The Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846, is a keyboard composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the first prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer. An early version of the prelude, BWV 846A, is found in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

846 (Bach vs Wintermut3)

Warzawa (Bowie vs Wintermut3)

Anti Chamber

Rework of Older, WIP

The portamento sweeps at the beginning represent  the sky scrappers reaching into the breaking dawn sky... the longer more chromatic  pads is the first sunbeams slowly crawling up those near impossible heights.  The crystal Ep is the ending of a lullaby of sleep as hundreds of thousands of New Yorker rise to a new day...

NYC Dawn

inspired by one of my most favorite movies...

If at the beginning and a few other places, you think you hear a bit of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" the tone poem by Richard Strauss--the opening to "2001 A Space Odyssey"  that was "about" around, etc Nietzsche's book that was a arch-type for the "Superman" you have a good ear... since "Being There" is kinda of a more modern version of Nietzsche's  work it was fitting for it to be used in the movie(the tone poem was)--in a very funky rendition--as Chance Gardener is leaving the only home he knew into the very urban 1970's Washington DC... It may seem that I am obfuscating Strauss's Themes, but no... mtc

B3ING TH3RE

2049

Highly spatial with large spectrum and revolving round pans and delayed phasing this very "structural" puts you at the center of the James Webb launch and then lets you follow the journey to the sun and to decode the mysteries at the center of Times begin... 
Synths:

NI Massive, 
IK Syntronic 2 Analog synths : Prophet, Moog Explorer and others 
ILs Harmor Additive subtractive synth ... layers and layers of fx
all marshalled by ILs newer Frequency splitters and pushed through more  variable spaces/phasing/and pans to give the feeling of watching the JWST unfolding and then flying to near the Sun as it optically powers open a view backwards in time... on the cover is JWST launching and the fiery columns morphing into this songs wav forms as they lift the whole thing into space

James Webb's looking Glass into the  beginning of Time

La Dance Macabre ( carrousel de la mort mix)

Dmitry Shostakovich, one of my all time favorite, if not my most favorite composers--probably the single most influence from the "classic" side of music on me and Wintermut3. This piece was written by him for Piano and four part Choir... I have altered it for Pipe organ--with full pipes and boards, Mini-Moog, and NIs Massive. Note the deepest with a "rumble" sound is the minimoog--I think it fills in as the true deeper sound of the lower pipe and pedals

Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in d minor (Shostakovich vs Wintermut3)

a Five part series MTC

Lyrics:

In These times of war with fears of devices,
whose destructive powers remain unseen.
We forget of the weapons within the mind, that have destroyed
more men than machines will ever see.

These weapons have kindled every war since time began, and do not ally themselves with
the good or evil of men, but instead choose
anarchy & chaos to be their friends.

The weapons are the horsemen of the Apocalypse
and are four, who ride upon steeds called men,
and are named:
 pride--
 predjudice,
 jealousy,
 and greed.


The Everlasting Apocalypse: Prologue

Wintermut3 Deep Bass is back

This time Deep Bass  provides the texture and grit for a Gunfighter at his last stand, as he pulls round after round against impossible odds...we feel ever bullet impact its way through flesh and wood as they splinter and explode in rains of blood and sawdust...this song is more visceral than melodic as it paints the final moments of the stories' subject...The composition is actually timed at around 63 bpm, normally slow, but I wanted it to feel synced to roughly to the listeners sense of time in seconds--the speed of life...

The Gunfighter

Imagine a 70s era Arena show of your favorite band, and just as the music hits a strong point, the music cuts to a Drummer Solo--however due to the magic of Modeled drums and modern music software--this is not a solo.. .but. more of a duo...that is right two drummers, two kits (One standard, one "Metal" ) completely in sync... it might sound something like what I am attempting here... the music has just cut out....enjoy...

Just Drumz 2

"And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself."

Untitled No 2

In 1982, this song made me really really love Piano

Thank you David aka Joe ... For the rest of you, If you remotely even appreciate my version of this, then please listen to the original by Mr. Joe Jackson... a true classic...

For the cover art, I inverted the keys on the model I rendered, because a "Fortepiano or pianoForte" has keys like a harpsichord Black keys for the Whole notes and white keys for the half notes ( opposite of a piano today )

Production wise, I wanted this mix/composition to feel improv and loose/organic and most of ... live. I used modo drums by IKMM with a new custom kit--one of features of this new WMS kit, named "Big Ballad", was a large "loose" snare drum with large low tension "chains" but using a low to negative velosity on the sticks/hits over i mix the "studio" and "jazz" elements (basa drum, snare, toms, etc) into this hybrid new kit 

vs Joe Jackson: Stepping Out (PianoForte Mix)

VS Iron Maiden: Hollowed be thy Name

Inspired both by recent events, and fears for future ones--Parliament goes very conservatives and a new King ascends the Throne....


This is a continuation of the previous track and as such, has a stronger narrative. 

composition is in 3 movements:
  
0::00 -  Passing of a Queen
2:46 -   Once and Future King
5:46 -   Futura Britannica 

MTC
This track should offer Peace for:
For England, For Britain, For the UK, for Peace in all.. Peace for All..

G.S.T.K.

Pax Britannica (G.S.T.K. mix)

The Power of IKMM's Mondo Bass 2 and Mondo Drum.

VS Primus: Tommy The Cat

I was inspired to create this track after watching the movie "The Trench" which was about the Battle of the Sommes  1916 July 1 just days before the beginging of the battle is when the story is set. That movie really brings home the savagery of that battle (July 1 to Nov ) a total of 6 miles was gained with the causualites over a million with England suffering over 59k in the first hours of the battle. The men marched across "no mans land" as their officers were in close quarters behind them... ready to shoot any that tried to run away...

The British Way

As I was revisting this piece due to issues with 4th movement the first time around and wanting to use a lot of the mixing ideas that had been the result of my workinig with Beethoven's 7th symphony, I decided to bring more emotion to piece over all and especially to the  3rd movement of his 5th Symphony mostly through tempo/bpm changes (this version ranges from 90 bpm to 135 bpm, and to mirror the flute and piccalo lines with a highly Filtered tb303. So instead of making this a "patch" to the already released 3rd movement... I decided this deserved to be a separate release. So here is the final ( save a few small edits I still wannt to do) version of Beethoven''s 3rd Movement of this amazing 5th Symphony... oh the "XD" refers to the extended Dynamics of this version tansients are fully intact.

Electronicus Majoris: Beethoven 5th Symphony- Movement I & II - XD

Electronicus Majoris: Claude Debussy: La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre movement I

Electronicus Majoris: Claude Debussy:La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre movement II

Electronicus Majoris:Claude Debussy:La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre movement III

MTC

Soon added lyrics (with lite to medium vocoding )
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Dream,
Dream,
Dream...

Dream of Yesterday
Dream of Today

Always remember who you were
Always remember who you are

But most of all 

Dream 
Dream 
Dream of Tomorrow

Be
BE
BE...

Be who you can be 
Be who you are 
Be what you were

Be who you want to be
Be who you are 
Be who you were,

Never be afraid to look back
Never be afraid to look now
Never be afraid to look forward

Be Yesterday
Be Today
Be Tomorrow

Be the Dream of Yesterday
Be the Dream of Today
Be the Dream of Tomorrow

But always
always
always...

Dream

Dream and Be

Just Dream

The idea behind this song is to capture that moment at the very last twight as the remaining light seems to melt away... except those very last lumens move forward into the dark night, seeking the dawn and provide those deizens of night, like us...the smallest glimmer of much needed light at our times of need.... you know.. a moonless night and you suddenly have and urgent need for just the smallest hint of light, you dropped your keys and yet somehow despite the deep moonless night a somehow brief glimspe of light reveals them....those lost lumens seeing dawn maybe ... The cover of the song art, very much reflects in color of what i hope the listener will feel...

The Light of Day Into Night

Symphony No. 1 "Underworld" 1st Movement

I have not produced any music for about 4 or 5 month due to being out of work since January, last night I decided to fire up my DAW (FLSTudio) and this is what resulted. I named it Menagerie due to the various themes that interact in a edgy and not typical way even nearly clashing at time but somehow there is a great deal of beauty overall. The song was built around the rolling bass and piano line that is the first thing heard... then as I listened to that seqence again and again... I heard a lone solo Violin moving slowing against that opening bass movement--from these two themes the rest evoled over the night.

Menagerie

I have worked on this for quite a while, on and off again. Probably one of the greatest symphonies ever created. This is not just a electronic facade slapped onto an existing symphonic recording, with the help of IKMultimedia's incredible VSTs I mapped the entire midi score pushing through there soundtanks and the like--in other words the entire recording is mine. Then I worked fretless bass amp simed and my favorite 303 vst which was realtime control mapped against its cutoff, res, evn mod, env decay, step length, env accent, etc to have the 303 complement the orginal score and voices as much  as possible. I also worked a couple of Analog synths using various score elements from the woodwinds.   Enjoy...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica) Movements I and II

I have worked on this for quite a while, on and off again. Probably one of the greatest symphonies ever created. This is not just a electronic facade slapped onto an existing symphonic recording, with the help of IKMultimedia's incredible VSTs I mapped the entire midi score pushing through there soundtanks and the like--in other words the entire recording is mine. Then I worked fretless bass amp simed and my favorite 303 vst which was realtime control mapped against its cutoff, res, evn mod, env decay, step length, env accent, etc to have the 303 complement the orginal score and voices as much as possible. I also worked a couple of Analog synths using various score elements from the woodwinds. Enjoy...

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica) Movements III and IV

Probably the very first time I heard Vivaldi was on this ablum

The Four Seasons: 3rd Movement From "Autumn" (WM vs Vivaldi)

Inspired by the popular video game franchise by the same name

http://store.steampowered.com/app/319510/Five_Nights_at_Freddys/

Dark Night in October

Five Nights at Freddie's

An Epic (Legacy Mix)

Just as I started my Funk 'Deep Dive' around 2010, I had started working on riffs and even full tracks that would eventually become the full albums: "Four Horses" and "Tales from a Second American Revolution". "Funking Around" was one of those early half finished tracks that I reopened the other night and dropped about 2.5 more hours into work on the project (bringing the total time spent to around 3.5 hours) .  Three different Slayer VST guitars (two running through IKMultimedias "Amptitude" amp sim, and the "accent " guitar is running through image-lines "Hardcore" amp sim) interplay with a bass (A Funk 'Modo Bass' modeled bass based on a Rickenbacker solid body bass) and a "Sawer" soft-synth  and some very jazz fusion drums to bring this track to life...

Funking Around

When I first created this track nearly a year ago i had this in the description: 'For the "Nineteen" in all our lives'

But as Covid hopefully continues to wind down : "I put this were I nearly fhe last song on the album for this song to serve as an "outro" for Covid-19 and yet hopefully it still morns the incredible losses we, the world has suffered while reflecting  our determination to survive--never forgot those loses both the ones that some nobely yet tragically  fell too.. and especially those that needlessly fell due to our arrogance, and aimless  decisions our leadership made ... all we morn all are important and significant...

N1n3T3eN

ok this is a WIP of a WIP. 300 was a celebration my 300th release... for 600 I revisited one of my most loved and oldest pieces. Now 3 releases till nine hundred... we switch gears ... an original track that was basically written in a day with one "borrowed'  bar from one of my childhood favs that partly fueled and inspired Wintermut3 mostly instrumental approach... ready for this... "Music Box Dancer" the bar I borrowed from the midi of that... was basically 'obliterated" as I sculpted a bar into a 4 bar variation.. and then created roughly 5 to variant piano lines, 7 synth lines, and whole mess of drums... all told so far there are roughly 30ish resulting tracks.. and the next version will most likely feature a very rare Wintermut3 element that is very rare and extremely another part of me... believe it or not... for over a 1/4 of my life... I am a very versatile singer.... tenor to mezzo + soprano range ... Jon anderson and me are very similar vocally.. and I used to consider that " high' note from take on me... easy game... so... maybe...so begins the wind down to 900... this is 897 ... but the final incarnation will actually be "#900" weird... eh? for of u who know my release number methods.. you have not seen a number like this in a while from me... this beast is the 7 var of the 2 refactor of the 7 ver of the 1st basic composition... so this is one of so there were at least 15 to 16 reworks of this yesterday to today.... so far...
this is the Alpha mix... #900 will he the Omega 


The Story:

In the sky, there is a land

where streams turn to sand

sands of dreams

sands count time

time ticks and rhymes

between the sands

hope stands 

the past... lies

Fear breathes life into

900 Dreams ...

that collide with 900 nights

in a splendored result that is:

...DR3AM N1N3-HUNDR3D...

which drives the mind of its dreamer

to the very brink, 

as they walk though

 900 overlapping dreams 

all are story arcs of each other

if the dreamer does not die...

if they wake sane...  

mind, body, spirit, soul

will have grown 

900 times 900 times... 

The resulting Demi-God then steps across 

Space, Time, Reality who anchors...

Are "Reality", "Matter" 
and 
 "Meta-Reality", "Anti-Matter" 

now this  Sojourior of the dream of dreams 

nods his head to the "22" as he now  sees the truths: 

the truths of ALL:

Time is a Myth 

Anti- Matter not Matter

History a Play

Electricity the binder of all : creator and destroyer 

Now he expands 

steps to the truth 

casts his form behind

steps to the dark... matter... 


To Home.... 

the 22 watch on...

Their day will long come as it slips

past time 

crashes into reality  

which crashes to black

now it is done...

Curr Ver:  DR3AM_N1N3HUNDR3D_1_7_2_7_n1

DR3AM N1N3-HUNDR3D  (Alpha mix 1 7 2 7)

Symphony No 25 1st Movement: Mozart Vs Wintermut3 (mix 11 N1)

Inspired by the movie "V for Vendetta" and highly Piano charged... the overall idea was to bring the overall intensity of the movie/story to the song by shaping and producing the song as if it was a club Prog Trance song.. but the actual compositon was more "traditional" with piano driving as a "Switch" (as normaly piano is more associated with Meldoic Trance...

The Fifth of November

One lonely night in early 2001, I decided to play (not sequenced at all) and record one of my favorite pieces of music, and add my own twists to it...
I memorized the progressions and practiced for about 20 minutes, and then live recorded this in one take.

Original masterpiece by: Aram Khachaturian. Performance: Wintermut3 (Live)

Gayane Ballet Suite Adagio (WM3 vs Aram Khachaturian)

A bit more of a "freestyle" version of this track--an RUR classic

Bad Robot (Hard Funk Mix 22 )

Watch the Glass spiders spin their silicon webs as I take a quick romp into my deeper ambient side, one of my "true" first FLStudio 9 (9.0.3)--meaning start to finish the project was done in FLS 9.0.3. About a 2 hour project--Actually 2.2 according to one of the latest feature in FLS, the total amount of time you have worked on a given project. The "chant" is a heavily formula controller controlled "Delay Lama"--Free Tibet...

Glass Spiders

I have always had a general rule about Wintermut3, "I make music I want to hear" A Part of that has been to overcome barriers and "traditions"  of what Electronic music has been and continues to be--the upshot being, Wintermut3 will move in directions (Funk, Metal, Rock, etc ) that are of interest, despite being a pure electronic artist. Note this does not exclude me from making more "common" types of Electronic music. I will never stop making--as long as I breathe--Trance, Jungle, Breakbeat, Techno, etc. In Fact for about 15 years I have been exploring the idea that we may be not just at an Post Electronica but may in fact be nearing a musical Epoch (for lack of a better word) what I am saying is we might be heading for a music metamorphis on the order of when Baroque became Classical Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann (most prolific composer in history, over 3000 compositions (Late Baroque-->Early Classical)  Mozart,  Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert. These types of musical epochs are a hundred to over two hundred years in length. The period that is being bridged for us is the hundred or even nearly two hundred period in which Blues and Jazz was born and then over a hundred years influenced nearly all forms of music that we know which all music was. Electronica was born around the mid to late 1920s as that was the time several electronic instruments (Theremin ). For the most part Electronic music has been amazingly resistent to Blues and Jazz, but there are definately times that resistence has lessened. I feel all the various forms of music that where born out of Blues and Jazz or heavily influenced by it are fusing back into Electronica. I am not the only artist who strives for a hybid of "real" and electronic. Only time will tell...  

to that end, from Blade Runner: 

Dr. Eldon Tyrell:  "More Human than Human"
which I extend to Wintermut3:
"More Real than Real"  (on creation of "virtual" music)

Overall I am inspired even driven by this quote:

“Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do…"  :Giorgio Moroder

In addition to living by the above quote:
Welcome to my nearly 20 year journey:  my music project Wintermut3 originally created in late 1998, with a first public release in early 1999 on mp3.com and other Music sites...

Originally inspired by the works of William Gibson, Wintermut3 is about bringing the listener into the sights and visions of the music. 
The music is highly story and concept driven and is made to immerse the listener in mood and feeling. 
The overall goal is to take the listener to a place they have never been before.
Highly infused with the music of Progressive Rock (Yes, Rush, Genesis, etc.) and early electronic (Tomita, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, etc) all blended in with more "contemporary" electronic sounds (Massive attack, Enigma, Orbital, the Orb, BT, etc) into something I call: "Concept Electronica". None of the sounds you hear in Wintermut3 are "loops" or "samples" especially the more organic sounds (electric guitars, horns, etc), I lovingly lay every note and run them through various software (DAWs, VST, VSTi, etc) and or model the Instrument that renders them. I have spent many many years to get Wintermut3 to sound as "real" and organic as I can... I take great pride in this ;)
Regardless, what results is music that follows the original premise of my musical "project" Wintermut3--music that is a logical progression of what is known and loved up to the point of the project's inception over 16 years ago--In short, it is music "Built for the Future", not now...but it is always fine to like, love it now...

Wintermut3

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