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The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Normally I don't submit an already complete track, but this track I did with Zachary Zena Giberson (Ooey) and nnirror for an upcoming album just happened to be the same idea as this week's prompt.  The track is divided into two parts.  In the first half, a mollusc evolves one way and in the second half, the process starts over and evolves differently.  I was interested in the idea that even a subtle change in environment and an organism could turn out completely differently.  The mallets you hear moving in predictable intervals sort of mark sequential changes which trigger different guitar work (kind of like adaptation).  In the second half the mallets move at different intervals.  The crazy sounding primordial stew you hear briefly in the beginning and again in the middle is nnirror's contribution.  Zach and I were working with a bunch of samples he sent in the beginning of the project. I kind of imagine an asteroid crashing into earth and setting off some chain reaction that led to life evolving(not sure if there's anything to that theory but I know I've heard it before.) Zach did a lot of the ambiance and weird sounds which I think gave it kind of a dark vibe.  The name is a reference to Coltrane's A Love Supreme.

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A Slug Supreme (with Zachary Zena Giberson and nnirror)(disquiet0580)

a theme by Marco Lucchi re-imagined by Walter Fini

marzo 2023

Walter Fini - Acqua di Marzo

Sentiment sink

Waltz Of The Invisible Seeds

Semarvisk

a rough attempt at playing both the acoustic guitar and piano parts on this blues ditty (separately of course). I can't really play guitar, but this happens to be me playing lefty on a righty guitar. Literally the only thing I can play. Loosely based on the song 'Hideaway' by Freddie King, or Irving Spencer, depending on how far back you want to go.

Dedicated to a fellow blues lover.

Mark's Album (post-2020)

Blues for JC (guitar & piano)

noxpox - Every Summer Has Its End

Waltz

The Ice Grave Of Anibas (Lamberto Bava Tribute)

Marco Lucchi : mellotron and synthesizers

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"Nel Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Altemps si conserva una testa in marmo che secondo la tradizione rappresenta un’Erinni addormentata. Gli occhi chiusi, i ciuffi dei capelli scarmigliati sulla fronte e la guancia, le labbra appena dischiuse, il volto della Furia – se di una Furia si tratta, sia essa Aletto, Megera o Tisifone – riposa quieto su un cuscino di buio marmo, come se sognasse.
Una furia che invece di gemere e urlare, scuotendo la chioma serpentina, chiude gli occhi e sogna, smentisce se stessa. Eppure proprio e soltanto il sogno o il sonno di una furia assomiglia al pensiero. Il pensiero non è soltanto contemplazione, è innanzitutto furore. Si dà pensiero, si dà contemplazione, solo se prima vi è stato furore, se guardando l’abominio degli umani e del mondo, la mente – diceva Bruno – discesa «ne la parte più inferna… si sente lacerare e sbranare». E solo se nel nostro eroico furore riusciamo a chiudere gli occhi e sognare, si ha vera quiete, si ha visione e teoria. I nostri sogni non sono allora fantasie a occhi aperti, che sappiamo ingannevoli e vane, ma verità a cui, anche se con gli occhi chiusi, non possiamo non credere, perché abbiamo prima visto la vendetta e l’errore. Il pensiero è questo acquietarsi del furore, è un’Erinni che sogna."

Giorgio Agamben

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13 dicembre 2023

Furore che sogna [2]

M. Ackerman (formerly modus pony) is an instrumental composer and multi-instrumentalist. He likes toast with peanut butter and a little honey.

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