WOW.  Very different and extraordinarily good all at the same time.

hybrid_fusion_02

Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Robbin Huang https://unsplash.com/@ikarishinjigao

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

daft whelp wins

halF windswepT [naviarhaiku476]

© 2023 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham
Janice Merritt: vocals, melody & arrangement
Peter Fulham: guitar, arrangement & mix
Bud Merritt: lyric, arrangement, mix & mastering
Thanks to PG Music (www.pgmusic.com)

THE OLDER I GET THE LESS I GET IT

V1
The right says the left are all wusses 
The left says the right is heartless
Blue tie man says the climate's changing 
Red tie man says no, they're all lying

CHORUS
you can get lonely in the middle ground
it’s a desert that can bury your spirit
Strip away the labels, are we so different
I reckon the older I get the less I get it

V2
The doc says eat this diet and live to 90
Next doc says no I'd never make it to 50
I read on the net buy gold and never worry
Then my broker says you'll go broke in a hurry

CHORUS

Solo

V3
Buy local organic, save the small farmer
No, save your money it's not the answer
Talking head says a pipeline'll cause a spill
but the other one just says drill baby drill

CHORUS

Outro solo

Tag vocal
A wise friend told me to be like grass, I said oh please
He said keep firm roots but let your blades sway in the breeze

The Older I Get The Less I Get It

Disquiet Junto Project 0624: Fresh Pair
The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be.

This piece of music is a fusion of two opposing philosophical influences: Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. The Kant motif is structured and simple, reflecting his emphasis on rationality and moral imperatives. It has a friendly tone consistent with Kant's belief in ethics. His motif also has a preachy element that is meant to remind us of Kant's belief in universal laws and also that his writings are frankly quite boring. In contrast, the Nietzsche motif is darker and wilder, reflecting his challenging and often provocative and mostly interesting ideas. The more chaotic (and randomnized) nature of his motif reflects Nietzsche's commitment to individual will and his rejection of social norms (or even his own ideas). However, they also had some things in common, such as a great interest in the emerging natural sciences or the fact that they struggled with the idea of a God. Ultimately, the Kantian theme prevails and has the last word, as Nietzsche is frowned upon for influencing the difficult to understand and often misunderstood "Ubermensch" idea, whereas today we (some of us) actually try harder to act according to Kant's theory of reason, even if a glance at the news teaches us that we as humankind simply don't succeed in doing so.

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This was fun, even to make the cover image with Dall-E 3, which in no way was able to make both philosophers really recognizable. The prompt: "A 19th-century style painting, more abstract than realistic, featuring a recognizable Immanuel Kant on the left and an older, recognizable Friedrich Nietzsche with a beard on the right, engaged in a passionate debate. Kant, shown in his middle years, is in 18th-century attire, exuding a calm and refined aura. Nietzsche, depicted in his later years with an iconic beard, is dressed in typical 19th-century clothing, with an intense and expressive demeanor. The setting is a music studio library, filled with books and modular synthesizers, blending a deep intellectual atmosphere with the spirit of modular synthesis."

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More on this 624th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Fresh Pair (The Assignment: Combine two influences, however disparate they may be), at: https://disquiet.com/0624/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0624-fresh-pair/

Kant - Vs - Nietzsche [disquiet0624]

Sam I am
Sam I am

I would not could not throw you shade
I would not could not raise your grade
Points aren’t given away for free
Please go away and let me be

I’m Sam I am
I’m a 19th century man
I am
Sam I am
Sam I am

The grading policy is a load of hooey
I’m a faithful follower of brother John Dewey
I love my birds. I want a duckery.
I cannot stand any dumbfuckery

I’m Sam I am
I’m a 19th century man
I am
Sam I am
Sam I am

Professor Samwise Gamgee:

Your essay is unintentionally comical
Your arguments are absurdly illogical
You’ve barely the skill you need to get by
Oh, for God’s sake, don’t start to cry

I’m Sam I am
I’m a 19th century man

My students say I ain’t got no soul
But I’m the Will Speare-shaking
The box beat breaking
The white bread baking
Vanilla Coal

I’m Sam I am
I’m a 19th century man

Sam I Am

Piano
String quartet (harmonics) by Cinesamples
Orchestral drones by Spitfire

Photo by DD, Oslo Concert Hall.

Today I tested and old sample library and a new one I've got to compare their sounds. I used the junto prompt as inspiration for my tests.

I'm a small time alchemist, so I didn't went too far into the transformation. I just wrote a simple piano piece, I submerged the piano piece into some some string orchestra as a potion (a plugin called Fragile String Evolutions) and you can hear the piano piece already evolving. Then the theme is played one last time on some distant, noisy string quartet and low strings (from Cinesamples' Quatre Harmonics).
There's some sort of hi pitched pump organ, that's a mistake (I forgot to mute a test track) , I decided to keep it there in the background.

For this junto: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0628-alchemical-brothers

Alchemical Academia (disquiet0628)

I am way out of my comfort zone again.  This is a story based on a road in our area, although I did exaggerate the story quite a bit. I am trying to sing while Band-in-a-Box is supplying the backing tracks. 

Many thanx to my friend and fellow musician BobH. He came up with the chord progression and helped with the mix.

Shadow Road

V-There is a road in the valley
Sidelined with trees
They are so tall
They form a canopy

V-Very little light
Shines on this road
A road where many horrific stories
Have been told
And no one ever comes back
from Shadow road

C-Shadow road
Where people disappear
Shadow road
A scary atmosphere

v-At least that is the story
passed on through the years
no one has traveled it
because of fear

 v-no one lives there
except an man with one arm
the other is a hook
that does lots of harm
at least that's the story
if you believe that yarn

chorus

 v-I am singing this song
as I walk down Shadow road
I don't believe that nonsense

Shadow Road

Remember Me

Powerful music depicting the agony of romantic betrayal. Full, encompassing backing tracks with a electric lead guitar telling the story.

Stabbed In The Heart

Lyrics: R.W. Davis
Vocals: D.A. Hughes
Image: jemastock on Freepik

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