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Like iridescent clouds connecting the sides of a deep valley in the mountains, musical notes and phrases that Resonate like thoughts and feelings can bridge the Unfathomable Dimensions of this Wondrous Universe. 
We just need to Slow Down... and take the first step.


Improvised, Arranged and Mixed by Anomon

℗ Gary Courtland-Miles 2021
© Gary Courtland-Miles 2021

Inter-Dimensional Flow

Talking With An Alien

Singers: Front yard Tonkawa birds

The birds still sing when I feel at a loss for words.

“After documenting the loss of nearly 3 billion birds in North America alone, it was dismaying to see the same patterns of population declines and extinction occurring globally,” says conservation scientist Ken Rosenberg of the Cornell Lab, now retired. “Because birds are highly visible and sensitive indicators of environmental health, we know their loss signals a much wider loss of biodiversity and threats to human health and well-being.”

Global bird populations steadily decline. (2022, May). Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved May 2022, from https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/05/global-bird-populations-steadily-decline

While The Birds Can Still Sing

One for the SHARK

One for the SHARK (Instrumental)

Waiting (Piano and Strings)

“Einen Augenblick noch....” 

Ein kurzer Augenblick noch vor dem Abschied. Eine Umarmung, ein zarter Kuss, ein tiefer Blick in die Augen beider Liebenden.

Bitte halt mich noch bevor Du gehst. Einen Augenblick.  
Diesen zarten aber durchaus fordernden Moment habe ich versucht mit diesem kleinen Cellostück akustisch in ein Klanggemälde zu verwandeln. 

Jeder von uns kennt diesen einen Augenblick. 

Eine weitere Fortsetzung in loser Folge von Kompositionen meines Cello Zyklus mit dem Titel „Charisma Cellos“

Begonnen habe ich mit den Kompositionen „Tagtraum“ 
https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/night-dream?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Sowie Nacht Traum

https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/night-dream?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

sowie „Flüsternde Stille“
https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/wispering-silents?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


Danke für Eure geschätzte Aufmerksamkeit.

Musik : 	Björn Cloppenburg
Foto :   	Björn Cloppenburg

Spitfire Audio LABS 


SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg

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“Just a moment”

A short moment before saying goodbye. A hug, a tender kiss, a deep look into the eyes of both lovers.

Please hold me before you go. Just a moment.
With this small cello piece, I tried to transform this tender but quite demanding moment acoustically into a sound painting.

Each of us knows this one moment.

Another continuation in a loose series of compositions from my cello cycle entitled "Charisma Cellos"

I started with the compositions "Daydream"
https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/daydream?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Night dream
https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/night-dream?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

and "Whispering Silence"
https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg/wispering-silents?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


Thank you for your valued attention.

Music : Björn Cloppenburg
Photo: Björn Cloppenburg

Spitfire Audio LABS

SOUND CLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/bj-rn-cloppenburg

Just a Moment

Just a moment

Lest go for a walk along a beautiful Beach, surf running, birds singing, feel the cold sand beneath your feet, feel the freedom hear the world as it really is. Come walk with me on a beautiful beach in County Wexford, Ireland. Feel the freedom that only nature offers. 
Written and performed by: Johnny Mc Farlane 2022

Walk Along The Seashore

Whispers In Your Dreams

Maniacs

Maniacs 5th

Tripple Clash

N-Lovely Gold Digger

Demo version....

Not finished, but would like to make it heard ;)

Cheers

Frank M.

ALPHA (Demo Version)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Good afternoon my SC friends. This year, I thought it might be fun to share some of the brain rebooting information I’ve discovered over the years that helped me navigate life a little easier. So if you like the idea of following along with these liner notes, you’ll want to watch this video first (about 1 minute... Selective Attention Test video: https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo), before you continue reading down. It’s quite challenging to get the count right, but the results are utterly fascinating. :)

*waits patiently*

Welcome back. So, if you haven’t already seen it before, you just watched a video that brilliantly demonstrates our limited capacity as observers. I admit, I was so busy counting the passing ball… I totally missed the gorilla. Most of my family missed it as well. And according to the creators of the video, at least 50% of the audience will. That’s mind blowing.

So what does that say about our perceptions? It seems to suggest we’re not as aware as we think we are. And that is a lovely thought, because it means we don’t have to be so hard on ourselves when we misperceive things. We are literally incapable of taking it all in, and therefore we don’t always have the full picture (or even the same picture as our fellow traveller).

And that just demonstrates the limits of our mental awareness. Now consider our senses for a moment… how our hearing range is limited to a range of 20Hz to 20kHz. Think about how our vision doesn’t go below the ultraviolet or above the infrared. And I know I can’t smell things to the excellent degree my family’s pets can. 

The one that really blows my mind is that we aren’t ever physically touching anything. There is always an atomic amount of space between all objects. So when I sit down in a chair, what’s really happening is the molecular particles that collectively agreed to make up my butt are interacting with the molecular particles that collectively agreed to make up that chair; and the signals are all just electrical stimuli to my brain. I believe I can feel the smoothness of the polished woodgrain… but it isn’t a full or accurate story.

So now we have an idea of the limitations of our five senses. Add to that how we are limited to those five senses in the first place (unless some of you have physically developed sonar like a bat or have the ability to create an external multi-member neural network like fungi do underground), and you start to have a better idea just how much of the picture we are missing. 

So in a nutshell, we simply don’t have the full picture; and that can be a very liberating realization. That idea gave me the wisdom I needed to release my stranglehold on being a perfectionist… just a little bit. If I’m constantly missing things I don’t even know I’m missing, perfection isn’t even an option. I can also take these ideas out into the world with me, and realize we really don’t perceive things as similarly as we think we do. We are constantly being influenced by everything from our senses and mental awareness to cognitive dissonance and the bias of preference. We are each having different experiences, and that underlying realization is a great place to start, if change be the thing we desire. :)

So if you found this write-up interesting, you might enjoy ‘The Invisible Gorilla, And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us’ by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. It’s a thought provoking read. 

I’ll share other inspirational books and TV shows in future song notes. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed my latest sonic adventure, ‘Develop Mental’ (especially all the little details I added in the 21kHz+ range, as well as the ‘scratch and sniff for dogs’ elements). :)

WTF! The Musical

Develop Mental

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhij3W-UNuY

Star Light

Space Ballero

unfortunately I am free of any profound knowledge at the keys ! but I can not leave it :-D .... free improvisation in one go ... I hope the layered sounds make the piece interesting enough ! ... I myself feel it's nice to dream away ... The pretty illustration is by Juanita Mulder, pixabay
.......... a little joke on the side: I used completely fearless all black and white keys ...!

some jingling - free improvisation

Lu Bu（?〜199）

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Lu Bu's heroic performance stands out.

However, he betrayed his father-in-law, Ding Yuan and Dong Zhuo, and wandered the battlefield.

Cao Cao hesitated about how to deal with Lü Bu, but Liu Bei decided to decapitate him.
At the end, he is said to have cursed Liu Bei, saying that he was the most untrustworthy person.

Check out the music video for the song here!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44tdUvV9V0

在《三国演义》中，吕布的英雄表现尤为突出。

然而，他背叛了岳父丁原和董卓，流浪沙场。

曹操犹豫如何对付吕布，刘备却让他决定处死吕布。
最后说刘备是最不值得信任的人。

「人中有吕布，马中有赤兔」
This means that “among men there is a hero named Lu Bu, and among horses there is a great horse named Red Rabbit”.
意思是“人中有英雄吕布，马中有大马赤兔”。

吕布 迷宫战士＜Lu Bu  Labyrinth Warrior＞mp3

Collaboration with the talented and hardworking Synline https://on.soundcloud.com/bzQWw

Synline reached out during a bout of extreme summer weather in Tokyo with the intention of writing a soothing chill track in resonance with the season. I was pleased to provide some guitar lines and layers to assist in his creation.

"Seeing The Sea" Synline=SeaShea

Unfinished lost project from right before I lost Logic Pro X...

Image artwork by me :P

Randobeat

You know how you can sometimes see shapes in the clouds? Similarly, sometimes I hear music in silence or in white noise or subtle sounds. I've always felt angelic presences around me and I like to think the music is from them :) This song is an attempt to portray that music that keeps me intrigued by the mystery of this existence.

Image artwork by me :P

Catching Random Sounds

January

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