fave listenings of June

in the pic : Terry Riley

"musica assoluta" (giugno 2022)

Cream Slices - Beauties Of Summer | vol. two

Tracks from 2022/2023

Marco Lucchi : synthesizers and tape

1 giugno 2022

for the Naviar Haiku project
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/

Tall trees gently wave
Sending secret messages
Into the Spring breeze

John Hinks

Marco Lucchi - Secret messages [Naviar Haiku # 439]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
439  week haiku
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2022/06/01/naviarhaiku439-tall-trees-gently-wave/

2022-06-02

Tall Trees Gently Wave  (Naviarhaiku 439 )

worth±less

a good friend of mine painted a series of images based on descartes' "meditations on first philosophy."

https://www.lowwintersun.org/work/descartes-meditations

i took painting number 6, sliced it into five strips, fed the images into photosounder, the converted the resulting .wav files to MIDI (quantized to 16ths). i used the MIDI clips separately to trigger various samples: kick; snare; low tom; floor tom; hi-hat. i added a steady hi-hat pedal to help navigate the slightly offbeat rhythms.

finally, i layered in a live guitar piece (played through VCV rack, which i first encountered through disquiet junto, many moons ago...)

some possible questions: how can we think about the relationship between something rhythmic (the "beat") and something a-rhythmic (the "ambient" guitar)?
do they feel like two utterly separate streams, or do they somehow inform each other?
also, my track is only one minute long - can something so short be called 'ambient'?
more generally, can such a brief composition claim to establish a mood or atmosphere?

(wittgensteinian thought: i can claim to have felt sad for one minute, but not to have been depressed for one minute. certain moods or states require longer stretches of time to operate.)

all the best, htnc

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Features english horn, clarinet, bassoon, cello, dulcimer, and double 
bass

Time Has Passed

Dance Sketch

An upbeat downtown piece in a rather conservative tonal style 

which exhibits a certain amount of fizz and sparkle whilst staying 

strictly within the confines of common time..

Dance Sketch Revision 1 July 2022 (Mastered)

mastering using roland mx1, some years ago i did produce this one. Daw : renoise !

TIME2BREATHE

The Sorrow of Time

Memories

🌅Thought point:
Contemplating the heavenly destination that awaits us all through a child's eyes of wonder & awe...
Drawn to the light. 🕊😇❣

Led By Light

Night of Golden Stars
A neo-classical  piece for (virtual) Orchestra featuring French Horn.

Revised 30 December 2022.

Produced and mastered by John Cafarella

This version uses the East West Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra sample library and features the French Horn samples.

Night of Golden Stars (Remix and Revision EWQLSO 30 December 2022)

'Walking music': Tempo revised upward from August 2021 version which was far too slow. Revised the tempo upward to 110bpm to make it into a true brisk tune for walking.  Mastered by Soundcloud mastering service.

Walking Tune (Revision 24 March 2023 EWQLSO + Note Performer_Revision 110bpm)

Fantasy in three Movements for small Orchestra

This suite of pieces holds to the fast-slow-fast traditional pattern of the Classical period .

The three movements are: 

Allegro Vivace in 4/4

Slowly in 5/4

Andante Con Moto in 6/8

The indivual movements will be published separately to Soundcloud.

I used sound cloud mastering service on the three movements separately 

as the duration of the suite is eleven minutes, longer than the

ten minute upper limit for Soundcloud mastering.

Tripartite Fantasy

This is a variation of a sort on a musical fragment which appears in the theme  music for the TV series 'All Creatures great and Small' and also in  the first movement of my Tripartite Fantasy and is  constructed as a free flowing set of improvisations on a simple basic idea This simple idea is treated in a linear polyphonic way resulting in a texture which moves between consonant and dissonant harmony ending on a C major chord.
N.B. A similar musical idea treated in a much different way also appears in the first movenent of my Tripartite Faantasy posted here: https://soundcloud.com/julian-cafarella/allegro-vivace-for-chamber-orchestra
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dr M : Sort of a TV Theme (Revised 17 March 2023)

This is a fairly complete revision of the original upload of August 2022. It is a jubilant piece that needs to be taken in its own  terms. The musical vocabulary in this piece is very conservartive and it obeys conventional structural norms.
This version was mastered by John Cafarella

Dance Sketch Revision 1 July 2022 (Mastered)

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