‘in principio creavit Deus cælum, et terram’
Travel Stories.
2025 semi-live performance.

I started producing Trans-Lunar Injection (https://soundcloud.com/petrus-major/trans-lunar-injection-travel) before learning of Jim Lovell's passing. The initial reference was simple: I was inspired by Kraftwerk's TransEurope Express (thanks to @fhauna for spotting this reference) and I wanted to travel through space :) hence the chosen theme and title. I finished the track after Lovell's passing.

The Apollo VIII epic had a huge impact on me, even though I was young at the time, as had those of Apollo XI and the others, of course. So my little dedication was sincerely necessary.

Then I wanted another version, more streamlined, and above all focused on the Apollo VIII mission with this extraordinary message sent from lunar orbit, including the reading of the first verses of the Book of Genesis by each crew member, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, during a television broadcast: a magnificent event within the event! (I might come back to this later).

Sorry for this long introduction...

Tools :
Pam’s, Marbles.
- DFAM > Data Bender > FX Aid (#27 reverb hall medium).
- Drum2 (noise crush) > DSP (leslie speaker).
- Polygogo > Monsoon (clouds mode).
- Plaits (vowel and speech synthesis) > Sisters.
- Basimilus.
Ochd, Diode Chaos, Rnd Step.
Tetrapad, 3x MIA, Mutes.
StMix, Black Stereo Mixer, Listen IO.
Apollo 8 Genesis reading: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_8_genesis_reading.ogg
Transcript (and more information): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Logic Pro.

Associated image : Petrus Major.

TLI Genesis RMX [travel stories]

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Musique concrète August 2025

Ausflug 2

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Soundscape Maa was released by the Istitute For Alien Research (ifarlabel) in a compilation entitled Sonder.
https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/sonder

The composition combines everyday sounds such as footsteps on different surfaces, the tearing of paper, lighting a match, playing tennis, clapping hands, horses clattering, machine noises and the like with voice samples from my archive, which the Dutch mezzo-soprano singer Jannie Pranger made available to me some time ago and of which a few have been electroni- cally manipulated. These two components are tghtly interwoven and form an exciting, multi-layered and multi-faceted musique concrète.
The everyday sounds are treated in the same way as the vocal sounds; for example, in the way one deals with the sounds of percussion instruments, which are also largely noisy. A drum roll, a cymbal crash, a rattle ... or an electric saw, a creaking door, shattering glass, the impact of a golf ball, a swarm of bees, etc. The mezzo-soprano voice involved is extremely varied. Snapping or hissing sounds, whispering, speaking, singing, whistling, blowing and every conceivable sound that can be produced with the voice are included. Earth is the only planet known to date that sounds; where we are constantly surrounded by sounds and noises produced by humans and animals, wind, water, etc. I wanted to represent and celebrate a tiny section of this unique sonic diversity of planet Earth in my composition. The word “maa” in the title is the Finnish word for earth/land.

Sonder

Soundscape Maa

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Electroacoustic music  September 2025

While my Guitar....

Jardin musicale – Automne

Voice of Arka

Just a little jam with my Podolski VSTi buddies.
Gunther's comment on "Brief conversation" inspired me to try harder and bring a bit more out of my drumkit, in terms of both playing and sound. Well, I tried. :D It's kinda hard when you have the patience and attention span of a puppy. Maybe next time. Anyways, enjoy!
--
Zoltan: acoustic drums
Podolski gang: providing cool and free presets, company, virtual shoulders to cry on
Photo of our lovely pets Luna and Atlas taken by my equally lovely partner Lara.

Booze in the pet food

Lí Ban

Kites Over Gaza (Reprise) - Stereolithica 626

Thank you https://soundcloud.com/nic_nic_nic and https://soundcloud.com/user-911083679!
Nicklas (nic) sent bass and flute
Jeff (stonerjazz) sent guitar
I provided the poem, the voice, the toss-up called composition and an attempt at mixing
When reading, I voiced an earlier version of the first verse - just for variation's sake

nettle seeds

he got locked out of her garden
before this springtime's floral bloom
as he saw her soft glance harden
saw different patterns on her loom

he found some fallow, barren wasteland
on a hill of thistles, nettles
to cultivate defiant plants and
to get scarred by willful brambles

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

haggard, thin and somewhat healthy
his medicine was on demand
to overcome fatigue and palsy
when there is nothing left to want

go feed on nettle seed
thistle oil and fibre weed
there is nothing else you need
nutrient rich and bittersweet

nettle seeds

nettle seed, the serial rendition - with nic and stonerjazz

Collectively Forgetting how to Be Human (InStrum-Mental) - Stereolithica 655

Letting in what is out
Letting out what is in
A practice of being a conduit...
Sonic Expressionism to take you there and back again.
Combing Ancient with Present…
Archaic with Electronic…
Science with Majic...
Spirit with Flesh