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album: Plankton
track 1: 5:26 Drop
track 2: 4:46 Ocean Lady
track 3: 4:48 L'Heure Bleue
track 4: 3:31 Sink Into The Sea
track 5: 6:08 Steps
track 6: 6:36 Seven GHs
track 7: 2:32 Nautical Twilight
track 8: 12:48 See
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Song Description
Last step. Words have no meaning at all now.
~~~ notes ~~~
An algorithmic and manually generated work.
I used GarageBand to mix and cross fade the tracks. I also added a background subliminal voice and some sound effects of seagulls and waves. (Love that rainstick!)
The actual notes were generated using a Tcl script that executed the following algorithm.
There are 13 phases, using a cycle of fifths. The last phase repeats the original key of the first phase.
Each phase is divided into two parts. The first part is built from a pentatonic scale. The second part is built from the same scale with one particular note removed. This note is about to change.
The idea is to smooth the upcoming modulation by avoiding the one note that will change in pitch. In other words, the second part is ambiguous: it is between the key of the first part and the key of the upcoming next phase.
At the end of the second part this note is lowered a half step to form a new pentatonic scale. This new pentatonic scale is up one fifth from the previous scale. (It turns out, this has an added benefit: when the first new note of the key finally appears, it has a sort of tug on your heart. It works especially well on the second appearance of the tubular bells.)
Notes are chosen randomly from the scales.
The cycle continues until it finally returns to the original key.
The song starts in C with this scale: C, D, E, G, A. The next key is G with this scale: G, A, B, D, E. The note that changes is C to B. So during the second part, the C is avoided; there are only four notes in the scale: D, E, G, A.
The pattern continues in this cycle of fifths: C, G, D, A, E, B, F#, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F, and finally back to the C.
The subliminal voice: The sea is where all water originates and eventually returns. The cycles of transformations of water from liquid, solid, and vapor are not unlike the phases that each one of us travels through as we flow through our lives. At first our being is fluid, molded by our parents, our families, our friends, our world at large. Eventually we crystalize into the beings that we are throughout most of our adult lives. And, at the end, our essence slowly evaporates once again into that eternal form. We flow as does the water from the mountains to the sea. We are all, each one of us, a part of the grand cycle that is life. You should see.
track 1: 5:26 Drop
track 2: 4:46 Ocean Lady
track 3: 4:48 L'Heure Bleue
track 4: 3:31 Sink Into The Sea
track 5: 6:08 Steps
track 6: 6:36 Seven GHs
track 7: 2:32 Nautical Twilight
track 8: 12:48 See
...more albums...
Song Description
Last step. Words have no meaning at all now.
~~~ notes ~~~
An algorithmic and manually generated work.
I used GarageBand to mix and cross fade the tracks. I also added a background subliminal voice and some sound effects of seagulls and waves. (Love that rainstick!)
The actual notes were generated using a Tcl script that executed the following algorithm.
There are 13 phases, using a cycle of fifths. The last phase repeats the original key of the first phase.
Each phase is divided into two parts. The first part is built from a pentatonic scale. The second part is built from the same scale with one particular note removed. This note is about to change.
The idea is to smooth the upcoming modulation by avoiding the one note that will change in pitch. In other words, the second part is ambiguous: it is between the key of the first part and the key of the upcoming next phase.
At the end of the second part this note is lowered a half step to form a new pentatonic scale. This new pentatonic scale is up one fifth from the previous scale. (It turns out, this has an added benefit: when the first new note of the key finally appears, it has a sort of tug on your heart. It works especially well on the second appearance of the tubular bells.)
Notes are chosen randomly from the scales.
The cycle continues until it finally returns to the original key.
The song starts in C with this scale: C, D, E, G, A. The next key is G with this scale: G, A, B, D, E. The note that changes is C to B. So during the second part, the C is avoided; there are only four notes in the scale: D, E, G, A.
The pattern continues in this cycle of fifths: C, G, D, A, E, B, F#, Db, Ab, Eb, Bb, F, and finally back to the C.
The subliminal voice: The sea is where all water originates and eventually returns. The cycles of transformations of water from liquid, solid, and vapor are not unlike the phases that each one of us travels through as we flow through our lives. At first our being is fluid, molded by our parents, our families, our friends, our world at large. Eventually we crystalize into the beings that we are throughout most of our adult lives. And, at the end, our essence slowly evaporates once again into that eternal form. We flow as does the water from the mountains to the sea. We are all, each one of us, a part of the grand cycle that is life. You should see.
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vbluesky
your songs are good and different, I like your style of music and thoughts behind them. Check out my vid at www.youtube.com/veg1000/waterpower
and tell me what you feel...thanks 4 the jam