Music track for the M.A.D. Music Compilation IV (Music Analysis Discussions Records Label) (2023)

Link: https://musicanalysisdiscussionsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aloyulnacteg

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Aloyulnacteg - M.A.D. Music Compilation IV

First draft was done in mid-2025 while watching a documentary about Dieter Rams. Some parts remind me of the sound of a pinball machine. 
Enjoy!

Rams

This piece combines "Improvisation for Solo Lyra-8 Synthesizer" and "Drone Painting No.2" with a touch of dialog provided by Espeak, a rather primitive, command line speech synthesis program. I am starting to compile another Phantom Oscillator album for Bandcamp that will probably be called Orphans. As the title hopefully suggests, it will consist of songs recorded over the past two years or so that didn't fit with the mood or aesthetic of whatever album I was working on at the time.  Utopian Death March will be among this eclectic group of orphaned experiments, which will hopefully see a small cassette tape edition like last year's Music for Soldering. Stay tuned! BTW, the quotes spoken by my robot are not my own. The quote at the beginning of the track is by Peter Hitchens and the one at the end is by Bertrand De Jouvenel.

Phantom Oscillator - Utopian Death March

For this project I wanted to re-record my Jamuary track “Glitched Guitar / Lots of Ripples”. I chose this track because I thought it was just a simple guitar melody and a bit of knob twisting with effects and therefore easy to reproduce with voice.

Alas the original track was made with Norns Glitchlooper - a five track asynchronous looper with a mind of its own - fed into Norns RPLS, which can be a delay, a looper or anything in between. So it was really impossible to get the same result. Also pitched voices don’t have the same appeal as pitched guitar plucks. My submission sounds a bit like a birdhouse after you handed out the wrong birdseed. Still, it was a fun challenge to try and do this based on just voice.

More on the 633rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Voice Swap — The Assignment: Rerecord all or part of one of your tracks using just your voice — at https://disquiet.com/0633/

Disquiet0633 - Glitched Voice / Lots of Ripples

Recording Artist: WILLPOWER
Lyrics by WILLPOWER
Producer WILLPOWER
Mixed by WILLPOWER
Mastered by NJ Crisp
Video by WILLPOWER

More here: https://willpower-music.com

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This track is inspired by the Clear Skies conference happening feb 24-25 at https://saveourfood.net/clearskies

I shot the video by taking walks, it was easy since they're spraying all the time.

~ Willpower
https://WillpowerStudios.com

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Pass The Maple Syrup Please

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Pass The Maple Syrup Please | Eurorack Modular Live Performance

free improvisation, pocket trumpet/electric guitar/electronics.

Session (200424 - #1)

Tweaks

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this:

Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence.

Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists".

Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism".

Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East

The Assignment: Interpret the literal translation of “karaoke.”

Step 1: You may or may not be familiar with the literal meaning of the word “karaoke.” The first two syllables are the Japanese word for “empty.” The final two syllables are an abbreviation of the Japanese word for “orchestra.” Consider how the term “empty orchestra” connects with the idea of karaoke.

Step 2: Think about the term “empty orchestra” on its own, apart from its association with karaoke. Come up with a new meaning for it. What kind of genre or musical form would “empty orchestra” be on its own?

What a concept for Karaoke: Empty Orchestra? What does that even mean when there's a playback track sounding? There's no singer ok, but the band should be there right?
Anyway; I continue my research on orchestral samples from my different libraries and imagined an empty concert hall where some sort of sonic ectoplasm remains and is captured by my field recorder.
So this is 9 tracks or  sampled orchestras treated with ridiculous amounts of three different reverbs.
There's also a real cello popping in and out .

recorded thursday 16th May 2024 by DD at home.



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WILLPOWER is a New Media Artist, Performer & Spiritual Creative Technologist using Light, Sound and other Invisible Forces to transcend the Simulatrix... creating the nUtopia.

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