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Cloud Sequence

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  Music heard in a dream. (Music in dreams tends to be endless loops, essentially earworms, but arise from one's inner sense of sound).  10/29/2017   Cloud_Sequence by meta4s

October 29, 2014

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  Tried out "Station in F" audio playing in headphones while going through the station. There are two versions: one darkly minor and the other brightly major. The Harlem stop on the Green Line has several key notes: F, C and the occasional _____. The turnstiles beep C-F and the vending machine beeps an F. As I was recording the tracks, the sound of the whining fan in my computer was Db and I made it one of the pitches. Station In F (Light) Station In F (Dark)

Camera Ion (Some October)

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  Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry Working Mixes/October Tracks: 10/8/2023 The four new guitar tracks push it in another direction. The organ parts make it sound fairly R&B. The other versions are drastically different.  I also stumbled on a happy accident: I took some of the tracks and placed just an F-natural against the whole thing and there were interesting dissonances. I placed some of the same guitar parts against it and started to turn out pretty dark. While composing the string arrangement I used some of those figures as well like some of the the cello and bass parts against it. It sounds pretty sinister actually. What was most interesting was that it happened on the day after the Hamas invasion. I thought it was very appropriate, but generally, I don't do political work, but if I'm in the right hemisphere (as it were) I'm more apt to not dismiss that kind of thing. It's not that I'm forcing it--it's just that it's in the back o...

October 7, 2023

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  October 7 2023 (Draft 2) by meta4s