obviously that was a joke... I favourited it, it's ace. Now suck my cock. If I had one.

If I were you I'd be a professional musician xxx love you

I meant u crazy bastard but I guess both ways is correct

Live recording of the premiere in De Link, Tilburg, 11 March 2014


About "Mixed Economy" - notes by Samuel Vriezen

"Six individuals negotiate a mixed economy, which consists of four different ways of organizing the collective into subgroups. These four planes are intertwined, so the performers must constantly shift their relationship to one another and to the whole, and out of the four planes' motivic shreds create their song."

Mixed Economy, written in 2010, is probably the most complex score I have written. The idea was to base everything on the way the sextet can be seen as a rich multiplicity of sub-ensembles: six solos, one sextet, fifteen duos (one for each couple of instruments), two trios (the winds and the 'rhythm section', mostly playing chords, however). However, instead of presenting these formations in sequential order, they all happen at the same time. In the densest sections of the piece, everybody is constantly related to everybody else in shifting ways. This puts a lot of pressure on individual parts as well as on the sense of ensemble playing - while creating a polyphony of very high density.

The ideal of a completely saturated polyphony has been a constant in my composing, but not merely from a fascination with high information density. I'd like to create forms that do not only create complex textures, but also make their complexity somehow transparent. You can't be expected to hear and follow everything, but you should be able to zoom in and zoom out on the processes as they unfold while you listen. To achieve this type of complexity, I have ended up rather simplifying the basic motives of my melodic style, while making heavy use of canon-like relations and repetitions, but always in intricate mosaic patterns and flexible rhythmic relationships.

Within this big, messy flux, sub-ensembles organize themselves: tiny duos that should be completely together, trio or sextet entrances that are coordinated. Like so many attempts at community in a world where all stability is under constant threat of drifting apart. The soft, slow "solos" offer a form of repose.

The piece is in seven sections, each featuring different mixtures of the "planes". The fifth section is the longest, most continuous onslaught of total counterpoint.'

Mixed Economy - Samuel Vriezen

I never talk to you
Because I don't want you to know
That really all I am is afraid

And I'm running like a cheater
Running like a teaser
Running, but the world keeps running too
And this life I'm living
These reasons I'm giving
Are all some mad excuse 
To leave it all behind 

A foot in every camp 
Who am I always trying to please? 
Am I in this for you or in this for me? 
Just maybe, that's why I'm ticking like a time-bomb 
Slipping on the black run
Tripping, to catch up with everyone
And I'm hurting
All my insides burning
Such a long time running
And it's wearing me down

If I could see through 
Well what then? 

I’d be coming like a fast train  
Out of all the past pain 
Fighting like I'm never gonna get down
I’d be waking for the morning
Making this my story 
Taking everything and nothing 
Just to leave it all behind 


Running

НЕ ПУСКАЕТ- Ntta Ta Loonna, Екатеринбург, 2014, 1 - Demo version

НЕ ПУСКАЕТ
(Lr)
Не пускает, э-ка, не пускает.
Не пускай её – она идёт!
Словно солнце в небо запускает.
Солнце тает и поёт.
Запускаешь –
она идёт,
и ветер её несёт.
В волосах её звонкий смех,
ветки на губах.
Запускаешь – она идёт…

Люди тянут, тянут нас, втыкают.
Мы спешим, я слышу «plug-n-play»…
Рок-н-роллом всё заливая,
мёдом шумных малышей.
Не пускаешь – вновь идёт она,
чёрт-те чем, глаза горят, полна…
А в моих – только ломкий лён,
кочка и каток.
Запускаешь – она идёт…

Ntta Ta Loonna Archive

Ne puskaet (1)demo

Kamikaze(ft. HowAboutBeth)

Full EP download until 31/12/2014 available here: we.tl/odEB3Hpcg9

Written by Flag of Japan
Vocals by HowAboutBeth

Kamikaze (ft. HowAboutBeth)

Song composed/recorded/performed by Elena Alekseeva (Helen Alexis)

Our Game Is Over. by Elena Alekseeva

PHONE DATA RESCUE EPISODE 1.

This is a live, unprocessed solo guitar recording of a Louvin Brothers song, "How's The World Treating You?", recorded in the office down the hall with my Samsung phone.  

It's played on an Epiphone 6/12 doubleneck, both necks at the same time, unprepared, or probably lightly prepared with a knitting needle stuck somewhere. I'm pretty sure the tuning is lost forever, which sucks because it was a good one.  The top string of the 12-string neck is an .063 I think, that's a bass string, and the nut is now broken in that spot, which is why it's a 17-string guitar. Recorded November 2014 I think, in preparation for a set of solo guitar music. 

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HTWTY?

The Gas Pipe Is Cracked

Gloomy Lover - piano take

Music from "Aquarium", choreographed by Irene Cioni and Dana Hillierova.

www.irenecioni.com


Dragon Pit (Aquarium)

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