Lyrics:

We came to new worlds
Visitors as hosts
We were explorers
We brought our truth
Sailing to new coasts
Of our small worlds

We were naive
Blind in our hubris
The grass so green 
Far away from home

In our trek upon these lands
We fought ourselves 
We could not know
If nature was us or we were her

We could not make up our minds
We wanted everything

Where shall
We grow
After we’ve outgrown
Earth

What left could there be for us
If not to seize with full force
Our divine right to the skies

Our forests and oceans
Incomparable to the vast untapped resources of the universe

We fancied ourselves promethean 
Or on our way to becoming our own demiurge

Saviors In Saucers III

Here's a short ambient piece, the idea first came to me as it was about to rain and I imagined a certain kind of atmosphere I felt I needed to capture. 

I've been working on some classical piano and neo-renaissance music, and have been busy with some other music work, pardon the absence. There is nothing I want more to get back to routine releasing but I will have to be delayed a bit longer I'm afraid. On the bright side, there will be some more little songs coming in the coming months, and hopefully a bigger surprise in December.

In a few days also, there will be a short stop-motion film debuting with my full original foley and soundtrack, so look out for that!

No external foley/recordings or loops are used, everything is done from original sounds and recordings. 

//production, whistling, and piano done by me

Rainy Sky Garden

created 12/14-12/15, 2024

Lyrics:

I read about a king
Who was born with everything
In the right place and time

Yes he had a shiny throne
But his subjects couldn’t know
The color of his eyes

What do they see
What do they see
What do they know
What do they know

Every day behind the glass
He would watch his wealth amass 
The numbers ticking higher

Just as long as life could last
He would frolick in the grass
What more could be required

Responsibility of his kingdom
And dominion over his life
True wisdom
To decide

To truly rule 

What do they see
What do they see
What do they know
What do they know

Responsibility of his kingdom
And dominion over his life

I can’t have real conversations
Including to the mirror
But I try to change my situation
But I’m never seeing clearer

//vocals, production, lyrics done by me

irresponsible king

Joshua Levy - Trumpet
Destin Wernicke - Snare Drum
Nate Sassoon - Composition/Production/Vocals

Soviet Strike is a bullet hell arcade game/sorta tower defense-ish hybrid in which you control a fleet of Soviet planes in battle against the Luftwaffe during WW2. You can dash planes around in various formations and have them set to burst fire in set trajectories while you control your plane and move about the aerial battlefield. This game was made for a game jam that started on Feb 7 and ended on February 9th. 

Play the game in your browser here! https://fudgefiddle.itch.io/soviet-strike

Soviet Strike Theme

   Покатый шарик.                                         
Авторы: Лариса + Виктор Соболенко.
Спел и сыграл В. Соболенко.

Земля – покатый шарик,
Смотри, не поскользнись
И, поутру проснувшись,
Сначала удивись:

Тому, что ты проснулся,
Тому, что ты живой,
С руками и ногами
И даже с головой!

Ведь это так чудесно,
Что шарику не лень
Вращаться, и сегодня 
Начнётся новый день,

В котором ты проснулся,
В котором ты живой,
С руками и ногами
И даже с головой!

Представь на миг картинку:
Тебя могло не быть,
Твой папа мог бы маме,
Вообще, не позвонить,

И на твоём бы месте
Проснулся бы другой,
С руками и ногами
И даже с головой!

Поэтому, дружище,
Ты время не тяни
Единственной любимой
Скорее позвони,

А то случится, может,
Ей позвонит другой,
С руками и ногами
И даже с головой!

И скажет, как он счастлив,
Что шарику не лень
Вращаться, и сегодня
Начнётся новый день,

В котором он проснулся,
В котором он живой,
С руками и ногами
И даже с головой!

Земля – покатый шарик,
Смотри, не поскользнись
И, поутру проснувшись,
Сначала удивись…
                                           
Земля – покатый шарик,
Смотри, не поскользнись!

Земля – покатый шарик,
Смотри, не поскользнись!


Покатый шарик. Авторы: Лариса + Виктор Соболенко

Music composition and performance by Victor Sobolenko (pardessus de viole) 03.03.2018
Джованни Пала (итальянский компьютерщик и музыкант) пришел к выводу, что хлеба, руки Иисуса и апостолов в полотне Леонардо да Винчи “Тайная Вечеря” по расположению представляют собой ноты.
Он считает, что это полностью соотносится с христианской символикой, согласно которой хлеб ассоциируется с телом Христа, а руки необходимы для того, чтобы благословлять пищу.
По словам исследователя, сначала ему трудно было найти связь между своеобразными нотами. Однако, когда Джованни Пала решил прочитать их наоборот справа налево, они приобрели музыкальный смысл.
В выпущенной книге “Скрытая музыка” Джованни Пала подробно описывает все подсказки, которые позволили ему определить продолжительность и музыкальный ритм зашифрованной мелодии.

Ваш покорный слуга взял нотный ряд, расшифрованный Дж. Пала, и использовал свои нотные ряды, которые получились при наложении на картину лютневой табулатуры и символического грифа виолы пардессю, и зашифровал всё это в своей музыкальной композиции.

The Musical Code for Leonardo

Vlady Bistrov - clarinet, saxophone, volca sample, volca keys, volca fm
Victor Sobolenko - pardessus de viole, cello, voice, piano, toys, samples
Sound - Andrew Dokin. Mastering - Victor Sobolenko
Live at Sound Musium, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
11.04.2019
https://yadi.sk/i/09DGq1SV8YbX0A

Music Parallel Spaces

Open World is the 12th track from NetWorks 6: Music From a Farther Room. The entire album can be heard on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube, Deezer, etc., or purchased on Bandcamp: shawnbell.bandcamp.com/album/network…-farther-room

NetWorks is a music-generating system, and a body of work, based on artificial-life, complex systems research and the Honing Theory of creativity (Gabora 2010). NetWorks uses a hierarchical, scale-free network to generate music that can range from orderly to chaotic. At the ‘edge of chaos’ it generates patterns that exhibit emergent complexity through coherent musical development at low, mid and high levels of musical organization, and often suggests a sense of direction through goal seeking behaviours.

Emergence, in the NetWorks program, is achieved, not through Darwinian evolutionary processes, but through a far older form of evolution called communal exchange. “There is extensive evidence that for the first several million years of its existence life on earth evolved through communal exchange of components amongst self-organizing autocatalytic protocells, prior to establishment of a genetic code, and only once a RNA-based self-assembly code was in place did life evolve through natural selection. … the last century’s emphasis on natural selection in evolutionary theory is not warranted by current research; even today, variation-selection is, quantitatively at least, not the dominant evolutionary process.” (Gabora 2006).

There are no selective processes (fitness functions) within NetWorks, so if an output stream is perceived to “evolve” it can then be said to originate solely through communal exchange. Selective processes occur only between the interaction of the musician-programmer and the NetWorks program, when the musician-programmer (1) generates and evaluates network architectures, rule-sets and mappings, (2) orchestrates, mixes, and masters the most aesthetically pleasing instances of these outputs and (3) tweaks and expands the program itself.

In general, the sounds chosen to manifest the musical patterns discovered by a network attempt to reflect the mystery and wonder that virtually unlimited diversity can come from such simple models of complexity. When mapping patterns to sound, an effort is made to preserve the integrity of the patterns rather than obfuscate them with complex synthetic textures or other effects that are readily available during mixing.

Since the MIDI data of NetWorks is computer-generated, sampled acoustic instruments are often used to give the music a “human feel”, and to allow the listener to relate and compare the self-organizing patterns to known genres.

Headphone listening is recommended.

NetWorks 6: Music from a Farther Room

Open World

Весна
Автор текста: Лариса Соболенко
Автор музыки: Виктор Соболенко
Вокал и фортепиано: Виктор Соболенко
Запись в домашней студии с 30.03.20  по 04.04.20
Автор фото: Лариса Соболенко

Лариса и Виктор Соболенко - Весна

Composition for cello and piano and performance by Victor Sobolenko (2013)

photo: Andrew Dokin

Victor Sobolenko - Spring Madness

Composer, Сellist, Pianist, Gambist, Musicologist.

Victor Sobolenko - Spring Madness

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