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album: Omega
track 1: 1:25 Only The Beginning
track 2: 2:18 Cold Meds
track 3: 3:36 This Economy
track 4: 3:26 Michael's Fault
track 5: 10:48 Bellevue
track 6: 2:53 no on
track 7: 3:05 Get Data, Create
track 8: 4:50 Repeat Yeah Knickknack
track 9: 1:51 OOBE
track 10: 4:32 loosed
track 11: 2:03 dog
track 12: 5:52 Mind The Monks
track 13: 4:34 Tomographic Notions
track 14: 4:38 Omega
...more albums...

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This was an experiment in multi-track poetry. You might want to read the poem first to get a sense of what I tried to do. See the poem here.

Here, I attempt to interleave the dual parts.
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Cool experiment &mdash 09/22/07 - 04:28:26 PM
I think it works very well and I like the poem. Reminds me a little of the forwards /backwards piece you did a while ago.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:27:08 PM
this part of a small series of poems about duality - i guess i envision this sort of diagram:


________________________________________________
____________________pleides_____________________
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_____________________THE________________________
____sunset____her____HILL____him____sunrise_____
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i enjoy contrasting positives/negatives... i guess


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Runs deep, planetwide &mdash 09/22/07 - 08:53:17 PM
Mystic feel reflects the reflections of us and we, the oneness of duality. Great work.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:29:58 PM
cool! i'm glad this brought you some mystical thoughts - i was going for that by mixing the ideas of opposites / sky / world ...

thanks


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art &mdash 09/22/07 - 10:18:23 PM
I am not a spoken word fan, but I like the music behind it. What is the synth pad sound that you used?

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synth pad &mdash 09/24/07 - 08:17:36 PM
i guess you mean that horn-swell thing?

that's Orchestra French Horn Section from JackPack4. i started from Float E French Horns and Stormy F French horns. I kept the Expression (dynamics) automation from the loops, but used my own notes for this song.

thanks for asking

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art &mdash 09/25/07 - 12:54:27 AM
no not the horns. 30 secs into the track is a synth/pad chord that is played, just before the beat comes in. What sound is that synth pad. That is a House music chord and sound. Thanx

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. &mdash 09/25/07 - 05:02:55 PM
ah. that is a loop Nu Jazz Jam Piano 2 from JP2 (Remix Tools). it's basically Electric Piano (Tine) with some compression and EQ on it.

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I knew from the title... &mdash 09/23/07 - 02:24:02 AM
... I'd like this. I love how the voices start together then seperate. Voices disconnected, objective, but very human.

You make the planet feel lost and small at the same time.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:32:34 PM
thank you

it's a strange thing that we, each of us, are alone within ourselves, yet we are not really, since we all are all joined by the world around us...

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Two different ways of seeing &mdash 09/23/07 - 03:23:17 PM
find common ground - a connection - something true for both. Be well Bud.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:39:26 PM
this is, among various interpretations, about being "a continent away" from someone. see the diagram i posted earlier: the hill could be North America...

the idea of living right near a hill, but on opposite sides of it, also introduces this neat symmetry of how one person never sees the western horizon, while the other sees the eastern horizon - that translates into the fundamental way each person experiences the reality of their own "day" and how they are not the same, yet they are, in a mirror image sort of way... so maybe they really are the same in a deeper sense.

thanks for listening!

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Haunting... &mdash 09/23/07 - 05:28:32 PM
...when I read the poem, I was struck by the visual physical distance between the two poems... one poem? Two voices... one poem? Or two? All this (going in your eyes) conveys a different feeling than the audio does (going in your ears), and sends subtly different messages that meet, like surprised people in a subway station.

This is fascinating - the various incarnations of the message all speaking different languages, and you need to experience them all to catch the feel. Wow. This is VERY cool.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:47:03 PM
wow. you're right. i just tried listening to only the left side voice, and then a second time to only the right side voice. it's hard to do! the two insist on mixing together. something i hadn't quite understood when i did this. (i only meant to put in the zinger with the line "the Sun".)

now i'm thinking about the "figure" and "ground" idea. how they are opposites yet in a way the same. i wrote some other stuff you like like on that idea within another series of poems about singularity, "cotton hollow" http://bill.kats22.com/writing/singularity/cottonhollow.html - and an idea for a sculpture.

thanks!

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Very nice &mdash 09/23/07 - 06:16:15 PM
interpretation of the poem and I liked it a lot. The music too, semed to compliment the poem in the same way that the male and female are juxtasuposed, cheers M

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:50:55 PM
i did map the female and male voices for several reasons - it's all part of the opposites/yet the same concept...

i wasn't so sure about the music - it was just sort of background mood - an even tighter interpretation should have included lots of backwards/inverted themes - hmmm... maybe i should try that!

thanks for listening and commenting


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nice &mdash 09/23/07 - 11:44:09 PM
ying/yang Smokey Vee Dub great concept !

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:54:54 PM
ah! of course! yin/yang - until i read your comment, it hadn't clicked. that's precisely the idea, visually and conceptually. nice. guess my ole brain is wearing out... :-)

thanks

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cool &mdash 09/25/07 - 03:13:00 PM
i like this sort of thing. somehow missed it when you posted it, but glad I just found it. the horn part sounds great over the downtempo backing track and the electric piano part is so nice and harp like.

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. &mdash 09/26/07 - 08:57:52 PM
glad you enjoyed the "background music" just fine as it is.

if i do mess with it to make it more "yin/yang"-y - i must try not to ruin that mood.

thanks for listening



"yin/yang"-y cannot possibly be a word - but it ought to be!

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;-) &mdash 10/10/07 - 02:05:23 PM
quite, and relax for an other cool track..grazie Smokey
GREAT!



Im not musician
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Schello

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. &mdash 10/12/07 - 07:27:51 PM
thanks Schello!

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Good Stuff! &mdash 11/20/07 - 09:33:06 PM
Always enjoy your poetry. This concept of near-separateness seems to hit home tonight. Thanks Smokey.

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. &mdash 11/21/07 - 08:53:29 AM
thanks for commenting

there is also the idea of feeling isolation and yet how it's not really possible to be truly isolated.

i hope everything is well for you.


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