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That fragile moment of freedom in between the notes! 

Long time did not capture my Cordoba KOA Edition nylon-string guitar. That day found guitar with a broken string, but it still had 5 more, so did not stop the inspiration. Backing track is tweaked NI Picked Nylon picking and Korg Gadget project on iPhoneX. Played guitar, recorded  sound in parallel into direct interface and a also room mic to capture the atmos and happy-little-accidents. Mastered with UA Oxide Tape, IK, and FabFilters in Live 11. New track will go to Uplifting Chillout album titled "Love", some day, maybe. TNX!

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Love

No Strings Attached

Life is busy. I make software that Apple designers use make their chips. This track is made on iPhone with Korg Gadget app and uploaded directly to GadgetCloud. Same way as 8 years ago, when I joined SoundCloud. Cover photo of Gadget project on iPhone made with the same iPhone. Cheers!  

Endless Light will become part of my future Impressions album along with (tracks that also made on the Korg Gdaget on iPhone/iPad):
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/crystal-ripples
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/sam-prock-time-speck
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/stargaze
https://soundcloud.com/samprock/odyssey

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Impression

Endless Light

Silk Road - Ο Δρόμος Του Μεταξιού

Chorus
Pull the trigger— on these rhymes
Focus target, bottom line
 Each word impact, like doing time
Ricochet of each other, by my design 
As I unload , as I unload (X4)

Verse 1
Still ——the shimmer of light, coming through the curtains 
the day is not done, outcome’s uncertain 
drop the weight of my shoulder, unload the burden
Exponent the sum of one, connection open
Gonna chill and have some fun, I’m talking floating

Verse 2
I feel up to the level, drop a verse
Bass, mids, and treble, why rehearse 
Bars tight got several, raise a toast 
Going straight through, like a prison ghost
—Some wine,— host with the most
Words bounce off each other, like pinball dope
bounce off each other, like pinball dope
Push ahead, step back, full contact
Calm add reverb
Calm nerves, add reverb
All flavor, got every code
Love of labor, as I unload

Chorus
Pull the trigger on these rhymes
Focus target, bottom line
Each word impact, like doing time
Ricochet of each other, by my design
As I unload , as I unload

As I Unload

I have always thought that it is easier to compose and touch the listener's emotions with minor clef pieces, with melancholic and thoughtful hints or, at least, it is for me. But sometimes, as a small challenge to myself, I like writing something cheerful, so this is a little ode to joy.
Dedicate to the dear Debra, musician and listener always sensitive to all the nuances and colors of music.
For this piece I played two classical guitars, bass, piano and wrote three digital wind lines for clarinet and saxes. I hope you enjoy it.

Composition and all arrangements: Francesco Cartocci

12/12/2024

Feels like heaven!

Hoping this one brings a little sunshine to you !!

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and Happy holidays.
Thank you for all of your kind support of my music too!

(c) Vocalatti 2024

Comme Ci Comme Ca

Please enjoy my latest offering to you all. It is another seagoing inspired track. Over the years I have seen many deep ocean whales in their natural setting but only once have I seen a pod and it was awesome. There must of been at least twenty of them spread across the bow at distance. I immediately reported my sightings to the captain who immediately stopped engines.  He went on to explain that in this situation you have two choices you can go hard to starboard or port depending on our postion relative to the whales course or simply stop the engines and take in the view explaining the chances of seeing another pod this large is very remote. this all happened long before smartphones came along so we had no way of recording the event. This took place when I was nineteen and I am now 71 and it is a memory that has stayed with me all these years. So I say to all our fantastic young people .... You are at the stage in your life were you are creating your memories .... .don't waste a minute. Thank you all for the great support you give me.... love and peace..

Music.composition,arangement,mix and production ....Pablo

Calling The Whales

100% human created with music hardware on a 24 track Digital recorder , like all my music here 😁🎧🎶(the picture is AI created)
Lyrics:-
Draw me a picture for my latest song
Show me my options say it can't go wrong
Give me some answers to my worries now
Give me some answers now

It will feel oh so nice
Friend for life
It will be there by your side
A.I.
It can do the things you don't
Good advice
It can be the things you won't
A.I.

Create a playlist of forgotten songs
Surprise my ears and keep 'em coming strong
Write me a classic I can call my own
But secretly don't own

It's our intension that can use these tools
For good or bad it's us that make the rules
With healthy reasons for the pure of heart
C'mon let's make a start

winkandwoo/2025

A.I.

Cast of Characters:
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino -- Taylor 114ce acoustic guitar, main vocals, harmony vocals, lyrics, composition 
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender HSS Telecaster electric guitar
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, mix, mastering, and production
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – piano
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string Fender Precision Bass with a plectrum 
 
This song began as one of Joe's, lyrically centered songs, which he wrote and filled in with VST instruments. He came up with the lyrics by sharing ideas with fellow SoundCloud musician Michele Ansani.
   Knowing that Josh is a fan of his work, Joe offered this song to him in hopes that he'd share it with the rest of the band. Of course, Josh jumped at the opportunity to work on his song, and immediately shared it with the rest of the group. 
  Ken went to work first, adding his driving, excting drums. Josh was having a hard time coming up with a good bass line for it, until Ken suggested that he use the power of the 1/8 note to propel it. Tez was up next with his clever fills you hear throughout the first half of the song. Stephen came along right after and matched Tez's energy for the guitar fills in the second half of the song. 
  It was still missing a solo in the designated spot, though, so Mark stepped up with his innovative piano solo you hear in the middle. If it sounds a little mechanical, that's because he's using an arpeggiator to achieve the effect. We thought it sounded good in a song about AI, though. 
  Once all the parts were dialed in, and Joe had gotten all his vocals tuned up, we asked one of our resident pros, Stephen, to mix it for us. He did that and mastered it, too, expertly, as always.
  This is the first song we've ever done with Joe, and don't expect it to be the last. We all really enjoyed putting together, in no small part because Joe is such a competent, receptive, and gracious collaborator. We all hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it. 
Original lyrics by Joe Stroffolino (and Michele Ansani):
When I was thirteen I picked up my first guitar
it was my mother's, it only had one nylon string 
I tried to play it like a rock star
I learned to play the Coca-Cola jingle
So I could teach the world to sing
When I was fourteen, I put on six new strings
I learned to play Beatles, I learned a Bob Dylan song
I sounded out of tune but I tried to carry on
At fifteen I wrote my first original tune 
So bad it sounded like it might have been written by a baboon
When I was sixteen, I got a new guitar for my birthday
The metal strings sawed through my fingers 
But I continued to play
And the calluses formed and every day I learned a brand new chord
I was obsessed with that guitar and I never grew bored.
I wrote songs every day and most of them were a mess
But I believed that through hard work, I could achieve success
Malcom Gladwell wrote a book that said it takes ten thousand hours
To become and expert at your craft
But now all it takes is two commands and an enter
And in two minutes you have ten versions of the same damn new song,
You just have to choose the type
folk, rock, rap, pop, metal, jazz, trap or blues.
You don't even need to write the lyrics, 
your push a few buttons let the AI choose.
And people will think your songs are great even though you didn’t write or play a single note.
When I was 20, I did my first concert, it was time
it occurred in a village square
there were four cats all friends of mine
I was still using the plectrum and sometimes I got the chords wrong
at thirty I finally wrote what I thought was a decent song
It had a very well thought out structure
And a catchy vibe and beat
It was overly verbose but when I played it people tapped their feet
In my forties I stopped wasting my time
Work was more fun I was doing just fine

AI Sucks! (Eclectic Collective with Joe Stroffolino)

Jag vill ha kaffe. ( 1997 ) Eddy Mango ( Eddy )

Call out for help, got a bit of a problem
Cracking up under my foot begun to leak
I see rust coming through, been here a while
Water is about to flood us out

Find a way to make this right
Find a way to make this right

A tension break, or run aground, getting worse
Keep getting worse since it was found
Pressure seem to continue building
Could be a major break at hand

Find a way to make this right
Find a way to make this right

All hands on deck
We’re taking an ocean of water

Find a way to make this right
Find a way to make this right

All hands on deck
We’re taking an ocean of water

No time for discussion
Let’s get this resolved
There’s always a solution 

Find a way to make this right
Find a way to make this right


Find A Way To Make This Right

"John Denver was born Henry John Deutschendorf Junior at Roswell, New Mexico, the son of an air force pilot. As such, he led a peripatetic life from an early age, but would say later that for him, moving to Colorado was like coming home. He and his first wife Annie - the love of his life - bought some land at Starwood in Aspen
The Denver's moved to Starwood at Christmas 1970, at which time the area had been developed only minimally. They built a five bedroom eco-friendly house and a guest house on the 7.6 acre plot. This mushy, sentimental composition is John Denver's coming home song.
After his tragic death in a plane crash in October 1997, fans wanted to convert the Starwood property into a museum, but it was put on the market and sold for $3.68 million. "                   Songfacts

Mastered Track: Distrokid Mixea
Image: Sergey Guk 

Starwood in Aspen-John Denver (Cover)

☮ ~ Amber Alert ~ before we turn into a fossil ~ ☮

You are invited to submit YOUR own Planet Earth and Humanity dedicated music for the community playlist. All genres/styles, new or existing music. Send me a link to @samprock for inclusion by 2018/11/28. Playlist will be published on Silent Zen @silent-zen.

Our first Planet Earth collection by fabtastic SoundCloud fam artists:
https://soundcloud.com/silent-zen/sets/climate-change

I played this Amber track on my iPhone X. 100% Korg Gadget app, 128 BPM .... thinking of the subject and remembering how cool the vibe we all did with the collection. Cheers! 

Find Sam Prock at: 
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~

Crystal Ripples

☮  Amber (Community Playlist Collab Invite ~ Please Read) ☮

Fun free 80's spirit session with Cubasis on iPad. Model D by Moog, iSem by Arturia, Kauldron by Yonac, Syntronik by IK Multimedia, LD2 Classic Drums Machines by Steinberg. Those are good synth and some work now as Audio-Unit (embedded into Cubasis, not only connected as Inter-App).

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Released by Sam Prock and Silent Zen, 2018
Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Prockjets (Singles Collection)

Game's Not Over (Power Up)

No analogue synths were hurt in the making of this track 😎 
Played with a single instance of IK Multimedia Syntronik VST. All sounds and sequences were made within 4-track plugin. Next arranged captured sounds in Ableton Live. Hope you like Kraft Werky Synthercise, cheers! ⚡⚡⚡

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Analogue

Die Maschine

Youth. You're running your bike downhill while carelessly keep pushing the pedals. Good feeling to keep! 

Or, remember you first "band" with camp/classmate or two. Boxes for drums and a random guitar. Which is your sister's in fact. She only has it in case good boy come for a party. You've been asking for it for a year, and finally its yours to rock! 

Careless improv with DAW and guitar. Funtronica style. Ableton Live 11 beta, Arturia Jun-6, Rhodes-73, MiniMoog with Moog Filter UAD, Kick-2. My blue Fender Strat with Fender 55 Tweed Deluxe UAD. Mixed and mastered with IK, UAD and FabFilters.

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep balance you must keep moving" - Albert Einstein.

Musically yours! ~ S.P. ~
~ @samprock ~ @prockjet ~ @art-of-nonsense ~ @silentzen ~

Funtronica

Youth

Hi....This is my Artist repost and support page.  There are no limits, if I like it I'll repost it !
You can listen to my music and productions here https://soundcloud.com/abloamberelli

"If music be the food of love, play on ... and on" - William Shakespeare (Sam PROCK Remix)

SoundCloud Premier Partner. Published at Silent Zen label with Ditto. Making art with the sound is what I'm after. Curving genre boundaries is a must.

"It is something between discovering and witnessing" - Robert Moog

Hardware: Moog Subsequent 37CV, MiniMoog Model D '22, Buchla Easel 208C, APR 2600m, Córdoba Koa edition nylon guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Yamaha Bass, Teenage Engineering OP-Z, UAD Apollo Twin X, Presonus 1824C, Line6 PodXT, B-52 LS100 & B-52 4x12, Arturia Keystep, XKeys Air, iPad Pro 12.9-inch, iPhone. 

Software: Ableton Live 11, Moog, Arturia, UAD, FabFilter, IK, NI, Omnisphere. Mobile music fan: Korg Gadget, Cubasis, ZenBeats, Arturia, Moog, FabFilters.

"Depeche Mode is the soundtrack of my life" - rephrasing Dave Gahan said alike of David Bowie. 

Influences: Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Art Of Noise, Daft Punk, Telex, Trans-X, Yello, a-ha, Arcade Fire, Panic! At the Disco, She Wants Revenge, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Offspring, Madness, Che Sudaka, Ultravox, Sex Pistols, Rancid, Strangles, Elastica, PJ Harvey, The Cars, Foreigner, Therapy?, Muse, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, New Order, Telex, Zodiak, INXS, Hey Rosetta!, Cause and Effect, And One, Banco De Gaia, B-Tribe, Air, S.P.O.C.K.

Personas: Ottmar Liebert, Dave Gahan, Martin L. Gore, Jean-Michel Jarre, Georgio Moroder, SuperMax, Boris Blank, Leonard Cohen, Curt Cobain, John Frusciante, Flea, Tim Artstrong, Johny Lydon, Dexter Holland, Falco, Midge Ure, M. Harket, Regina Spektor, D. Marouani, Nick Cave, V. Clarke, A. Wilder, Robert Moog,  Don Buchla, Moby, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vysotsky, G. Nannini, R. Fogli, Hank Marvin, Aeoliah, A. Vollenweider, M. Knopfler, A. Parsons.

"I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations." - "Daniil Kharms.

Styles: Funtronica (invented), Electronic, Deep, Alternative, Disco, Deep House, New Wave, Synthpop, Synthwave, Ska, Punk, Reggae, Cumbia, Indie, New Age, Chillout, GOA, Downtempo, Instrumental, Ethnic, Neo Classic, Psytrance, Psybient.

My mobile uploads account is @prockjet. More remixes @art-of-nonsense. Silent Zen is a support group I conduct @silent-zen.

Die Maschine

Sam Prock

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