46_ Unbeatable Together - released on 25 June 2023

Inclusion must be lived. Take an example from the Special Olympics! We are one world! #epic #dance #edm #funk #percussion

(produced with Music Maker JAM)

Unbeatable Together

🔥 "Bag It Up" - Track 8 from "City Lights Desert Nights" 🔥

"Bag It Up" isn't just a track; it's an anthem, a sonic embodiment of success. As the eighth gem in our album, "City Lights Desert Nights," it encapsulates the essence of ambition, hustle, and the ultimate triumph. 💼💥

Join us on this audio journey, where trap beats intertwine with futuristic vibes, creating a symphony of victory and accomplishment. Let the rhythm drive you through the neon-lit pathways towards your triumphs.

08 Bag It Up - Jaywalkerblack & Shooting Stars - City Lights Desert Nights

Prompt : Explore new territory. Try a new instrument, gear, plug-in, scale, etc.

Tried the following new things :
1. Time in 13/8
2. Glitch sounds from a new library

Wondering if I should've tried them separately though since it's hard to hear where beats land through glitch chaos.

brianfunk.com

Weak Sixx (MPC Weekly Mission No 6)

This is my entry for Ryan Leach's April 2024 composing competition. The task was to compose a piece to a picture of Mont Saint Michel behind a field of flowers (with a max. length of 90 seconds).

For the composition process I pictured the following story / imaginary movie in my head:
A little boy travels to Mont Saint Michel to join the monastry as a novice. On his way he passes a beautiful field of flowers. He's cheerful, light-footed and almost dancing.
When he discovers the monastry in the distance he gets overwhelmed by awe.
In the last passage, we see the boy growing up in the monastry and becoming an educated, well respected young monk.

The Little Novice

¡Esta conga no es una anguila! 

Believe me; I should know. We've been sharing a room for weeks!

This Conga Ain't No Eel

E- NO. 3

From the Inktober 2024 drawing challenge I add some musical colors to the drawings. Each day of October a new drawing needs to be created and posted. see my playlist “Inktober 2024 short tracks”

Inktober 2024 15.Guide-Valentino

"Bract" from new the album "Seeds"
https://placement.bandcamp.com/album/seeds
Love -  I've always shied away from the four letter word. Maybe it was the schmaltz of popular music, but I'd had enough of "moon in June" love songs before I was old enough to buy recordings - and I guess, it's taken me until now to get over it!

However this album is undeniably about being "in love". That's human love, but it also touches on the love of things, the love of ideas and my enduring love, of places. All these loves are genuine - and because of this, it was very easy to be inspired by them.

The musical driving force was what I guess you'd call intuition.
I did not plan this album. I just went along thinking "I want this track to feel like this" and then let it happen...

Bract

"Two Page" Etude. Op.165. (2024)

Quadrantime Spoofedon

Wilderness

Free Album

K G G - Arctic Express

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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