Name: Octogon branches by musical alchemy in Drowning Hymns
Duration: 12 min 35 s
Description: Inspired by the ancient and the contemporary: ''octogon branches'' is a work centered around 8 drone like ''moments'', created by synthesizer connected together by low gentle tamtam hits, and is interwoven by chants, glassbowl and a bit of brass:)

Inspired by the ancient and the contemporary: ''octogon branches'' is a work centered around 8 drone like ''moments'', created by synthesizer connected together by low gentle tamtam hits, and is interwoven by chants, glassbowl and a bit of brass:)

a really interesting and well developed work. Looking forward to playing it a few times as i am guessing there is more in it each time you listen

Great atmosphere!!! I'm maths teacher and I'm also a big fan of polygons ;)

Drowning Hymns

The 3rd movement from 'The Celestial Palace'

1989 (complete work appx. 25’)
2 mezzo-sopranos and ensemble
alto.fl.0.3.0 – 1.0.3.0 – 2pnos, 2 perc, – 5 vc

This work relates the legend of the Phimeanakas, The Celestial Palace, that lies in the heart of the ancient city of Angkor Thom. Each and every night the King had to have union with the serpent goddess in order for good to come to the Khmer kingdom. Failure to have this union would bring calamity to the empire. The work is structured on the physical shape of the Phimeanakas, it uses original Sanskrit texts found on the steles of the ancient Khmer kingdom and the narratives contained within are symbolised in a host of ways. This work became the central (and most intimate) act of a five act opera 'Bayon', that celebrates the life of Jayavarman VII, the most famous and extraordinary of the ancient Khmer rulers. © Paul Max Edlin 2016

The performers on this recording are RCM Twentieth Century Ensemble conducted by Edwin Roxburgh.

The illustration is by Louis Delaporte (1842 – 1925)

A film version of this complete work is available on You Tube via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FmTMxiMZbQ&t=273s

III 'Evocation I' - The Celestial Palace (1989)

Movement II

Sketchbook: Sunset

Inspired by the ancient and the contemporary: 
''octogon branches'' is a work centered around 8 drone like ''moments'', created by synthesizer connected together by low gentle tamtam hits,  and is interwoven by chants, glassbowl and a bit of brass:)

Octogon branches

music . Ivy Told a Secret @ivy-told-a-secret
instrumental here https://soundcloud.com/ivy-told-a-secret/tape-stop-1
vocals & their mix / lyrics / artwork . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY
all my days are numbered
all my days are numbered
numbered

my days
my days
numbered
my days
are numbered
numbered
all my days are numbered

....

days are numbered, my days
it may be strange
price
time
time
price
price and distance
time
price and distance

many numbers!
many
numbers!

"you!
keep transforming the energy - 1 foot in the described
one in the witnessed

but you tend to follow
to follow

keep transforming the energy
keep transforming the energy

- but life is stress!

one foot in the described
one in the witnessed

you have the ability
one foot in the described
you have the ability
one in the witnessed"

december 4 2018
vocal mix improved dec 18 2018

Transforming The Energy - Ivy Told a Secret | Myrh

Sketchbook: Black Water

Они любили (на стихи М.Ю. Лермонтова) 2012

Sketchbook: Shadowman

This is my first full piano solo album.
Written and recorded by me at home, it tells a deep, real life story.
Each track's title is the line of a poem that explains the story, and each piece of music gives emotional content to the story.  I hope you like this little project and stick around for more soon.

Thanks.
Feathersmith

Remember The Day

Some time ago Irunak/Musical Alchemy contacted me and asked me whether I would be interested in doing an electroacoustic rework of one of his tracks, “Octogon Branches” (which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/musicalalchemy-545093364/octogon-tree). The track that I came up with appears (but only appears) to have taken a kind of sample from the original one and a weird kind of micro-melody has crept in ... I organized the resulting material in a sequence of 3 (or perhaps 4) sonic spaces that are linked together by transitions.

Octogon Branches René Baptist Huysmans Remix (2019)

“roots and ripples” 
…earthy scratches, smears, thumps and bumps, and ringing, clear bell tones sometimes crashing and crackling…
This was an internet exchange. The album preview piece was one of 3 that Reid Karris initiated and I added my part to. I likewise made 3 that he added to.
Thanks!
Wilhelm Matthies
Reid Karris
Please leave a comment on the track!
Hear the whole album here:
http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/pyr272-wilhelm-matthies-and-reid-karris-roots-and-ripples/?fbclid=IwAR3406g6On9LDp-hoqUpwg2_G6cna8UdmMe4gy7VyAJPgJjZ6Vrx0r9FUrY

Roots And Ripples (Matthies & Karris album preview)

André Baptista - Bouzouki
João Sousa - Classic Guitar, Voice

Gravado na Estudantina de São Domingos de Rana

André Baptista (𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝘇𝗼𝘂𝗸𝗶) & João Sousa (𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿)

You might like to watch a video for this track at https://youtu.be/rDaaJu14PIo

This experimental acoustic piece is meant to portray the Phoenician goddess Tanit fighting for her life in the darkest depths of the sea… I'm encouraging disinformation here, because "true legends" about her don't relate her drowning... Fake news or T.S. Eliot's influence in this title?

Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, vocals, sampler (drums), sound design

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

How Tanit was drowned

How Tanit Was Drowned

Aether ocean

Hello to you all in this great network of music makers and listeners! You will find here compositions inspired by different kinds of musics, created in ways to extend the listening experience.

First album, "That's Sin", is out on Bandcamp @ https://tethsin.bandcamp.com/album/thats-sin

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