@bdrosa: Thank you so much. I recommend that you listen to complete Orchestral Suite https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house

Great emotion is flowing from this introduction well done Syrel

Excellent, thoughts immediately go to a fantastic magical place!

Superb work and instrumentation, love it much!

wonderful music telling a story about... something from the past has been hiding for a long time...

A superb piece and performed beautifully......Great story.

This is a set of miniature dramatic musical pictures of what we discovered in our grandparents house after they left their house forever. The house contains a lot of history but mostly mysteries. Go see the scene description and the picture in each song to better appreciate the intention behind the music. 

NOTE ===> The short stories for each chapter are in the songs. Clic on each song in order to read those captivating stories.

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1981 to 1986)

1.	Hiding In The Attic
2.	The Forgotten Insurance Policy
3.	Grandpa's Secrets
4.	Fishing and in Love Forever
5.    Grandma Concert Dreams
6.    The Twin Bathroom
7.    Uncle Rudolf’s Minimalist Bedroom
8.    The glorious Dining Room
9.    Aunt Daisy's Bedroom
10.    The secret wedding
11.   The Last Trip - Short Requiem


“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Haunted House - Orchestral Suite

Track 1 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
As we visit our grandparents house attic we discover that something from the past has been hiding for a long time ... can you say what?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography:  Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The hideaway

Hiding In The Attic

Track 2 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Hiding in the attic was Grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk. It looks like those insurance policy where contracted in a different century. Do they have any value today and whose life is insured on those forgotten insurance policy?

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The grandparents haunted house

The Forgotten Insurance Policy

Track 3 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
After we found grandma’s belonging and her souvenirs in an old wood trunk, we found Grandpa’s safe. Thank god, Grandpa had the bad habit of using his birthday date as a combination and password on his Commodore 64. We expected to find some old money, a nice leather photo album of his adventures in the deep see and the fish he captured in the Caribbean Sea with his friend Charlie Walton, which we never met by the way. However, we did not expect to find this insurance policy on grandpa’s life and the recipient of the insurance being Charlotte Walton. 
Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Protect-Yourself Magazine Cover (1981) by Syrel

Musical Note: Based on a chord progression of a song I made 20 years ago.
https://soundcloud.com/user-572843385/hip_hop_my_night

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandpa's Secrets

Track 4 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
In Grandpa’s Henry fishing photo album that we found in the safe, there was all the catch he made along those trips supposedly with Charlie Walton. There was pictures of large fish like halibut, shark, swordfish, tuna, vampire fish, etc. However, only this picture from 1953 was showing two little fish that looked like a nice couple ready for a feast. The hand written note on the back side was quite disturbing and explained why grandpa’s Henry life insurance beneficiary was not grandma. 
The note was: “Charlotte & Henry. Lovers Forever”
Could it be that Grandpa Henry had an affair with Charlotte Walton?
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1987)
Music Notes: 
The first and second part of this piece is based on a chord progression I made for a jazz song 10 years ago called “Way Down” https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/way-down
The third part is a set of cameos starting with a melodic 6th as Tchaikovsky used in one of his violin concerto as well as John Williams for the “Princess Leia's theme”,  “Han Solo and the Princess (Love Theme)” and “Marion’s theme”. Then few notes from “Voyage in the bottom of sea” by Paul Sawtell and finally 3 notes from the “White Swan”  again from Tchaikovsky.
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

The Grandparents Hauted House

Fishing And In Love For Ever

Track 5 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-haunted-house
Grandma Margaret was a very good pianist and her Baldwin piano hand painted by artist Alfred Faniel was the living room “piece of resistance”. She was quite overdoing the playing while constantly adding notes and ornaments like the American Pianist Liberace. While playing she was also singing the orchestra parts at the same time but obviously we could not hear the orchestra like she was hearing it. Curiously, now that the house is haunted, each time we come in that living room we hear two movements of her favorite piano concerto from the composer … “Syrel”, including the orchestra that we never heard before.

Composed in 2001 by Syrel
Photography made 1986 by Syrel
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Grandma Concert Dreams

Spontanous Duet For Doublebass And Cello II

This track is part of the Juan Antonio Nieto Tribute 'A Sonorous Spirit', released on Tree Trunk: https://archive.org/details/ASonorousSpiritATributeToJuanAntonioNieto

Hidden But Still There (Lament For Juan Antonio)

Ambient 8

Hiding away again, Vera starts to feel her psychological stability falling apart.  She continues to pray to anything that will hear her pleas to save her from losing herself while trapped alone so far away from home, and no sign of hearing from Vincent and his team.

Project Umbriel

HIMOS (Hiding Inside My Own Space)

HIMOS - Hiding Inside My Own Space

Also on :
▸ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1DVMvbuvTj4sYnxY5qVmeJ?si=d81854d1e2c5474b
▸ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RachelNusbaumer
▸ Bandcamp: https://rachelnusbaumer.bandcamp.com

Equilibrium (Chill Version)

Mantra

Contradictory

Welcome to the final part of this very personal and emotional 4-Movement-Symphony !

An orchestral work about "HOME" is a great undertaking, with high expectations, which one actually almost has to fail at.
Therefore, I embark on a personal journey of thought and try to paint musical pictures with four movements from different viewpoints.

The first movement, introduced by a pathetic orchestral forte meanders - moves across stylistic zones, sometimes on the borderline of classical tonality, sometimes loud and self-confident, then desperate, often romantic and peaceful from scene to scene.
Fugue-like quotations are juxtaposed with post-romantic sequences. Film music-like moments duel with almost classical reminiscences.
This movement represents the restless quest that touches on many things but finishes very few. The last tones fade away with a romantic, allusive love scene and gentle slumber.

The second movement is marked by illness and melancholy. As it has happened many times in my musical endeavors, life sets strong impulses and overturns my original plans. 
It turned from a movement that was originally intended for love, to a fantasy about fever dreams and fear, caused by my sudden sickness. So this movement was getting quasi a setting about Corona.
Fever dreams, fears for my loved ones, weakness and deep griefs and heaviness weigh down the sounds. The situation seems hopeless.
Several times my beloved tries to lighten the state of mind - orchestrated by the English horn. These are the short moments when the music changes from minor to major for a few bars. The illness, however, remains dominant until this movement ends with a touch of hope.

The third movement dabbles in joie de vivre. A 6/8 time signature in the corner sections and 3/4 time in the middle section suggest lightness. Nevertheless, the piece remains rather subdued and demonstrates that life brings many burdens with it. The expression: Home cannot be found through exuberant celebration.

The fourth movement initially alludes to several events in the preceding movements. To illness, to travel, to loss, to transient joys. 
As it progresses, it deals with the people who are truly meaningful, my children, my family, my darling.
The finish is a declaration of love for people. The music becomes more and more romantic and expresses the joy of life.

Home is not found in places or in moods. 
It is a gift: Home is where the heart finds peace and tranquility.

Symphony of Home

Symphony of Home: IV. Arrival

The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track.

I made a 3 track piece specifically for this idea instead of using something I already had because I figured it should be done with tracks that always have something happening so the silence is more noticeable/dramatic.  I think the moments where everything cuts out are the most dramatic.  Silence is sort of the 4th track in that sense (or what ever is going on around you when listening).  The piece itself used a fair bit of aleatory.  "Dr Chaos" is a max for live instrument I used with the drum kit.  It plays random samples at a regular beat division (1/8th, 1/16th, etc.). The 2 other tracks are just moving through different interval cycles (minor 3rds and perfect 4ths) at different paces so they create different unpredictable harmonies.  I used Random.org to decide where to cut and how long the cut should be (1-8 beats).  I figured cutting on beats instead of seconds would give the breaks a rhythmic quality.

More on this 586th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Chance the Eraser (The Assignment: Use probability to remove material from a track), at: https://disquiet.com/0586/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0586-chance-the-eraser/

Nothing Hear (disquiet0586)

P.oceanica is a slow-growing species of Posidonia, a global seagrass that provides food and shelter to marine organisms, protect coasts against erosion, and purifies natural water resources. P.oceanica covers the entire coastline of the Mediterranean Sea with its network of roots and rhizomes. One colony discovered off the coast of Ibiza is believed to be nearly two-hundred thousand years old, which would make it the oldest living plant in the world.

Marta Solé, a research scientist in environmental engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona Tech (UPC), has spent her career studying the impact of noise pollution on marine biology. Solé’s previous research demonstrated that cephalopods hear sound through small sensory organs, which become damaged when noise exceeds a certain volume and frequency. P.oceanica have exhibited similarly adverse effects to noise, compromising the plants’ ability to connect to root systems and gather nutrients from the ocean.

Suss Müsik considered the metaphorical duality of sound waves and ocean currents as a framework for this Junto project. Three “waves” of synthetic material were treated with various distortion effects and allowed to pass over each other. A cyclical pattern simulates the gently modulating seagrass that lies beneath the surf, insulating its tender blades from the harsher noise just above the crashing waves.

The piece is titled P.oceanica and was recorded live to Tascam 8-track. Those who wish to learn more about Solé’s work are encouraged to read The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker.

More on this 588th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Swell Time (The Assignment: 

Make some surf music), at: https://disquiet.com/0588/

About the Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements: https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0588-swell-time/

P.oceanica [Disquiet0588]

Penelope

SYREL : C’est un algorithme de fiabilité symbolique basé sur la méthode des Cutset utilisées en ingénierie.

Mais sérieusement, Sy...rel était photographe publicitaire à Montréal dans une vie antérieure avant d'être ingénieur et maintenant compositeur et producteur de musique orchestrale, de bande sonore, de jazz et d'électro tout en profitant de sa retraite. 

SYREL: A Symbolic Reliability Algorithm Based on Path and Cutset Methods used in engineering.

But really, Sy...rel was an advertising photographer in a previous life before being an engineer and is now an orchestral, soundtrack, jazz and electro music composer and producer while enjoying retirement. 

https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443

Hiding In The Attic

Syrel

Recent comments

Alan Hamilton

oddrun eikli

Claude FG

George Wanat

Related tracks