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This is a playlist of the live improvisational sets that we play every week on "In Synthesis with Infinite Is" is produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and can be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm. The show also streams live on:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/

We would love to hear from you, please swing by the show blog for pictures, video, track lists, links, contact information and more:
http://infiniteis.org/blog/

Listen to complete shows, at your leisure at our archive here:
https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_fm

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" radio show on 91.5 WOOL.fm live sets

"By the 2030s, serving a prison sentence had evolved into an exceptionally cruel and bizarre experience, though potently efficient and, somehow, well-respected. Gone were the days of sitting around idly, just trying not to get beaten up while waiting for your sentence to be over. No, you were incarcerated in a virtual penal education portal. Imagine a video game that felt, sounded, and looked like reality, but where you were made, with vivid, graphic detail, to relive your crime against humanity from the receiving end in shocking and deeply moving ways that could only be imagined. Then, you were forced to learn, at length, the gaps in your ignorance. Through the brutal autocracy of supply-side economics, private prisons devolved into skyscrapers full of tiny cells, barely wider than the wingspan of a large adult. Strapped into "the machine," as they called it, and plugged into "Convict University", your body and mind were constantly in motion, while in reality, you were in a perpetual state of aestivation. A highly engineered fungus was both part of your daily sustenance and your captor. It was forced through a tube, along with a nutrient-rich slurry awash in hypnotic drugs and antibiotics. This was such a cheaper and more effective form of incarceration and re-education that it swept the globe. Even so, some estimated that a full 3.8% of the planet's global energy output was consumed by these towers of torpor and the systems that re-learned all those who needed their thinking corrected. Curiously, these systems had originally been designed by the Russians for keeping mortal bodies working and minds sharp during deep space travel and were adapted to this disturbingly efficacious purpose upon that once-proud nation’s plunge into the depths of cruel, capitalistic oligarchy..."

Stream or download this entire radio program free at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/1-8-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

 
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Towers Of Torper

On this the week of 1-8-21 on “In Synthesis with Infinite Is”, we begin the show with some sounds reflecting on the seditious riot of the superstitious right at our nations capital. We are deeply saddened and disappointed at the lives lost and the trust that was squandered in service of despotic, superstitious lies and a selfish mans injured pride. We must steel ourselves against this blatant attack on our democracy and find a way forward that respects all those who built this great nation and look forward to a vision of a more just, rational, compassionate and truthful path.


We then convey a few area announcements and review a live in studio set from December of 2019 called "The Battle Of The Beeg". An ode to the biofreighter of legend and those who lived for it's mission. The show closes with a deep and melodic closing improv session.

You can stream or download this entire show for free at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/1-8-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

In Synthesis with Infinite Is” is a synthesizer themed radio showthat celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on ourtiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

Typically the first hour long improvisational set is virtually uninterrupted, then we typically hear a few area announcements, then comes a recording of a past live set, or sometimes a synth piece or two sent in by listeners, after that the show usually closes with another live set, of about a half hour. In Synthesis with Infinite Is can be heard every Friday from 8 to 10pm est. on WOOL.fm

Stream it worldwide live at WOOL.fm:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/

The show also airs Saturday nights at 9 on Rewind 106.5 fm and WCFR 1480 on the AM dial

http://www.wcfram1480.com/

Both stations can be found on the Tunein app and Radio.Garden You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog for pictures, track lists, links, video and contact info :

http://infiniteis.org/

Would you like to play live improv sets with Infinite Is on the air? We are currently playing over the internet using an open source streaming program called "Jamulus", if you want to record some live improv sets with us, please let us know! Would you like us to consider playing your radio safe synthesized music on our show? Just want to say hi or tell us what you like about our show? Please drop us a line at: insynthesis@infiniteis.org

Sedition Of The Superstitious

"Stranded just a few kilometers from the fast moving kill zone, Basakai crawled away from the horrifying sounds and smells of the biofreighters approaching storm of deadly falling spikes. A great cloud of death, soil and debris reared up toward the upper atmosphere, like a giant poisonous wave, poised to smash down upon a tiny boat. Already the wind carried the first wisps of heat, fine dust and the smell of vaporizing infrastructure. There would be no escape from this erasure. Then looking back upon the last few maneuvers, this poor, wretched fool now began to see where it all went wrong. What a reckless idiot, how could anyone be so easily convinced to put all their eggs in one hatchettolite hole like that. Why oh why?

 A stench of fungus began to filter into the leading edge of the dust cloud and the acrid air tasted like metal. Basakai knew that this meant that there was only a short time before the poison scrambled every sensory input and jumbled every code. Breaking down atomic bonds of all living things, the experience was engineered with the final mercy of immeasurable bliss on behalf of the soon to be victims, the transition from living to dead would culminate in a brilliant flash of white hot pleasure. Once this poor soldier’s butterflies began floating, the terror washed away and there was nothing left to do but flip over and spread out on the trembling ground facing the sky.

 Deep breaths now, exhale slowly, the brilliant warm glow builds even through closed eyelids. It was over, it was time to give in to entropy. Basakai swallowed hard, belly quivering with adrenaline and the great shaking of the ground beneath.  There will be no one left to remember the sacrifice of this one life, in just a few revolutions, this planet will be unrecognizable, once the Rhizomes take hold. All Basakai could do now was to follow training and begin counting backwards..."

Listen to this entire show, free at you leisure at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/1-22-21-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

On this the week of 1-22-21 on "In Synthesis With Infinite Is" the show opens with a dramatic, high energy hour long live set. Then in the second hour we listen back to a live, in studio jam from 4-17-20 called "Loud Like Lisimbala".

https://soundcloud.com/theinfiniteis/loud-like-lisimbala-4-17-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is-closing-live-set

Then after the conveyance of a few area announcements the show closes with a melodic improv set. Clips were clipped, beats were beaten, tones were toned and much fun was had by all.


In Synthesis with Infinite Is” is a synthesizer themed radio showthat celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on ourtiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

Typically the first hour long improvisational set is virtually uninterrupted, then we typically hear a few area announcements, then comes a recording of a past live set, or sometimes a synth piece or two sent in by listeners, after that the show usually closes with another live set, of about a half hour. In Synthesis with Infinite Is can be heard every Friday from 8 to 10pm est. on WOOL.fm

Stream it worldwide live at WOOL.fm:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/

The show also airs Saturday nights at 9 on Rewind 106.5 fm and WCFR 1480 on the AM dial

http://www.wcfram1480.com/

Both stations can be found on the Tunein app and Radio.Garden You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog

http://infiniteis.org/

Basakai's Bioconversion (pt 1)

Mirror
Lyrics by Jeff Ramen


because we live
because we die
because the stars
light up the sky

it’s not within
it’s not without
face to face
break through the doubt

because we live
because we die
because the summer
fireflies

its neither here
its neither there
empty rooms
there’s no one there

because we give
because we care
because its lost 
it’s always there

bright prisms
break the light
broken glass 
that splits the night

Stream or download this entire episode at the Internet Archive free: https://archive.org/details/1-29-21-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is
You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

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http://infiniteis.org/

Mirror

"The atmosphere shimmered emerald green with aurora that night, from horizon to horizon, it filled the sky. A single, hectic point, was visibly pulsing a dazzling array of color. It would be the last signal that the Arecibo observatory would receive before it was crippled. Some suspected that the damage was inflicted to prevent further communications from being heard. This massive dish was uniquely apt at sucking in the singing, broad spectrum signal. Flaring with great intensity, Proxima Centauri, a low mass main sequence star was somehow transmitting a bizarre data stream. Nobody seemed to be able to translate into useful information, yet there could be no doubt that the star was pulsing with this sort of obviously ordered transmission. Just shy of an hour, the recording presented such a startling rhythm, and the strangest alien sounding melody, the scientists tasked with trying to decode it would play the audible portion of the spectrum as they worked. In fact it was leaked and soon became a popular hit on all of the planets top 40 charts somehow, everyone seemed to become obsessed with it’s hypnotic draw. Almost overnight it was nearly impossible to escape it as it was broadcast 24 hours a day, on every frequency. It leapt from boomboxes, screeched from drive through speakers, careened out of car stereos, crept from clip on speakers, that began to hang from crowds of distracted pedestrians, like parasites. It echoed out of minarets, church steeples, it was on the subway, at the grocery store, in the elevator, blaring thinly from every phone, tablet and laptop. Gogo, somehow knew, like a very select few, that from the moment he heard it, he had to stop it, he had to shut down the mountain, and disable the massive dish and quick..."

Stream or download this entire show free at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1-29-21-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

On this the week of 1-29-21 on "In Synthesis with Infinite Is", we begin with a robot voiced message from our closest star system, Proxima Centauri with a tune called "Proxima Calling". Then we travel back in spacetime where we listen in to jets whooshing toward a shimmering wall of wormhole called "All The Kings Horses". After a few area announcements we have a long suureal look at our reflection when Jeff seizes control of the vocoder for a piece entitled "Mirror". Contemplations were contemplated, Thoughts were thunk, counterpoints were pointed out, voices were vocoded and much fun was had by all.

In Synthesis with Infinite Is” was a synthesizer themed radio show that celebrates synthesized sounds, from ethereal to industrial on our tiny insignificant planet spaceship, orbiting a minor star in our vast expanding and surprisingly noisy multiverse. Featuring fresh, original improvisational synthesizer jams. Produced for WOOL.fm 91.5 in Bellows falls"Black Sheep Radio" and Rewind 106.5 W293BH and WCFR 1480 AM in Springfield Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks. Every episode is a brand new synthesized musical journey or two performed live.

You can also stream or download past shows from the archive, here:

https://archive.org/details/@in_synthesis_on_wool_...

Visit the official show blog for pictures, track lists, links, video and contact info :

http://infiniteis.org/

Proxima Calling (pt 1)

Artwork made by YNB
Mixed and Mastered by YNB
Produced by Beck Beatz

For The Real (prod. beck)

Quantum Leap

This track tested the limits of my abilities. Spitfire Solo Violin and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Stock Ableton Grand Piano with some adjustments.

Image courtesy of Alex Antropov

Dark Energy

This is a song called DAB which is about dabbing and is in the chord progression D A B.

Back in 2016 me and my two friends were jamming around. Given one of the friends being a new ivory tickler, my other friend suggested we focus on just three notes, such as D, A, B and jokingly suggested the song is about dabbing as well. I liked that idea and later went home and composed the song based on that idea and utilized some of the melodies we explored/conceived.

The narrative of the song is about a character explaining their uncontrollable nervous system condition to their therapist, explaining how certain sounds trigger the motion and render them out of control. However, as the story unfolds, the character gives into the condition and begins to turn others into Dabbers (its sort of like that Birdbox movie with Sandra Bollock, but instead of everyone killing themselves they just Dab)... anyway that's the sort of ridiculous story i conceived on the subway ride home and just went with.

Musically the song is very inspired by The Cure's poppier work such as "just like heaven" and vocally I wanted to capture the essence of The Bravery.

Cheers!

Lyrics:

There is something that I have to say
It's holding me back, keeping me at bay
A motion so profound, in response to sound
Will a solution ever be found?

There is something that I have to do
You cannot stop, just watch me go through
One's at a forty five, the other is stiff straight
And then I go side to side

But its never on my side
I want you to help me out of this
I need you to help me out of this
I want you to join me in this
To join us in this

wooo!

There is something that we will not stop!
It's keep us sane, keeping us going!

We came up with this song after watching Gone Girl recently and we're super happy with how it came out.  This song has more of a pop sound than most of our other tracks so we thought it was nice to mix it up a bit.  Thanks for listening and hope you enjoy!

String Me Along

"It is true that 'the saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.' At some point, it becomes not just advantageous, but necessary, to mandate compulsory continuing education for everyone. Perhaps just a few hours a day, once a week? Pay people to attend, and let them choose the knowledge they would like to prioritize. However, demand that everyone, regardless of intelligence, social, or financial status, commit at least a little time, one day a week, to learning how to learn and to the acquisition and dissemination of human knowledge. Make all schooling free, so long as it conforms to the scientific method and the best, most up-to-date empirical evidence. This is a right for which we should leave nobody behind. 
We should no longer accept it when people reject reality and substitute their superstitions for knowledge. As Asimov once said, ‘Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ What good is knowledge if no one knows it? We must put the 'no' in 'ignorance' and reject that for which there is no good evidence."

You can stream or download this show free at the Internet Archive, here: https://archive.org/details/11-20-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is



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Put The No In Knowledge

Just like the photons that were created more than 13 billion years ago traveling at what we thought was a Cosmological Constant, time is an illusion. Were you that photon, you would not experience any time at all, the journey would happen in less than an instant. In fact everything to a photon moving at the speed of light happens in less than an instant, things do not appear or disappear, they are not created or destroyed, they just are, infinitely. The universe and everything that was ever and will ever begin and end, Is, infinitely.

When we get in touch with the present, we can be with the Is, all of the possible futures and pasts unfold before us, time and space are one and at once both static and dynamic. There are an infinite amount of ways to experience the Is, these are a few of our explorations of the Infinite Is.
∞              ∞   ∞                 ∞         ∞  ∞  ∞∞∞ ∞∞∞∞∞∞ ∞∞∞  ∞
Infinite Is is:
Evan Parks and Jeff Ramen

Mike Descoteaux on Bass guitar on the track "Everyone's an ocean"