Name: Fluxgate (for Thomas) by Mesmo
Duration: 8 min
Description: For Thomas Sander aka Ansound. See https://soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Love the twists & turns...Brilliant sonic plot! ;) Have a sensational New Year!! >> 🙌🏼😎😎😎😎🤜🏼❣❣❣🤛🏼🔁

Composition : thierry mfe
Flûte : Mahmoud Makke
Mix Guillaume Gaudioso 
Design : thierry mfe
Pour voir la partition (The Score)  : 
https://www.youtube.com/@Thierrymfe.1010

Pièce composée en 2023 dans le cadre du conservatoire d'Avignon en classe de Composition 
sur un projet autour de Musica Ricerccata de György Ligeti.
La pièce est écrite d'après Musica Ricercatta n°2 .
Elle laisse libre cours à l'imagination de l'auditeur. 
A l'exemple de Ligeti, trois notes ont été utilisées. Ici, d'un intervalle de tierce majeure chacune.  
L'écriture variée permet d'entendre la virtuosité du musicien et d'explorer tous les modes de jeux disponibles sur l'instrument.

Badinerie Pour Flûte

Goldberg Variation #13

Late life melancholy - a recipe:

Take one youthful spirit and nonchalantly toss in a (coarsely chopped) urge to grow up quickly.  Marinade gently for forty earth years (or more, to taste).  Add, in equal measures, a dash of neglect, reflect, introspect, regret.  Stir, and serve cold and unseasoned in a stark wooden bowl under a single, unshaded, flickering 40W bulb.
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Thanks to my good friend Seagull for his irrepressible drive, musicality and creativity.

Find his beautiful portfolio of work here: https://soundcloud.com/farout-music-studio
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When Time Whispers

I still remember that evening with polished crystal clarity. The young exec wannabe, working late. Customer proposal. Due date: Friday - getting near. Crumpled suit needs a dry clean. Paper everywhere, plastic coffee machine cups stacked between - dear God that stuff was awful. Another decade until Starbucks would appear.

Bill, the security guard, dropped by right on time. You could set your clock when Bill arrived. Ex NCO in some infantry regiment or other. Retirement age long come and gone but still working, carrying on, to keep a meaningful purpose, a will, a life, alive.

Of course, he'd never be so presumptive as to sit down. Stood bolt upright, shoes polished mirror bright and proud half windsor tie knot said all that needed to be said about him, when Bill came around.

Not the most highly educated, but so very wise, worldly wise, and deeply insightful way beyond what any formal education might provide. From life's academy he'd graduated with a double first and a distinction in human understanding. I'd have to guess Bill was at least late seventies and you know what, I suspect he'd lied about his age when he got that security job, his last job, just as he'd lied about his age at the other end of the spectrum when he got his first one; and the khaki uniform that came with it.

We'd talk for maybe fifteen minutes little polite chinks of light here and there, revealing cares, what he thought about the news of the day, what his dad might have had to say…

A soft smile always there on tap, creased facial contours a well worn map, projecting all that he had seen, each and every trodden way, from young and green to old and grey. I'd bitch and gripe in my usual way, "….. jeepers, what a grind, I can't wait for my retirement day…". He twitched, paused, fixed my eye, and said "….ah son, don't wish it all away - don't wish it all away….".

Tonight, by the flickered log fire, my aching spine like Chesterfield's spire, old, twisted and bent, I think, that was one hell of a blink of an eye, as life, misspent, passed me by. Like a whip crack. Sat in silence, casting back, remembering when, because, I suspect I'm older now than Bill was then.

Old and wizened.

Wish I’d listened.
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Image by Mari Lezhava on Unsplash

When Time Whispers …. with Seagull

Part 3 of a four-part exploration, performed via Roland GR-33 guitar synth.

Bells, Pt. 3

Let LPDJ's music give you a hug: https://soundcloud.com/lpdj247
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LPDJ: music
FoF: music, also the one to blame for the mix

Christmas in the cellar

just play with music.

piano piano

December 28, 2025
(for Marc  soundcloud.com/user-957729823)

I'M JUST PLAYING  (for Marc)

Rough mix of a couple of synth tracks, Alchemy and Kontakt...title is from the presets, and the image is from the title...

An Apparition in Stone

For Thomas Sander aka Ansound. See https://soundcloud.com/ansound-655183295

Fluxgate (for Thomas)

Grabbed Dave Rose's free drum track, grabbed Yellow Salamand'r's free track, then grabbed my own stuff. :)
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Dave Rose (https://soundcloud.com/davearose64) - awesome drumtrack
Yellow Salamand'r (https://soundcloud.com/acemulchfish) - the track "Take This Track and Finish it"
FaceOnFigure - keys, virtual instruments, arrangement, pic

Thought I thought something

Caveat: I explicitly prohibit the use of any material I post for purposes of torture, brainwashing, hypnosis, bedazzlement or any other nefarious activity. This prohibition applies to all governments, corporations, institutions, agencies and individuals. 

“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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