and the alien android hybrid says...."externalize this!"

Think: basic notion of motion for robotic locomotion.  This retro-style dance piece represents yet another song from a robot's perspective - perhaps and endless category of compositions to come from Swircle987.

Simple logic lays the foundation for this musical construction.  Build up, Breakdown, gentle elaboration upon a sweet little motif.  I hear the basic, rigid beat as a sonic equivalent of n-dimensional graph paper, though not necessarily Cartesian by nature.  ^_^  

I've already said too much.  I must go...produce more tunes!

Turn, Move Forward

Externalize

Live electronic improvisation at the cafe of the same name as in the title.  Grooves change, often slowly over time.  Tempos change from time to time. 

Listen straight through for the ultimate experience of this performance.

Back Yard Cafe III

Words coming soon, to a this song in its near future near you.  

^_~

That said, I feel this version is its own thing.  I mean, who needs words, right?  ~_^

Pretense [Mentor Mix]

Bassic Lahjic is an album featuring 10 songs based to varying degrees on basic logic.  The bass line generally "sings" the logic, while the other musical elements embellish it.  

Produced to be played at any volume on any sound system.  

Enjoy these beautiful sonifications of logical structures today!   !@_@!

Fibonacci Sequence Modulo 13

"Malfuntion" is a song I put together at a point when I had to take a break from another production I have been obsessing over.  A moment of indecisiveness later, I went on to produce this track.  
I was after a quick fix of creative satisfaction, and I got it!  ^_^  

So, yah, I love this tune...quite.  One thing that is slightly unusual about this piece is a slight divergence from a stricter adherence to the simple logic I often love to adhere to otherwise.  Thus the name, yes?  ^_^ Instead of completing the tritone arpeggiation in the bass line motif, I went with a semitone higher than the expected spot...so, it creates this whole other sense of things.  

After that, things get turned upside down and the whole lot of it continues to malfunction...more of an infinite loop, really.  !^_^!

Mal Funk Shun [First Night & Day Mix]

Supersymmetric Soda In Eleven Dimensions

Here is the Swircle 987 (PG) Remix of Rotozane's Mix of Don G's song, "Your Body."  With careful splicing and dicing, as well as the addition of other production features, this track came to be.  

I completely LOVE it!  Many thanks to the brilliance of Don G's lyrics and vocal skills, as well as to Rotozane's production abilities.  ^_~  

Let me know what y'all think!  How about the bass line?  comments?  ^_^  

Your Body_Don G [Swircle 987 (PG) Remix]

Counting sheep to get to sleep never worked so well for me, as the sheep tend to be all huddled in a herd and not very cooperative.  Thus, I've found more inventive ways of "counting" myself to sleep such as counting in binary, deriving prime factorizations of integers, or contemplating some music theory.  This piece was born of the latter.  

As I laid there, I continued working out an alternate scale based on minor and major thirds.  Just as the octatonic scale consists of major and minor seconds, so too can other scales be seen in this manner.  At any rate, this piece is a bit of a sonification  of the prior.  

It's quite an amazing "scale" in that taking pitches at various intervals results in the circle of fifths, the octatonic scale, the whole tone scale, a diminished seventh, an augmented triad,  and lastly a tritone relation.  All of these scales and harmonies just so happen to be amongst my most favoritest of all semi-common scales and harmonies.  

Sparing you the details of the derivation of the "scale" and its properties, suffice it to say I am quite enamored with its...amazingness.  ^_^  

It's not all theory.  After all, I had to sonify it - a process which inevitably relies on the aesthetic preferences of the sonifier.   Beyond that intrinsic bias, I have also, quite audibly included a most wonderfully awesome sound bite of Gordon Cooper commenting on his experiences as an astronaut for the Mercury spacecraft.  

Essentially, there is no relation between the words and the music, aside from the vague connection of "orbit" and the naturally circular quality of the scale...along with the "new and strange" properties of this peculiar "scale."  Certainly it's a departure from our usual earthly musical surroundings.  !^_~!

With a meter of 3/4, I broke the primary convention of common time for many genres of electronic  music.  Actually, I'm hoping all y'all might be of assistance in my quest to classify this strange tune.    

What do YOU think is the best genre classification for this song?!  

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In Orbit

Well, the title of this mix - "Wherever This Goes" - speaks of my lack of initial intentions with this particular variation of "F_n (Mod 7) in (M2) Scales."  Actually, though this is not always true of my approach to production, it is often an aspect of it.  For, though I might very well have some schema or another I plan to implement, one of the most exciting parts of making music, for me, is following the sounds where they lead me.  As I know this will inevitably occur, I will not infrequently start producing or remixing a tune without any such initial intentions...and follow the music wherever it goes. 

As for where this tune took itself, it landed in a 180 bpm, micro-rhythmic, DJ friendly intro direction. 
Though "180 bpm" is well defined, the other two notions are perhaps somewhat less so.  By "micro-rhythmic" I am referring to the continual, subtle variations in the timing and pitch of the percussive elements of this mix. They truly add an element of intrigue to this otherwise minimalistic piece. And by "DJ friendly", I am primarily referring to the introduction of this song which gives a good 30+ seconds of nearly pure percussion and an easily identifiable tempo straight from the get go.   

So, all in all, this tune confidently ventures out into the unknown, evolving through one awesome state to another.  ^_^

F_n (Mod 7) in (M2) Scales [Wherever This Goes Mix]

Yah...so...wow!  THIS tune I love beyond measure.  It's from, literally, yonks ago.  Yes, that's right - literal yonks.  ^_^  lol.  Truly, though, this is one of over a dozen tunes I produced even before my BASSIC LAHJIC album.  I've been planning on digging through these older files and releasing them into the internet for some time now...so here's one of them!  

The bassline in this one is guaranteed to blow you away if you blast it through your car speakers whilst driving around the planet.  

Enjoy!  I'm planning on posting up many more of these older pieces of mine soon...in between collaborations and newer ones.  Eventually, they will all end up on their own respective albums.  ~_~

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