For The Thrill Of It

Walking by four-note chords.

This work can be considered a continuation (or a second track of the same album) of one of my previous works "Parsimonious Trichords".
This is the case since in the elaboration of its harmonies I have followed the same line of work but taking one more step in the current work. In the harmony of the two works I have used the Tonnetz. This comes from the German term "Tonnetzwerk" which means network of tones. The prototypical case is the one that is formed by the major and minor chords (of three notes) organized in such a way that those that are contiguous only differ by a single note (with only a semitone or tone of difference) and on this network we can go chaining the chords following different itineraries or paths thus defining the harmonic progression. In the work "Parsimonious Trichords" I used this Tonnetz with three-note chords. The present work tries to go a step further and use four-note chords to define the Tonnetz. To achieve this I have applied the ideas developed by Dmitri Tymoczko in his excellent article "The Generalized Tonnetz" (dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/tonnetzes.pdf). The objective will be the same: to get a network that organizes the chords (in this case of four notes) in such a way that those that are contiguous continue to be differentiated by a single note. In this case, to achieve this, it is necessary to use 12 chords of dominant seventh, 12 chords of half-diminished seventh, 12 chords of minor seventh and 6 chords of French sixth. To achieve To achieve the harmonic progression, on this network of chords I have defined 7 itineraries (one for each part of the work) of the so-called Hamiltonians, which means that they go through all 42 Tonnetz chords once and only once. As can be assumed, the chord succession that is achieved is also very parsimonious in the sense that there is very little variation between a chord and the one that follows it.

The work of creating the Tonnetz of four-note chords and as well as the elaboration of the itineraries I have done it by programming a series of algorithms in Python language.

Regarding the rhythmic aspect of the work, I have used an archetype: the rhythmic "motif of the walker" (half, quarter, quarter) for two reasons: one, which is quite evident, to reinforce the concept of itinerary or path and the other as a small tribute to the recently published book "Paisajes del Romanticismo musical" by the composer and theorist Benet Casablancas since it is one of the many characteristics that he analyzes about the music of the Romantic period.

For all these reasons, the exhaustive title of this work could have been "Walking through the Hamiltonian itineraries of the graph (of minimal variation) of four-note chords." which I have not dared to use for obvious reasons.

Regarding the interpretation, it should be said that it is done through NotePerformer playback engine.
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Walking by four-note chords

On October 7, 2021, we updated the song with a remaster. We hope you'll like it!

Polaris

Spotify

Polaris (synthwave edit.)

Here's an extended version of some recordings... I used my voice and a synth for this.

Tuike

A song about living in your own head

LYRICS:

If we walk on down to the riverside
we can fall in love on a turning tide and we're gone
It's a talking point on the morning news
A performing troupe that'll never choose to perform

You're a girl inside your home
You're afraid you're alone
and you hide in your mind
and it lights up your heart

So take a stroll outside
You know you can't hold it together forever
when everyone's falling apart

Hold It Together

Path Of Destruction

Taken from the upcoming "Men Don't Cry" EP

Lyrics:
They say that real men don't cry
But here I stand, and I don't deny
If pain's disguise is just a tear
Then let them fall, I'm still right here
Underneath the city glow
I search for me, but I don't know

Wired hearts and voltage streams
Flickers breaking through my dreams
Through the static, I hear the sound
Lost transmissions spinning 'round
I rise, I break, I lose, I try
Chasing meaning in the sky

Echoed footsteps, midnight rain
Neon shadows call my name
Glass reflections cut so deep
Holding secrets I can't keep
Metal heartbeat, burning flame
In this circuit, nothing's tame

Sirens wail, the city sighs
Every silence tells a lie
Voices drift, a phantom choir
Fuel the spark, the deep desire
Outlaw soul, no masquerade
Just a ghost the night has made

Under bridges, whispers fade
I find the truth the night has made
Through the static, I remain
A thousand voices call my name.

Men Don't Cry

Shadows of Us

Within silence, the echo of being persists. Shadows hum beneath perception.

-- ABOUT Ouroboros: --

Ouroboros is a continuous loop of sound and sensation ... a Synthwave album built around renewal, decay, and the quiet pull of repetition. Across eight tracks, it moves from ritualistic lows to neon-soaked highs, tracing the arc of a system that’s always collapsing and rebuilding itself.

Pulsing basslines, glowing arpeggios, and atmospheric vocals that hover between human and machine, creating a seamless cycle that feels both ancient and futuristic ... the hum of an old myth running through modern circuits.

It’s not about nostalgia, exactly. Ouroboros sounds like memory folding back on itself ... the moment when light turns to echo, and echo turns to life again. Enjoy the ride!

Shadow Frequency

Polycondensation

This time we wanted to stay within the vast limits of a single electronic instrument. All sounds were produced and performed using only the Buchla Music Easel. The perfect synth for this robot innuendo.

This EP is inspired by a remote, partially lost and silent film, "L'uomo meccanico" (Italy, 1921). One of the oldest films about robots.

Scontro dei robot

Limpid Dots is a vocal based side project with Ange. We don't want to look different nor imitate others. We just make music that comes from our soul.