What is reality, and why is it often Warped?

Written by Inza B

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Warped Reality

On Saturday, October 21st, Cougars Are Cats Too performs at LiveCodeNYC's Night of the Living Code II: Vampire Bytes! 🧛‍♀️

The tonal sounds originate from the flute sample. This sample is of a fall tune remembered from a Kindergarten or first grade music class. This sound is manipulated by slowing down, speeding up, reversing, layering, and chopping it into pieces. 

The story in the poem is a simplification and romanticization of a lived experience. 


Sound sources:
- Gioco Sound (Footstep)
- Ronald Van Wonderen (Footstep)
- CPT Tatosa (drip)
- Melarancida Goccia (drip)
- Katarina Hoeger (flute, voice)
- SuperDirt's superpiano 

Performed in Tidal Cycles running on SuperCollider-3.11.2, on a Windows 11 machine running NVidia High Definition Audio version 1.3.38.60.

Sounds other than flute, voice, and superpiano were sourced from freesound.org.

Cover art from a collage of livecode text and visuals from Genesis Rogue's accompanying livecoded visual set.

Cougars Are Cats Too Performs at Night of the Living Code II: Vampire Bytes

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Movie Night

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Could it be...? Another... song?? HECK YEAH!! This one's about unrequited love, or requited love, or about being really nervous while waiting at the oral surgeon so you start writing a cheesy song to distract yourself, but the last one is less relatable I think sooooo

Also sorry about the mic sounds, my mic is being stupid and I need a better one ):

Anyway, here are the words:

I'm no gardener
Still I'd like to plant a kiss on you
But all I touch dies
Hope I don't have the same effect on you

[Chorus]
Intentionally separated
Self-taught to be self-deprecated
Cause I'm in love with her complexity
Addicted to her intensity
Later this'll hurt me, I know
This isn't gonna help me, I know
But I... 
But you, you, you
You make me safe
And I've never felt safe before

I'm no doctor
But somehow I have got patien(ts)ce to spare
I'm no bullet
But still my nerves are shot and it's unfair
My pain tolerance
Is pretty high, or so I have been told
But I'd appreciate it
If I didn't have to be so

[Chorus]

You make me safe
It's so strange, but I want it evermore

And oh my dear how I want to see you
Though it betrays everything I wrote
But I am not looking forward to
Not being able to feel my throat

Nitrous Oxide

I wrote English lyrics for this song ages ago. It's pure chaos and sadness, but hey, I needed to vent. As a result also not that great bc again: venting
Warnings for screaming, screeching, and maniacal laughter.

!!!!!V LOUD!!!!

Lyrics:
Waltz of Anomalies

You're quite mistaken if you think that I've forgotten the things that you told me on that on grim, dark day
Don't dare assume that if I laugh that you've been forgiven, and that my outwards apathy means that I don't care
Because the person who ends up hurting you just smiles and shrugs it off
Meanwhile, the ones that who wounded never forget
In fact, the longer we remember the more painful it gets, now turning darker and darker in our hostile minds          

If you only wished for it then somehow I would have no problem taking my entire self apart for you
Start with my arms, and my legs, and my hair, and my tongue, and my chest, and my ears, and my nose, and my fingers, not even daring to leave my heart behind
But if you happen to be willing now to hear me out, I have a tiny favor which I would like in return:
If you could turn me to ashes with a simple, single word and if it breaks me then that'd be fine
 
That's the only thing I need to keep carrying on...

So let's dance until the daybreaks in a cold sweat, til we fall asleep while free of regret   
Since my poor, pathetic heart will never reach yours, give me a reason for once to forget
Loveless, so I fake an insincere smile,
Sleepless, yet I want to dream for a while
No, I can't tell if I feel sad so nothing's wrong with this yet
Nothing just yet

"If the whole universe got split up
And people living in it were categorized
Specifically into two categories
Split into the people who are needed and who aren't
Well, I figured there was no way I would end up in the former of those categories, sad as it sounds
All I could do was try my best just to ensure that somehow, somewhere, someone needed me at least somewhat"
   
But as usual, I can't expect things go to well

So, again and again the story repeats
Pages written down by trembling me
It looks so messy and absurd and it makes me feel sick
I feel disgusted just looking at it
Even so, I drag my heavy, lead heart
Walking aimlessly with no end or start
Cause, my heart can't tell if I'm sad but it still can't be replaced
Yeah, there's no way

Wow, this uncaring world is faulty and cruel
Everybody keeps yearning for happiness
They dance forever and think it will set them free
But the waltz is chock-full of anomalies

So let's dance until the daybreaks in a cold sweat, til we fall asleep while free of regret 
Since my poor, pathetic heart will never reach yours, give me a reason for once to forget
Loveless, so I fake an insincere smile,
Sleepless, yet I want to dream for a while
No, I can't tell if I feel sad so nothing's wrong with this
Yet, there are heavy tears which force their way right out of my eyes
Please tell me why

Waltz Of Anomalies (English Cover)

Nominated by Beverly Hills Film Festival as an official 2017 filmmaker selection.
http://beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/2017-filmmaker-official-selection-archive/

Original music composed by Sunny Choi

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To celebrate Björk's Mixmag December cover, she's recorded an exclusive studio mix.

We'll let the music speak for itself, but here's a message from Björk herself:

dearestest music-lovers !
here is a little set for you . it is most definitely flute and air themed and perhaps reveals the sonic environment my ears were in last year . i thank all the musicians . kindness , björk.

Tracklist: mixmag.net/bjorkmix2017

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The Cover Mix: Björk

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I play flute and experiment with mathematics and computer music. I sometimes compose traditionally.

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