R.U.R.

REMASTERED with Fast Balancer.

A little tribute to "Firefly" TV series.

The idea to create this track came to me while testing @spitfire-labs Lap Steel library which came to my attention thanks to @baramataharipagi.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to producers of this series. I didn't use any of the music from it. It's pure fan production inspired by "Firefly's" atmosphere.

© & ℗ R.U.R. 2022

The Last Flight of "Serenity" (REMASTERED)

Lately I've been soaking up dub/neo-dub music thanks to @jonauversen and somehow it had to come out of me ;) A lot help with it I've received from @spitfire-labs and their amazing free LABS library Trumpet Fields which was the main impulse that this song was created at all.

Picture in thumbnail by DALL-E AI (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)

Dub My Trumpets

Thank You for 1000 plays ❤️!

I was wandering what happens when I'll try to make song base on starting patch from NI Massive. And this came out ;) Thanks for listening. I hope You'll enjoy.

I wanna point out that all instruments are VST. 

Thanks to:
Alexander Stratonov (@ephtrackx) for lots of great tips and advice on the final mix,
Brian Butts (@brian-butts-565934842) for reviewing guitar solo.


Mastered with Bandlab Mastering: https://www.bandlab.com/mastering

Image in thumbnail: Stable Diffusion: https://lexica.art

The Break in Tranquility

The Break In Tranquility

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HAPPY EASTER everyone!

It's a happy one from me this time ;) It's really rare and I hope You'll enjoy :)

It's a tribute to old times (early '90 of 20th century) when Amiga was my main source of fun and my music creation tool. 

I created this piece on August 28, 2022 but I wasn't technically ready to release it. I was really green at the time in music production. So it was in my "drawer" until couple days ago. I've tweaked it a bit and here we are!

Thanks to Alexander Stratonov @ephtrackx for his patience and lots of mixing advices.

AMIGAzed

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In the late 1980s, I had the opportunity to watch in the cinema Godfrey Reggio's documentary "Koyaaniquatsi" with music by Philip Glass and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and I became a fan of the soundtrack from this film.

A few months ago I was watching the third season of "Stranger Things" and suddenly, in the third episode, in the last scene, I heard familiar sounds. Without checking, I could tell I could hear Phillip's music. And so it was. My fascination was revived and I felt the urge to create something similar to his style.
Unfortunately, my creativity and time has its limits and I haven't been able to make a full song... yet ;) But I'm sharing with you an idea, or rather an introduction to this piece. I hope you like it at least a little :)

Looking Through the Glass

I'm really grateful for over 1000 plays. Thank You very much! ❤️

This is my little story. Close your eyes and go with Ryan Gosling and his car ("Drive") to the night ride through rainy, bladerunnerish, big City of Lights 😉

For anyone who needs a bit of calm down after an intense day at work.

All begun with downloading free version of Vital Synth...
Same day made some loops with it and next day do the little jamming with them. I did some improvisation that had to be edited a bit, but I hope it's passable 😉

I hope You enjoy it and thank You kindly for listening.

Thanks go to @jusmaks for being my test driver and helping balance the bass 💛

Vital Signs

♥️ Thank You very much for over 1800 plays! ♥️

This track is a tribute to genre which flourish in 90's, a love letter to bands like US3, Jazzmatazz, Incognito, Brand New Heavies, Groove Collective and of course Miles Davies and his marvellous "Doo-Bop".

I started working on this piece around July 2022. I've stuck on my inability to do any advanced jazz solos/improvisation and embellishments so this track ended up in my "musical drawer".
Luckily, after finishing my previous piece "Vital Signs", where I used sax VST, I shyly approached Jörg aka @joerxworx with a request to evaluate my saxophone scribbles and a proposal to finish my unrealized piece.
Jörg turned out to be a nice, understanding guy who willingly joined this project. At this point, I would like to thank him very much for this wonderful contribution to this piece, a lot of advice he gave me and a lot of patience for my slow work.

If You like this piece You should definitely check Jörg's page, he created lot of amazing tracks!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> @joerxworx <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

@r-u-r-pl R.U.R.: Composition, Programming, Mix and Mastering, VST Sax, VST Muted Trumpet, VST Drums, VST Piano, VST Bass and VST Misty Sky Hit from Kontakt's Lo-Fi Glow Library.
@joerxworx Jörg S.: Tenor Saxophone – embellishments and solo, lots of advices on mix and mastering

I've used 1 sample loop: Jazz Brushes 70bpm from Ableton Live's Core Library.

Thanks for reading this, listening to our track, and I hope You will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed working on it!

Cover photo from Pexels by cottonbro studio.

The Two of Us

Thank You so much for over 1400 plays ❤️

This is a second part of my triptych "Memories From the City of Light", begun with "Vital Signs". A love theme, a story of my heroes love – full of uncertainty, unfulfillment and even danger... Creating this piece I had in mind two couples: Rachel and Rick Deckard from Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" and Irene and Driver from Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive".

This track is also a homage to one of the greatest composers - Ewangelos Odiseas Papathanasiu aka Vangelis.

In production again I've reach out for help to Jörg aka @joerxworx and his tenor saxophone on which he beautifully performed, catching the atmosphere of this track in couple of amazing sounds – thank You my friend for Your patience!

Jörg @joerxworx - tenor saxophone
R.U.R. @r-u-r-pl - composition, mix, mastering
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Spitfire Originals Media Toolkit - Piano
Vital free - synth
Massive - synth
Surge XT - synth

We thank You for listening and we're hoping You enjoyed it a bit.

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Story behind the scenes:

This track was created one day (about 4 weeks ago) when I had one beer that went hard to my head. I sat before my computer and tried to listen my previous tracks and I felt very unsatisfied by all that music. It felt like everything was... heartless.
In that moment I took all my feelings, all memories of happy and not so happy love to create this track.

In the process I got mad at my 2 octaves Novation LaunchKey mini keyboard, because my hands almost couldn't fit both on such a small device... and I understood it limits my creativity... Time to change... something ;)

Also it's a first time I played without metronome. This track is completely devoid of tempo. These are the pure emotions of playing live.

https://youtu.be/u2eNZMKa_Ok

The Space Between Us

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And again I'm returning to Fantasy Land...
This time my bunch of misfits are going on a little trip and this short piece could be the background for these scenes.

First was Irish Harp which I wanted to test at last after getting it for free. Three base sounds was the idea that shaped rest of the track on the initially endless loop with time signature set to 3/4 on which I've layered the higher pitched melody that came out organically. Then I thought that I add some vocal VST which I've tested previously on "Have you Seen an Elf?". I wanted to check how it's perform on more intimate ground of folk song.

In my head I had a picture of a medieval inn and a bard starting his musical story. At some point, the picture shifts to a group of heroes travelling through austere, gray and blue, dark and cold places, villages where people in coarse robes work, sometimes rainy, sometimes sunny and green landscapes. Some scenes showing our group from a bird's eye view, slowly and laboriously moving towards the goal. The music ends when they arrive...
Musically, I wanted the initially intimate theme to change, or rather expand, into a symphonic illustration in accordance with the image and the advancing journey. So that, apart from the theme, there would be a depth complementing the image, also more and more distant from the initial location.

I've used:
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Kontakt Player Irish Harp
Kontakt Player Arcane Voice (Realivox Blue Demo)
Spitfire LABS Amplified Cello Quartet,
Spitfire LABS Uilleann Pipes
Spitfire Originals Epic Strings
Spitfire BBC SO Discovery - Flutes
One MIDI loop from Abletone Live's pack "Mood Reel" - Cello Impact 114bpm - as a percussive track.

Thank You kindly for listening and I hope You'll like it a bit.

Going North

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The inhabitants of a small town in the Wild West overcome their fears and join their sheriff to defend their homes from bandits.

Little miniature that I've conceived yesterday to welcome new Heavyocity free Foundations VST: Staccato Brass. I also first time used their Nylon Guitar from the same series, so it seems it's a welcome for it also :P

I've used:
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Kontakt Player: Heavyocity Foundations: Staccato Brass, Emotive Choir, Nylon Guitar
Kontakt Player: ProjectSAM: The Free Orchestra 1

Thank You kindly for listening and I hope You'll like it a bit :)

You Can Count on Us

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When exercise in mixing bass changes into track ;) It's a kind of medieval/celtic triphop track. I've again returned to Irish Harp. Now there are 3 of them ;)

Imagine.... A medieval castle town stretching around the defensive walls. The girl around 18, with long hair getting out from home. She grabs basket and a shawl and runs outside. It's an early morning, the light is cold and it is a bit misty... she goes down the street close to the wall, she has the tight dress with more open bottom. She begin to dance... This is modern dance. Something between classical and jazz with modern additions of head and hands movement. When she dance more and more girls join her dance with simultaneous movements...

It's an anachronism like in "The Knight's Tale" dance scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv_E86eJELE 

I've used
DAW Ableton Live Standard
Kontakt Player Irish Harp
Soundpaint – 1928 Steinway Piano
Ableton Live - Drift Synth - 808 Pure Bass
Spitfire Originals Epic Strings
Spitfire Originals Cinematic Percussion
Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra Discovery FREE - Trumpets and Oboes
Spitfire LABS Cello Moods

Two MIDI percussive loops were used:
from "Mood Reel" - Bins and Barrels Kit - 105 bpm
from Core Library - Shaker Chance 128 bpm

Thanks for reviewing and lot of good advice go to:
Nynke @wichita-nynke, wejfi @wejfi and kavvka @grzegorzkawka.
Also special thanks go to °Roach @dj-roach-1 for a lot of technical advice.

Thank You for listening and I hope You like it at least a little bit 😊

Picture from Freepik by stockgiu

Dance of Lonely Maidens

Happy Halloween Everyone! 🎃
All the fears are in our psyche 🧌👀👻😱😉

It's my first collab with my Friend, kavvka @grzegorzkawka, who made all guitars sounds design and melodies that were played by lead guitars. Also he gave me a lot of good advices and ideas to make this track better. I've made all the rest including guitar solo at the end.
It was very difficult month for me, that's why I was silent so long. This track is my katharsis.

We've used
DAW Ableton Live Standard/Lite
Kontakt Play Series Duets
Ableton Live Instrument Rack
Kontakt Factory Selection
iZotope Stutter Edit 2

Samples used:
FX Sweep Distant and Metal Riser SP from Ableton Live's pack "Build and Drop"
FX Impact 06 from Ableton Live's pack "Mood Reel"
Riser White Noise from Ableton Live's Core Library
MIDI drums loop used:
64 Pads Penelope Kit groove 01_108 bpm from Ableton Live's pack "Drum Essentials"

Cover art by Engin_Akyurt from Pixabay

Psyche

Psyche 🎃

Thank You so much for over 1400 plays ♥️

My next track for Halloween 🎃
This time created using only free Spitfire LABS VSTi's.
I hope you will enjoy listening to it, and that it will even please you a little.

The story behind the music:
Devastated by the loss of his beloved, the Scientist, working on creating a brain-computer interface, desperately longs to return to those moments of happiness that defined their love. In an attempt to revive his memories and rekindle the feelings buried deep within his soul, he embarked on the creation of a system that would enable him to travel through time within his own mind, exploring those fleeting fragments of happiness.
After a successful initial attempt, however, a system overload occurred, causing a glitch that eluded his attention. In his subsequent endeavor, instead of immersing himself in blissful memories, the Scientist found himself in the dark labyrinth of his worst nightmares, lurking in the deepest recesses of his subconscious. He ended up as a shadow of a deranged soul, tormented by phantoms and obsessive fears, imprisoned within the macabre dreams he had inadvertently crafted.

Copyright for the story & music: R.U.R.

Picture: blackrabbitkdj from Pixabay

Dream Diver

Dream Diver 🎃

Thank You so much for over 1300 plays ♥️


🎄 Merry Christmas Everyone! 🎄

Why this title? In the area of ​​Poland where I live, there was a custom that Christmas Eve began when the first star appeared in the sky. So fasten your seat belts and I invite you on a melancholy journey back to childhood, when we were all waiting for that first star.

I hope You'll like it at least a bit.

This is a piece I composed in December 2022, but I didn't post it because I couldn't finish it in time. Now I finally finished it, and even improved it a bit, and here we are...
Thank you @grzegorzkawka for some advice and for being my "test driver" this time.

I've used:
DAW @ableton Live 11 Standard
The main heros of this track are @nativeinstruments Massive synth and @spitfireaudio BBC SO Discover with some additions of Originals: Epic Choir, Epic Strings and Media Toolkit - Piano.
Drum and Bass MIDI Loop: Chekov Kit groove 02_114 bpm from Ableton's Drum Essentials
and some percussive one shots samples.

The thumbnail photo was taken by me in Poznan at Plac Bernardynski.

Waiting for the First Star

Waiting for the First Star 🎄

Thank You very much for 1300 plays! ❤️

This is little experiment for me - a revamp of an other persons track.
About 4 months ago I came across a song by Donak RV "Duo Melodica" https://soundcloud.com/donakrv/duo-melodica. I really liked it, and since I was working on the song "You Can Count on Us", I had a free nylon guitar from @heavyocitymedia Foundations on hand. I started improvising to it... and this remix/revamp was born ;) I sent Donak RV a sample and he agreed to let me perform this "devastation" of his track ;) This version is made on the basis of an MP3 file downloaded from the author's profile. A stem version is still in development.

I hope You'll like it at least a bit :)

Duo Melodica (R.U.R.'s Nylon Guitar MP3 Revamp)

Donak RV - Duo Melodica (R.U.R.'s Nylon Guitar MP3 Revamp)

WOW, Thank You so much! I didn't expect this song to reach 1000 plays. ❤️

Happy New Year Everyone! 
It's been a bit of a crazy and dark year, but...
It's a joy of being here listening to Your music and share with You mine for the entire 2023. I'm looking forward for Your next Year music. 

This is my newest, one evening project. I'm posting this as an experiment ;) This is me as I am, playing live in one take, then edited it a bit... It was a total improvisation... The piece developed as I played it. Apart from the background music, nothing was thought out. What came out is what came out ;)
It was a test of my new keyboard Nektar Impact GXP61 which I got for Christmas from my mom. Sorry, my left hand really feels like wood ;) But now I have a reason to make it move and play... And this was pure fun to make :) 

Thank You kindly for listening and I hope you like it at least a little bit!

This is small project in which I've used only 3 instruments: Spitfire Originals Epic Brass + Woodwinds - Woodwinds Live, Originals Media Tool Kit - Piano and VSL Free Celestial Strings.

On the photo is my "gear": old - on my desk and new - on the drawer shelf :)

Let's Rise the Glass Again

Let's Rise the Glass Again (improvisation)

Oh WOW! Over 2000 plays of this very personal track. To think I was hesitant to even post it... Thank you so much! ❤️

In our lives, we are granted the opportunity to witness the departure of our loved ones. Some depart through doors, never to return, yet still exist somewhere. Others leave suddenly, unexpectedly. Yet some depart when we are somewhat prepared, for their age predisposes them to it. However, there are also departures more challenging... when we observe the tree of the mind of a beloved, from which memories' leaves fall, and even the freshest, youngest cannot hold on to it. We cannot help, we can only watch how they fall...

Composing this little piece was very personal. It was combined with the realization of a fact from my immediate surroundings. I left all imperfections of my playing because of how I felt at that moment. It wasn't an improvisation, it was an interpretation of a theme that I've developed few minutes earlier. All done on Autograph Grand from Spitfire LABS free libraries collection @spitfire-labs
https://labs.spitfireaudio.com/packs/autograph-grand

Cover picture by A.I. Dall-E (through Microsoft Copilot)

The Last Falling Leaf

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Thank You so much for over 1400 plays! ❤️

This time, I return to the realm of fantasy, where my characters, upon arriving in the North, found themselves in the dwarven mines. There, they are to meet with the Dwarf King's son, who will task them with aiding in uncovering the mystery surrounding his father's death, slain in a goblin ambush. However, before this occurs, they take part in a funeral ceremony.

To craft this piece, I utilized only the free VSTi's by ProjectSAM @projectsam: Free Orchestra 1 and 2. I've begun working on it 2 months ago... It's one of my over 30 projects in development ;)

Thanks goes to my friends and test drivers: kavvka @grzegorzkawka and Alexander Stratonov @ephtrackx

Picture generated by me in Leonardo.ai

Funeral of the Dwarven King

PLEASE READ THIS! THIS IS NOT A PROMOTION!
I'm posting this here as a curiosity and... a sorts of warning. Artificial Intelligence has entered the sphere of music creation. And it hits with enormous power...

This is a song that my wife (she's German Language teacher) generated using Suno.ai in about 2 minutes, just giving it a prompt to generate a rock song. Its lyrics come from a really cheesy song included in a children's textbook. She just wanted the song to sound more accessible to today's kids. She didn't actually realize what this song would cause. And it left me completely shocked and actually questioning the point of further activities in music... 

My wife, by generating this song, gave the A.I. ​​a lot of scope for its own "imagination". She did not specify the structure of the song or the elements to be included in it - which can be set by entering appropriate comments in the song's text. What surprised me is how wisely the A.I. ​​approached this task, how it determined what should be included in this song. A huge surprise for me is the second part of the song, where the A.I., having no more lyrics, created something incredible, using elements such as triplet, half-time and returning when we expect the song to have ended. What's even more surprising is that the A.I. ​​understood that it was a song in German and was inspired by German-speaking bands such as Die Ärzte and used the typical German song structure, including the sound of the vocals.

Yes, I know, I do music for fun, but I still don't know what to do next... I'm thinking how it will impact the music industry? Let's talk about it in the comments and remember - let's be polite.

Below is a link to the original song, I improved it a bit, but whether it's for the better is a matter of taste:
https://app.suno.ai/song/180bb869-7d3f-47d7-86fa-8f44261ee80c/
And here is another one that left me speechless, also generated by my wife:
https://app.suno.ai/song/d5cb1dec-43ca-4d5f-a6f0-f4d8b5825cdc/

Du kanns ja mal...

(WARNING! This was generated by A.I.) Du kannst ja mal... (das Tierbuch fragen)

EDIT 23 April 2025 - I will not use any AI technology that interferes with the realm of creativity in human culture. And I will not support people who use such technology to deceive others by claiming authorship of compositions/songs/images created by generative AI.

WARNING - This is ENTIRELY A.I. generated song!!!

So... this is my first attempt at A.I. generated music. I tried this on www.udio.com. However, it is not completely created by me from scratch, but for this first time I've used it, I took a fragment of someone else's song, which stuck in my heart with its mood (I am an incurable romantic). I really regretted that it didn't have a beginning and an end, so... I generated my own. The track came out really awesome, so I've decided to share it with You. It really resonate with me... And now someone say that this A.I. generated music does not evoke emotions...

Here is the original from I've made my extension. 
https://www.udio.com/songs/qg79XfYiiHp2x8kgSyBkGa
Here is my extension on Udio, where You can see how in text field I've prompted A.I. to do what I wanted: 
https://www.udio.com/songs/smVu17fJngJTLVjdJLuUjf
And link to my alternative version which have I think really awesome ending: https://www.udio.com/songs/k6RtJUvcLzPtsNUcTUnTVi

Here is the list of songs I've found on Udio that are really great. It's worth to check out to have an idea, how good can be A.I. (guided by talented people) in music generation! 
https://www.udio.com/playlists/exHSspXpwQHSdce2rfA1QF

However, I still don't know what to do with this technology. There is no return to the state before it appeared, so we will have to live with it. But will I use it... I don't think so, at least not yet. For now I can't say its human influenced creation. Until they turn it into something like Crea or Leonardo, where a human influences every aspect of the work being created, or even gives A.I. directives on what it should look like, feeding it with your ideas, this is not the technology for me... Or maybe I don't know how to use it...

But time passes and sooner or later such technology will appear. Then we will be able to put aside our plugins and DAWs and create/generate whatever we dream of at the speed of thought  :)

Cover picture from Freepik - Author: wavebreakmedia-micro
https://www.freepik.com/author/wavebreakmedia-micro

Endless Nights (R.U.R.'s extension)

(UDIO - A.I. generated) mrbeast - Endless Nights (R.U.R.'s extension)

Heavy Punk Rock 'n' Roll band turns into Synthwave nowadays! Brand NEW album "Ultraviolet Cosmos" available NOW!

R.U.R.

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