G. ProgOsto

Solaris

INSTRUMENTS: Dark Synth (Harmony & Bass), E-Guitar, E-Drums
                         Sampled Voice by Ina
                         Cover Picture and Cover Design by Ina

A INGORA-PRODUCTION

Convergence

A collaboration between Art Lip and G. ProgOsto

Instruments: 
Art Lip - Trumpet
ProgOsto - Bass, Guitar, Drums, Wurlitzer 200A,                        Hohner D6 Clavinet

Mi Zapatos

This piece is a musical tribute to the movie STALKER by Andrey Tarkovsky (USSR 1978/79)
All Instruments by Gregor ProgOsto
Voices by Ina Eckert (IN.ART) and G. ProgOsto

STALKER

This planet, discovered in the distant future, is the place where I invite you to start a little journey with this music piece.

Almost the entire surface of Solaris is covered by a kind of ocean, which has the consistency of a syrupy, plasmatic mass. From foamy crowns, these form again and again huge, often very complex shapes, which stretch and solidify in the sky and later sink back into the ocean and dissolve:

Symmetriaden

That is the source of inspiration for this composition.
The science fiction novel SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem is the wonderful book that tells this fantastic story and that I was already allowed to read as a little boy.

The mimetic and mathematical giant shapes that the ocean creates from frothy encrustations of its surrealist mass and grows above its surface are of bizarre imagery.
This ambient piece is an acoustic analogy here too.

A big thank you to Russian digital artist Alex Andreev for allowing me to use his great and eponymous image. When I first saw the image, I knew my ambient music piece and his wonderful artwork were made for each other. We as people are sometimes connected in an inexplicable way.

Art Picture by Alex Andreev - www.alexandreev.com

Composed by G. ProgOsto

Symmetriaden (Solaris)

Album: Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - Sólaris (Bedroom Community, 2011)

Solaris is a complex work based as much on newly written software with the ability to generate complicated structures as it is on the orchestration of 29 string instruments, piano and guitar. Brian Eno's Film Manipulations lend the production a unique visual appeal. 
Solaris is about how deep-rooted and traumatic fantasies can become reality, which is why Frost was always unhappy with the film’s original soundtrack, believing it to concentrate disproportionately on external sci-fi aspects while “failing to appropriately examine the inner human world.” He has now seized the opportunity to bring to life the deeper meanings at the heart of the story.

http://mupa.hu/en/program/ben-frost-daniel-bjarnason-solaris-2012-05-17_19-30-bbnh

Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - Cruel Miracles

Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - Unbreakable Silence

Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - You Mean More To Me Than Any Scientific Truth

Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - Hydrogen Sulfide

Ben Frost - Daniel Bjarnason - Snow

My life in pieces and future outlook.

0:00 - Birth and first steps
0:55 - First revolution
1:40 - Sweet 20´s
2:30 - Crazy 30´s
3:05 - Hard 40´s
4:00 - Future outlook

Have fun listening :)

© ProgOsto

Timeline

A short journey through the solar system in the silence of Cowboy Bebop :)