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Near West

With John Cage's message of liberation comes an admonition not to abuse the listener with casually conceived or poorly formed work.

More about Cage on an American Masters presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfP5OMCfiZs

The image is a transformation of an interior photograph of the Oculus in NYC

Mastered by Shawn Hatfield 2020

Free Not Foolish

The Urban Jungle
July 2018
Duration: 1:55
For soprano sax, alto sax. tenor sax, baritone sax, oboe, heckelphone, bassoon, contrabassoon, marimba, xylophone and percussion.

The Urban Jungle

Fornicata - instrumental
Elura @elura  - vocals, lyrics

Elura & Fornicata - Solitude

What are words worth?

Time and tide and Slime and slide and Crime and cried and
Dream and died and Scream inside and Gleam and glide and
Mime and mired and Prime and pride and Rhyme and ride and
Vine and vired and Wine and wired and Shrine and shade 
Fear and fade and Line and lied and Spine and spied and
Time and tide

Much admired and Acts inspired and
Lost inside and Totally wired and
Petrified 
Events conspired and
Odds defied
Paternal pride 
Reluctant bride 
Secrets confide and Warm inside
False override
Gentrified
Personified
Occupied and
Time and tide

Withering looks
Dithering minds

Won’t somebody think of the children?

Time & Tide

Made with korg gadget and ipad on the coutsch ;))

Gruenstadt

Technical Notes:
-E370 is sole sound source
-uses chord table sequencing - 5 chords, 4 voices together accompanied by a second track of their arpeggiated forms. The 2nd and 4 note of the upward arpeggios are triangle waves, 1st and 3rd notes are sines - provides a kind of accent to help with the 'urgency'; chords and arpeggios are easily transposed, by octaves, and later by fifths, by running CV to osc1 pitch cv input 
-opening low sound is osc1 sync'd by an external saw and processed by an E560 in phase mode

Urgency (E370)

Sanctuaire

halF riveR

And who can forget it ....
tonight just a breath of perfume was enough
the smell of oregano, dried in the air,
unforgettable since childhood
just sniffed and the train of memories started ...
Convivial meetings, religious parties, family dinners ....
Vivid memories that fade slowly, very slowly.....

Dedicated to my memories

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Robert Knote