Nicky With Her Hair On Fire (Dance Mix)

Aline Alien

Inspired by Sly and The Family Stone (sing a simple song), Lionel Hampton (it must be love), and Cappadonna (winter warz). I was advised to make packs when I'm bored, mostly of drums. Well, here is my first track in that vein.
 photo by jess bailey

Simple Song

Avalanche -

From 'Love Sick,' out June 2nd, 2017 via Ba Da Bing Records. Pre-order available from http://grapefruitrecordclub.com/t/talsounds

Love Sick

Pre-Order

TALsounds - Disgrace

Digging in boxes continues. A cassette of songs recorded on a home 4 track in March 1997. I borrowed the 4 track recorder for a week to get a couple ideas down and ended up recording these songs over the next two weeks. The writing of the songs went back years, as by then I'd been playing with this drummer for 4 years https://youtu.be/1LV0KNBZljk and we'd push and pull fragments around and I'd put my poetry to it, improv/collage puzzle stuff. Don't know exactly when the video was from. Likely around the same month.
Songlist: If Only, Wasted Time (original 4 track, theres a demo I recorded on another one of these), Chaim Soutine, Absolut Hate, Five Year Plan, Low Low (Diet Of Worms), In The Eye (on the Sept 98 tape a version of this is called Queen Elizabeth Sliding Down Queen Anne), Friends Are Graves(this one went over real well...), Where's Mario/On The Ground (I wrote these songs in high school w/my first band, total time then was around a minute and a half, Vaseline Eyes (then STPilots had a hit w/Vaseline so I changed it to Keep The Noise Out, my best song but I've never gotten a decent version of it done), Little Insect (actually its called The Angel Plays, I wrote it while reading Marlowe and watching Wings of Desire; many years later I wanted to rewrite it gain attention to the dying bees by adding an outro riff made up of a part of Flight of the Bumblebee descending internally through 4 chord changes.)

4 Track, March 1997

Crossroads

Crossroads Ist Original Main Duel, Arlen Roth and Ry Cooder 1985

Demo 

Not Your Fault

Sound & Vision: The Lasting Legacy of Ze Whiz Kidz

While we cannot see small nanoscopic objects like proteins or other molecules that make up virtually all living matter including our cells, tissues, as well as pathogens such as viruses, our computational algorithm allows us to make its material manifestation audible.  This piece is a musical representation of the amino acid sequence and structure of the spike protein of the pathogen of COVID-19, 2019-nCoV (protein data bank identifier 6VSB [1]). 

MUSICAL DECEIT

A virus’ genome hijacks the host cell’s protein manufacturing machinery, and forces it to replicate the viral genome and produce viral proteins to make new viruses from it.  This musical art teaches us something about the fine line between beauty of life and death as an opposite pole.  As you listen to the protein you will find that the intricate design results in incredibly interesting and actually pleasing, relaxing sounds. This doesn’t really convey the deadly impacts this particularly protein is having on the world. This aspect of the music shows the deceiving nature of the virus, how it hijacks our body to replicate, and hurt us along the way. So, the music is a metaphor for this nature of the virus to deceive the host and exploit it for its own multiplication. 

HOW IT IS DONE: 

What you hear is a multi-layered algorithmic composition featuring both the vibrational spectrum of the entire protein (expressed in sound and rhythmic elements), the sequence and folding of amino acids that compose the virus spike structure, as well as interwoven melodies - forming counterpoint music - reflecting the complex hierarchical intersecting geometry of the protein [2].

Scientific references:

[1] Wrapp et al., "Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation," Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1126/science.abb2507

[2] Buehler et al., "A Self-Consistent Sonification Method to Translate Amino Acid Sequences into Musical Compositions and Application in Protein Design Using Artificial Intelligence," ACS Nano, 2019, DOI: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b02180

Viral counterpoint of the coronavirus spike protein (2019-nCoV)

Viral Counterpoint of the Coronavirus Spike Protein (2019-nCoV)

Jet Pack Man

4 Track, March 1997

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