VIDEO:
https://vimeo.com/707289701
"Our system is the opposite of life"

Analysis

ANALYSIS

Tesseract Manipulator

Symphony No. 4 'Windmills of your mind' Op. 34 (2021)

for narrator and large symphony orchestra on a poem by Boris Pasternak

Dedicated to my mother

Daria Galan, narrator

(8th February - 20th March 2021)

The complete score : https://disk.yandex.com/i/1_NlvsdOQCP0fw

It is not seemly to be famous:
Celebrity does not exalt;
There is no need to hoard your writings
And to preserve them in a vault.

To give your all-this is creation,
And not-to deafen and eclipse.
How shameful, when you have no meaning,
To be on everybody's lips!

Try not to live as a pretender,
But so to manage your affairs
That you are loved by wide expanses,
And hear the call of future years.

Leave blanks in life, not in your papers,
And do not ever hesitate
To pencil out whole chunks, whole chapters
Of your existence, of your fate.

Into obscurity retiring
Try your development to hide,
As autumn mist on early mornings
Conceals the dreaming countryside.

Another, step by step, will follow
The living imprint of your feet;
But you yourself must not distinguish
Your victory from your defeat.

And never for a single moment
Betray your credo or pretend,
But be alive — this only matters —
Alive and burning to the end.

Boris Pasternak, Summer 1956

Symphony No. 4 'Windmills of your mind' Op. 34 (2021) [Midi Sound Mockup]

Chrome Vanadium

Spotify

Chrome Vanadium - Original Edit

I completed this piece of TD-inspired music in September 2022, but was busy with other music, and didn't get around to uploading until now. It's another Berlin-influenced piece of sequencing featuring some occasionally dissonant processed audio samples instead of mellotron emulations.

EDIT: 20230222 I remixed the track, making a few changes. I updated the EQ on the bassy Absynth that enters at 0:12 to deal with some resonances in the low-mids, I centred the low frequencies of the 2 Absynth bass synth patches, and updated the sequences of two of the Modular V2 synths, and added some more volume automation. I also reduced the frequency boosts in the mastering EQ relative to the original version.

Visitation

Abstractor

Buy at Bandcamp

Soundscape Experiment #81

(Down syndrome remix) ft. SOB

I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

自作、「そんな夏の日」のアウトロ部分からlofi作ってみました。

そんな夏の日 outro lo-fi remix

Here, each voice is put in shadow by its own harmonic filter. The sounds passed through are those that represent the edge, or umbra, that remains once the sound has been largely blocked by the harmonic filter. There are numerous voices that come and go, in addition, the filter lessens as the middle of the track is reached and increases again as the track ends. This represents the sun's travel through the sky as the day progresses.
--
More on this 622nd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Know the Shadow (The Assignment: Use recently discarded material to make something new), at: https://disquiet.com/0622/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0622-know-the-shadow/

umbra (disquiet0622)

More on the 633rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Voice Swap — The Assignment: Rerecord all or part of one of your tracks using just your voice — at https://disquiet.com/0633/

The image associated with this track is a photo by Ricardo André Frantz of Luca della Robbia’s 1431 work, Cantoria — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cantoria_luca_della_robbia22.jpg

Used with a Creative Commons license — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

Respect Revolution (Love Evolution).disquiet0633

Life is good - 🄶.🄽.🄳 𝓫𝓪𝓫𝔂 𝓙  😈🧛🦈 

Links: 

instagram_downforu21

TikTok_downforu21

BandLab_down4u2

per-save my songs 🎶 link my bio jacomejonathan033@gamil.com promote my album and playlist follow, likes, comments, share, per-save

meeting updates: independent artists upcomingmusic on my IG page

(Down syndrome remix) ft. SOB

Down4U21

Recent comments

Brn kelz

Jonathan Jacome

Anthony Mendoza king

Related tracks