build by Korg MS20, MS10 - Synthesizer, SQ10 sequencer and electric  violin

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Hello Hollow

It's Not a Secret At All

Mars à portée de main
Guy-Frank Pellerin: saxophone(s) soprano 
Stefano Agostini: flute traversière

Mars à portée de main / S. Agostini & G.F. Pellerin

A section (piano melody, bass, piano, mallets piano and field recording backing tracks)
B section (piano melody is routed to a percussion sample bank, randomly triggering percussive sounds, backing tracks continue)
A section (piano melody returns over backing tracks)

For this challenge @disquiet:
Step 1: There’s a now famous quote from the opening of the 2006 film The Prestige. It goes as follows. Give it a read:

“Every magic trick consists of three parts – or acts. The first part is called the Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it – to see if it is, indeed, real. You know: unaltered, normal. But of course … it probably isn’t. The second act is called the Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now, you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough. You have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call the Prestige.”

Step 2: This arc, moving from Pledge to Turn to Prestige, can be read as a take on the classic ABA structure, in which a theme is introduced, then something else occurs, and then the piece returns to where it began.

Step 3: Compose and record a piece of music that takes the process described in The Prestige as its blueprint.

Photo by Javardh-F
Composed and performed  by DD May 16th 2021

Miniature 10 "The Prestige" (disquiet0489)

A year ago I came upon a very atmospheric ambient instrumental by Kellie Rowley in North Carolina. The music was inspired by Kellie discovering the music of Brian Eno. I was keen to get Kellie’s original title ‘Bare Bones’ into the lyrics. Thank you Kellie for making this inspiring piece available for collaboration. Original track - https://soundcloud.com/kellie-rowley/bare-bones-kellie-rowley-collaboration 
The picture was taken on the Canary Island of La Gomera where I like to practice rock balancing. The stones look vulnerable and precarious, a bit like our lives. It feels appropriate since this song is a kind of therapy too.

Only make believe,
It's not happening,
Only we're deceived,
When we're choosing,
To reject our own reality,
In denial of our frailty.
Only human.

We're only human,
When you get down to it,
We’re just skin and bare bones.
Not much more to us,
Yet so much more to us.
Only human.

Let's make the most,
Of every passing second,
Like it's our first,
Like it's our last.
Let's make it, let’s make it last.
It's all we have.
It's all we need.
It seems we're kinda special after all.

Only Human - Music/Kellie Rowley Lyrics and Vocals/Mark Bennett

Ein Haufen guter Freunde haben offenbar eine gute Zeit miteinander. So sollt ihr spielen! (2004)

Ein Haufen guter Freunde

Full Album in Free Download here
https://archive.org/details/rADio_eNd_genesis_launch/
More info here http://www.horsnorme.org/rADio_eNd/
Latest news here https://ello.co/ed_end

Genesis Launch

Alternative Universes by rADio eNd [Full album in free download in the description]

This is just one of many mixes on the 420 theme.

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