scraps: machinedramon

May or may not be inspired by Phase Dance by Pat Metheny

Yearning

Robyn A1200 ft dust hill resident @dusthillperson
Originally part of PURE MIDI Volume 2
https://tbkgao.bandcamp.com/album/pure-midi-volume-2

I started this song in 2018, and Patty extended the tune with lots of awesome flourishes and fun details all around, if it wasn't for her it wouldn't be complete, please follow her and support her work and listen to her album 'Cocktober'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K3f8tzr5xU

https://soundcloud.com/dusthillperson
https://dusthillguy.bandcamp.com/

https://robyns.work/
https://robynmusak.bandcamp.com/

Tech Pop

MAXIMALISM

written in one day (12/14/23) for the BotB Advent Calendar 2023 event, Renoise format. https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/noise+impulse/64107/

artwork by @blower5 https://blower.neocities.org/

buy/dl on bandcamp

noise impulse

On the ice... (Unfinished)

crazygoji - spelunkin and funkin

glwtch - quaint cactus arboretum

artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

Elemental Fusion

tickets here ☄️⛈️🌊

14 - it rained after the fire (feat. petet)

This is the track I made for BotB's "INDUSTRIAL!" battle.
(Yes! This IS my voice!)

LYRICS:

Attention!
The workforce is hiring men
And only men
Who can build with their hands
And stand on their feet
For days straight

The era of freedom is over
From now on
Work will be your home
And you will live in it

Every second of your shift
Is spent
Wiping the sweat from your face
The tears from your eyes
The oil off your body

While your down
In the hot, grimy furnaces
Breathing the air
That kills your lungs
And burns your eyes

Saw blades
Hammer heads
Gas fires
Electrical fires

Anything that turns the common man
Into the defeated soldier
As the government
Leaches all your money
And evicts you from your home

Everything you knew about capitalism
Has been replaced with industrial culture
Nature replaced with factories
Birds replaced with drones
Hands replaced with tools

Gears
Gears
Gears

Paychecks so small
They’re essentially nonexistent
The only thing that’s existent
Is your existential dread
NO MORE DAILY BREAD

The screw that keeps your head in place
Is slowly unwinding
As the years go by
You age and die
In the factories you were born in

Reduced to mire peasantry
You crawl back to your hole
Real life whack-a-mole
You can’t dodge the hammer

It’s a trip to the slammer
If you skip a day of work
We’ve got screws to drill
And Walls to build

Bow down to big corporations
And while you’re down there
Massage our feet

All thats left
Is to ship your families
To the opposite side of the country
Where you can’t find them
With one phone call a year
If you’re lucky
You might NEVER get to hear their voices again

We know it’s not fun
To be treated this way
But like every good dog
You need discipline

You caused this for yourselves
Your rebellion made us ACT
You’ll pray you stay in tact
As the work begins to break your back
Just a little bit of hardworking genes
Are all you lack

Workplace environment
Safety hazards
Power tools
And lots and lots and lots of sweat

We’d like to pretend
we have a care in the world
For what you go through
It’s just so tough

The era of choice is no more
No more bad decisions
Only good ones

Like working with saws and chains and bolts
Cars and trucks and trains and colts

And when you think the work is through
There’s still work to do
Like bending over backwards
And shining our shoes

And for food
All you have to eat is spoiled and stale
It’s a rough transition

Surviving the day
is an accomplishment
It’s better a pessimist
Because there’s no opportunity

Don’t attempt
to leave the factory
A few more minor adjustments
Still to be made!

We’ll have to replace
your whole lower half
With a 360 degree
Robotic cylinder

So that way
All you can do
Is work
And work
And work
And work
And work

(Lyrics written and performed by NardInYourYard)

360-degree Robotic Cylinder

DREAMS & PASSION

I am https://soundcloud.com/robynmod
avatar by https://twitter.com/RocknRami

Tech Pop

Robyn (2nd acc)

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