Broken Leaf

I was imagining what all might be happening in a living neural network.
Is it merely a summing of various electrical potentiation
which results in the synapse firing, or is there possibly
some ephemeral packet of information along for the ride?

It seemed if there were something like that,
and there were some direction to it,
it might be like a passenger moving along a railway,
with multiple rails running in parallel.
Are they totally insulated from sharing this imagined information,
coming to some almost alien and rudimentary realizations...
based on who knows what?

But certainly, it would all be far to fast to keep track of in any instance.

Though, it could be further imagined that it might be possible
to slow this train to the point that we could crawl into this movement
to experience it at a much more leisurely pace.

It was these kinds of thoughts that I was meddling with
when I became curious for what might represent the firing of the synapse.
I decided upon the sound of an electric arc zapping,
only stretching that audio out in time,
sending it into a much more powerful bass experience.

After each discharge, 
we would once again be accelerated down a new set of tracks.

Of course any such discharge would fry a living network...
but again it is all only a musing.

Synapse

We released our first (and last) Album in 2019. Since then we have been working on a lot of songs, and some are online here and or on Applemusic, Spotify etc. Next year we will have our second album finished and we look really forward to it. Here is one song from the upcoming album: Don't wait for me! Enjoy and let us know what you think!

Have you been waiting for your calling again?
Well, I just like to waste my days
So please let me wake up in vain again
Just wanna be there in the race

And there are billboards full of answers
And who am I to disagree
Words of wisdom all around us, my friend
For anyone to see

Let me figure out the day
Let me figure out the week
Let me stop and have a moment
Let me stop and let me breath

Don't you wait for me
I'll be on my way
Don't you wait for me
I'll be good you see

I've ben waiting for your call again
And I can wait a million days
I can surely wait one more day in vain again
Just wanna be there in the race 

And there are billboards full of answers
And who are we to disagree
Words of wisdom all around us, my friend
For anyone but me

Let me figure out the day
Let me figure out the week
Let me stop and have a moment
Let me stop and let me breath

Don't you wait for me
I'll be on my way
Don't you wait for me
I'll be fine

Don't Wait For Me

one upon a time we went to the House of Nanking restaurant and as we sat down a quarter-pounder cockroach strolled down the counter. nobody was bothered and we stayed and ate 'cuz the food was so damn good. still a favorite and inspiration for this exotic musical dish called House of Nanking Blues.

created in Logic audio, guitars by naldo using Rabea plug-in.
artwork by firefly

House of Nanking Blues

American Dreams (Country Dance)

DREAM ON !

The Million Star Hotel  (Rehearsal)

8-6-2025

From a series of (almost) daily ocean glimpses. The music is composed to a video of the sea (photons captured fresh every day). You can experience the full video version here: https://youtu.be/3R5iGX0P-ls

Glimpse 1401 (Aug 2 2025)

Swirling Around, a meditation for Rin Gong, Mellotron, Lyra-8, Ranjani +5, and SOMA Cosmos. Recorded August 4th 2025 in Naperville IL USA.

Monday August 4th 2025 Swirling Around

Makes me think of a transit scene on a train

Want this track in your production? I do--let's talk!

Similar track: https://soundcloud.com/greggyguitar/shackletons-theme

In Transit Theme

( REPOSTS  are  routed to Synthgrinder [REPOSTS] )
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++++. PROFILE NOTES ++++

Once a wannabe, not yet a has been.

It had been over a decade since I put together a song,
and for that matter basically walked away from music altogether.
Losing hope that I would ever have the time to put into music again,
I finally gave away my 3rd music studio.
I ran across SoundCloud around 2013,
and thought I might take what few songs I had recorded, 
and lay them to rest there.
And there they languished.

HOWEVER, around 2017 I went back to SoundCloud
and began listening a little more and a little more,
and actively taking a part in visiting the sites
of so many wonderful musicians and beautiful songs.
Also, more and more often I would discover that these artists
were blossoming everywhere around the world,
and most definitely worthy of high praise and compliments.

Then suddenly, these old dead soundtracks right here
began to have a bit of life breathed back into them.
From the kind words that began to come trickling in,
I thought, maybe, someday I might give this music thing a try again.

The thing that finally pushed me into action
was a particular SoundCloud artist…Sander Heerings,
AKA https://soundcloud.com/wane-of-summer
 

Not only was he encouraging,
but he began faithfully responding to a few questions,
then a barrage of them.

The final result seemed to be that after a couple of months,
the Old Grinder now has a 4th studio and, finally, a new song.
I hope there may be many more to come.

Thank you Sander, and to the multitude that have dropped in
to listen to these old songs, 
and most of all, for perking up my spirits.