one got through there
No one could sense my fear
No one could hurt me
I could hide behind my wall..

Then you came 
And everything changed
You broke through my wall
Made sure I didn't fall..
I felt I could trust you 
when you said you loved me
I felt safe when you said you were my friend..
You wiped all my tears..
I could share all my secrets
You held me close
And chased away all my fears..

I had built a wall
I had built a solid wall
My own place 
where I could feel safe..
But you got through there
You could sense my fear
But you didn't hurt me
I didn't have to hide anymore...

Behind My Wall W/PJ Project

„Hymne des Jupiter (24.04.2024 )

Majestätisch thront Jupiter in unserem Sonnensystem.
Diesem Planeten widme ich diese Komposition.
So suchte ich nach einem wuchtigem und massivem Instrument das die Erhabenheit und Klangfülle zu erzeugen vermag.
Ich fand diesen in der großen Orgel der Royal Albert Hall und wählte die Registereinstellung
„Stimme des Jupiters“ 
Diese Stimmen also die Orgelpfeifen des Jupiters, verliehen dieser Komposition den richtigen atmosphärischen Klangraum.

Eine erhabene Klangfarbe die nur annähernd die Kraft dieses Planeten auszudrücken vermag.

Vielen Dank für Eure geschätzte Aufmerksamkeit.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music

Musik :  Björn Cloppenburg  Alle Rechte vorbehalten
Foto	:  Björn Cloppenburg
Es wurden für dieses Projekt virtuelle Instrumente der folgenden Firmen verwendet:
https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com   Enigma Recordings Ltd. 
https://audiobro.com  GENESIS CHILDREN´S CHOIR    
https://www.native-instruments.com/de/  LORES


“Hymn of Jupiter (April 24, 2024)

Jupiter sits majestically in our solar system.
I dedicate this composition to this planet.
So I was looking for a powerful and solid instrument that could produce grandeur and fullness of sound.
I found this in the great organ at the Royal Albert Hall and selected the stop setting
“Voice of Jupiter”
These voices, the organ pipes of Jupiter, gave this composition the right atmospheric sound space.

A sublime timbre that can only come close to expressing the power of this planet.

Thank you for your valued attention.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/cloppenburg-music

Music: Björn Cloppenburg All rights reserved
Photo: Björn Cloppenburg
Virtual instruments from the following companies were used for this project:
https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com Enigma Recordings Ltd.
https://audiobro.com GENESIS CHILDREN'S CHOIR
https://www.native-instruments.com/de/ LORES

Hymn of Jupiter

I apologize for the high frequencies and the unbalanced overall mix, but two years ago I was not so familiar with final post processing...

In the dark season, hold on to what is dear to you...I wish you all good health and happiness!
Stay healthy, become happy, be one!

November

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.

November

𝐹𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝑀𝑒𝒽𝓁

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