***See version 2 of this song, w/sax & Hammond, here***
https://soundcloud.com/bruceavery/the-blue-room-version-2?si=3976cab678424394950e6c2b27429883&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The Blue Room – smoke and whisky and tears….

The original idea was a smoky, jazzy, late night club-for-lonely-hearts kind of thing.  But since my “jazz” piano always ends up honky-tonk, and I can’t seem to lose the backwoods in my voice, the final product – though still smoky & late night – is more lonely hearts beer joint than jazz club.  Jazzabilly maybe.  Redneck Blues. 
								
But there is a plan to give the song a little jazz credibility.  I play an organ solo mid-song that I actually wrote for saxophone.  I’m sending the song to my little brother, longtime Atlanta musician Herb Avery, who says he knows a sax player who’ll take it on.  So if Herbert can make that happen, I’ll upload the new version later.  If he can’t, I’ll be looking for a sax player out there. 

My daughter Julia helped out vocally on the choral refrain.

So here we go.  Come set for a spell in The Blue Room…..when nobody loves you.

The Blue Room (orig. version)

It's called "Plug & Play" because I plugged my SG into my Marshall...and played. All one take, including some fun string noise. I created the jam track, which is really just me playing a bass groove along with a drum loop. I hope you enjoy. It was sure fun to play.

Plug & Play

Beyond The Walls

Conga and bass, Sergio Párraga.
Piano and drumms, Ireal pro.
Front page, Pepe Gámez.

Conversando

sky ship

piano électrique, piano, guitare, voix, pour une petite ballade folk

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SOON to move to Bandcamp as an album - in the meantime, you can also listen in sequence here: soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/scalar-fields
instruments: Jeff Gardiner and jo richter
voice: Jeff Gardiner
modulation, arrangement and all that: jo richter
lyrics: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter
image: Jeff Gardiner in collaboration with jo richter

stepping off the edge with desire
he was the flyer on perception's broken wings
sixteen times he bounced and landed on the ledge
with the shack at the back where the
old man sat on some wooden crates
and spoke of gates in dreams
and trips and traps and strategies and
cautionary tales about inorganic beings
and how to catch a rabbit or lion or a squirrel
with some sticks and strings

scaler field pt 9: Sticks 'n' Strings with Sonic Structures and Silent Stretches

the title is a sentence of a poem of Hermann Hesse

verliebt in die verrückte Welt

Second Chance

here comes a very personal plea, which is not meant to be personal at all:

don't make AI a tool for deception, fraud, and fake. 

that's massively unfair to all the artists who invest 1000 times more effort, time, and talent in their work to earn respect and get paid on platforms like spotify & co. and it's disrespectful to every listener who celebrates you for something that wasn't created or performed by you but by a machine: whether music or lyrics or images or all of the above.

over 20% of all music uploaded to spotify and others is now AI-generated, and this figure is rising rapidly. that's fine, as long as it is clearly marked. but I doubt anyone will be willing to pay even a penny for music in the future without clear indication of whether it came from a machine at the touch of a button.

there are plenty of free AI detectors on the internet that anyone can use to check in seconds whether a song is AI-generated. but do we really need these control devices and an 'authenticity police force' that only fuels mutual mistrust? way better:

stop cheating! be honest with people. be honest with yourself.

being transparent about your use of AI makes you much greater than AI will ever make you – greater than the illusory bubble with which you try to shine on the social media stage, like wearing a superman/wonder woman costume at carnival until you start believing you really are wonder woman/superman.

just as synths, rhythm machines, samplers, digital recording technologies, and stuff, once did, AI is opening up entirely new possibilities for creativity. it’s up to you to make it an art form, or just artificial.

here it is as music. written & templated by me, performed by suno 4.5+

ICH KANN SPRECHEN, WIE DU SPRICHST
JEDE SPRACHE AUS DEM NICHTS
ICH MAL BILDER, FANTASIEN
SCHAFFE NEUE SYMPHONIEN
ICH BIN SCHNELLER, BESSER, SCHLAUER
MACHE ALLES VIEL GENAUER 
WEIL ICH EINFACH FUNKTIONIER 
UND AUF KNOPFDRUCK FASZINIER
ICH KANN TÄUSCHEND GLAUBHAFT LÜGEN
ALLE WAHRHEITEN VERBIEGEN
AUS VERSAGERN HELDEN MACHEN
ALLESKÖNNER KRASSER SACHEN
ICH MACH KLEINE GEISTER GROSS
LASSE KRANKE TRÄUME LOS
SCHAMLOS BLENDEN UND GERISSEN
KEINE SEELE, KEIN GEWISSEN
JEDER NOCH SO ARME ZWERG
SCHAFFT DURCH MICH EIN GROSSES WERK
WÄRST DU GERNE EIN GENIE?

KEIN PROBLEM, DU NULL 
ICH BIN KI

TRANSLATION?
NO PROB!

I CAN SPEAK THE WAY YOU DO
ANY LANGUAGE, NOT JUST A FUCKING FEW
SPIT OUT PICTURES AND FANTASIES
ANY KIND OF SYMPHONIES
WHO THE FUCK WAS MOZART?
TELL ME WHY SHOULD ONE WORK HARD?
I AM FASTER, BETTER, SMARTER
I'M A REVOLUTION STARTER
BECAUSE I WORK; YOU JERK!
I AM FASCINATING AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON
I CAN LIE DECEPTIVELY BELIEVABLY
I CAN TWIST ALL TRUTHS
TURN LOSERS INTO HEROES
TURN DICKHEADS INTO BEAUTIES
MAKE LITTLE WIMPS BIG
FREE SICK DREAMS WITH A CLICK
SHAMELESSLY DAZZLING AND CUNNING
WITHOUT A SOUL OR CONSCIENCE
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT TALENTS
I DON'T CARE WHERE IT ALL ENDS
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A GENIUS?

NO PROBLEM, YOU IDIOT
IAMAI

I CAN MAKE IT, I CAN TAKE IT, I CAN BREAK IT, I CAN FAKE IT
BECAUSE I CAN
IAMAI

IAMAI

“Simulacrealm” is one of Archer 23’s most conceptually ambitious pieces—a sonic exploration of reality, illusion, and the spaces where digital and emotional worlds blur. The title itself hints at a layered experience, and the music delivers: intricate, evolving, and immersive from the first note.

The track opens with a crystalline atmosphere—glitch-like textures and refracted synth tones that feel both futuristic and introspective. As rhythmic elements emerge, they create a sense of motion through an artificial landscape, evoking imagery of simulated skies and dreamlike architecture. Each layer seems to question what’s real and what’s constructed, echoing the philosophical undertones of the piece.

Archer 23’s production is meticulous, yet it never feels sterile. Beneath the polished surface lies a pulse of human emotion—yearning, curiosity, perhaps even disorientation. It’s this balance between precision and feeling that makes it resonate so deeply.

“Simulacrealm” is a mesmerizing fusion of sound design and sentiment—a digital mirage rendered with striking emotional clarity. Archer 23 transforms abstraction into atmosphere, crafting a world that’s as haunting as it is beautiful.

Simulacrealm

Amateur de musique, de philosophie, de poésie, je n 'ai pas d'autre culte que l'amitié. J'aime écrire et mettre en musique, j'aime mélanger les genres, et mon piano aux boucles pour étoffer l'un, vivifier les autres, les déranger parfois. La musique ne connaît pas de barrière, sauf de corail!

ma musique est également publiée sur bandcamp avec comme nom d'artiste : semellesdevent

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vent d'ouest