maqueta hecha para experimentar solamente con samples que fui diseñando
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pilot made to experiment only with samples that i designed
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LUMBRE - RAWF - 11/04/2023

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Greetings and good afternoon to my SC friends. This is the 10th and final song intended for my upcoming album ‘What Color Is Your Paradox’. It is also my 7th mind-blowing collaboration with our dear friend Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1, https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com). 

This piece was highly entertaining and challenging to work on. We started with clearly defined regions (mine being the more techno sounding stuff… Carlos building the traditional instrument sections). I then mangled the whole thing, and tried to blur the lines more as the song progresses, until both worlds felt fully merged by the end. At least, that was the goal. I’ll let you decide if the structure succeeds in that regard. :)

The title is also quite significant to me at this point in my life; based on the idea of ‘masking’, and our growing inability to do so. 

If you aren’t familiar with the term ‘masking’, one Mental Health Care website I found defines it this way: “Masking often involves suppressing or hiding true emotions, which can lead to a buildup of unresolved feelings and contribute to increased stress, anxiety, and emotional turmoil in the long-term. In the context of mental health and neurodivergence, masking refers to the actions or coping strategies that individuals use to conceal their genuine thoughts, emotions, or challenges.”

It didn’t really occur to me at first that I was masking when I was younger. I guess that idea doesn’t resonate when you’re deeply lost in the illusion; at least, until something makes it obvious. But in hindsight, I’ve worn many masks over the course of my life (Art Director, Technician, Pre-Press Specialist and Graphic Artist would be some of my professional masks. And I would even go so far as to include Husband, Father and Son, since I was on auto-pilot during the earliest stages of those as well). 

As my life progressed, I felt more and more insincere in those roles. I felt something was wrong. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then COVID (something that actually required us to wear real masks. What irony!) came along, and miraculously changed that for all of us. We gained the necessary space we needed, to finally see the illusion more clearly. Now, that illusion grows more fragile and transparent by the day. So while I’m still in the early stages of trying to figure out the new paradigm… I suspect the really critical takeaway at this point is just recognizing when we’re being our genuine selves, and when we’re lost in a role; especially if that role is debilitating to our personal growth and well being.

Another thing I’m thinking a lot on these days…. Society is dependent on me playing those roles. And society doesn’t really care whether I’m happy or not (as long as I keep paying my bills, and buying their products, and believing their lies). So maybe, just maybe, society doesn’t have my best interests at heart (as I had originally hoped). Maybe… just maybe… we’re going to need to redefine who we are personally, as we stop playing along with this globally unconscious and ultimately destructive agenda.

Thick and chunky topic, I know. But that’s the way the world feels to me these days… like we needed a brisk slap across the face to wake us all up. COVID was that slap (and probably just the first of many still to come). It’s time to prioritize our own self interests; because if we don’t, they certainly won’t. So rip off those masks, and let your freak flag fly. It’s our life, and we’ll be the ones sitting on our deathbed, asking ourselves if we lived life true to ourselves…. or if we just fulfilled the role demanded by this illusion.

We hope you enjoy “Cracks In The Surface”; and it inspires you to think about what aspects of your reality are cracking. Keep in mind… if you still have a pulse, there is always time to change things up. :)

Paradox?

Cracks In The Surface | Carlos Vivanco & GrevusAnjl

(verse 1)
Level one academy better bet I’m the key 
Crown on my head like payment royalty 
rhymes in my life doing things creatively 
no questions asked that’s right just doing me
Don’t act surprise coming through like destiny 
still on the rise hang tight and you will see

Chorus
I bring the noise-I bring the noise-I’ve got the sauce now
Across the void-I bring the noise-so turn it up loud
My thoughts out loud-so just enjoy-this one’s-a cash cow
I bring the noise-I bring the noise-we-off the chain y’all

(Verse 2)
—👣—-Made to sparkle made to shine
dropping gems words to rhymes 
Holding back no not  me 
Coming through wait and see 
just Wait and see

(Verse 3)
hand over fist that is why I Can’t miss 
one with the force different levels do exist
Multidimensional words do twist 
Screw the imperfections as I transmit 
For the culture just a lift Precision with the gift
IPG1 on the mic I’m on the A-list 
Element of the rhythm who can resist 
Heat on each line dedication when I spit
Any doubt it’s word of mouth
sit back take noticed
Time out baby bro lemme get ‘em I got this
Creative days and nights  vision insight
This level so tight I slay and excite
Check your frequencies left and right 
Already built a winning team each player’s out of sight

———-Chorus

(Verse 4)
Academy Noise games departure flights loading
Embracing time and space so much I’m floating
Gotta beat the high score before there’s a landing
nothing last forever it’s all time spent learning 
A nonstop endeavor we’re hell bent earning
Another one on fire it so hot track’s burning 🔥🔥🔥——lit
Repeat (Verses 2, 3, and 4)

I Bring The Noise

I discovered  on soundcloud The Magical Realm of the Electronix composed and played by Jano and the Electronix.
You know how it goes, it was gorgeous and i felt the need to sing!


Lyrics
E e eeee aa aaaa oe oe wah
Once upon a time in a distant land called Synthiopia, where people lived in harmony, people lived in harmony
 one day something extraordinary happened. A  musician The Master of Electronix mamama master of Elec tronix
He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
When he touched the heart of the people
In  Synthiopia  
Come on come on come on we make music with electronix
He made a melody he made a harmony, 
Of unknown beauty
Once upon a time in a distant land called Synthiopia, where people lived in harmony, people lived in harmony
 one day something extraordinary happened. It was a  musician; The Master of Electronix mamama master of Elec tronix
 He made a synth He made a synth so extraordinary 
When he touched the heart of the people, everything changed  
He made a melody he made a harmony, a rythme in  synthiopia
Of unknown beauty

In The Magical Realm Of The Electronix - Collab Saskia X Jano And  The Electronix

This track explores minimalism by utilizing just two simple csound instruments. Though each instrument consists only of an oscillator, a filter, and some distortion, they combine to create a sufficiently rich sonic palette using variations of the C# note across different octaves.
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More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

Ignota Gens - Disquiet0643

U-V-Twin Engine

method: her name‘s still Hazel, although - at times - she sounds a little bit like Anne Clark ; - ) 
narration: every now and then, you can trust someone else to say it all: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-how-sci-fi-writer-jg-ballards-computer-poems-predicted-chatgpt (David Beer: How sci-fi writer JG Ballard's computer poems predicted ChatGPT)
image: copyright jo richter, shot a couple of years ago in Bad Kösen, Germany - there is an irony in labelling - first: there is a German saying: das Leben ist kein Ponyhof - meaning you can not be as naive as a kid on a pony ranch and you have to work to achieve your goals  -second:  this stable is labelled pony ranch - third: there is another label warning of aggressive, biting ponies - therefore, fourth: implying that even if life were a pony ranch,  it would still demand lots of caution ;-)
Fun task for humans: One or more of the criteria mentioned here https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/24494149849115-Eligibility-to-Get-Heard-with-our-Exclusive-Audio-Algorithm prevent/prevents this poetry soundscape from getting promoted by soundcloud. The algorithm does not specify, which one/ones.

poem / copyright jo richter:

like Herman, we believe in beginnings
rising to fight Romans, the powers that be
we presume the naive because we are humans
blank-slate incarnations of pristine imponderability

we are the dusk that dreams of the dawn
with old Jungs repertoire of archetypes serialised
idealising eden‘s lawn, heading towards mere oblivion
we read from the screen: training data compromised

with wide-open, disbelieving eyes
hoping, like Hermann, for magic sponges and wipes
to delete karma capital – a senseless, selfless sacrifice
there‘s little there there in what the fomo-kind-of-attention hypes

aurora blank slate

UnBoxed UnVoiced May 2024

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Gratuitous Nudity (Instrumental Version)

Primitive Lo-fi, Ambient, Experimental Soul, Electronic Jazzy, Indie Blues, Art, Rock, Music-Noise.


In The Magical Realm Of The Electronix - Collab Saskia X Jano And The Electronix

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