This song gets me going 😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥

Nice track, don't usually enjoy this style of music but enjoyed this

Great Atmosphere and those Arps are really classy :) 

top notch! loving the slightly housey vibes

awesome atmosphere, beutiful arp, great track

From "Ursa Major II" EP by Phoan, track released October 31, 2021
Composed, performed and recorded by Angelo Panebianco and Matteo Mariano in 2021.
Original cover art by Dario Panzeri  (http://dariopanzeri.org)

https://phoan.bandcamp.com/album/ursa-major-ii

Ursa Major II

Apophenia

Apophenia (Phoan feat. Macrogramma)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my next BandCamp solo album)

Greetings my wonderful SC friends. I hope you’re enjoying October as much as I am. I adore all the -ember and -ober months. As seasons go, this is my happy space. It’s a great time to reflect, and a great time to reset.

Creatively speaking, this song caused a peculiar reaction I wasn’t expecting; enough to make it the topic for my liner notes. The reaction was... nostalgia. The world instruments made me pine for the experiences of my Scottish (clan Mackay) ancestors. And some of my other synth choices sparked happy feelings of being a teenager in the 80s. 

Even now, I’m strangely comforted by this song (a sort of mother’s love/lullaby effect). It makes me yearn for what I imagine to be easier, simpler times… and I couldn’t be more wrong. 

I know my Scottish ancestors had quite a brutal and destructive history. And if I’m really being honest with myself, I never expected to survive the Cold War in the 80s. In fact, I actually adopted a very dystopian view of the world because of it. So why do I (or any of us) have such a strong desire to return to ‘the good old days’, when almost all evidence points to those times being worse for the majority of us?

I’m reading a book right now that puts all of this into sharp perspective. It’s called ‘Enlightenment Now’ (by Steven Pinker); and it has less to do with being enlightened, and more to do with using reasoning to help us rummage through the inaccuracies stored in our minds. I’ll be the first to admit… I struggle with a lot of the concepts (because my ego loves the drama of believing it’s all going to hell). But truthfully, we have never seen a time when so many people were experiencing such a decent quality of life, and Steven has the analytics to prove it. For example:

On the topic of life…. The average human lifespan is now 71.4 years. In the 1700s it was 35.

On the topic of sustenance… Premodern Europe suffered famines every few decades. The typical diet in France in the 1700s was comparable to Rwanda in 1965 (the most malnourished nation for that year). Today, India’s billion people get an average of 2,400 calories a day. Hunger hasn’t disappeared entirely. But it’s nothing like what our ancestors experienced.

On the topic of wealth… the average preindustrial European was fortunate to own a quality garment only a few times in their lives. And it was not uncommon for clothing to be stolen off a dead body during an epidemic… thus continuing to spread the epidemic. Now we have to store our winter clothes to make room in the closet for our summer attire. And we order these items on our smart phones, to be delivered tomorrow.

On the topic of equal rights… Consider Michelle Obama’s quote from the 2016 National Democratic Convention, “I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent black young women, playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.” That is a hopeful indicator of how far we’ve come toward achieving racial equality. And there are people still alive today who were born before women had the right to vote. Now women can run for President. Another great indicator we are heading in the right direction. We definitely have a long way to go. But again, it is much better than it was.

These are some of the simplest examples pulled from the book. If you need a booster shot of positivity, I highly recommend it. It’s one of the best researched, most logically presented perspectives I’ve encountered in a while; and it is unapologetically hopeful. It reminds us… the ‘good old days’ weren’t really that good; and the best days are now. So let’s focus on what we need to do next, and maybe park those fond (but faulty) memories.

I hope you enjoyed my latest musical offering, ‘Nostalgia’. :)

Vox Populi

Nostalgia

Many years ago, a scientist called John B Calhoun conducted a series of experiments relating to overpopulation, using rodents as his test subjects. Each iteration was initialised with the manufactured creation of a “utopian” society, one of which was ‘Universe 25’, inhabited by some of my most cherished kindred-spirits - a group of innocent little mice.

This track attempts to reflect the good intention and excitement behind this experiment, as opposed to the actual outcome, which was nothing short of horrific.

Your ‘likes’, comments and reposts are, as always, most welcome and deeply appreciated. Massive thanks in advance.

This is Universe 25

Freedom Horse

Let go of Time

Let Go Of Time

The Shaggymane Work

Five rounds of the same progression. Each is slightly different. Guitar, bass, piano, hihats and mallets. Super simple stuff.

mini mal

five

mini mal - five

Happy experimental project.
Crreativity make you smile and be happy.
Join the project!!

Enjoy!

幸福な家はどれも似ている：Happy Experimental project has started!

Suraterra

Sweet Mirrors (Interlude)

method: plain reading, no frills.
narration: it's abstract. The title again refers to one of alexander gottlieb baumgarten's categories.

poem / copyright jo richter:

the embodied, sensual mind can only venture
so far, whereas the unshackled, disembodied mind can roam
freely within rational logics, conjectures and models

he remembers reading tomes, yellowing pocket books, displays
and thrice only he came into contact with medieval parchment
vellum, heroically illuminated, gloriously saved

sure, he had tried to bridge the gap, scratch into
home-made clay tablets - he was a writer, however, not
an artisan, and disliked the infantile, unwieldy outcome

inherently, languages are prone to transform, to vanish
and the lore of culture now hovers above a digital void
of impermanence amidst rainbow-coloured candy wrappings

sloterdijk's philosophy of foams, bubbles, globes and spheres
will not sustain the sedimentation of this geological stratum
much like leibnitz', kant's, nietzsche's, heidegger's, cassierer's, other's

how do you theorize for a red-hot, amorpheous future
when all the sublime moves of the mind will blaze
up in a consciousness alien to the present, scorching

do not rely on forces beyond your grasp, the
stoicists said, and lao tze kindly dictated for a single
border official, aware of the incremental nature of knowledge

gnoseologia superior (plain reading)

* included in VV.AA. GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 6 by @user-873769606:
https://youtu.be/Dnsx4823w9w

Clown Matrix (magic pill mix)

Update - 18/06/23

After being on this platform for over 12 years, SoundCloud has suddenly decided that I’m a bot and for the last month or so it has been severely restricting my ability to comment on your tracks. In the interests of fairness I am stopping commenting altogether for now. Sincere apologies to those of you who value this particular part of the experience as much as myself. I will continue to ‘like’ and repost (the latter on my sister profile) as normal, with the hope that this issue will be resolved at some point in the future.

Love and peace,

Rob.

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