January 25

Imagine a Computer rebooting after 50 years of sleep, en route for a new world... Will it reboot? Will the trip be a success?
Ableton with birds singing I recorded, as a base sample for the instruments.  On top Arturia's Augmented series...Dissonance and harmony... what will win?

Reboot After 50 Years Of Sleep (Demo)

Imagine an over the top, kitch type of a perfect weekend in the Swiss Alps, with a slightly exaggerated Geneva accent by my son...Based on the synthwave vibe, with only Ableton native instruments...

Cheesy Weekend Of Le Genevois (feat. Kaz) Demo

imagine a few old friends having a Sunday brunch.. They have their instruments ready.  Somebody launches a theme and others join in...Just fun...I used mainly sampled sounds and worked them up into instrument racks to help them get that Sunday brunch vibe. And tried to get the jazzy harmony with it..I also used my own sampled balalaika bass to add some real room feel and that wood bounce.

Jazzy brunch (demo)

The inspiration is from the Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, sometimes called the beast chord (as seen in a very cool YT video channel Keth Horn chord of the month).. it is dark, made of several instruments playing the open, inverted A minor, but with the C# not playing up the register. I imagined it as a Couple waling up the woods, talking in the rain.... the chord moving between the emotional exchanges...

SAD WALK

It's a Kinda of an unresolved perpetual movement...Like life... It goes and then when a drama is expected, it finally aint' coming the way it was expected.  it is a track about unpredictable expectations, that goes through 3 key movements, and is in 7/8 to underline some of the ambiguity.

Walking Through The Keys (Demo)

This is more of a wink towards the 90s dance vibe, with a, not so serious but potentially heavy question of future AI responsibility for its acts.... Ableton, and its stock instruments.  Plus an eternal vocoder.

Drunk Prank

This is the first part of a longer idea following a birth of a mountain witch,   A rare and unique event in the witch world and requiring a proper musical and emotional context.  The idea is following very dissonant chords, open voicing across octaves and mediant modulation for the chorus span.... to be developed further..

The Birth of the Mountain Witch

Well.... this is a short story about the near future and how to get the place you deserve it it...Lot's of bass and impro on Push and guitar...I used the voice of a Japanese Anime actress Akari Kito (taken from YT TV show) for the last phrase...

CyberTokyo SuperRaibow

The idea came to me yesterday night when I was strolling with my dog, through the frozen vineyards. The air was dry and the sky was pitch black, with myriad of stars.  And one of them seemed to be actually weeping.  With those strange pulsating light... I used a Bulb piano and voice recording in Sampler for an extra ambiance...

The Weeping Planet

This is a short demo inspired by the flute improvising using the Japanese Iwato scale 1 b2 4 b5 b7. I find its tone particularly reasoning with solo type of carried melody....Here the idea was to make that flute slightly dissonant and a bit angry so to speak... Hence a beautiful French word, Emmerdé...

La Flute Emmerdée (demo)

It is a short demo of an idea for a more dramatic piece...I imagined a leadership of a futuristic (or not) cabalt mine, in the middle of nowhere, celebrating great results, against the sound of slightly underage workers digging outside.  I used the more pronounced melodic idea, with lot's of bass.  It follows a kind of minor pattern but with quite some borrowed chords for more contrast...

Cobalt Mine Leadership's Teambiliding Event

A lazy morning wakeup mood....Just relax and take your coffee and, take your time....

Lazy Daybreak

A short James for the Seed2Stage January, inspired by JFK speech in Berlin, and the Berlin school electronic music...With a more agressive synth improvisation and guitar played backwards...and some effects..

Ich bin ein Berliner (demo)

The idea is based on a phrase really.. I used 5/8 time signature to mark some non-linear musical horizon...And very simple instruments around it...

Empathy is a Cornerstone...

The idea came from the sounds of happiness of my dog - Flicka.  For once I used a happy sounding Lydian and almost exclusively multisample instruments by myself  - ukulele, cymbals, my daugter's voice with various effects, some African percusive instruments...The main motif impro with Push. Had a lot of fun with this one... ON the picture Flicka and Ribera del Duero red wine...

Ballad For Flicka

Wierd Noises (demo)

Imagine a nice jazzy caresse, while walking in the nature... A chord progression using Tritone subs, in F Mixolydian to give it a mood.  5/4 time signature for more uneven feel... It is a jazzy caresse, so evenness is not the game...

Jazzy Caresse

Theatrical Pad (demo)

a short work inspired by a well known jazz standard and its flow of chords... With Microtuner for somehow less expected sound...

MaykroBlue And MacrowGreen

Earendel is the most distant individual star ever detected, located about 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth. It was discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope and later confirmed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2022.Earendel means "Morning Star" or "Dawn" in Old English.

January 25

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