memento mori

The first track of "ego death", an album written with a single instrument: Ableton's Operator.

This track introduces the range of timbres the instrument is capable of by sweeping across them in multiple dimensions of time and frequency, compressing the emotional message of "opening chords" into a much shorter timeframe.

The result: Anticipation.

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H E L L C A S T

Is it a real Gregorian Chant? Nope. For one - there are no real words in it. Honestly, I don't want a religious exaltation mucking up my fantasy world. So if you're building a historically accurate "Monk Simulator: Year of Our Lord 882!", just move on. The other reason this isn't real is I never learned how to read that notation. There are insufficient sticks for the rhythms in the notation... I know, there is a real convention that you can learn. I just grabbed a few pieces of the sheet music from the 1200s, and guessed at how to do it. Sounds reasonable enough to me! (says the guy who knows virtually nothing about the art)

Gregorian Chant

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SAMPLE ORIGINALLY COMPOSED BY @PETER-GUNDRY

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WHAT IS DEATH LIKE??? (PROD. DMILL$)

Sounds by Mathbat/Philosopede, 2016.
Art by Sean Hopp

Fearful of Rasputin’s growing power, a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Youssupov, the husband of the czar’s niece, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Nicholas’s first cousin, lured Rasputin to Youssupov Palace on the night of December 29, 1916. First, Rasputin’s would-be killers gave the monk food and wine laced with cyanide. When he failed to react to the poison, they shot him at close range, leaving him for dead. A short time later, however, Rasputin revived and attempted to escape from the palace grounds, whereupon his assailants shot him again and beat him viciously. Finally, they bound Rasputin, still miraculously alive, and tossed him into a freezing river. He was spotted dragging himself from the river one hundred years later during the frigid winter of 2016, reportedly covered head to toe in an as-yet unidentified dark and oily substance and headed west.

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2016 Tracks

Rasputin Crawls Out of the Neva River Covered in a Dark, Oily Substance

Dry potassium carbonate (431 mg, 3.12 mmoles), deuterium oxide (2 ml) and triethylphosphonoacetate (0.265 mg, 1.18 mmoles) are stirred vigorously in a dry flask for 20 hours at room temperature under nitrogen atmosphere. Aldehydium (150 mg, 0.78 mmoles) is then introduced and stirring is continued for 24 hours. Extraction (diethylether, 10ml x 3) is performed after addition of water (5 ml), and the combined organic layers were washed with liquid neon and dried over anhydrous Na2SO4. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The crude product was purified on silica gel column chromatography using EtOAc-dimethylhexane as eluent to furnish the product (185 mg, 91%) as a purple solid.

(Instrumental version)
Sounds by Mathbat/Philosopede, 2016
Art by Sean Hopp
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memento mori

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