Such a wonderful production, enjoyed listening…

Looks like the Baron has orange is the new black suit waiting. Thoroughly absorbed by the incredible musical dynamics of this outstanding performance, Syrel! I stand in amazement of your cinematic mind & your alluring sophistication behind the whole scheme of this! BRAVISSIMO!! 🔝🎥♾🔁🏆🕵🏼‍♂️☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

I consider the track to be extraordinarily singulair

I like this Gradatio ad climax (not growing) but intensification and tangling of lines and feelings

The Firm is a Dark Orchestral Suite that puts in music original pictures and troubling stories, which you will find in each individual song description.

Cheers, 

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

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

The Firm - Dark Orchestral Suite

Track 2 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
Ascaridida.com is a Trade, Retail and Finance firm that has a footprint all over the world. The firm fortune was built on a pyramidal business model using the Ponzi scheme as well as complex algorithm to find how to influence the purchasing behavior of their customers. The scheme is so simple and so common that nobody care or see it anymore. Combined with a very aggressive marketing strategy, the firm simply could not fail considering that 80% of the customers just can’t understand complex Terms & Conditions. Who read the small prints anyway? Who would believe that no one ever get back a full return on their investment made in their yearly subscription while still paying for the goods and services ordered over and above the subscription. Ascaridida’s doctrine is “In Fraud We Trust” and it pays big money that end up in a fiscal paradise. Obviously the board of directors of Ascaridida Corp. perfectly understood the rice and the chess board story and the power of exponential growth as they are using it every day. Would you know why 3 clear pyramid and one dark pyramid?

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

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1983)

The Firm

The Ponzi Scheme

Track 1 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
Ascaridida Corporation is an international parasite firm operating in this grey area where you wonder if what they do is legit or pure organized crime. Ascaridida’s doctrine is “In Fraud We Trust” and it pays big money that end up in a fiscal paradise. The main theme of this dark orchestral suite sets the ambiance of this damning story. 
“This story  a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1983)

The Firm Main Theme

Track 3 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
The Firm has a very prolific pharmaceutical branch. It started many years ago when a colorful and buzzing crystal was invented by their chemist Brian Black aka Weissenberg. At that time cash was raining on the company but the firm had to stop that branding once the pharmaceutical business unit went on the stock market. With this well acquired expertise they now produce the most wanted opioid called the Pentanyl. Recently they started to produce vaccine, which generates revenue that greatly exceeds any possible expectations. They sarcastically called their new vaccine the Crysta Pentana. The suspicious thing about it is that everyone that had the new vaccine was so happy about it and wanted new shots over and over.  I guess it is due to the crystal manufacturing legacy of the firm.

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

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1985)

The Crystal & Pentanyl Cook

Track 4 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
The Firm manufacturing gem is the Silicon Island. Not only is it a fiscal paradise but also a semiconductor manufacturing pole on earth generating billions of dollars every month. The microchips produced on that island are the most performing in the world and can be found in anything such as phones, computers, cars, appliances, modern intelligent garments and even in those new and naughty programmable dildos. The Firm semiconductor market share is so great that they define the prices and can create a pseudo shortage in order to increase their price and thus their revenue. Recently an investigator discovered that the Firm had a suspicious relationship with the Totalitarian Republic of Nicha, which created the latest virus spread in order to disturb the world economy for the benefit of the Firm Ascaridida.

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

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1983)

The Silicon Island

Track 5 of the Album https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Firm Ascaridida had in 2019 the smart idea to have one of his laboratories in the Republic of Nicha to leak a virus in order to enhance his pharmaceutical businesses with new vaccines. Not only did it generate billions of dollars of new revenue but it also killed millions of people. The smart idea just backfired at him. Indeed, all his board of director and his own family died because of this virus leak. He is now alone to run this billion dollar firm having a footprint everywhere on the world. Will he be able to get The Firm back on its evil tracks in 2022? 
We shall see.
“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”
Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1988)
Music Note: French Horn line partially based on the French Christmas carol "The three shepherds".

The CEO Lonely Christmas

Track 10 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite

The nick name of the Ascaridida Firm CEO is the Orange Barron. He is a man of the old guard, typically doing business by bribing deciders, corrupting civil servants and providing falsified financial reports to banks and Fiscal Revenue Services everywhere his Firm has a foot print. His Firm was able to get huge infrastructure engineering contracts around the world not because they were the best or the lowest bidder. No, Ascaridida is well known to provide the best bribing package in the world, hence the Firm doctrine “In Fraud We Trust”. After so many successful years doing fraud, he now wants even more power. But mostly, he wants a way out to ensure his con man past will not catch him. He had this idea of becoming the president of his country, but how could he do that with so little political asset? He is using a vocabulary of only 77 words. No more. Each time he does a speech in front of a large audience he looks ridiculous and says stupid things. Indeed, he is good at creating alternate facts that most people would believe and maybe that would help. Who would believe someone like that could ever win the presidency. Today in his office, he is having a rough discussion with his directors, which are as con man as he is. The discussion will revolve around this dilemma. Should the Firm stop any illegal activities to become a legit company that can be on the stock market or should the Orange Barron become president of the country and get full presidential immunity to himself and his board of directors with the risk of being exposed to the press? That is a Catch 22 indeed, but hey, the turnout may be surprising.

NOTE: The ascaridida is a parasite that happens to have an orange colour. Strange coincidence isn’t it.

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

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1987)

This music has also been used for the Score Relief 2022 scoring contest but with a totally different orchestration. 

You can view that video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/FJPiw9gKvO0
Or the music only: https://soundcloud.com/user-461764443/i-catch-you-httpsyoutubefjpiw9gkvo0?si=6f514864c8c149578018c4dfe4d07250&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

The Catch 22

In 2020, I presented W.E. (Bill) Bartolotto with a trilogy of incomplete songs asking if he would be interested in helping me finish them.   Bill was quite enthusiastic and so we began the process of collaboration which I am sure most Soundclouders are familiar with.   2 years later we have managed to come up with this track..
	The concept is based on Jack Vance's 1963 novel “The Eyes of the Overworld” and is, more or less, a discussion, partly of the nature of reality, and partly, of the reality of human nature.
	While the concept and music is mine, the lyrics are the combined effort of the two of us.

Full credit belongs to:
   	W. E. Bartolotta:  	vocals
	Ken Minty:  		vocals and all instruments except percussion
	Mike Konopka:	percussion, sound engineer, arrangement, mix and master

Please check out Bill's SC site at  soundcloud.com/user-233624083

Lyrics:

Part 1:   Smolod Town
	where shall the overworld be found
	where shall all our dreams and promises touch ground
	even in our most wistful hour
	it is not wise to underestimate the power
	of gods that strive to be alive

	in Smolod town where marsh and tundra mix
	the huts are birds’ nests made of mud and sticks
	yet the folk walk proud, heads high, voices loud
	in Smolod town

	the village is the abode of squalid gnomes
	as unlovely, graceless as their homes
	yet fixed upon their eyes violet cusps disguise
	their poverty

	the vile stench of filth is everywhere
	it permeates the dark and clammy air
	yet the gnomes know not these spoils
	they conduct themselves as royals
	in Smolod town

 	
Part 2:   The Prince
	when the old one dies
		I shall wear the eyes of the overworld
	I’ll become a king
		I’ll have everything in the overworld
	on lotus fruit I’ll dine
		and drink the nectar wine of the overworld
	I’ll live just as I please in luxury and ease
		staring through the eyes of the overworld

	the lenses do not blind
		they project the mind to the overworld
	though my life’s been poor
		my senses know the lure of the overworld
	exquisitely divine, 
		all pleasures shall be mine in the overworld
	the quintessential scheme of paradise I’ll dream
		staring through the eyes of the overworld

	I’ve worked the barren soil,
		for fourty years I’ve toiled in the normal world
	thus I’ve earned the right
		to taste all the delights of the overworld
	I want to die like this:
		by surfeit of bliss in the overworld
	a prince ‘mongst princely peers to spend my final years
		staring through the eyes of the overworld


Part 3:   Wistful Hours
	where shall the overworld be found
	where do all our dreams and promises touch ground
	even in our most wistful hour
	it isn't wise to underestimate the power
	of gods that strive to be alive

	do you believe
	do you ponder and seek
	do you work endlessly
	to see through the overworld’s eyes

Eyes of the Overworld

Eyes Of The Overworld

No Pasaran

Cannonball (ft. Pallaso)

A happy up-tempo groove with a nice melody to welcome the coming of Spring!

Whistler

oooh oooh oooh 
Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

What she did
Oh you wouldn't believe it
They tried to talk sense to her
But she'd made up her mind

Walked out the door
In the dark
Across the grass
Throughthe pouring rain
Up a winding forest road 
To the top
So she could make one thing clear
It was love
And she needed him to know
Through the ether

Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

What she did
Oh we had to believe it
Wet dress and dripping hair
Smiling from ear to ear
For she had
Walked out the door
In the dark
Across the greass
Through the pouring rain
Up a winding forest road
To the top
Where she could make one thing clear
It was love 
And she needed him to know
Through the ether

Oooh oooh oooh 
Love drives us on to find it
Love drives us on

She needed him to know
She wanted him to know
She had not let him go
She had to tell him so
Inbreath

Girl On The Hill

Organ Donor A1 Project

A recent experiment from a 10-minutes recording using the zero input technique with the mixer. the sound was further edited and processed with ableton, and partly processed with korg modwave as well.

work in progress.

no fucking Ai were used..

 Animals © 2023 by Nadir is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Animals

https://storyofthelie.bandcamp.com/album/2011-22-8-albums-in-1

Let Your Freak Out

Vachina

[Original demo]
Recorded in 2008
Remaster: 2019

Primitive Festival

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

The Catch 22

Syrel

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