Name: Mystica Doctrina III by Agonistes
Duration: 1 h 11 min
Description: This is the third part of Mystica Doctrina (parts 1&2 available at my Mixcloud profile: Agonistes)... Where sacred and profane join to create a mystic atmosphere to heal your soul. Enjoy it....

08.2022. Once again. Analog Trauma. Sometimes my work in the field of grammar is an inspiration for the music. And music is a language. So most of the time it (seems to) follow the rules but very often it is inexplainable (strange, incomprehensible). Thats why I like languages and music. Until the very end. Thank you for listening!

grammar flow

Just a light hearted ditty.

My last track was all based on a single note so this track is in the opposite direction.

The Truth About The Parallel Universe

Inspired by the themesong of How it's made on Discovery Channel, though it has no resemblance at all. My song became a feeler. Headphones recommended!

You could be doing anything, driving around and enjoy every sensation of it, speeding or just cruising, or the content feeling after you've  cleaned your kitchen cupboards, or when you tied your shoelaces perfectly and you should actually take a picture of it but nah it's okay, or you are sitting outside while the sun rises and the birds are waking up, or you finally conquered level 1480 of Candy Crush after the 14th try or have reached townhall 15 in CoC,  .., contentment.

And ofcourse:
(user: crust)
"It's 2:57 A.M. You fell asleep at 11 watching MythBusters, and for some reason you've been completely absorbed in listening to the narrator's buttery smooth voice as he explains to you how they make bookshelves. You have no idea how long you've been awake, and in hindsight, you're never going to remember any bit of this episode after tonight. You don't know it right now, but this is one of the most peaceful moments of your life, and you'll be looking back at it one stressful night, reminiscing, wishing you could go back."

How It's Made

This is the third part of Mystica Doctrina (parts 1&2 available at my Mixcloud profile: Agonistes)... Where sacred and profane join to create a mystic atmosphere to heal your soul. Enjoy it....

Mystica Doctrina III

Escape From Surreality

Change My View

Marco Lucchi : piano, synthesizer, vocals and tape
Henrik Meierkord : cello and viola

found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/667639/

24 gennaio 2023

Hourglass [2] w/ Henrik Meierkord

Window sunset

I've been trying to make Jazz music by electronic means for a while now. It's been pretty hard.

So much about the ethos of Jazz is dependent on the traditional notion of musicianship: a group of people in a room, trading improvised passages. So much of its tradition is shaped by virtuosos. The thing is, even though I play 'real' instruments, I don't play them well enough and also (and this might be strange to admit) I don't even like playing them that much. I started playing the saxophone when I was 15 and then went for 20 years without playing, I got back into it last year, but I don't really enjoy the process. So I sold it. Now I have a clarinet (because it's quieter, cheaper and sweeter), but I also got a wind synth.

Yeah, the wind synth is not the same, but it's close enough for what I want, it allows me to literally breath some emotion into what I play without it being loud or overly hard to intonate and I have a lot more fun this way. This track features me playing the wind synth.

But another part of Jazz is the collaboration. So I invited the amazing producer and guitarist @ubo-music to contribute some jazz guitar improvisation and that changed everything. It brought a totally new life to the piece.

Overall, the process was: write a very repetitive pattern for the keys and the bass, then use that to play the virtual sax. I sent that to ubo, who send back this guitar part. Based on his part, I then re-recorded a big chunk of the sax parts. After that, I went back and played the keys again to add flourishes and variations, same for the bass. For the drums, I used Superior Drummer and made a bit of a collage of midi parts (I love doing this, it's like sampling, but for midi.)

In the end, even though nobody played together, I hope it still feels organic and if it does, it's because we did collaborate and traded passages, only they didn't happen in realtime.

Honestly, it's strange calling it Jazz. I have so much respect for the roots and traditions of the genre, but it has also evolved so much since the early days in New Orleans that I think I'm entitled, just like everybody else, to bastardize it in whatever way I see fit.

Jazz III (feat. ubo)

Really had fun with hardware synths in this one. I used both the novation peak and with layers of the moog voyager.

Faulty Dungeons

Live AS One

Audiomaker_Wake up

For more sessions go to my Mixcloud profile: Agonistes
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Mystica Doctrina III

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