Fascinating story and wonderful piece Frank!

As I listen I am wondering if you set out to write for this particular scenario, or did you write the piece and afterwards assign the tragedy to it? I would find the latter easier. (Not that I could write this kind of music!) It's beautiful, Frank.

Salut Frank .... Il y a un certain temps que je ne suis venu t'écouter .... mais c'est avec toujours un grand plaisir que je découvre cette page musicale où ton empreinte talentueuse donne toute sa saveur .... Même si une certaine mélancolie pour ne pas dire tristesse (avec les instruments utilisés) donne un certain gout amer de ce passé que tu décris ....

Excellent work, Frank.   Terrific scoring. Simply perfect.

Poverty
The "Schwabengehen", which finds its first mentions already in the 16th and 17th century, experienced its peak in the 19th century. It is estimated that at that time five to six thousand children worked annually on farms abroad as herd boys, maids or as farmhands. The background to this was the extremely low soil yields in the alpine regions and the associated poverty, which drove parents to send one or more of their numerous children abroad.

The Ways
The ways from Tyrol and Vorarlberg or from Switzerland to Upper Swabia were long and arduous. For some of the children, most of whom were between 5 and 14 years old, it led over mountain passes such as the Arlberg, which were usually still covered in snow in March and which many had to overcome with poor shoes and scanty clothing. Usually their companion was an adult, sometimes a priest, who made sure along the way that the children could settle down to sleep in warm stables and who negotiated prices at the markets. The construction of the Arlberg railroad in 1884 made the journey easier for the Tyrolean children.

The "children's markets" in Upper Swabia usually took place around Josephi (March 19). At Simon and Juda (end of October) or at the latest at Martini (November 11) they went back home. In the luggage were then the so-called "Doppelt Häs" (a double set of clothes from the headgear to the footwear) and, depending on the age and the negotiated price, a few guilders.

The Hütekinder arrived at the port of Friedrichshafen by ship from Bregenz. Since 1891, the central market place for the Hütekinder was in Karlstraße in Friedrichshafen. The children who were not placed traveled by train to Ravensburg to be placed there.

The work
In their homeland, Swabian children were exempted from compulsory schooling every year, and in the Kingdom of Württemberg the compulsory schooling that had existed there since 1836 did not apply to foreign children. The politically repeatedly demanded extension of compulsory schooling was prevented until 1921 by an Upper Swabian farmers' lobby.

Schwabenkinder (Swabian Children)

Join in for a quick Space Ride, I've experimented away and used some arps and a lot of electronic sounds. Hope you enjoy :-)

Space Ride

Out of the Box July 2022
The lid will not close...

My Yearning Makes Me Hollow

A children's fairy tale as a name giver? One might have expected that from economists, but from astrophysicists? Well, they were also inspired by economists when it came to finding a catchy, symbolic replacement for the term habitable zone. This is the name given to the area around a star in which life could arise on possible planets.


Very roughly speaking, the distance to the star must allow temperatures at which water remains liquid on the surface of a planet. According to the ideas of terrestrial biology, life cannot develop without this.

For decades, this was a rather theoretical consideration. The few scholars who thought about habitats in other star systems first spoke of ecosphere or life zone, until they finally agreed on habitable zone. Sounds nicely learned. But with the discovery of the first exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, at the end of the millennium, academic as well as general attention increased enormously: Is there something out there? Is there distant, alien life? Could there be? With each newly discovered exoplanet is meaningfully tapped: Isn't it so close to its star that it burns up everything? Doesn't it orbit it so far that everything freezes on its surface?

It's like in a fairy tale with Goldilocks and the three bears, where everything has to be just right. The porridge must not be too hot, the little bear's chair undamaged, his bed unused. Economists have long spoken of a goldilocks economy when moderate growth coincides with slight inflation. A fairy-tale term - now also for an astrobiological concept.

Brevity Of Life (Goldilocks)

On The Dark

The Mysterious Decibel - The Witch is Dead

Part of an original music short series

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Lyrics, instrumental, Vocals, Sounds, mix, song structure - The Mysterious Decibel

Vocals mastered by: Mark McClellan

Lyrics:

Blasphemy and Witchcraft boil right in the pot
Long strands of hair, Heresy and snot
Pitchforks and ropes carry her up the slope
Her final phrase echoed all the way to the pope!

The witch, she's dead
No more evil has spread
Burned her at the stake 
Curled toes to her head
A village in harmony, Gather around
The eye of the church and another one down

The Witch Is Dead

Émotions pendulaires lovées au céladon larvaire à peine effeuillées par la danse des phacélies en prières courbes, ici mangent les araignées calligraphes des transparences outrepassant ces sorbets sanguins si intimes aux squelettes des dehors indociles suffisamment carcasses connaisseuses pour enquiller quelques cailloux à leurs cocons que caressent les bourgeons femelles fushia du noisetier puis masse le mistral les romarins murmurant alors le mauve amoureux d'abeilles sauvages enfants des calices et des pistils peut être s'y filent ces semences suspendues lorsque d'autres éclatent à la gourmandise des campagnols dont les globes gobent tous photons avant de louer leur labyrinthe aussi argile mère goulue que les courtilières sous la plaine après les collines qui ne cessent de flûter nos nuages sauveurs et écrins des demains ou s'écrit déjà la victoire des terres et des femmes.

Nos Nuages Sauveurs

Written/Produced by: R.J. Dobben (RoTen)
Released on: 1/31/2023


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Maneuver

I Hear You

Adieu!

Only You

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.

Schwabenkinder (Swabian Children)

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