wandering in forest

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For those that like to learn about the story behind a music track they may find enjoyable, I would love to share my story!

So… a most extraordinary experience happened to me sometime during the summer of 1980, in which I woke up out of a VIVID DREAM. Unlike most vivid dreams, which are rare by any measure, this particular dream literally had no visuals to speak of. Instead, I found myself enveloped in what I can only describe as an immense surround sound like experience, listening to, and 100% engaged in an amazing musical soundscape that lasted for several minutes.  The music went through several stages and was incredibly detailed, even regarding the sonic characteristics.  

Like all dreams, this experience could only be remembered upon waking up immediately afterwards.  Vivid dreams, tend to be even more impactful to our conscience memory. 

So upon wakening from this vivid dream musical, I was truly stunned. Somehow my subconscious, in a dream, literally created and arranged an entire piece of music in my sleep!  Knowing how something like this was indeed a very special and rare event, I was determined not to lose or forget any of it.  I immediately hopped out of bed, totally disregarding my usual coffee and breakfast, and headed directly to my simple equipment on hand to play and record everything that I had just heard in my dream. At the time, I used an Oberheim DX drum machine, and a Sequential Prophet 5 keyboard synth, to duplicate as best as I could the music and sounds of what I had just heard 10 minutes earlier in my sleep. I recorded it all within a couple hours onto a Teac 144 Cassette 4-track machine, in which I eventually mixed down onto another standard stereo cassette tape.  
I did not share that piece of music with too many people, because it was indeed conceived in such a remarkable way, and I felt it was oddly out of character with the type of music I was into at the time.

A couple decades later, for the purpose of preserving these old works, I transferred much of my older music from tape to digital, including this vivid dream creation, which for the lack of a better title I simply called “Dream Tune”.

Well, as many of you know, I’ve been pretty busy over the past couple decades creating and producing all sorts of original music.  But every once in a while I would come across and visit that old recording of “Dream Tune”, naturally recollecting the extraordinary birth of that piece.  In a way it haunted me… almost requesting me to resurrect it from the inherent poor sound quality it always possessed from recording originally on cassette tape.

I know this is a long read for many, so thank you for reading my story up to this point.
SO NOW… I’m happy to say I finally got around to redoing this piece of music in its entirety, but using today’s technology to produce a high quality sound. Also, my goal was to retain the original music, arrangement, and sonic details, just as I heard them in my vivid dream 43 years ago!
In full disclosure, regarding this updated version, I did a lot of extra detailed embellishments throughout to enhance the overall track. But, literally 95% of it is just like the original. 
The final adjustment made was to title it “Cloud Dreamer”,  reflecting on my interests in the skies and weather.

Thanks for listening and reading this! 
Audric

CLOUD DREAMER (Audric Jankauskas-2023)

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New Horizon

I suspected nothing….

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The Texture of the Abyss

LISP es mi primer single y formará parte del próximo EP "Artificial Intelligence", un EP conceptual que gira en torno a la IA.
Desde antiguos lenguajes de programación utilizados en este campo como LISP, (List Processor) de 1958, un año después de Fortran y uno antes que Cobol, a expresar mi fascinación por la IA y a la vez inquietud por cómo evoluciona a pasos agigantados, encontrándose presente en todas las disciplinas humanas. La creación de futuras redes neuronales artificiales, su influencia tanto en las sociedades como en la propia IA. La singularidad tecnológica o advenimiento hipotético de inteligencia artificial general, según John Von Neumann y Ray Kurzweil, término popularizado en 1983 por el matemático y escritor Vernor Vinge.
Todo ello expresado a través de paisajes  sonoros en este  "EP futurista"
Música compuesta, interpretada, grabada y masterizada por:
FRAN&MUSIC

LISP is my first single and will be part of the upcoming EP "Artificial Intelligence", a concept EP that revolves around AI.
From old programming languages used in this field such as LISP, (List Processor) from 1958, a year after Fortran and one before Cobol, to expressing my fascination for AI and at the same time concern for how it evolves by leaps and bounds, being present in all human disciplines. The creation of future artificial neural networks, their influence on both societies and AI itself. The technological singularity or hypothetical advent of artificial general intelligence, according to John Von Neumann and Ray Kurzweil, a term popularized in 1983 by mathematician and writer Vernor Vinge.
All of this is expressed through soundscapes in this "futuristic EP".
Music composed, performed, recorded and mastered by:
FRAN&MUSIC


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