This is really a cool idea to use CAPTCHA texts!! How we humanize machines through art!

Loved the intensity & urgency in the music offset nicely by the less-than-serious lyrics :)

Yesss R.P. ! That's the stuff. Dat piano though :o Every time XD

Very very smooth my friend, you're working with a skilled vocalist.

this can be a great meditation song. it's really good

CAPTCHA for Baritone and Piano
Duration: 16'
Text by CAPTCHA
Performers: American Modern Ensemble, Jesse Blumberg, baritone; Blair McMillen, piano
Publisher: Bill Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1473
Online Perusal Score: https://issuu.com/robertpaterson/docs/paterson_captcha_perusal
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/captcha-baritone-version

PROGRAM NOTES
CAPTCHA originated with an assignment I was given as a participant in the American Opera Projects (AOP) Composers & The Voice program. Throughout the year, we wrote a variety of arias and songs and were given various "challenges." Some of the challenges included using no more than four lines of text, using found text, using prose, and also trying to avoid the passagio (a term used in classical singing to describe where different voice ranges cross over, for example, where the chest voice and head voice cross). I neglected to incorporate any of the challenges into previous pieces, and I only had one song or aria left, so I had to incorporate all of the remaining challenges into a single piece.

For found text, I decided to use CAPTCHA texts. The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. A CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that only humans can pass. For example, humans can read distorted text presented as a graphic, but current computer programs cannot. To find interesting words and phrases, I spent many tedious hours in front of my computer loading CAPTCHA texts. Actually, what I ended using are reCAPTCHA texts, which are derived from a free version of CAPTCHA that uses combinations of real words from scanned books that need human confirmation and gibberish text.

I initially wrote one song entitled CAPTCHA, but later decided to compose an entire song cycle that incorporates the original song. Each songs uses a few key words (the few that are actually real words and phrases) as a springboard. I attempt to phonetically interpret the other words and phrases that don’t make sense, infusing emotion where none exists. Ultimately, my goal is to create an emotionally moving experience, despite the nonsensical nature of the words.

Winter Songs

CAPTCHA - IV. voix Gustroor

Cover of Dorian by Agnes Obel.
Vocals and Keys by Gonzo Fernandez.
Produced by The Bad Egg.

Gonzo Fernandez – Dorian (Produced by The Bad Egg)

Into the Woods

The synth and rhythm tracks are inspired by my love of The Who. Specifically Who Are You, Won't Get Fooled Again and Baba O'Riley. Once I started adding melodies it took on its own life. That's the cool thing about recording sometimes. The song goes where it wants to regardless of how hard I try. ;-)

03-02-18: Replaced original mix 3 file with MIX 5.
03-06-18: Replaced file with MIX 9
12/19/18: Replaced file with lossless AIF
05/02/19: eMastered mp3
08/12/20: Final Version v2.3

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Who's Rising

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Слова, музика, запис, зведення: Oleksandr Dolbnja

Download the song here -->https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/mymusicalintention/the-last-fatum-song-2

My Musical Intention - The Last Fatum Song

The beat(https://soundcloud.com/shani_ace/github) for this song evolved through 2016-2020 until it got that rock-y vibe I was looking for.

It's a song about resisting oppression when you're feeling paralyzed and powerless against all kinds of authorities.
Be that politicians, police, parents or generally the old generation holding back the young generation when it comes to climate change, the pandemic, discrimination and even people fighting for friggin toiletpaper!

Some have pointed out a Linkin Park vibe that I previously wasn't aware of but it makes total sense, they're one of my favourite bands!
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Lyrics:

Paralyzed & Powerless

Verse:
			
This goes out to all the people in power					
The “authority” keeping us in a chokehold
The old guard tryna take control
Of the young generation as a whole
To all the overbearing parents and grandparents
You didn’t exactly leave us the best inheritance
The planet’s dying, as are many ill and sick people
But you focus on money not the will of the people
Instead of fostering a sense of community
You divide us with fear and with stupid greed
Get peepz fighting over toilet paper in the store
With some support/ we could do so much more
Instead of riding the waves like a Jetski
You keep us down, you don’t want us to get free
I can’t deny, how much it affects me
I feel paralyzed, ‘cause you won’t let me:

Hook (2x):

Feel/ I belong									
Think/ nothing’s wrong
Know/ that I’m strong
Live / how I want
Try/ to succeed
Aim/ For my shot
Get / what I need
Give/ all I got

Bridge:

All the times I wanted something from you					
But never got anything
All the times I needed something from you
You weren’t there to help me, nooo
All the times I wanted something from you					
I never got anything, anything
All the times I wanted something from you
I just got shit

Verse:

You won’t give me what I want, what I need					
Sometimes I’d just want you to see/ How you’re endlessly
... hampering/ chances of others
And how you’re pretending/ to stand above others
Instead of lending/ a hand you just smother
Anyone who needs cover/ you abandon your brothers 
Which is evidently/ not very friendly
But I’m not expecting you to understand me
Cause you and I, we live in different worlds
You got the power to help/ I got neither power nor help
You won’t let me fullfil my potential 
But tell me everything I do is inconsequential
I could do so much good, be so much more
But now I can’t even pick myself up from the floor
Instead of making my own thing like Etsy
I feel powerless, ‘cause you won’t let me:

Hook (2x)

Canto :

All the times I wanted something from you					
You just didn’t care
But every time you needed help from me
I was there, I was thehehere

Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless	
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed & Powerless

Paralyzed & Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Powerless
Powerless
I feel Paralyzed & Powerless	
Paralyzed, so paralyzed 

Outro:

Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fuck you-ou-ou-ou						

Fuckyouuuu

Fuck, Fuck, Youououou

Paralyzed & Powerless

Rainfall

Many thanks to COMBSTEAD (https://soundcloud.com/markcombs-928282858) for producing this amazing track!
Vocals and lyrics by GrownUp Indigo

Lost and found (feat COMBSTEAD💀)

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Ando Moon - "I'm Right Here"

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Grave Danger

American composer Robert Paterson is a true New Yorker—born and bred in Buffalo, he lived in Rochester and Ithaca for over ten years, in New York City for over twenty years, and now lives in Saratoga Springs, near the Adirondacks. Paterson’s colorful music embraces a wide variety of themes, everything from goddesses and online dating to mathematics and the environment. His music is filled with emotion and fierce rhythmic energy, marked by elegance, wit, and meticulous craftsmanship. Named Composer of The Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at Carnegie Hall, Paterson is the winner of the Alfred I. DuPont Award, and his opera Three Way won the Grammy® under Best Classical Producer of the Year. His music is often a Best of the Year pick on National Public Radio. His orchestral tone poem, Dark Mountains, regularly airs on NPR’s Performance Today. Three Way premiered with Nashville Opera, then BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), and across the United States. Minnesota Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, The Oratorio Society of New York, Buffalo Philharmonic, Albany Pro Musica, Albany Symphony, Musica Sacra, Austin Symphony, Vermont Symphony, and ensembles worldwide perform his works. Paterson gives masterclasses at the Curtis Institute of Music, New York University, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and more. He is the Artistic Director and house composer for Mostly Modern Projects. Robert is a lifelong vegan and advocates for animals and the environment, celebrating the natural world with ground-breaking works such as his Triple Concerto, A New Eaarth, Listen, and I Go Among Trees.

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