Wonderful use of synth and orchestral instruments to achieve a thoroughly musical if not sinister soundtrack.  The storyline has been entertaining as well.

Now that's how to open a composition...what a powerful composition

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

Work in progress

Ruins of great universities

Track 8 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite
You can view the video on Youtube:  https://youtu.be/z9pPxH2Nxdg

The Firm CEO recently hired Aaron E. Must to work on two game changing industries. The first one being a worldwide network of car scrapyard and recycling. The second one being an electric car and Lithium ion battery manufacturing industry that would be dazzling the potential buyers with a bunch of useless features such as GreenTooth, a giant screen to view reality shows while driving and mostly a dummy pilot system that can crash your car should you want to suicide. Indeed, the environmentalists are making such a buzz around the greenhouse effect that most people wants electric cars, which would be fine if the electricity made in the world was from renewed energy but it is not. In fact, 70% of the electricity in the world is made burning fuel, gas or even worst … coal. One could ask legitimately, what is the benefit then since the electric cars already have twice the environmental footprint of a fuel car during manufacturing? Goooood question! Should it be better to use the public transport, a bicycle or even walk. Nevertheless, the demand for those cars is so great that people are ready to pay 3 to 5 time more for those cars then they would normally pay for a conventional fuel car just to have a ... clear conscience. Moreover, every old car will have to go to a scrap yard to be recycled. The market is huge and the consumers are blind and ignorant in front of the real facts and the Firm CEO knows it. Aaron E. Must is a part time asparagus farmer and full time electric engineer working at Y-Space to build an all-inclusive space resort bragging about having the first in space sand beach with a view on earth and its sunset. They do that just to prove to some beach bum moron that the earth is not flat. The CEO vision is to make huge money building a new electric car that would be called sarcastically the Cojonas model FU. He even created a new twisted credo for those two new ventures. “From the Grave to the Cradle”.
Guess what. He will succeed.

Music and Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel (1986)

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

This music has also been used for the Heavyocity “Heavy Score Challenge” for which the goal of the challenge is to make the heaviest score possible.
You can view the video on Youtube:  https://youtu.be/z9pPxH2Nxdg

The Firm Scrap Yard Business Unit - The Grave

Soft Weather

The Sugar Coated Pill

Doll

M.XXXIX

Scenes From The Mountain (Pt. 2)

Recorded at Chillhouse Recording Studio with Will Holland.
Art mine.

(In)Sane

Confronting Depression and Building Resilience to Overcome

The 3rd Stage [disquiet # 0628] 447 hz Lucchi/Meierkord

"Blasphemy for bandwidth"

Music by Stu King
Korg Monologue
AudioKit Synth One
Hologram Microcosm
Conductive Labs NDLR
Digital Delay (Timeline)
Reverb (Big Sky)
Phase (Small Stone)
Mixed in Cubase

Digital Sacrament

words and music K Gennery
image not my own

I made my way to Chicago, felt the wind on my face.
Sometimes the noise could be quite deafening, but I couldn't bear to leave that place.

Through hail snow fire and flood.
I would be there with them.

It Was....all going down in Chicago,
there was love life and death.
I can still see them talking outside the doors, in my head taste their frosty breath.
Through hail snow fire and flood.
I would be there with them. I would be there with them. Every step of the way.
Come what may.

Once a week in Chicago, man I could even feel the cold.
Sit and watch the trains passing over the bridge,
nothings been the same since you've been gone.
Nothings been the same since you've been gone.
I haven't felt the same since you've been gone.

once a week in chicago

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 Firm Scrap Yard Business Unit - The Grave

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