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🌊🚣‍♀️This weeks music is inspired by rivers

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River 🚣‍♀️

By the River

Waterfall Gully

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Submission to Music Weeklies Challenge ;)

The River

What lurks under the surface of a glistening river flowing?
All seems calm and tranquil BUT there are things that swim in 'packs' looking for prey beneath the surface.

The Amazon is about 4000 miles long and is a myriad of tributaries, inlets, swamps and pools teaming with wildlife. As some are beautiful others are, not so beautiful, and are deadly. 

I set out to create a tranquil riverscape but like most of my tracks they evolve into other things quite by chance and being involved with Music Weeklies ( https://www.musicweeklieschallenge.com/ ) has given me space and spurred me more to experiment with very old gear and sounds. I usually spend a large proportion of my time thinking about a subject and what type of sounds might evoke that thing or image, like a painter does with paint. But, like an artist who likes to experiment with colour and techniques, very often too much knob twiddling results in happy accidents and this is one of those tracks, altering my ideas a great deal. 
Eureka! a sound that to me was like a shoal of angry hunting piranhas looking for prey enmasse.

It’s a simple tale of nature, the hunters and the hunted and here at the end in a dark pool, one lucky piranha muscles its way into the writhing throng and thumping the side of the prey with its jaws, tears off good sized chunks of flesh.

I knew watching poorly made B movies on rainy afternoons would come in handy one day.

Artwork based on a photo by Attis 1979 of a Red Bellied Piranha  (Pygocentrus Nattereri) on Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License.

Piranha

It's been a couple weeks since I've uploaded something new (I was in a bit of a creative rut). Inspired by this week's challenge theme "Rivers," I decided on a short but emotional journey. I pictured a group of survivors making their way to a river in order to have the current carry them away from the place that they were in. I want to come back to this one to work on it some more, but I hope you enjoy it for what it is! Feedback is always appreciated. :)

Photo by Jeff Finley on Unsplash

Riverbound

This week's @MusicWeeklies theme is #River so I thought I would allude, fairly overtly as it turned out, to one of the great European rivers.  Can you guess which one?  I think it is time for a new melody tomorrow and I've got a broad idea of where I am going to go.  It'll be interesting to see how it works out.

10 Sep 21 Going With The Flow

Today's #MusicalMinute is a humble submission to the @MusicWeeklies #Smart challenge.  Fashions come and go, but if you step back you can see that they often move in cycles.  Interestingly, this makes for some intriguing predictions and perspectives.  Anyway, I hope you like the track...

07 Jul 23 Best Bib & Tucker

Somewhere, hidden in plain sight, is a #SecretBase patrolled by the staff of @MusicWeeklies!  Nothing gets past them, not a note unheard.  Their reach is enormous, influencing creative minds across the globe.  How do you gain access?  By using a combination of # & @…

08 Dec 23 Hidden Lab

Sometimes, you can be so busy doing what needs to be done, that you forget why you’re doing it.  I imagine that it must be like that, at times, in #SantasWorkshop, the theme for this week’s @MusicWeeklies challenge.  How many toys get made each year?  Thankfully, help is coming…

15 Dec 23 Elfving Away

This week’s @MusicWeeklies challenge is #Crystals, so I thought I’d strip away all the woodwind, brass and traditional instruments.  This uncovered the complexities that have been omnipresent in the percussion.  The strings return, providing a calming soundscape for an earworm-like melody on the celeste.  What do you think?

22 Dec 23 Simple Clarity

Today’s #MusicalMinute revisits the meditative melody from a few days earlier.  However, the accompaniment has evolved to encompass a soundscape of energetic calm!  In the 21st Century, it appears that you get what you focus on most.  Was it always thus?

05 Jan 24 Calm Focus

I started composing daily pieces and posting them onto SoundCloud at the beginning of 2013.  By posting daily I am tweaking, experimenting and developing a thought, idea or event in time.  I am endeavouring to show that there is no limit to that creative spark that lies within each of us.  So much of what we do nowadays is about instant return, I am about evolution not revolution (although each month starts with a clean slate).  Join me on my journey to 10,000 (18 May 2040!!!)

Over the years I have found the Soundcloud community to be extremely supportive and encouraging.  It’s great to have a Global Mastermind of musical adventurers.

Thank you!

10 Sep 21 Going With The Flow

Graham Casey