#21

That’s so good. I loved it. The accompanying video just makes it all the better, especially when the beat kicks in proper. The cranky bass stabs make the context of the latter video (i.e the go-go party) a bit unsettling; like a weird orgy, freakout or extreme violence - ala JG Ballard - is about to erupt. :smiley:

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#22

Clinton, Neuman… and that famous Tabu sound. It feels good!

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#23

Music, video, music plus video. Brilliant anywhere. :laughing: :clap:

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#24

The drill is awesome.

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#25

Well. this was enormous fun. There certainly could have been a weirder mashup. I admire so many musicians over a very broad sprectrum. But I made the most of this and wrote a quick and punchy tune in the style of the White Stripes, as if Rick Wakeman had sat in on keyboards. It cracks my up every time I listen to it. Hope you get a smile too.

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#26

This is a quick exercise in a mashup of a composition by Ludwig van Beethoven and the piano style of Angelo Badalamenti’s work on Twin Peaks. I used a lightly tweaked and slowed way down MIDI file of the work to drive a stock sampled piano in Live. Added some doom laden reverbs from Zynaptiq and Eventide. I treated the left and right hands very differently to accentuate the produced sound. I would call this a pastiche or simple study.

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#27

Here I tried to combine elements of Steve Reich’s Pulses with some Radiohead from the Kid A era. I crafted a Europa synthesizer patch from scratch to get the pulsing while the chord progression has a definite Radiohead influence (as most of my chord progressions do). I wouldn’t call it a song because it doesn’t change, it’s more a demonstration of an idea. I enjoyed making it, the disquiet prompt definitely provoked some creativity for me.

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#28

My arrangement of Bach’s chorale with some modern harmonies and rhythms.

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#29


I tried to combine the dark unearthliness of Anji Cheung (https://anjicheung.bandcamp.com), whose music I feel very close to ever since I discovered it a few years ago and the raw energy of Cecil Taylor’s piano playing, which I’ve always admired since I first experienced it in concert in 1983.

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#30

Wanted to try to combine an older SAW Aphex Twin set up with a Zappa-esque break, but I think I only succeeded a little bit, to be honest. I need to find a way to insert some jazzy-weird melodic line. Well, maybe I’ll do that another time.

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#31

Heh. I think it worked great. Nice job!

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#32

This piece to me, sounds as if you have captured some of the fascinating timbres that grabbed my attention when I was a lot younger. At the time though I just wanted to know what instrument it was.

My dad told me it was a synthesizer. I don’t think I’ll ever forget it. Thanks for reminding me of happy times with this beautiful composition.

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#33

I hadn’t heard of R. Julius, but H. Yoshimura started showing up on my Youtube “suggested videos” lists about a year or two ago - is New Age retro now?

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#34

Thank you, that’s very kind!

If you like this sound, I highly recommend Alessandro Cortini’s three Forse albums made entirely on an Easel. They are synthesizer music distilled. No empty calories.

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#35

I think I’ve got everything in the playlist, but if I missed your track, let me know:

#36

This is very intriguing! Since you haven’t publicized what the fusion is of let me try guessing! The title is probably a hint but I can’t read what it could be. Alice Sara Ott? And the only gates in music I know are the control voltage ones.

Musically, it does sound like a blend of Reich and Preisner to me.

In any case, good work!

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#37

Calling it a pastiche is a disservice to the music. I admittedly avoided listening to this sooner because of this description.

In fact, it is very tastefully done and indeed sounds like Badalamenti! The mood is there, the phrasing is there, your choice of reverbs is very tasteful.

Very nice!

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#38

Julius isn’t that widely known and unfortunately a lot of his recorded work is out of print. I researched his work for my Masters (2006-2009) and my mentor, German-Canadian sound artist, Robin Minard had a vast archive of Julius’ work, which I promptly ripped to mp3 when I was in Germany during 2008. I also found two books on his practice, which I treasure to this day. An incredible, important artist.

Yoshimura and the Youtube reference is interesting since the rediscovery of his (other many others) work are due to the weirdness of the YouTube algorithms, which - for reasons mostly unknown - started ‘recommending’ Japanese ambient (‘Kankyo Ongaku’) to users en masse, around the time that you’re suggesting. I know it was certainly the case for me too! I think maybe that @disquiet wrote or commented on this phenomenon at some point?

And New Age, yep - there’s something about it right now. The US duo, Visible Cloaks have been mining the genre in interesting ways for a few years now. I think a great deal of the attraction to Kankyo Ongaku’s sound is its subtlety and considered (restrained) approach. Some of it can be pretty cheesy, but Yoshimura’s work - especially 1986’s Green album - is absolutely stunning.

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#39

Thanks for the article recommendation - it helps support my pet theory that algorithms are filling the void in our culture that gods used to fill - “the algorithm moves in mysterious ways.”

I came to New Age music after buying a $2 Windham Hill sampler at the thrift store 3 or 4 years ago. Then I started listening more on YT - so maybe the algorithm wasn’t too out of left field when Yoshimura showed up in the list :slight_smile:

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#40

Thanks @RPLKTR! I’m glad you listened to it in the end, and enjoyed it.

I don’t think of a pastiche as bad, per se. I thought of it as a word describing an exercise in copying the style of another. But Wikipedia says it’s even more appropriate to this junto exercise in the “or more” part. The following is a quote from wikipedia’s pastiche entry…

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.[1] Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.[2]

The word pastiche is a French cognate of the Italian noun pasticcio , which is a pâté or pie-filling mixed from diverse ingredients.[1][3]Metaphorically, pastiche and pasticcio describe works that are either composed by several authors, or that incorporate stylistic elements of other artists’ work. Pastiche is an example of eclecticism in art.

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