Versality

A remix frame of mind

Off The Rails (collaborations)

On We Go

complemented by https://soundcloud.com/pablomoretti/scrit-ii

Scrit

ritual and song seem to keep those pesky UFOs at bay! :)

er, yes @ollora is me too, so this is a self-remix of...

https://soundcloud.com/ollora/unresisted-open-collab

Resisted (ollora open collab 'Unresisted')

Space Sickness

Over imposed

Dark Mode Enabled

A completely over the top musical statement of the fact that I have  published a science fiction novel. As played by imaginary aliens on a festival planet... in the metaverse.

Versality, by Rollo Carpenter... aka @muterial

See https://versality.com

It's kind of idealistic, but in detail is also fairly tongue in cheek!

The metaverse runs throughout, and music features, in song and Synthopia.

Lots of bots... and of course, this interstellarship!

See also https://soundcloud.com/ollora/nonlife

non.life is the name of the metaverse made by Versality, the fictional megacorp in Versality, the novel by Rollo Carpenter, aka @ollora and @muterial

Human life would barely have hung on without non.life

https://non.life
https://versality.com
and https://soundcloud.com/muterial/versality

non.life

The Uel are small, grey, legless, collectively-intelligent creatures of the moon Tkoru. Making music is how they communicate and co-ordinate. Thousands of them sing as they flow over one another, intertwining their melodies and themselves, building upon each other to imitate the virtual visiting human forms in front of them.

In my novel, Versality: https://versality.com

For the image I relied on the wonderful work of a Japanese sculptor: http://nagato-iwasaki.com

The Uel

The gravity engine blocks gravito-entanglements from every direction except for one - the distant planet or star it focuses upon. Gravity is magnified in that single direction, enabling 'free' acceleration for Interstellar travel, and Faster Than Light communication.

In the novel https://versality.com

This representation received big help in dimensional scope from @blink-twice-archival in the form of this entirely appropriately named work...

https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/blink-twice-casualty-of-a-dimensional-traveler

Gravity Engine - Blink Twice | muterial

Metronaut

I felt this image, first on insta, needed accompaniment https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc7twIFo-mU/ 
 
'Solian' is a reference to my book Versality https://versality.com and its track https://soundcloud.com/muterial/versality because in it, Solians are all the lifeforms from around our star.

And previously there was https://soundcloud.com/muterial/solar !

Solian

More related images on instagram...

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd0WG4gozs_/

Round About

slightly scaled up image on insta... https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd-nY68t8aB/

Sense of Scale

am very pleased to reveal a wholly new collaboration, with 4mat, https://soundcloud.com/mt-msc

(revised edition!)

Jam Today, Gone Tomrorow

Jam Today, Gone Tomorrow - 4mat | muterial

Granular too ... big thanks to WÜST @wust

Angular Retransmissions - WÜST | muterial

There's a video for this too ... https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWUvAzAApS/

Delayed Intuitions

Started as a video and field recordings, strung together, and with sounds reworked. It's in that form on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@rollocarpenter/video/7120240854308113670

Became also a collab with 4mat, @mt-msc, here and on insta https://www.instagram.com/p/CgCOxn_gBKu/

Music of the bonfire - muterial | 4mat

The image operated before this mad muterialisation! https://www.instagram.com/p/CgwZfteIGCy/

Two further Operators are busily operating  too ...

https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/muterial-operator-mood-exhibit-copilot-mix

https://soundcloud.com/ollora/rapid-operator

Operator

remix (remax?) of this great track https://soundcloud.com/scopeotaku/night-train-to-central

night train to central (muterial dystopia remix)

scopeotaku - night train to central (muterial dystopia remix)

Crossing the yellow line ... a remix of the wonderful https://soundcloud.com/encym/trajectorize

encym - Trajectorize (muterial yellow line remix)

Remix of the wonderful https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/mood-exhibit-a-certain-rapture

Mood Exhibit - A Certain Rapture (muterial destiny remix)

A remix of the fantastic https://soundcloud.com/sven-noon/gryy, aiming I suppose to 'reveal' it more

A video... https://www.instagram.com/p/CkEWvppgGgl/

Sven Noon - Gryy (muterial gleam remix)

At the beginning of March I posted Senseless, a reaction to the dreadfulness of Putin's war in Ukraine. I made more and held back, but the same senselessness continues.

Now, in collaboration with @scopeotaku, comes AFTER.

AFTER

AFTER - muterial | scopeotaku

A video ... https://www.instagram.com/p/CkdW47YAl1Y/

On We Go Regardless

video on insta, portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPIAVHgfqQ/

and yt, landscape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2YNu5a11U

muterialism

the image is a still from my video for muterialism https://www.instagram.com/p/CmPIAVHgfqQ/ and the track is on the way to being a still from it too !

still

The Shape Of Things

This is an open collab ... there'll be a a playlist here, and of course reposts!

Made without instruments or composition. Sounds come from just two seconds of the sound of water flowing across a ford, slowed more than 100 times, and treated with filters, reverb, EQ and compressors.

There's a tempo of sorts... 120bpm... but of course no key. Anything goes!

Please do call tracks anything you like, while including the name muterial (all lowercase). Thanks!

The photo and many more are at https://www.instagram.com/rollocarpenter/

Off The Rails

Off The Rails (open collab)

A collaboration between muterial and Blink Twice, posted here at formution, starting from the muterial open collab Off The Rails:

https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails

Blink Twice is a project of Robert Salchak, aka Mood Exhibit!

https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival
https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit

The image is a photo of stationary waves at the ford at which water sounds were taken for the original ... and they're also directly used in this mix.

Quench

Quench - muterial | Blink Twice

In video form here https://www.instagram.com/p/Coj6SsXgmIx/ and here https://youtu.be/nNEdX8Cq7ac

Splinternet

I totally enjoyed working on this great muterial piece. @muterial
https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails?si=a6b1a2e3991749eb9b11b7d1a39bf1f9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Check out the amazing playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations?si=ccc58273972244ba9b2384aedcfa416a&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Off The Rails | muterial [Miraculous Imprint Mix]

Off the Rails (Kaerian and Laar / Muterial Open Collab)

A collaboration between 
Kaerian @https://soundcloud.com/kaerian-1
Laar @soundcloud.com/user-325797522
Muterial @soundcloud.com/muterial and his open collab: Muterial – Off-the-rails

Vocals and Lyrics: Kaerian @https://soundcloud.com/kaerian-1

Music: Laar @soundcloud.com/user-325797522 
Recorded with Squire Jaguar, Squire CV 70s Jazz Bass and Fruity Loops. Drum patterns are taken from FL FPC plugin

other "Off the rails" collabs here -> soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

Off the rails
get off the rails
you'll find much different beauty, you'll see
don't be afraid to be alone
don't be afraid to go on your own
believe me you don't need your phone
no, you need to get lost
and to get out of the frost
can you imagine a second
the world differently
can you take a decision
without someone to agree
look differently
try sometimes differently
can you be brave enough
to stand up by yourself
can you be coureagous enough
to choose for yourself
despite what may happen
follow the flowers
follow the smell
that attracts you
whatever happen
remember
you are the one
you are alone

Off the Rails (Kaerian and Laar / Muterial Open Collab)

Also known as lost in the woods...

Some more images are here https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq5PEUEIZPN/

Wild Winds of Change

Very fun to create a new piece with a same base but this time worked by another lovely fellow 
open collab offer by https://soundcloud.com/muterial
original track: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails
music by https://soundcloud.com/mzrpklps

full playlist: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations

my vocal contribution written below

salt and sugar look the same
could be mistaken but that's okay
mistake do happen yeah
mistake do happen every day
every day of life

all those things I didn't mean to break
all these things I didn't mean to forget
I didn't mean

straighten your shoulders, girl
take a deep breath or wash your face girl
but don't get stuck girl

to brood about
linger over
crying over failures again
cry on your grave
flowering your grave
carry your cross
to the death
flowering your grave
while you are not dead yet

Love and pain don't feel the same
but sometimes you're lost
and feel love is pain
mistake do happen yeah
mistake do happen every day

secrets that I forgot, yes indeed
dreams that I gave up, not really meant that
people that I forgot, on purpose
houses I will not build up, on purpose

Cannot see the world as it is
through filters
greed, hate wrath
whatever it is
it affects your judgment
don't brood about
try to by wise
instead of crying over failures
that happen every day
take the lesson with you

Open Collabs 2023

Salt & Sugar

Salt & Sugar (Kaerian and MZRPKLPS / Muterial Off the Rails Open Collab)

Descent

All sounds are drawn from https://soundcloud.com/muterial/off-the-rails?in=muterial/sets/off-the-rails-collaborations , treated and mistreated with The Mangle, paulstretch and various Audacity plugins and effects, then cut up and reassembled in a counter-intuitive fashion.

muterial Off The Rails (Tuonela reconstruction)

𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/descent

muterial - Descent (Sven Noon Remix)

*downloadable
my good pal muterial offered for me to remix his splendid track "Descent" -
https://soundcloud.com/muterial/descent
Other muterial remixes:
https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/muterial-embers-mood-exhibit-1
https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/muterial-operator-mood-exhibit-copilot-mix
https://soundcloud.com/r-salchaks-mood-exhibit/muterial-reactions-mood-exhibit-hue-mix

muterial - Descent [Mood Exhibit Dendron Mix]

My remix of this mind-blowing muterial track. @muterial

Original: https://soundcloud.com/muterial/descent?si=357476e85d094144a451cd2d402be52d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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