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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Primal Screams プライマル・スクリーム

Scene 1 - 

My commute to work everyday  is soul crushing

毎日の通勤は魂が砕け散る

Scene 2 - 

While the gate keepers telepathically read my emails
I wonder where this inbox physically lives

ゲートキーパーがテレパシーで私のメールを読んでいる間
この受信トレイは物理的にどこにあるのだろうか

Scene 3 - 

Probably on some satellite orbiting over my house

おそらく、私の家の上を周回している衛星に乗っているのでしょう。

Scene 4 - 

Electrical switches conveyed through analog one’s and zero’s
Delivering my voice to you 

アナログの 1 と 0 で伝達される電気スイッチ
私の声をあなたに届ける

Scene 5 - 

Through the so called cloud
Ironically the sky is overcast

いわゆるクラウドを通して
皮肉なことに空は曇っている

Scene 6 - 

And I can barely make out the satellites silhouette 
Pressed against puffs of smoke in the sky

衛星のシルエットはかろうじて確認できる
空の煙に押し付けられた

Scene 7 - 

Leading me to contemplate the mystical nature of 
Where I am in this moment

の神秘的な性質を熟考するように私を導きます
この瞬間の私はどこにいるのか

Scene 8 - 

Lost, adrift in space
Near the dark castle

失われ、宇宙に漂う
闇の城の近く

Scene 9 - 

That exists beyond the pastel domiciles of the culdesac
These are the primal screams of madness

それはカルデサックのパステル色の住居の向こう側にある
これらは狂気の原始的な叫びです

Scene 10 - 

These are the primal screams of madness

これらは狂気の原始的な叫びです

Scene 11 - 

These are the primal screams of madness

これらは狂気の原始的な叫びです

Scene 12 - 

These are the primal screams of madness

これらは狂気の原始的な叫びです

Primal Screams

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What blood is to man,
water is to the earth.

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Ich kann oft stundenlang am Strome stehen,
Wenn ich entflohen aus der Menschen Bann;
Er plaudert hier wie ein erfahrner Mann,
Der in der Welt sich tüchtig umgesehen.

Da schildert er mir seiner Jugend Wehen,
Wie er den Weg durch Klippen erst gewann,
Ermattet darauf im Sande schier verrann,
Und jedes Wort fühl' ich zum Herzen gehen.

Wie wallt er doch so sicher seine Bahn!
Bei allem Plänkeln, Hin- und Widerstreifen
Vergißt er nie: "Ich muß zum Ozean!"

Du, Seele, nur willst in der Irre schweifen?
O tritt, ein Kind, doch zur Natur heran
Und lern' die Weisheit aus den Wassern greifen!
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I can often stand by the stream for hours,
When I escape from the people's spell;
He chats here like an experienced man,
Who has looked around in the world.

There he describes to me the travails of his youth,
How he first won the way through cliffs,
And then, exhausted, he was almost lost in the sand,
And I feel every word go to my heart.

How he so surely plods his course!
With all his skirmishing, to and fro
He never forgets: "I must go to the ocean!"

Thou, soul, wilt thou but wander astray?
O approach, a child, but to nature
And learn wisdom from the waters!

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