Using the method indicated, an original drone sequence of around 20 minutes, created in Pure Data, was reduced to its current length, which also resulted in some abrupt changes to pitch or timbre, especially in the second half..
The track was created with VLC using random or untimed fast-forward intervals & recorded with Audacity +Soundflower.
An interesting exercise.

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Chop & Change (disquiet0585)

String quartet in 3 movements based on compositional traits in works by Anton Webern, J. S. Bach and Béla Bartók.
Originally written in 1985. Revised and recorded in 2023.
Performed by "Spútnikk" quartet:  Sigríður Bjarney Baldvinsdóttir (Violin 1), Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir (Violin 2), Vigdís Másdóttir (Viola), Gréta Rún Snorradóttir (Cello).
Recording, mixing and mastering: Eðvarð Egilsson
Hljómandi-recording studio, Reykjavík, Iceland

Three Reminiscences - III Barbaro

Three Reminiscences (Þrjú minni) - III Barbaro

Three Reminiscences - II Aria

Three Reminiscences (Þrjú minni) - II Aria

Three Reminiscences - I Kanon

Three Reminiscences (Þrjú minni) - I Kanon

Like the tree in the wind; bending but not breaking.

Giorgos Kyriakakis Lygisma, Theodor Valentin Iliescu (bassoon), Russell Harrold (piano)

Inverted Counter Point for String Trio

When It comes to love, sometimes the choices aren't clear.  The hardest choices are the ones that mean the most.  If you think Velvet Sundown is amazing then you will truly appreciate JAX RYDER!

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Here's a Breakdown of the lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Woke up with my boots still on from the night before
Half a bottle gone, half written song, guitar laying on the floor
Note on the stand said: "Thanks you were hot", (Co-writer left the note)
 The face in the mirror says I’m not (He doesn't like who he sees in the mirror)
I’m fightin’ with reality and the voice I forgot (Internal Struggle of how he thinks life should be and the reality of how he is being in the world)

[Chorus]
I’m in between my idea of what’s wrong and what’s right (He defines his everything by a standard of whats wrong and whats right)
I’m in between what I see and what's cast by the light (He sees shadows in everything in his life)
I’m trying to decide what it all means
Right at this moment — I’m in between

[Verse 2]
My Bible’s on the dash, but my hand’s on the wheel (referencing his struggle with addiction to alcohol)
Temptation’s callin’ louder than the prayers I feel
The angels whisper truth, but the whiskey talks mean
Guess I’m drivin’ through a ghost town of
might-have-been dreams

[Chorus]
I’m in between my idea of what’s wrong and what’s right
I’m in between what I see and what's cast by the light
I’m trying to decide what it all means
Right at this moment — I’m in between

[Bridge]
Babe, I know you're needing answers — wish that we could start again
And the wrong choice feels easy, 'cause you're still my closest friend (He already knows the answer, just doesn't want to face it)
I ain’t left yet, but I'm hurting — this truth can't be outrun
When I showed up, you were missing — when you came back, I was gone
[Final Chorus]
I’m in between my idea of what’s wrong and what’s right
I’m in between what I see and what's cast by the light
I’m trying to decide what it all means
Right at this moment — I’m in between

[Outtro]
I can't go forward
Can't go back to us it seems
Damned if I do or if I don't somewhere in between


I'm In Between

Literary battle rap featuring Dr. Seuss versus Dr. Roget Thesaurus in a playful circus tent showdown. Hip-hop beats with jazz influences and quirky sound effects bring educational entertainment to life. Seuss and  Thesaurus debate simple versus complex vocabulary for children's learning, celebrating how different approaches to language both serve literacy. Family-friendly wordplay competition ending in mutual respect and collaboration. I hope you can enjoy. S F H & Stephen Hollins


The Cat in the Hat Debate

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls
Welcome to tonights great debate
Between two literary giants (Giants!)
Doctor Seuss, S-E-U-S-S making reading fun (Fun!)
Versus the mighty Doctor Row-Jays Thesaurus
Let the battle begin 
(Begin, begin, begin, begin, begin, begin)

Round one the challenge opening with Doctor Row-Jay

Good sir, your vocabulary is limited, restricted
Narrow, confined, bounded, circumscribed
A mere fifty words to tell a tale (Fifty words?)
Preposterous, absurd, ridiculous

Now its Doctor Seuss to return the challenge
(ahhhh, heee,he,he)
I'll bet you can't do it (Can't do it)
Not with a Grinch, not with a Sneetch
You'd make kids' heads itch (Make 'em itch, ah-ah)

Moving right along round two, describing love

Affection manifests in myriad forms
Devotion, adoration, fondness, tenderness
Attachment, infatuation, ardor, passion (So many words)
Worship, reverence, veneration, esteem

Love is simple
Love is here (Here, here)
Love makes Whos shed joyful tears

Round three the art of teaching

But children require comprehensive vocabulary
Extensive, broad, wide-ranging lexicons (Big words, big words, big words)
How can diminutive, tiny, minuscule words 
Convey the vastness, enormity, immensity of knowledge

One fish, two fish
Red fish, blue fish
Kids learn to read
That's all they need (All they need, yeah)

Round four describing sadness

Melancholy encompasses sorrow, grief, woe
Despondency, dejection, gloom, despair
Anguish, heartache, misery, distress
Dolor, tribulation, lamentation

The Grinch's heart was two sizes small
That's sadness, friend
That says it all

Round five the breakthrough

Perhaps perhaps, there's wisdom, sagacity
Intelligence, insight in your methodology
Approach, technique, system, strategy

And maybe fancy words can prance
When simple ones lead the dance

Ladies and gentlemen the final verdict

I've spent decades cataloguing, organizing
Systematizing every shade of meaning
But you, you make meaning dance

And you taught me that dance has cousins
Prance, skip, twirl, bounce
Sometimes the long way round
Is where the best words are found

So ended the great word war
With no victor, champion, winner declared
For language needs both architects
The builder of bridges precise
And the painter of pictures bright

One gives us tools to think with clarity
The other gives us wings to fly
Words are wonderful, marvelous, fantastic, stupendous 
Magnificent, terrific, great, neat great, neat 

They walk off together
Arguing about whether Sneetches
Should be filed under S for Star-Belly
Or P for Plain-Belly
While somewhere a child reads their first word (First word)
And the world grows bigger and smaller (Bigger and smaller)
All at once (All at once, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)

The Cat In The Hat Debate

The Cat in the Hat Debate

Gylfi Garðarsson (b. 1956) lives and works in Iceland. With songwriting and composing as a pastime activity his more visible output until recently has been music engraving and publishing of sheet music books (www.songbok.is). As of 2022 he began to share some of his own music publicly through Soundcloud and other streaming platforms. (Profile image by Þórdís Erla Ágústsdóttir)

S F H music Auckland, New Zealand

Poet • Performer • Lyricist • Composer

Stephen Hollins is a New Zealand-born Renaissance artist whose four-decade career spans many genres of theatre, opera, improvisation, performance, poetry, writing and music. He transforms his poetry into songs blending psychology, performance, innovation and technology to create emotionally resonant and meaningful music.

His latest project, "Breakfast with Jung," is a groundbreaking multimedia collection exploring Carl Jung's psychological concepts through poetry and music—transforming a 400-page manuscript of 135 poems into a nine-album/chapter series that makes depth psychology accessible through an intimate musical and poetical journey toward the authentic Self that mirrors Jung's work.
"Support my music: https://sfhmusic.bandcamp.com"

Abstract Sound Structures, Musique Concrète & Live Electronics.
Experimental abstract animation videos.
It is my aim to create and/or edit my tracks & videos using free or open-source software only.
Influences include: J.S. Bach, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Giacinto Scelsi, Mauricio Kagel, Conlon Nancarrow, Christian Wolff, Harry Partch, Luc Ferrari, Morton Feldman, Cornelius Cardew, Bernard Parmegiani, Ana-Maria Avram, David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Renaissance Polyphony.
All my work is published under a Creative Commons licence & can be freely downloaded (as wav) or remixed.

Well... about me...  

I am a songwriter.  I write in several genres and styles.   I am a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and patriot.  I'm a Father, Grandfather, Husband.

I would love for artists to perform my songs and generate some revenue!

So, please share my songs with everyone!

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