This piece, entitled Stupa, is the second movement of my Shamanka suite dedicated to the female spiritual shamans of the Lake Baikal area in Siberia. 

Evocative piece about the mystical piritual powers of the featuring the frozen stilness, the wind and the ice of this majestuous natural mystical place. This  Stupa is a Buddhist temple dedicated to Dakini, the female spirit, on the uninhabited Island of Ogoy on Lake Baikal. Of all times local Buryat tribes have attributed special powers to this area and this temple is their way to celebrate them.

I used many sounds such as tibetan singing bowls and bells.

Shamanka

Shamanka - Stupa

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An ambient musical experience evoking the unreal nature of real Nature. The world's deep oceans are the stuff of sci-fi; they represent the twilight zone of our knowledge and, as such, they really are "the final frontier."

Come with me in the depth of the ocean, where Life takes unique shapes and time stands still. An alien world like no other, stranger than space itself.

Don't miss the spectacular associated 4K video on YouTube by Uber Nemo:
https://youtu.be/YzxG2ugoALY

Music by Tatiana A. Gordeeva, using only Arturia Pigments and presets by Tom Wolfe (https://www.tomwolfe.co.uk/) from his Hyalus, Aurora and Recapture libraries.



Oceania

He's sitting quietly at the bar, having a drink, lost in thoughts, when suddenly the lights go dim. A short intro, a few notes and she appears, out of the dark: the jazz singer. She was past her bebop glory days, he thought, but she could still get attention and make a trombone scoop and doit.

She casually starts to scat. People turn silent and start to follow her voice as it coils itself around the piano like a python around its prey. There is something about the way it sways and swaggers as she drapes herself around the pianist...The crazy sensuality of these undulations got her the stage name Sassy Loungerie.

Listen to her carefully.... *very* carefully...

Sassy Loungerie

My little comical piece about a drunken elephant. Here's the story behind it...

Once upon a time, in Africa, Jumbo, the father elephant, was having a picnic with his family in the forest, among marula trees. While he was watching his son Tom Thumb playing with his ball, he felt hungry and thirsty, so he decided to eat marula fruits lying on the ground.

He ate dozens and dozens and dozens of deliciously sweet rotting fruits, so many in fact that he gained a lot of weight, but he never became drunk, as the legend says. So he simply went back to the icebox, got himself a beer and continued to watch his son play.

The End

By the way, to become drunk eating rotting marula fruits (an often reported legend), an adult elephant would have to consume more than 1400 well-fermented fruits... all at once!

The Drunken Elephant

Our next stop on our music tour of Lake Baikal is a mysterious and most sacred place: Olkhon Island, home of Shamanka, previously called Shaman's Rock, a most revered location in yellow shamanism since ancient times. 

Olkhon ("ol-hon") is one of the 27 Baikal islands and the third largest lake island in the world and the rock is considered one of the nine Asian most sacred places.

Olkhon

Shamanka - Olkhon

As the legend goes Sarma was a beautiful young Buryat girl, living free, in perfect harmony with Nature. One after the other young pretendants proposed to her, bearing gifts. One after the other, she refused, as she wanted to stay free. Nevertheless, one day she fell in love with the mighty Baikal and ran to him, her heart full of hope. But the giant was also wooed by many other rivers and chose to keep her at bay. Feeling angry and dejected she returned home and consulted the shamankas. They soothed her pain by making her sleep for a very long time, and so she woke up old, angry and with her voice now strained.

It is that screechy voice, expressing her frustrated love and fury, that you hear and feel in the deadly winds of Baikal now bearing her name. And nowadays, as she still lives peacefully near Baikal, but stopped believing in love, people who enter the gorge where she flows in a beautiful ribbon, are reminded to behave with extreme caution when they see the clouds harbinging her wrath.

In Sarma you will first be able to hear the ominous clouds announcing her coming, then her screams as she unleashes her fury followed by the devastation and death she leaves behind. 

You've been warned... Don't antagonize her... Approach her very cautiously!...

I used ABYSS, a fantastic synth by Dawesome, to create this track, in addition to other granular sounds and other sources.

The cover image is a cropped version of an incredible photo entitled "Eerie Erie" by Ontario photographer Dave Sandford, part of his acclaimed Great Lakes series.

Shamanka - Sarma

Spacewalker Suit(e) is my homage to the late Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man in 1965 to "walk into space" i.e. to do what is now called ExtraVehicular Activities (EVA). He died in 2019, at age 85, after living a very full life. I composed my piece at that very moment, in his honour.

My Spacewalker Suit(e) in his honour has three parts:

Part 1 - "The Void" is about the marvelous emptiness but frightening loneliness of space and the majestic beauty of vistas never before contemplated by another human being so freely. (3:52)

Part 2 - "Trapped-Out" is my attempt to describe his state of mind, alternating between emotion and reason, as he realizes that he cannot reenter the capsule and has to take some extreme measures to save his life. There, alone, floating, gasping for air, you can imagine him in some semi-conscious state, hearing voices calling him from familiar earth below and, maybe, even from above, from the infinite void itself. And then regularly, suddenly, he snaps out of this dreamy trance and applies his training and logic to try to survive against all odds. (4:09)

Part 3 - "Mission Accomplished" is all about the sweet exaltation of returning home safely and the satisfaction of a job well-done, the celebrated hero reflecting on this unique experience, cherished by a nation, surrounded by his family with their warm embrace and already dreaming about his next great adventure. (2:58)

During this first walk into space ever, supposed to last about 12 minutes, almost the same as my piece, a very serious and never anticipated problem developed: Leonov's spacesuit started to inflate and balloon out of shape because of the pressure difference! It became impossible for him to go through the airlock again to re-enter the capsule!

With nerves of steel, and without telling anyone, he opened a valve on his suit and let some air go out. He had literally minutes of life left and was starting to feel the effects of the lack of oxygen, but with much effort he was able to re-enter the Voskhod 2 capsule, close the hatch and rejoin Commander Pavel Belyayev.

Music composed and performed by Tatiana A. Gordeeva
(C) 2019 & 2021 Ammon Productions

Sound & cover art concept: Uber Nemo, based on Leonov's own painting (he was first an artist) "Over the Black Sea" (oil painting on canvas, 1973).

Spacewalker - A Suit(e)in Homage to Alexei Leonov

Spacewalker - A Suit(e) in Homage to Alexei Leonov

Mind Games is a musical expression of the complex, dynamic, sometimes convergent, sometimes conflicting, interaction between two sentient beings, one real, one virtual.  The resulting piece can be interpreted as a "dialogue" between two entities although not quite as literally as each voice is actually a composite of AI and human material.  More poetically perhaps, someone described it as "dance and struggle at the same time". I love that image!

Mind Games (for Two Pianos)

Sit down at the end of a long day in Andalusia to exchange stories and share the daily news while enjoying the rhythms of the desert in the cool shadows of the alcazaba (a.k.a. kasbah or casbah).

Instruments used: mbira (kalimba, sanza), duduk and percussion ensemble.

Shown on the cover is Aït Benhaddou, a historic ighrem or ksar (fortified village) along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in present-day Morocco. The kasbah is at the bottom  entrance of the village.

This track is affectionately dedicated to my friend and my official "Casbah DJ", @DoctorEmmet here and on vi-control.net. Rock on Doc!

Alcazaba

Of course the title of my track is a reference to the very famous anonymous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas a.k.a. 'Twas the Night Before Christmas attributed to C.C. Moore in the first half of the the 19th century:

Maybe this apparently innocent, even charming, Christmas tale has, like most Grimm Brothers' stories have, a much darker side?

Why exactly is it that  "no creature was stirring?", dare I ask... Were they all sleeping, as children are always being told, or maybe because something more sinister was going on in that house on Christmas Eve...

Remember, bells can announce joyous events, festivities, even coronations...but they can also announce death and be harbingers of wars as Hemingway told us.

So I ask you again... What do you think was really happening late at night in this dark, unlit house, nested deeply in the cold, dense forest, on Christmas Eve? Who was that strange man entering surreptitiously through the chimney and what was he planning to do to the inhabitants?

No Creature Stirring

No Creature Stirring - A Dark Christmas

His Eminence & I is a ballad for a jazz trio + tenor trombone. 

Our trio+one here will be again Sassy's Awesome Foursome (minus Sassy of course) composed of Tony de Peltrie on piano, Justin Tufingerz on bass and on drums, you guessed it, our infamous Lyle "Sticky" Drumrboi (L.S.D.).

I used the Eminent Trombone from Straight Ahead Samples for its beautiful lyrical tone and gorgeous controllable vibrato.

His Eminence & I

A few weeks ago my dear husband challenged me to compose a piece of music based on a painting fished out of the garbage can! Yes, really! From a real garbage can!

Not our garbage can, mind you! Unfortunately, as the painting is valued at US$340000. It is the (almost) lost work of surrealist artist Yves Tanguy (1900-55), a favorite of my husband. By the way the painting itself does not have a title and seems to be from 1937.

Lost & Found

The Art of the Forgotten

We live in uncertain times, more than ever.

I entitled my piece The Future That Never Was but it could as easily have been called "Pandemonium". 

Indeed, who really knows what the future holds for us?

The Future That Never Was

“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord” – Joel 2:31.

The previous lunar tetrad was in April 2014. The next tetrad will only happen in 2032-2033... What awaits us this year of all years, on this very special night of May 15-16 2022?

Blood Moon

A funny comical-cosmical little track to showcase the new Soundiron Hapi Cosmic Hand Pans library. Also included a bit of their Theremin+ to give it this 50's sci-fi flavor.

I just thought that hand PANS & flying SAUCERS were a perfect COSMIC match :)
To make it 100% sci-fi the cover image was entirely generated by AI.

Cosmic Pan-O-Rama

Backstory here:
https://vi-control.net/community/threads/be-wary-of-the-t%C3%B6r%C3%B6k.130179/

In this latest piece I look back on a favorite theme of mine: the current delicate balance of our  world. It was proposed to me to use the famous so-called Mechanical Turk chess player as a metaphorical starting point.

Be Wary of the Török !

My latest piece, Foreign Agent, is about spydom, the seedy underbelly of politics, is intended to be a fun throwback to the soundtracks of spy movies and tv series of the 50s-60s, stories about CIA vs KGB, and things of that nature. For that purpose I've been using some of those types of instruments and sounds that were popular then in addition to many very modern ones.

Foreign Agent

My piece is about what people should rise for, not against, to make our World a better place. It tries to convey a much needed sense of hope.

And perhaps more importantly than ever before during our lifetime, people everywhere should rise up for Peace!

This piece was created using mostly Soundiron's Core Micro library (for brass and strings) with some additional percussion and effects.

Rise Up!

In philosophy there's a concept called solipsism that can be simply summarized as the view that the self is all that can be known to exist, i.e. nothing exists outside of our own mind.

My track is the result of a self-reflection (yes, I see the irony!) about the state of our world, of our "interconnected isolation", of our misinformed understanding and how easily our networked minds can be fooled by propaganda, by disinformation, as words and ideas keep reverberating in our collective brain like inside an echo chamber.

Solipsism or The Retreat into Delusion

Awakening is an ambient piece that tries to resonate with the profound teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism, leading the listener on a transformative journey towards spiritual enlightenment. 

It is a musical ode to the beauty and mystery of life, invoking the transcendent nature of existence and offering a glimpse into the infinite vastness of the spiritual realm. 

It celebrates the transcendental nature of life, inviting the listener to explore the infinite depths of consciousness and discover their true essence. 

I hope this piece inspires the listener on their own journey towards spiritual enlightenment.

Awakening

Solitude

Imagine yourself in the middle of a European medieval town, surrounded by musicians and dancers. The beautiful Marianne is there, singing and dancing among the crowd.

Yes, she is THE Marianne, straight out of the Sherwood Forest. ;-)

La Belle Marianne

Amidst the obscurity of smog-laden streets and cobblestone alleys, an enigmatic assassin pursues a target with deadly precision. 

The lone figure, relentless and calculating, stalks his unarmed prey through a labyrinth of narrow passages, illuminated only by the dim flicker of distant streetlights, sole witnesses to this noir ballet.

As the night unfolds, suspense tightens like a vice, and the tension builds with every footstep setting the stage for a deadly game of cat and mouse. The city's secrets are held within its noir heart. There is no escape. Welcome to Cobblestone Noir...

Cobblestone Noir

Imagine yourself entering a majestic house, the castle of your youth, that has remained frozen in time for decades and is now only inhabited by your childhood memories.

Ice sculptures and glittering icicles are adorning every arch and crevice. The grand staircase, sculpted from glistening ice, cascades downward in a stunning display of frozen elegance, capturing the ethereal beauty of a moment frozen in time.

Frozen in Time

In the Maya's belief system, solar eclipses were seen as a “broken sun” – a sign of possible cataclysmic destruction. 

The ancient Maya associated total solar eclipses with their gods and mythology, particularly the god Kukulkan (aka Quetzalcoatl in Aztec culture), the feathered serpent deity associated with creation and renewal. Eclipses were often seen as manifestations of Kukulkan's power and influence. 

Sunsets were associated with death and decay. Every evening the sun god, Kinich Ahau, made the perilous journey through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, to be born anew at sunrise.

The sudden darkness during a solar eclipse might have been interpreted as a disruption in the balance of the universe, potentially signaling impending disasters or societal upheaval. This belief likely led to rituals and offerings aimed at appeasing the gods and restoring harmony.

Broken Sun

Somnium, Latin for “The Dream”, is a scientific novel written by astronomer-mathematician Johannes Kepler and published in 1634.

It describes, for the very first time, an imaginary trip to the moon. It is considered by many as the first real work of science-fiction.

Music composed and performed by Tatiana A. Gordeeva
Full score is available for live performances.
Sound & covert art: Uber Nemo
Production: Ammon Productions

Somnium

Somnium (piano quartet)

Inspired by the classic soundtrack composed by M. Tariverdiev for the soviet-era movie "Seventeen Moments of Spring".

Make sure to watch the video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tsRtOzmcUYM

Arranged & performed by Tatiana A. Gordeeva
Sound & cover art: Uber Nemo
Production: Ammon Productions

Памяти М. Таривердиева
В основу легла  знаменитая музыка М. Таривердиева к фильму  "Семнадцать мгновений весны".

Nostalgia

Nostalgia -  Ностальгия (an homage to Mikael Tariverdiev)

Positive and optimistic cool reggae music, full of fun and groove. Tropical island and sunny beach, happy and relaxing holidays.

Caribbean Vacation

Ominous music giving you a sense of an enemy marching towards you. 
Full symphonic orchestra piece with powerful brass and percussion sections. 

Helmet image by Tonzy911 (https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-of-medieval-knight-helmet/821620)

VSL BBO Test

Impending Doom

This track was created in traditional Greek style as an official demo for Soundiron library Ancient Greek Strings.

It also uses a duduk which, although not strictly Greek, is similar to many wind instruments of that period in ancient Greece.

Tetraktys is an ancient symbolistic concept relating arts, divinity and mathematics through a triangular progression of the numbers 1+2+3+4 = 10. It bears resemblance to the Latin notion of Quadrivium.

Dance for Tetraktys

In my native country I composed for symphonic and chamber orchestras, for solo instruments and also for voice/choirs. Since then, with the help of technology, I added many other genres: jazz, techno, rock, pop, ambient, ethnic, music for video, etc.*

I now live and work near Montreal, Canada where I have my own well-equipped production studio. I finally have the luxury of being able to compose purely for pleasure and explore new musical horizons.

I always remain open for collaborations on interesting and challenging projects. I can even survive deadlines and lack of proper budget :)

Feel free to contact me. I'm always happy to try new things and meet new people.

Thank you so much for listening.
Tatiana

* I graduated with honors in composition from the Odessa Conservatory. Later I added a degree in composition and orchestration for film and television from Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. For a brief description of my studio check the About Me section of my website.

Tatiana A. Gordeeva

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