Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Saxophone and female vocals (reworked) are courtesy by Daze of Nostalgia and Cinematic Vocals.
Cover picture: René Magritte, The Art of Conversation (1963).

Posted on SoundCloud:  2025 June 1.

Talking about our lifetime

FUTURE TALK

An Electronic, Cinematic Future-Bass, Atmospheric, Futuristic Track Creation 🙏😊

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FUTURE TALK

This is the first in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short and inconclusive tracks, which I’ve assembled by working on new and reworking on some old material adding parts and sounds. 
Will anything actually happen in the end? Unlikely. Definitely not here. Here it’s a montage of bare arpeggios in various keys.
I recorded this some weeks ago: sorry about the guitar sound, the string squeak is a bit too much; now, I hope to have fixed that investing in a better and more expensive set of strings.

Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 4 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-4-late-afternoon
Part 5 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-5-night-again
Part 6 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-6-dawn-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
Female vocals are courtesy by Edm - Silk Vocal Samples.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, July 15.

In case nothing happens - part 1 (night)*

What was that man dreaming of, the one who played the saxophone the other night? When he finally wakes up, we’ll ask him – though it’s unlikely he’ll ever reply. And if by any chance he were willing to answer, he might say: "Nothing that I can remember, because nothing ever happens in my dreams."

This is the second in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way. 

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 4 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-4-late-afternoon
Part 5 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-5-night-again
Part 6 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-6-dawn-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025) (a partial remake of this: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/johans-aceleration-check-the-description).
Female vocals courtesy of Function Loops.
Ambient and radio sound effects sourced from Pixabay.
Posted on SoundCloud: August 2, 2025.

In case nothing happens - part 2 (dawn)*

Share your thoughts below!

Composed, produced & performed by Srouly Frank

Where are You

Where are You.

I think perspective is important but ends up seemingly difficult to attain. Being so self absorbed that you cannot understand or at times even see other people/nature ends up with a fertile ground for sensless persecution/discrimination . Perspective I think will make you humble and humility will allow empathy to grow


lyrics

Ok now, let's keep it simple
you're born,you live ,you die
I hate to inform you but
there isn't any  particular reason why

yes..you are important for sure
but guess what?? so is everything else on this small world

you are not above..you are not below
you are just part of a bigger show

if you don't see eye to eye
with someone else's view
remember you are part of them  as much as they are part of you

so live your life as you see fit
and leave everyone else to find their own niche
and if you still don't see eye to eye
please try to see heart to heart

I think that might work

keep it simple

The Lovely Blue Waves

Not everyone is on holiday, even in the heat of summer. Some still work while the city falls silent, stretched under a long, empty day. I can’t tell if the man expects something to happen; to me, it feels like nothing will happen today either. Anyway, everything's good.

This is the third in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way.

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 4 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-4-late-afternoon
Part 5 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-5-night-again
Part 6 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-6-dawn-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2020-2025 - this is a remake with a lighter sound and standard guitar tuning of a piece I already posted last year: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/imperfections).
All the ambient noises are taken from public sound archives. Female vocals are courtesy by Black Octopus.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, August 23.

In case nothing happens - part 3 (noon)*

To Have and To Hold is not a biography, a lecture, or a historical reconstruction. It is an imagined world — one you step into to feel your way around an idea rather than to learn it.

The album takes place loosely in early-20th-century Cambridge, at the moment when Western thought was beginning to strain under its own certainty. Science had proved astonishingly powerful at breaking reality into parts, explaining mechanisms, and producing results — yet at the same time it was encountering problems it could no longer fully contain. Probability was replacing certainty. Events mattered as much as objects. Meaning no longer sat still.

Out of this tension emerged process philosophy: the idea that reality is not made of finished things, but of ongoing happenings — that love, time, marriage, and even truth itself are not states you reach, but activities you keep participating in.

The album imagines this moment through a human lens. A mathematician trying to complete a system of logic. A thinker insisting that nothing important is ever truly finished. Proofs accumulating. Years passing. A marriage understood first as a statement, then slowly revealed as a practice. Love appearing not as romance in the foreground, but as something quietly unfolding elsewhere — happening whether it is attended to or not.

Rather than explaining these ideas directly, the songs allow you to inhabit them. You hear bells ring. You feel evenings close in. You sense the weight of unfinished work and the relief of letting something continue without control. The philosophy is not taught; it is lived.

This is a soft documentary in sound — an audio quantum leap into a world. Its purpose is not accuracy, quotation, or instruction, but immersion. By the time the album ends, you may not be able to define process philosophy in a sentence — but you may feel why it arose, what problem it was answering, and why it still matters.

To Have and To Hold is an exploration of commitment not as possession, but as attention.
Of marriage not as a conclusion, but as renewal.
Of understanding not as something you arrive at — but something that keeps happening.

If you listen closely, nothing here ever quite resolves.
But something continues.

What Continues

🎙️ Welcome to A.merica O.n L.ine – Album Presentation

Artist: Mario Format: Multimedia blues/folk/rap narrative Genre: Nomadic storytelling, acoustic hip-hop, poetic Americana Tracks: 5 songs, each a chapter in a mythic journey
🌍 The Concept

Welcome to A.merica O.n L.ine is not just an album — it’s a ritual transmission. A poetic archive of memory, migration, and myth, told through five sonic chapters that blend rap, blues, dobro solos, banjo breaks, and spoken-word reflections.

It’s the story of a man who walked through Times Square with a borrowed camera, who listened to a modem scream like a metal bird in 1990, who dreamed of online fashion shows before the world was ready, and who now sings from rooftops, deserts, and trailer parks — with a voice that’s dusty, tender, and full of light.
🎧 Track Icons & Themes  these are the original titles of the songs 

    “You Are in AOL – Welcome to the Future” Icon: Vintage modem glowing like a totem Theme: The birth of digital consciousness, the prophecy of connection

    “Two Birds on a Rooftop” Icon: Banjo silhouette against a New York sunset Theme: Freedom, hunger, and rooftop dreams bigger than your shoes

    “Shrimp Bucket Blues” Icon: Plastic bucket, dusty fingers, laughter of the tired Theme: Survival, dignity, and the poetry of cheap meals

    “Cellulini & Concrete” Icon: Old flip phone, neon reflections, Jewish humor Theme: Friendship, absurdity, and the myth of modernity

    “Stars a Billion Years Away” Icon: Two stars above a desert motel Theme: Cosmic tenderness, memory, and the refusal to forget

🌀 The Sound

    Velvety rap vocals meet acoustic storytelling

    Dobro slide solos echo like ghosts of the South

    Banjo and upright bass pulse like footsteps on gravel

    Spoken-word intros open each track like chapters in a dusty book

    Melodies that feel like old photographs — warm, faded, unforgettable

🗣️ The Voice

Mario is not just the artist — he’s the narrator of a mythic archive. A poet who codes, a hacker who sings, a nomad who remembers. His voice is not trying to impress — it’s trying to transmit.
🏁 Final Note

This album is for those who’ve ever felt the hum of a fridge as a lullaby. For those who’ve walked through cities made of mirrors. For those who know that poetry doesn’t die — it just changes format.

Welcome to A.merica O.n L.ine.. You’re not just listening. You’re entering.

Open the door and let me out

Catching Bees

Update (December 9, 2025). 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MagLpl21qdY
I’ve posted the entire suite “In case nothing happens” on YouTube, including the parts (7 and 8) that are still missing here, accompanied by a very simple video.


Hello! I’m a university professor of history who enjoys playing guitar and piano/keyboard, and occasionally composing — unpretentiously, just for fun. I’ve been here for at least 10 years, but only recently have I started using the platform for something other than just external digital storage.
Most of my recordings (made with a KorgD8, Audacity, and more recently Reaper for MIDI and the Spitfire Audio libraries) are entirely homemade and decidedly imperfect. My music includes old songs (all written back in the last century; here I’ve only shared the ones I’ve reworked in recent years) as well as both old and new instrumentals.
Thanks for stopping by and giving something a listen; in the description you’ll often find explanatory notes or translations of the lyrics.

Here I’ve discovered a community of talented musicians and songwriters, and plenty of beautiful music to enjoy. Whenever I like, comment, or repost a track, it’s always the result of attentive listening. For the same reason, I’m not interested in trading empty “likes” without real engagement, and I won’t reply to messages from would-be promoters — follower counts don’t matter to me in the slightest.

Update (2024, September 9). Completed the "AI & (fake) songwriting project". Here: https://soundcloud.com/mick-hansan 

I've posted some 'live' homemade performance here: https://www.instagram.com/michele_ansani/