Softly Touching Ground

The only way to close a current chapter is to start a new chapter

A New Chapter

It starts with a phrase played on bugle (Luc van Lieshout). That phrase evolves into a cloud on which everything floats.

Don't Say Anything

"Not Thinking Of You" is about the desire for someone who is not there. The more you try not to think, the more you do. Sometimes, the other person is just an impossible phone call away.

Not Thinking Of You

A New Day - even when full - always starts as an empty page

A New Day

"Teared Apart" is about tearing to pieces after a breakup, and finally let it go.

Teared Apart

I was playing a vinyl record that I bought on the flee market for 1 euro, while reading a book about the universe. I was really into the book, until I heard the noise of the needle, at the end of side A. I was touched by the beauty of this simple rhythm, and moved to the piano..
"From The Sky" contains a sample of the Voskhod2 USSR 1965 space mission. The plan was 16 rounds around the earth, including a space walk by Alexei Leonov. Closing the door after the space walk was more difficult than expected. They had to make a 17th rotation around the earth, and switch to manual control to come down. In the sample, you hear the voice of crew member Pavel Belyayev replying on instructions about the landing. The signal was picked up in Sweden, and distributed to the western intelligence agencies. 
At that time, we humans were watching up to the sky full of mysteries, and we felt ourselves very small. This common fear about something bigger than ourselves united us.

From The Sky

"Introverse" is not an existing word. It is somewhat in-between "Intro Verse" and  "Introvert". I like the word!
It will also be the title of the coming Silent Noise Revolution album.

Introverse

Some days are too heavy, because in the evening we realise that several possible futures, that all still existed when the day started, no longer exist. That’s what “Stop Time” is about, a piece for damped piano and humming with closed mouth.

Stop Time (piece for damped piano and muted voice)

Autumn. Billions of leaves falling down. As long as a leaf hangs on a tree, it is part of the tree. Once it releases, it is autonomous and free, but completely at the mercy of the wind in its inevitable fall. If you imagine yourself as a leaf, and slowing down the pace of time, you can make a journey in your mind. In this case, the trip lasts 3 minutes and 14 seconds.

Autumn Dream

The white queen is lost, and the black king is soon to die. When the white king entered the game, the chessboard instantly changed into a paved arena. 

Chess Mate Lost is a composition tor piano and monophonic bass synthesizer.
 
The beginning sets the pace and the tension, without a choice for major or minor scale. Then, I needed the evolving distorted sound from the bass synthesizer to express the feeling of being so disgusted that you need to throw up. The base synthesizer is contrasted by a different emotion on the piano: an increasing notion of defeat. Now we’re in the middle. In the second part (2min 20sec) - driven by our human instinct - we try again, this time with an accent on the second beat. Getting closer to the finale, the accents move so that we get an “ambulance” sound. The finale is apocalyptic. This is reflected by a theremin, distorted drums, and the piano playing the dramatic bass synthesiser notes. At the end, our only remains is a morse signal in space.

Chess Mate Lost

"Dance of the Wind-up Bird", composition for piano and mechanical wind-up bird. 
You can get your own copy of "Dance of the Wind-up Bird" on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/…/dance-wind-up-bird-…/id1187955405), Google Play, Spotify, ...

Dance of the Wind-up Bird

Our Silent Fight

This was quite an intensive experience: to finish a track in just one night, accept it like it is, and let it go.

Between Falling and Floating

Everytime You Leave

Everytime You Leave (pianoday 2019)

Imagined Conversation

Connection

In this dystopian brave world, each SOMA pill brings a moments of light in the darkness of our stuttering brain circuits.

SOMA strip #206

Closer

Piano (with glitchy delays) on a minimalistic dystopian bed of abstract noise

Closer

Fragile piano notes on a bed of abstract noise. Silent Noise Revolution is a project of belgian composer Jan De Block.

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