Name: Narwhal (Nov. 2020) by Nathaniel Ehrnman
Duration: 4 min 36 s
Description: In collaboration with: https://soundcloud.com/uoam

👏👏👏👏👏 wow!!! el ambiente es genial 

Claus Narr

This is an exploration of different sounds and genres. Trying to push the limits and step out of my comfort zone.

Exploration Station

A section (piano melody, bass, piano, mallets piano and field recording backing tracks)
B section (piano melody is routed to a percussion sample bank, randomly triggering percussive sounds, backing tracks continue)
A section (piano melody returns over backing tracks)

For this challenge @disquiet:
Step 1: There’s a now famous quote from the opening of the 2006 film The Prestige. It goes as follows. Give it a read:

“Every magic trick consists of three parts – or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it – to see if it is, indeed, real. You know: unaltered, normal. But of course … it probably isn’t. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now, you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough. You have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call the Prestige.”

Step 2: This arc, moving from Pledge to Turn to Prestige, can be read as a take on the classic ABA structure, in which a theme is introduced, then something else occurs, and then the piece returns to where it began.

Step 3: Compose and record a piece of music that takes the process described in The Prestige as its blueprint.

Photo by Javardh-F
Composed and performed  by DD May 16th 2021

Miniature 10 "The Prestige" (disquiet0489)

noxpox - descend (down to earth again)

7 - Conformist - Art Colony (Odonis Odonis Remix)

I felt a frisson, a presence, as she passed me; “never fall behind” she said
Blue eyes, yeah china blue; or green maybe 
The silhouette of a crown was it? Or of his fine hair on a perfect head
I lost them in the dream; never saw them again
 
Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer
   
These were different, seven years on, but it felt the same
They stood and looked me in the eye, and I could only stare
Felt like honey kisses, like the remembered bliss of a dream
Felt like a lost love, then they were gone; if they were ever there

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Seven times seven years, waiting and waiting long 
I sensed them in the twilight, in the half conscious fall into dream time
This time I was ready, I had waited for them through the long years
I reached and touched her hair, ephemeral in the sun

Green on blue, he flashed by me; Kingfisher
She’s chimera, he’s quicksilver; Arcadia dancers 
She passes by like a mayfly; sweet Calista
You reach and fall, you try and call; they don’t answer

Kingfisher and Calista

Come April  				c. 2020 by M. A. Manetz

V1
On these four gray walls I've painted her picture with my mind.
Holdin' her in my dreams the only comfort I can find.
One more lonely winter in this cold and lonely place.
The only thing that's kept me sane is the memory of her face.

Chorus
Come April, I'll make it better,
Come April, it'll be so fine.
Come April, I'll make it up to her,
Come April, she'll be mine.

V2
Six months in this prison, six months till I'm free,
Six months since her last letter, does she still care for me?
My brother came to see me, said she's movin' to L.A.,
I tell myself come April, I'll find a way to make her stay.

Chorus

Bridge
Am I a fool to think that she would ever wait for me?
I don't blame her for leavin', but yet I still believe...

Chorus

Come April

In collaboration with: https://soundcloud.com/uoam

Junction

Narwhal

Narwhal (Nov. 2020)

A mellow tune about the night sky.
https://youtu.be/L-INCZeR8eo

In the evening sky

All compositions were recorded at my home during 2020.
Instruments: Acoustic piano (1,5,12,13), e. piano (2,4,5,7,9,10,11,12), synthesizer (1,2,3,5,6,8,10,12,13), sampler (6,9,10,11,12), acoustic guitar (3,14), flute (8), madal (6,11), copper percussion (1,4,9), rainstick (8), shaker (11).

09 Forgotten Microphone

Walking Ears - Piano

halF unusuaL (@half-unusual) - Electronics

Walking unusuaL IV (halF unusuaL & Walking Ears)

Home Recordings / Curated Playlists / 

Collaboration / Participation / 

In pursuit of novelty. /

Narwhal (Nov. 2020)

Nathaniel Ehrnman

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