Preview from upcoming EP. This track is about the mythical Piasa bird coming to attack a tribe in the Illinois Mississippi River Valley.

Attack Along the Mississippi

Track name: “POTIONZ”
Contest #3GC2023 
KORG Gadget
3 Gadgets only: 
7 Darwin, 2 Kiev, 1 Alexandria

I knew that Darwin had a lot of instruments so it was a bit easier for that gadget, but I definitely need to use Kiev more often. I loved using Kiev’s sparkling instruments! 
For Alexandria, I’m not sure if I will ever use it because I don’t really ever use those kinds of organs. In this tune, I used Alexandria for distortion purposes (aka I used it as a sound effect 😂). I hope you enjoy this short, badly mixed song… 😅

POTIONZ #3GC2023

Disquiet Junto Project 0580: Evo Evol Evolve

The Assignment: Record a piece of music that develops like an organism evolves.

Step 1: You’re going to record a piece of music informed by evolution. Think of stages of evolution, perhaps choosing a specific animal or other life form that evolved over time.

Step 2: Record a piece of music that evolves as it proceeds, based on the patterns (phases, stages) you explored in Step 1. And yes, animals that went extinct are a potential subject.

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Track notes:

I took my inspiration from the long evolution of insect species on the planet, considering the vast scale of evolution from primordial epochs up to the present, where insect species are front-and-centre in the Sixth Great Extinction of the late Anthropocene.

SuperCollider came to mind again as a tool for realisation, since I had ‘traditional’ forms of ‘computer music’ in mind - especially Bernard Parmegiani’s epic La Creatione De Monde (1984)

Now, obviously I don’t have a) a year up my sleeve; and b) the coding faculty in SC to pull off such a gargantuan feat, but I thought it might be a cool point of reference that I could fold into my current understanding (as a beginner) in the SC environment.

Recently I got to grips with buffering audio samples and using sequences to control various patterns - both melodic and percussive. I created a couple of dictionaries of short percussive samples (kalimba, woodblock and guiro) as well as instantiating a couple of Synth objects that produce pure waves. The percussive sounds turned out well when triggered, sequenced and manipulated and I liked the interplay with the pure waves.

My track is a bit longer than my usual submissions (~6 mins) but I thought I needed a decent span of time to realise a time compression of a few hundred million years of evolution.

For the realisation, I live-coded from the initial script (see GitHub link below) and then adjusted various parameters, arguments and variable throughout. The idea was to start amongst the matter of the cosmos and then gradually render a semblance of life on Earth. Eventually, an abundance takes form, before the insect population starts to diminish at the close. It not strictly a linear progression; rather, a fairly wobbly negative exponential progression. I’m still getting to grips with controlling instruments on the fly in SC, but I think I’m improving.

I was happily surprised when I saw the spectrogram of this track. Its progression of blobs, smears and flurries of activity over a time series seemed fitting!

https://github.com/TristanLouthRobins/Supercollider/blob/main/junto0580-evo_compressor.scd.scd

[Disquiet_Junto_0580] Evo Compressor (w/SuperCollider)

Tekst :ZuZa
Wokal: ZuZa
Aranż: ZuZa
Music Prod. Matthew May (contract)
Audio Language: polish, polski

https://on.soundcloud.com/npfuA

Lyric after translation :

" Oh, that flow!" 

Oh, tell me, do you?
Feel this rhythm too?
Do you know?
How to move within it?
Do you want?
To have fun with me?

Come on! Let's leave everything behind,
And let this rhythm carry us.
Take me! Let it happen.
Let the world whirl around us.

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Oh! Tell me, do you?
Can't sleep tonight either?
Do you also want
to break free from here?
So you know!
Let's have fun today.

Come on! Let's leave everything behind,
And let this rhythm carry us.
Take me! Let it happen.
Let the world whirl around us.

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Come on! Let's leave everything behind,
And let this rhythm carry us.
Take me! Let it happen.
Let the world whirl around us

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Oh, that flow! Let's put on a show!
The city sleeps, no one sees.
Let's wake them up, let's not let them sleep.
Let them feel how it sweeps us away.

Ach Ten Flow! (Prod. Matthew May )

Wokal:The ZuZa
Słowa :The ZuZa
Aranż:The ZuZa
Music prod. by Matthew May (contract)
Audio Language: polish, polski

Playlist :
https://on.soundcloud.com/VxgZk
https://on.soundcloud.com/N4vrE
In the depths of darkness, a flicker of light persists...

Lyric after translation :

"Hope must be somewhere"

I'm not surprised that the world is so sore
When every day it witnesses that unpleasant gesture
I'm not surprised that it screams like I do
There's no good night or day for pain

Like thrown onto the shore, I try to catch my breath
Like abandoned, I keep trying to find a new path

I know it must be somewhere, hope longs to live!
I know it exists and wants to be sought after
I know that one day it will greet me with a smile
I know it will do so because it knows I trust it

It won't surprise me that the road won't be easy
I'll hurt my feet, for I walk there barefoot after all
It won't surprise me when I'm pushed away more than once
I'll keep stepping on the world's heels

Like thrown onto the shore, I try to catch my breath
Like abandoned, I keep trying to find a new path

I know it must be somewhere, hope longs to live!
I know it exists and wants to be sought after
I know that one day it will greet me with a smile
I know it will do so because it knows I trust it

I know it must be somewhere,
hope longs to live!

I know it must be somewhere, hope longs to live!
I know it exists and wants to be sought after
I know that one day it will greet me with a smile
I know it will do so because it knows I trust it

Nadzieja Musi Gdzieś BYć

Nadzieja Musi Gdzieś Być (Prod. Matthew May)

[disquiet0601] No Dice

Lyric:TheZuZa
Vocal:TheZuZa
Choruses: TheZuZa
Arrangement: TheZuZa
Music prod. by Matthew May & TimiBeats
Audio Language: polish

Playlist :
https://on.soundcloud.com/L386C
https://on.soundcloud.com/QuWJF
https://on.soundcloud.com/iM39X


Lyric after translation :

"I'm putting dreams off"

I'm putting dreams off for other days.
Though I don't know if I still want to dream.
Perhaps better are well-rested nights.
Better are days, real days.

I'm putting dreams off for other days.
I'm putting dreams off for someday.
Alone, I can't go on through them.
You're no longer here, there's nothing left.

Because they were always just dreams.
Because I was always alone in them.
Were you in them?
Was it you? Was it you who dreamt with me?
Was it you?

I thought so. You gave a sign.
I thought so. A false sign.

So, I'm putting dreams off for other days.
Because I don't know if I want to dream anymore.
Nights will be better, well-slept.
Days will be better, without sacrifices.

Because they were always just dreams.
Because I was always in them.
You lied, having one goal.
I see it now, and I don't want it, no!

I open my eyes, I put dreams off.
Let reality be the master of my days.

And even if there's no tomorrow,
This empty road will end with dreams.
And let the sun finally shine,
Now during the day, I will walk proudly.

I'm putting dreams off for other days.
I'm putting dreams off for someday.
Alone, I can't go on through them.
You're no longer here, there's nothing left.

Because they were always just dreams.
Because I was always alone in them.
Were you in them?
Was it you? Was it you who dreamt with me?
Was it you?

Odkładam Sny

Odkładam Sny (Prod. Matthew May & TimiBeats)

Disquiet Junto Project 0604: Heaven’s Gate 

I used a video on YT as a live score. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNEjw1fMk-8&t=2550s
28:42
35:24

I divided the screen into 5 parts.
Each part is linked to an instrument channel.
Every time a cloud enters or leaves one of the 5 areas it activates a trigger/gate.

1)	Guzheng/Percussion kit
2)	Harp Harmonic - wood
3)	Prepared Kalimba
4) 	Percussion kit 2
5)	Contrabass col legno

As sound binder I used a loop generated by Reaktor (TG-8H Live by Rick Scott)

The track is a very mechanical walk, created by generative sequencers. The sounds, as in recent times, are percussive / acoustic.
Ergo very short sound envelope in order not to saturate ears and acoustic field.

Thank you for your time.




More on this 604th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Heaven’s Gate (The Assignment: Use a picture of the clouds as a plan for adjusting your sound), at: https://disquiet.com/0604/

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-0604-heavens-gate/

PartituraMeccanica07(disquiet0604)

Enjoy the accompanying visuals @ https://youtu.be/iqaumOrzVfw

Front page news from Derby Daily Telegraph from exactly 50 years ago - November 2, 1973 ... Also an exploration of Minimal Audio's Morph EQ ...

Here's the text from the newspaper article - the photo is in the centre of the track image:

ANNE'S WEDDING CAKE ON DISPLAY
A SIX FEET high, three-tier cake weighing around 500lb, extra rich in fruit and rum, is on show at Wilfred House Uttoxeter, this weekend prior to being transported to London for the wedding of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.

It has been made at the bakery of Elkes Biscuits Ltd. Uttoxeter and baker Mr G. Moore (pictured) was brought out of retirement to prepare and bake it.

Mr Moore, who also baked wedding cakes for the Queen and Princess Margaret, was with the company for more than 40 years.

HEAD OF HORSE
In keeping with the couple's mutual interest in horses, designer Mrs J. Morgan has incorporated the head of a fine horse, in low relief, as the main decoration on each side of the lower tier.

The initials A and M are also displayed in an oval frame on the second tier. Traditional symbols of good luck, including silver horseshoes, white heather, and orange blossom, are also depicted in white icing and silver motifs.

The crest of Princess Anne, and the Phillips family, together with Captain Phillips's regimental badge, add a dash of colour to the cake.

SUGAR DECORATION
The fine sugar decoration was completed by Mr S West head of the Division of Baking Technology at Ealing Technical College, assisted by Mrs P. Arnold (pictured with Mr Moore) in charge of the company's test bakery, who was also responsible for co-ordinating of the programme for the cake from manufacture to display.

After leaving Wilfred House, and prior to its transportation to the Palace, the cake will be displayed in a West End hotel.

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More on this 618th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Burying the Lede (The Assignment: Turn old news into new music), at: https://disquiet.com/0618/

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-0618-burying-the-lede/

visuals (YouTube)

halF cakE [disquiet0618]

TRAMPELFÂD
rec.name : "soundtracks 2024"
credit:pure data
Soundtrack/Homage for a Film from Konstantin Lopushansky
date:03-03-2024
https://trampelfad.bandcamp.com/
https://youtu.be/0Vv8xsDNrrI

Letters from a dead man 24

Lyric:TheZuZa
Vocal:TheZuZa
Choruses: TheZuZa
Arrangement: TheZuZa
Music prod. Matthew May & TimiBeats (contract)
Audio Language: polish

Album :
https://on.soundcloud.com/bBnEp

Playlist:
on.soundcloud.com/pJMG9
on.soundcloud.com/jn1rK
on.soundcloud.com/9STj7
on.soundcloud.com/W1RvH
on.soundcloud.com/YUrGB

Lyric after translation :

'Don't tell Mom'

Don't tell Mom you have me.
Don't tell Mom you know me.
Don't tell her about our dreams.
I don't want to be afraid anymore.

Please, be silent and don't sigh.
Whisper tenderly to me as I breathe.
Hold me when I desire it.
Just don't tell your mom.

Because I don't know what it is.
Even if you want to call it.
Because I don't know if I know.
When I breathe your dream.


Because I don't know what it is.
Even if you want to call it.
Because I don't know if I know.
When I breathe your dream.

Don't tell Mom you're calling me.
Don't tell Mom you love me.
Don't tell her about our games.
I don't want to be afraid anymore.

Please be silent when you sigh.
Stroke me tenderly as I breathe.
Hold me when you desire it.
Just don't tell your mom.

Because I don't know what it is.
Even if you want to call it.
Because I don't know what it is.
Because I don't know
I don't know
I don't know

Because I don't know what it is.
Even if you want to call it.
Because I don't know if I know.
When I breathe your dream.


Because I don't know what it is.
Even if you want to call it.
Because I don't know if I know.
When I breathe your dream.

Nie Mów Mamie

Nie Mów Mamie (Prod.Matthew May & TimiBeats)

Inspired by Inspiration. Inspired by your existence.♥️

I'm a songwriter, arranger, singer, publicist, impressionist . 
In my songs, you'll find a piece of my soul and a part of my heart.
I love music and its various genres. Diversity allows me to evolve. 
I'm open to sounds I haven't heard before. It enriches me and stimulates my imagination.

Be ready for surprises...
Always with love.🥰😊

Ach Ten Flow! (Prod. Matthew May )

TheZuZa

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