wonderful listening experience amigo, great work thanks for sharing 👍😁

Quite the deep ambience setting in while listening! Love the journey

Oh I love the drony mysterious quality of this.  Gorgeous!

Dream Production / ,.... I really dont care what people think or say ,...this is the ultimate Musical Genre out there,... it does what Music originally was invented to do ,...  to transport and take you on a journey through a story we all share.

All songs recorded by Softlands at Shadowbear Studios.  Drawing and cover design by Edward Musser.

When the Ocean Takes Me

City of electrical control

rise2

blue

Water Fragment

Barn Island

The Lighthouse at Cat Rock

Limantour

Water Fragment II

When the bow is headed into the wind and the ship has quieted.  When motion has stalled and the sail luffs.  In irons.

In Irons

Marco Lucchi : electric organ and tape

9 febbraio 2023

questa è la mia personale interpretazione del "Four organs" di Steve Reich .. non la considero una versione definitiva, ma giusto un primo approccio, un tentativo .. se qualcuno è interessato a condividere con me il piacere di lavorare su quel bellissimo pezzo mi faccia sapere .. sono ben accetti sia rielaborazioni che parti vocali o strumentali da aggiungere .. su Bandcamp, in forma di 'bonus track', trovate anche il brano originale
https://marcolucchi.bandcamp.com/album/notre-dame

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Four Organs is composed exclusively of the gradual augmentation (lengthening) of individual tones within a single (dominant 11th) chord. The tones within the chord gradually extend out like a sort of horizontal bar graph in time. As the chord stretches out, slowly resolving to the tonic A and then gradually changing back to the dominant E, a sort of slow-motion music is created. The maracas lay down a steady time grid of even eighth-notes throughout, enabling the performers to play together while mentally counting up to as much as 256 beats on a given cycle of sustained tones.


Four Organs is the only piece I am aware of that is composed exclusively of the gradual augmentation of individual tones within a single chord. From the beginning to the end there are no changes of pitch or timbre; all changes are rhythmic and simply consist of gradually increasing durations. This process of augmentation was suggested by the enormous elongation of individual tenor notes in Organum as composed by Perotin and others in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Paris at Notre Dame Cathedral. Tenor notes that in the original chant may have been equivalent to our quarter- or half-notes can take several pages of tied whole-notes when augmented by Perotin or Leonin.


Four Organs was composed in January 1970. It was first performed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City by myself and members of my own ensemble later that same year. It also turned out to be one of my first pieces to be heard by a large concert-going public when Michael Tilson Thomas invited me to perform it with him and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston in 1971 and at Carnegie Hall in 1973, where it provoked a riot.


—Steve Reich

Bandcamp

Notre-Dame

IMMEDIATELY

Marco Lucchi : analog synthesizer, piano and tape

found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/

for the current Naviar Haiku challenge
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/02/15/naviarhaiku476-birds-in-a-bare-tree/

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Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet ..

John Hinks

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15 febbraio 2023

Marco Lucchi - A bare tree [Naviar Haiku # 476]

Mossa Och Sten III

Je suis sang, sociale.
Je suis lait, subtilisée.
Je suis chair, commercialisée.
Je suis l'essentielle invisible des cités d'essence.
Je suis foyer et bûcher.
Je suis l'animale humaine.
Je suis la culture de la nature.
Je suis la sauvage gage de votre esclavage.
Je suis le mot que tu m'ôtes.
Je suis la langage inexistante.
Je suis l'autre monde, possible.
Je suis la couronne vaginale des naissances.
Je suis l'incrée créante, mécréante.
Je suis celle qui se défends.
Je suis révolution en ton sein.

Sauvage

Embark on a sonic journey that'll take you from the nearest asteroids to the most distant known Dwarf Planets.
Best enjoyed with headphones!

Solar System Suite nº2

Frozen Queen of the Seas: Salacia

this time I used Ableton to elaborate this musical idea, however the first with this daw, which I find very interesting on a functional level. shame about the workflow, but unlike cubase it is definitely designed for a live environment. as a first experiment not bad, I hope it is the first of a long series.

Morning *provisory title

this is the first mix of a song created in summer 2018.
it took me less than an hour to get to this result. unfortunately it is not possible for me at the moment to recover part of the sounds that I found due to the breakdown of my old mac. initially born on guitar I transposed it for synth etc .. after creating it I had a nervous breakdown .. and I am no longer able listening it for months .. for me it was like opening a secret door that revealed things that for some time I have deliberately ignored .. but I couldn't pretend anymore. an inner change was beginning to make its way, and it took away certainties that until then seemed solid rock. an irreversible but necessary process.

Lands Of Nowhere

An intimate frontier.  A melody lost on waking.  A memory from childhood.  A hope for forgiveness.  A season ended.  A photograph of a moment you don’t remember.  A treasured object found and lost.  A thought interrupted.  A mirror in an empty room.  The dust of an evening.  An incomplete equation.  A discussion with possibility.  A missing adversary.  My impression from our last meeting.

Additional Music and downloads available on Bandcamp: 

https://softlands1.bandcamp.com/

On Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5YG49h7BY6wDxSpnDZpHDo

In Irons

Softlands

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