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<font
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<font
color="#33aadd">Join
the Cyberpunk
revolution
that never
happened!
-> A new
issue of
Legowelt's</font></font><font
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</font></font><font
color="#00b590"><font color="#05d085"><font color="#37b2e2">SHADOW WOLF
CyBeRzInE!!
Your yearly
cyberpunk
internet
glossy ZINE in
ASCII</font><br>
<font
color="#3db5e5">
format. I got
a lot of
blurbs/articles/stuff
sent in this
year, some
didn't </font><br>
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color="#50b5e5">
make it - not
because they
weren't
acceptable or
good but
because it
would be </font><br>
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too much/too
long - anyways
I want to
thank everyone
that send in
material - it</font><br>
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color="#57bded">
is much
appreciated!</font><br>
<br>
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We are
extremely
excited to
have an
interview with
Inter-Dimensional
music</font><br>
<font
color="#63d3f3">
pioneer IASOS.
This interview
was recorded
two years ago
when I visited
him in </font><br>
<font
color="#69d9f9">
Marin county -
somehow it got
lost but it
was found
recently and
transcribed </font><br>
<font
color="#72e2ff">
just in time
for this
issue! We also
have an
interview with
Italian
electronic</font><br>
<font
color="#79e9ff">
music legend
Alexander
Robotnick,
articles about
overtones in
synthesis, how</font><br>
<font
color="#80f0ff">to
start lucid
dreaming, how
to sneak
binaural beats
into your
music, a guide</font><br>
<font
color="#85f5ff">to
Ethiopian
scales, An
acount on
manufacturing
a synth in
China, a
recepy for a</font><br>
<font
color="#89f9ff">psychdelic
Garlic Space
Chocolate
Focaccia, Hot
studio tips,
music and
movie </font><br>
<font
color="#89f9ff">reviews,
a Synth Quiz,
an ASCII Ski
Simulator and
lots more!</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#85f5ff">Enjoy
</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#80f0ff">Shadow
Wolf</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#79e9ff">
DECEMBER 2017</font><br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#72e2ff">
In this issue:</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#68d8ff">
<font
color="#52b0ff">1.
Shadowwolf
meets IASOS</font></font><font
color="#52b0ff"><br>
<font
color="#53b1ff">
2 ASCII
Synth Quiz</font><br>
<font
color="#53b2ff">3.
Nightwind
Records news</font><br>
<font
color="#55b2ff">
4. Franz
Falckenhaus -
Tupolev System</font><br>
<font
color="#57b5ff">
5. Over &
Undertones in
Synthesis</font><br>
<font
color="#60b7ff">
6. A Guide To
Lucid Dreaming</font><br>
<font
color="#62d0ff">
7. Ethiopian
Scales</font><br>
<font
color="#65d0ff">
8. Alexander
Robotnick
interview</font><br>
<font
color="#68d0ff">
9. More ASCII
Art<br>
10.Neural
Oscillation
Bran Wave
Modulation
with Binaural
Beats</font><font
color="#70d0ff"><br>
11.Love &
Saucers</font><br>
<font
color="#72d0ff">
12.Hot Studio
Tips</font><br>
<font
color="#75d0ff">
13.Pearl River
Delta Cradle
Of Music
Things</font><br>
<font
color="#78d0ff">
14.Legowelt
Midwinter Soup
DJ mix</font><br>
<font
color="#83d0ff">
15.Train
Thoughts</font><br>
<font
color="#87d0ff">
16.Fresh
Garlic Space
Chocolate
Focaccia</font><br>
<font
color="#90d0ff">
17.Essential
Trip Music</font><br>
<font
color="#92d0ff">
18.Poetry
Corner</font><br>
<font
color="#95d0ff">
19.Video
Advice</font><br>
<font
color="#97d0ff">
20.New N.Y.C
Synth Repair
Store</font><br>
<font
color="#a2d0ff">
21.Yamaha U99B
Magic Stomp
Review</font><br>
<font
color="#a9d0ff">
22.ARPIE a
cool
pocketknife
MIDI
Arpeggiator</font><br>
<font
color="#a9eeff">23.ASCII
Ski Simulator</font><br>
</font></font><font
color="#52b0ff"> </font><br>
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<font
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WOLF MEETS
IASOS<br>
<br>
It is
1975 - a
mysterious
artist called
IASOS releases
his debut
album<br>
"Inter-Dimensional
Music Through
Iasos" on the
Unity records
label - later<br>
released on
his own label.
It is a record
that would -
along with
Steven <br>
Halpern's
Spectrum Suite
- pioneer the
new age music
genre. Music
so different <br>
- so strangely
majestic and
otherworldly -
that its
influence
would seep
deep <br>
into the
consciousness
of numerous
artists and
music styles.<br>
<br>
In the 1980s
the New Age
music genre
was quickly
exploited by
the record <br>
industry: a
bunch of
dolphin sounds
under a
synthesizer
pad with some
cliche <br>
mystical
concepts were
pushed to an
audience
hungry for any
spiritual <br>
enlightenment
countering
their 1980s
Reaganomics
consumer
lifestyles.<br>
<br>
IASOS however
remained the
real deal, in
an ocean of
endless new
age<br>
drabble, his
music remains
particularly
different -
experimental
and<br>
full of fresh
and wonderful
ideas.<br>
<br>
Whether you
think his
ideas are
metaphysically
peculiar or
not, one <br>
can not deny
the uniqueness
of his music
and the effect
it has on the
mind.<br>
<br>
Music
historian
Douglas
McGowan's
liner notes of
the 2013 <a
href="https://lightintheattic.net/releases/943-i-am-the-center-private-issue-new-age-music-in-america-1950-1990"
target="_blank">I am the Centre</a> <br>
new age
compilation
says it all:<br>
<font
color="#aaddff">"one
of the most
startling
musical debuts
ever...I would
go so far as
to say <br>
that posterity
will gradually
reveal this
former Bay
Area dollar
bin staple<br>
as one of the
20th century's
most
significant
works of
music"</font>
- something<br>
that I can
fully concede
with. <br>
<br>
IASOS was born
in Greece,
immigrated to
the USA and in
the late
1960s, <br>
attended
Cornell
university
before moving
to California
to immerse
himself<br>
in the
psychedelic
counterculture.
At this time
-probably not
entirely <br>
without cause
- he started
to hear
strange music
in his mind -
music that <br>
didn't yet
exist. He
called it
Inter-Dimensional
Music and soon
he figured <br>
out this was
transmitted to
him by a
higher
dimensional
light being <br>
called Vista.
It took him a
few years
before he was
technically
able to <br>
translate
these
transmissions
into an
earthly
cohorent music
'format'.<br>
<br>
It is
September
2015. I am in
Marin County
California,
north across
the bay<br>
of San
Francisco - it
is a beautiful
- almost
Arcadian
place, a
region with <br>
extreme bio
diversity: Oak
woodlands,
redwood
forests, green
pastures all<br>
immersed in
the scent of a
pacific ocean.
The land of
IASOS -
surroundings <br>
that fit his
music
perfectly.<br>
<br>
In the
distance a car
parks and a
figure steps
out. It is
IASOS, still<br>
almost the
same like in
the 1970s
footage I saw
of him on
youtube.<br>
<br>
We order some
food at a
Greek deli and
sit down for a
long
conversation -
<br>
one that will
span many
subjects -
from heavenly
reverb to the
danger of <br>
distortion
ripping holes
in your
consciousness
to being a
musical time<br>
architect and
many many
other topics.<br>
<br>
This is an
edited
transcription
of that
interview. It
was presumed
lost <br>
for a few
years but was
fortunately
unearthed
recently.<br>
<br>
<br>
~'.'.'</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">
SW: What would
be the best
way to listen
to your music?</font><br>
<br>
I: The closer
you hear it
the way I’m
hearing what I
created, the
more you get <br>
my intended
experience.
And the
closest way to
hear the way
I’m hearing
it, is <br>
by listening
with AKG-K240
headphones and
with your eyes
closed.<br>
They have a
very flat
response.
Meaning they
don’t
emphasize some
frequencies <br>
more than
others. Many
sound systems
have an
unbalanced EQ
response. That
means<br>
they boost the
very highs and
they boost the
very lows but
not the
middle. <br>
But hmmm, I
like the
AKG-G240
headphones
because
they’re a
balanced
response <br>
throughout the
spectrum. So
if you do it
that way,
listen to
that, and with
your <br>
eyes closed,
you will hear
it the way I
really
intended it to
be heard. <br>
Because that’s
how I’m
hearing it
when I created
it. So all the
EQ adjustments
<br>
are exactly
for those
headphones.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Should the
listener be in
a special
place?</font><br>
<br>
I: Well, it
depends on the
music. For
example, for
Bora bora
2000, it’s
tropical <br>
dance music
so, put it on
and dance, you
know. Don’t
wear
headphones
just put on <br>
loud speakers
and dance. But
for other
stuff like
meditative
stuff like
Angelic <br>
Music or
Timeless
Sound, you can
have it on any
reasonably
balanced
headphones,<br>
speakers, or
headphones.
You might want
to lie down or
sit in a
meditation <br>
position and
just, space
out. It’s very
unique,
depending on
the piece.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
This maybe a
strange
question. </font><br>
<br>
I: Good, I
love strange
questions. Go
for it.<br>
</font><font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: I always
like to have
the outside
sounds leaking
into the
studio
ambience.<br>
Like the rain,
storm sounds,
my garden the
birds, they
seem to create
some <br>
merging layer
that makes
everything
more at place
and less
sterile. <br>
Like a green
noise that
glues
everything
together. I
think it helps
in a strange<br>
way even if
it’s not in
the recording
itself. Do you
have anything
similar?</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
No...I have my
headphones on
and when I use
microphones.
You know, for
example <br>
if I’m
recording a
flute. A tiny
mic is right
next to the
mouthpiece so
there’s <br>
not going to
be any outside
sounds anyway.
And I try not
to have leaks
of outside<br>
sounds. If I
want outside
nature sounds
I will
intentionally
put them in. <br>
For example on
my new album,
I have a piece
called Warm
Tropical Rain.
Yeah.<br>
And I record a
lot of rain.
And I record a
lot of people
splashing
their feet <br>
in the rain.
And I did that
intentionally.
So when I want
nature sounds
in there,<br>
I’ll put them
in. But if I
don’t want
them in, then
I don’t want
any leakage. <br>
BUT...Both
approaches;
your approach
and my
approach, are
perfectly
valid <br>
approaches.
Both of them
are perfectly
fine ways of
working.<br>
</font><font
color="#9999ff"><font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
<br>
SW: I want to
talk about
VISTA, your
higher
dimensional
being that
transmits<br>
information to
you. How do
you receive a
new piece of
music in your
mind from <br>
vista. Do you
open up for it
in a special
way or can it
come at any
moment of <br>
the day? Does
it happen
automatically?
Is it always
there?</font><br>
<br>
I: It usually
happens in the
evening when
I’m focusing
on music. And
it doesn’t <br>
happen very
often. Usually
the way it
happens is:
I’ll get an
idea to
compose <br>
something.
I’ll start
working on it,
before long I
have a vision
of the whole <br>
piece in my
mind. And they
honour my free
will. Vista
honors my free
will, so <br>
he never
forces me to
do anything.
But he tries
to seduce me
to do it. He
tries <br>
to get me to
fall in love
with a piece
of music so
much that I
say, “Ok, I
commit<br>
to manifesting
this piece of
music, I
commit to
making it a
reality.” And
then<br>
if I commit to
it, it will
happen no
matter what
happens in my
life. <br>
I will create
it.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
So, a large
part of it is
yourself that
makes the
music?</font><br>
<br>
I: Yes. Well,
two things,
first of all.
They’ll sneak
in the mental
image of the <br>
overall piece,
that’s the
main thing.
Which is the
music
technical
ideas on how
to <br>
create it, how
it will effect
people. And
then when I’m
working on it,
he keeps <br>
giving me
ideas on it.
Like try this,
try that, put
it through
reverb, play
it <br>
backwards, you
know, get the
sound. I get a
lot of ideas
while I’m
working on it.
<br>
<br>
But to a great
extent, I was
trained by
Vista very
very clearly
before I was <br>
born. So for a
big extent we
are on the
same page. We
have similar
understandings,
<br>
similar
preferences.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Ok. Because
he’s an angel?
Or what, is he
or she?</font><br>
<br>
I: No, in my
understanding
there are
three
kingdoms.
There’s a
human kingdom,
<br>
when you
evolve from
being human
you will
eventually
become an
ascended
master. <br>
There’s the
angelic
kingdom, when
an angel
evolves, it
gradually
becomes an <br>
archangel. And
an archangel
eventually
becomes a Maha
archangel. And
there’s the
elemental
nature
kingdom. Like
fairies,
elves,
dwarves, when
they evolve
they might
become a Deva
of a mountain.
And eventually
they may
become a deva
of the <br>
whole planet.
<br>
<br>
And eventually
they may
become a high
level Elohim.
And vista is
the Elohim<br>
of the Fifth
Ray. Which is
a very high
position, even
higher than
the
Archangels, <br>
although it’s
in a different
level of the
evolutionary
scheme. But
they separate
<br>
it out like a
prism. The
spiritual
energies that
the sun
radiates, and
then they <br>
give it to the
archangels,
who then
distribute it
to the angels
that then work
<br>
with them. So,
he’s from the
elemental
nature
kingdom. But
it’s sort of
like an<br>
archangel but
a little bit
higher. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Ok. I’m gonna
ask a few more
questions
about this if
you don’t
mind.</font><br>
<br>
I: I don’t
mind! Just ask
everything.
Don’t be shy,
go for it.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Are there any
parts of the
information
that vista
transmits that
cannot be <br>
translated to
music you can
hear? Like do
you get
information
about
frequencies, <br>
melodies for
sounds that
cannot be
heard or even
comprehended
by humans. Or
that <br>
don’t even
exist in our
dimension. If
so, could you
even describe
it vaguely or,
<br>
is it
impossible?</font><br>
<br>
I: Most of
what he
transmits is
music that can
be recorded.
Otherwise
what’s the <br>
point of
transmitting
it? You know
we made an
agreement to
work together.
We made <br>
an agreement
before I was
born. ‘Iasos
you’re part of
the game, you
will incarnate
<br>
on earth. You
will become
proficient
with music and
then I’ll
transmit music
ideas <br>
to you, and
then youre
task is to
make it
manifest it,
get it out,
publicly, so <br>
it can benefit
people, so it
can help them
raise their
vibrations, as
our whole<br>
planet is
raising its
vibrations.’<br>
<br>
So there’ll be
no point in
him sending me
music that
can’t be
manifested.
However,
there’s
certain
things, that
are hard for
some people to
catch. Let me
give you an
example. If a
person is sad
and depressed
almost all the
time, and you
play music <br>
that’s happy,
he won’t
resonate with
it, because
happiness is
not in his
emotional<br>
body. It's
outside his
emotional
range.
Likewise, if
you have a
person that’s
<br>
feeling very
brave, and is
never afraid;
if you play
music with
fear in it, he<br>
won’t resonate
with it
because it’s
outside his
emotional
range. He
doesn’t feel <br>
fear. See?<br>
<br>
So, I created
a piece
recently that
emotionally
speaking, is
so in high
vibrations <br>
that I do not
expect most
people to be
able to really
sense it. For
them it would
<br>
just be
strange
sounds. It’s
on my new
album, Essence
of Lumuria,
and the piece
is called, <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/infinite-mercy-compassion"
target="_blank">
Infinite Mercy
and Compassion</a>.
And it’s
emotionally at
such a
rarefied high
frequency that
I don’t expect
most people to
really feel
those
emotions.
There will<br>
be a few here
and there that
do, maybe two
percent, but
most of them,
it will just<br>
be, you know,
strange
sounds.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
How did you
make that
then? What is
exactly the
part of it
that is so
high? How<br>
does it
translate into
the sound?
</font><br>
<br>
I: Well, most
of the sounds
are created
with violin
sounds, and
later in the
piece <br>
female voice
sounds. But
what makes it
special is
what I call
paradox
harmonics.<br>
Which is; each
octave can
have a
different
chords, but
all those
chords fit the
<br>
same scale.
And since each
chord produces
a particular
emotion,
different
chords <br>
at different
octaves
produce
different
emotions
simultaneously.
All of which
fit <br>
together
nicely.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
So like an
emotional
chord, or
something?</font><br>
<br>
I: Exactly.
Exactly. And
that’s unusual
for earth
music. In
fact, I
haven’t heard
<br>
much of it. I
played with
this idea a
little bit
when I did
'The Angels of
Comfort'. <br>
But this
piece,
Infinite Mercy
and Compassion
is a much
further
developed
version <br>
of that same
idea. Yeah
like an
emotional
chord if you
play them
simultaneously.<br>
But they all
blend nicely.
<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Ok, and how do
they blend
nicely? Do you
research that
- is it some
science?</font><br>
<br>
I: No it’s
all intuition
I don’t use
science. I’m
not gonna wait
for science to
<br>
catch up to
what I’m
doing. Maybe
in another 50
years. See,
science can’t
even <br>
measure
emotions. They
can measure
body responses
to emotions,
but they’re
not <br>
directly
measuring
emotions. I’m
talking about
emotions, I’m
saying things
about<br>
emotions and
they go, “How
do you know?
Prove it!” And
I can’t prove
it, because<br>
science cannot
yet measure
emotions, they
can only
measure your
body
responses. <br>
Like the
galvanic skin
response or
electric
brainwaves.
But they’re
not really <br>
measuring
emotions. And
emotions
vibrate on
frequencies.
Negative
emotions
vibrate<br>
on lower
frequencies,
positive
emotions
vibrate on
higher
frequencies.
The border<br>
between them
is in the
range of
melancholy. <br>
<br>
Melancholy
is just
a little bit
lower than
that middle
range. And
from
melancholy <br>
you keep
getting lower
and lower
frequencies
all the way
down to zero.
And zero<br>
is being
frozen in
fear. When you
are frozen in
fear your
emotional body
actually <br>
stops
vibrating.
It’s got zero
vibrations,
see. Now
that’s a
limited range
because <br>
it goes from
zero to only a
finite range,
but positive
emotions go up
up up many <br>
many octaves.
Just like on a
piano keyboard
you can have
a-flat, an
octave higher,
a-flat, an
octave higher,
a-flat, octave
meaning twice
the frequency.
The same <br>
thing with the
emotions. You
can have
octaves of
emotions for
example, you
can have <br>
the emotion
of, “I’m
glad,” emotion
an octave
higher, “I’m
happy,” an
octave higher,
<br>
“Joy,” an
octave higher,
“ecstacy” an
octave higher,
“rapture,” and
it keeps going
<br>
without any
upward limit.
So positive
emotions have
an unlimited
range whereas
<br>
negative
emotions have
a limited
range. <br>
<br>
Now, the
intensity is
different than
frequency. You
can have a
high intensity<br>
negative
emotion like
anger, or you
can have a low
intensity
negative
emotion of <br>
like, “I’m a
little sad,”
you know. And
so intensity
is a separate
issue,
likewise <br>
with positive
emotions. You
can have a low
intensity
positive
emotion like,
“I’m <br>
feeling good,”
But you can
have an
intense
version of it,
high
intensity,
high<br>
amplitude,
like, “I’m
feeling
extatic!”. <br>
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<br>
SW: Your music
is always
quite
ecstatic,
right?</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah, it’s
my specialty.<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: But in
your structure
of your music
did you ever
think about
first making a
<br>
part
melancholic
and after that
more ecstatic?</font><br>
<br>
I: I would
never, in my
life, even if
you pay me ten
million
dollars, I
would <br>
never ever
ever create
any music that
has negative
emotions.
Because that
exactly <br>
contradicts
the whole
reason why I’m
here on earth.
<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
But wouldn’t
that make it
stronger if
you use it as
some kind of
contrast?</font><br>
<br>
I: No, you can
have plenty of
contrast
without having
to go
negative. As a
matter <br>
of fact my
music does
have that.
Example in my
Realms of
light you can
listen to<br>
<a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/rapture-of-the-heart"
target="_blank">Rapture of the Heart</a>, or on my new album you can
listen to, <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/smooth-sailing-over-enchanted-lands-2"
target="_blank">Smooth Sailing Over <br>
Enchanted
Lands</a>. It
has three
orgasms in it,
it has three
emotional
peaks. It gets<br>
really
intense, it
has quiet
parts, as a
matter of fact
it get very
very quiet, <br>
then it gets
really intense
but it’s all
positive. It’s
all positive
emotions. You
<br>
don’t need to
go negative to
have a
contrast
between high
intensity and
low <br>
intensity. So
those are
examples of
two pieces
that have wild
contrast.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
I’m gonna ask
you a question
about your
first album,
1975
Interdimensional
<br>
Music Through
Iasos <br>
</font><br>
I: Hahaha yeah
1975<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
With the music
technology
that was
available to
you it must
have been...<br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Let me tell
you what I had
then. I had a
stereo tape
recorder, a
Sony 7,5 inch<br>
quarter-inch
tape stereo.
You could
record two
channels, flip
it over.
Record <br>
another two
channels. And
I had another
one that was
like that with
only four<br>
channels, so I
could be
recording all
four channels.
Fill those
channels, mix
it <br>
into stereo in
the other
machine, then
put that back
on here, so
two channels
are<br>
full and the
other two
channcels are
empty...and
then I’d
record two
more, mix
that, <br>
and that would
be the piece.
So basically,
you get the
result of six
channels. <br>
That’s how I
did it. <br>
<br>
And a lot of
it was
electronic
processing of
acoustic
instruments.
And the <br>
electronic
processing of
acoustic
instruments is
very simple,
like spring
reverb,<br>
or univibe to
give it
vibrato or
phaseshifter...very
simple stuff.</font><br>
<br>
SW: Did you
have a
synthesizer
that you used?
For that
album?<br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Not really, I
had an organ
that I used in
a few places.</font><br>
<br>
SW: Oh,
because some
if it sounds
really like a
synthesizer <br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Yeah, not
really a
synthesizer.</font><br>
<br>
SW: Just
effect boxes?<br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Yeah for
example, I
borrowed a
vibraphone
from a friend
of mine, and
I’d <br>
record things
on it and I’d
play the tape
back at double
speed and
you’d get<br>
these
wonderful
tinkly bells.
THen I put an
<a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoplex"
target="_blank">Echoplex</a> through it, so wonderful <br>
tinkly bells
with a very
high fast
echo. I’d
record piano
runs and put
the tapes
backwards so
you’d get
twiiuuup
twiuuuup
twiuuuuup...<br>
<br>
</font> SW:
And as the
music
technology
advanced I
guess it
became easier
to translate
the
information
you got from
Vista?<br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Yeah that’s
exactly
correct.</font><br>
<br>
SW: Could you
give us some
examples of
things you
couldn’t
translate at
first but <br>
now its
possible?<br>
<br>
<font
color="#9999ff">I:
Sure I’ll give
you two
examples. On
my 2015 album,
"Essence of
Lemuria", you
can <br>
listen to the
second piece,
Smooth Sailing
Over Enchanted
Lands, which
sounds like<br>
a symphony
orchestra and
you can listen
to the fourth
piece, <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/buddhic-spherical-consciousness-2"
target="_blank">Buddhic Spherical Consciousness</a>, which sounds like a
cosmic
universal
space. I
couldn’t do
those <br>
before.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Ok and that’s
because you
can use
computers and
VST's?</font><br>
<br>
I: VSTs
primarily,
yeah.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
In the 1980s
you started
using
synthesizers?
Or late 1970s?</font><br>
<br>
I: I don’t
keep track of
time, for when
I started. But
I can tell you
that when
synthesizers
started coming
out I didn’t
like them at
all. To be
honest, they <br>
sounded very
very cold, I
didn’t like
them at all. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Sterile.</font><br>
<br>
I: Yes,
sterile. I
didn’t like
them. Finally,
one came out:
it was the <a
href="http://synthmuseum.com/rmi/rmikc101.html"> RMI-Keyboard computer</a>,
it was made by
an organ
company, but,
you could
change the
waveshape, <br>
by sticking
these computer
cards, you
know these old
computer cards
that have <br>
holes punched
into them?<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Yes, punch
cards</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah, and
each card has
32 numbers on
it, and those
32 numbers
define the
first<br>
1/4th of a
waveshape, and
then by
playing it
backwards
you’d get the
second 1/4th,<br>
then the
negative gives
you the third
1/4th, then
the negative
backwards
gives you<br>
the fourth
1/4th. So
you'd create a
waveshape with
those numbers.<br>
<br>
So I could get
different
sounds just by
slipping in
different
cards, and I
could <br>
have
combinations
of four sounds
that way. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
And what album
did you start
using that for
the first?</font><br>
<br>
I: Elixir
(listen <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/album/elixir"
target="_blank">here</a>).<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
And you never
used MOOGS or,
you used an
ARP right?
</font><br>
<br>
I: I used, and
I still have,
an <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_Pro/DGX"
target="_blank">ARP PRO DGX</a>, I like it very much. It’s monophonic, <br>
only one note,
but it’s great
for melody
work.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
It has really
nice
Aftertouch and
stuff right?</font><br>
<br>
I: it has the
best
aftertouch of
anything.
Because
Aftertouch and
Breath are
very intuitive
ways to
emotionally
control music,
because if a
person is
feeling more
intensely
emotional,
it’s natural
to press
harder. And if
a person is
feeling <br>
more intense
emotions its
natural to
blow harder.
So both Breath
controllers
and Aftertouch
are
wonderfully
intuitive way
to modulate
the
emotionality,
the <br>
emotional
intensity of
whatever
you’re
creating as a
melody.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Do you also
use other
controllers
like, for
example hand
controllers?</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah, I
have a harp
controller.
it’s a metal
box that has
two plastic
strips <br>
and each strip
has many
buttons
underneath it,
and each
button
corresponds to
a <br>
different note
on the scale
and you can
program what
scale and what
key. Like <br>
drrring, I get
the note and
scale,
drrring, I get
a different
scale. And so
just<br>
by strumming
it with your
fingers it’s
like strumming
a harp.
Although it
doesn’t <br>
have to sound
like a harp.
It can sound
like anything.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Did you make
that yourself?</font><br>
<br>
I: No I
worked with a
company that
produced it. I
was their
musical test
pilot, <br>
gave them
ideas on how
to improve it.
But then they
decided to not
actually
market<br>
it because
they figured
it wouldn’t
make any
money, which I
think is a
crazy idea, <br>
but I got to
have one.
Hahahaha. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
What’s it
called the
machine or it
never got a
name?</font><br>
<br>
I: Harp
controller as
far as I know.
I personally
call it the
golden harp.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Your music is
mostly high
frequency...they
always sound
very soft and
round.<br>
You never use
a lot of harsh
distorted low
frequencies.</font><br>
<br>
I: I would
never. I try
to create
beautiful
sounds – when
you go to
heaven <br>
listening to
music, there
won’t be any
distortion
there. So if
you’re a lover
of <br>
fuzz guitar,
you’ll be very
disappointed
when you go to
heaven because
there’s no
distortion
there, at all!
So right now
distortion is
very
fashionable in
earth <br>
music, but
it’s gonna be
totally absent
when you go to
heaven
because,
believe me,<br>
it’s not
there. There’s
no distortion.
Just harmony.
Just just just
only just <br>
harmony. And
extreme
harmony.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
And why is
that? That
distortion...?</font><br>
<br>
I: It rips
holes in your
emotional
body, in your
etheric body,
it’s very
harmful. <br>
You can kill
plants with
it.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Hmm. </font><br>
<br>
I: Just put on
distortion
guitar in
front of a
plant and play
it for a few <br>
days,the plant
will shrivel
up and die.
It’s bad for
you. It
creates holes
in <br>
your aura. Now
the reason
guitarists
like it is
because it
creates
passion. <br>
But you can
still create
passion, in
fact, if you
start with
distortion
guitar<br>
and you filter
out the high
frequencies,
which amounts
to smoothing
out the <br>
corners and
the sharp
edges. If you
look at a wave
distortion
it’s got sharp
<br>
corners,
because they
clip it.<br>
<br>
Those sharp
corners, like
a chainsaw, it
cuts holes in
your emotional
body. <br>
But if you
filter out the
high
frequencies,
it’s like
rounding the
corners. <br>
If you look at
it through an
oscilloscope,
it like,
rounds the
corner , and
so<br>
it makes it a
smoother
sound. That
way you can
still get the
passionate
effects <br>
which is what
fuzz is good
for, without
having the
effect of
really ripping<br>
holes in your
etheric body
and your
emotional
body. And so
sometimes, in
rare <br>
cases, I might
start off with
some
distortion but
then I will
significantly
<br>
filter out the
high
frequencies to
round out the
corners, so
it’s not
harmful.<br>
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<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Are there any
particular
angelic
scales,
chord-harmonies
that are
typically,<br>
like angelic,
or come from
the world of
Vista? Like
certain
scales?</font><br>
<br>
I: No, they
can use many
different
scales. The
interesting
thing is, each
scale<br>
is a
relationship
of
frequency-ratios,
and it doesn’t
matter what
the actual <br>
frequencies
are. You can
change the
key, but the
relationship
of frequencies
<br>
remains the
same, even
though the
actual
frequencies
are different.
If you go <br>
from C-Sharp
to F-Major you
know, etc. But
each scale,
which is a
relationship <br>
of
frequency-ratios,
produces a
unique
emotional
effect. So, a
classical
composer <br>
that is a
master of
harmony, has a
palette of
emotions at
his disposal.
And if he <br>
wants one
particular
emotion, he
can use a
scale that
will generate
that emotion,
<br>
and if he
wants a
different
emotion he can
use a scale
that generates
that emotion.
<br>
And it doesn’t
matter what
the key is
because no
matter what
key you’re in,
that <br>
scale will
generate that
emotion. <br>
<br>
Now, the
angelic
beings- they
use many
different
scales but
there are
certain <br>
scales that
they tend to
not use
because they
have a
depressing
effect. The
most
significant
one they won’t
use is the
Blues scale,
because it has
an extremely <br>
depressing
effect. After
all it <u>is</u>
called the
Blues scale.
What does that
<br>
mean? It means
you get sad.
So it really
does have a
depressing
effect so,
they<br>
wouldn’t use
something like
that. But they
use many
different
scales though.
<br>
<br>
The important
thing is
harmony. The
key word is
harmony. And
the key thing
is, <br>
listen to your
heart. See how
it makes you
feel, if it
makes you feel
good; use it.
<br>
If it doesn’t
make you feel
good, don’t
use it.
Simple.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
I wanna talk
about the
sounds
themselves a
little bit.
The ones you
synthesize<br>
and program.
How do they
evoke certain
emotions, like
certain sounds
do you have<br>
tricks for
that? </font><br>
<br>
I: Well the
main trick is
that I have a
library, as a
WORD document.
And<br>
typically a
musician
creating music
will be
hearing a
sound in his
mind and will
<br>
be looking for
a sound right
here that is
close to the
sound in his
mind. And if <br>
you waste a
lot f time
trying to find
that sound,
you forget the
music you were
<br>
initially
trying to
create.<br>
<br>
The idea is to
find that
sound quickly
and
efficiently.<br>
<br>
So, I
developed a
system to find
it quickly and
efficiently,
which is that
I have <br>
a sound
library as a
Word document.
You know a
word
processor. And
just like on a
<br>
webpage you
can have links
that can go to
another part
of the same
page. Likewise
<br>
in Word you
can have links
within that
page, so at
the top I
might have.
“Strings<br>
brass,
woodwinds"
etc. But if I
click on
"Brass", it
will go to
sub-categories.<br>
It might go to
trumpet,
French horn,
flugel horn,
trombone, etc.
<br>
<br>
And then if I
go further, I
click on
French horn,
there’ll be
further
subdivisions,
single French
horn, or
"French Horn
ensemble" If I
go to single
"French Horn",
then<br>
I’ll have all
the sounds
from all my
synthesizers.
All my
software,
VSTs, all my <br>
hardware
synthesizers,
they’ll be all
in the sound
that I like,
and it will
tell me <br>
the address of
where to find
it. It will
say, go to
this
synthesizer,
go <br>
to this bank,
it’s program
number 23,
stuff like
that. And it
also has a
description,<br>
how it
compares to
all the other
French horn
sounds, and I
also give it a
number <br>
from 0-100,
scaling how
likely I am to
be using that
particular
sound. And so
the<br>
first thing on
the list is
the highest
number. <br>
<br>
I have all
these numbers
at the top of
the list. So
if I see a
French horn
sound<br>
I might see
one at 98,
which means
I’m very
likely to want
to use that
one, I might <br>
have another
one from
another
synthesizer
which is 95, I
still might
want to use it<br>
so. I check
them out, that
way I can
quickly find
the sound I’m
after. <br>
<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Ok, what I
wanted to know
is how do you
evoke certain
emotions, with
the sound. <br>
Like with the
use of
vibrato,
tremolo or
filters, or do
you have any
systems for <br>
that or?<br>
</font><br>
I: Well
intuition is
the only thing
I can answer
to that. I let
my intuition
guide <br>
me. Of course
when a person
is feeling
something and
then the
feeling gets
more<br>
intense.
There’s
certain sound
equivalents to
the feeling
getting more
intense. <br>
<br>
One, the sound
gets louder.
The other is
there’s more
high frequency
content in the
sound. And the
third one is
the vibrato
becomes more
predominant.
So those <br>
correspond to
feeling
something and
then the
feeling gets
more intense.
Louder, <br>
brighter and
more vibrato.<br>
<br>
But in
general, I
just let my
intuition
guide me.
There’s no set
answer for
that.<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: I wanna
talk about
echo and
reverb
effects. For
me echo and
delay effects
are<br>
very
important,
because it
does something
strange with
time I think.</font><br>
<br>
I: What’s
strange is
using
pre-reverb.
Where the
reverb
precedes the
sound.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
How do you
think this
echo or reverb
effect changes
the sound. Is
it some kind <br>
of uhmmm,
something in a
space-time
dimensional or
in a higher
dimensional
context? </font><br>
<br>
I: Both. First
of all, what’s
the difference
between reverb
and echo? <br>
Reverb is
having so many
echoes that
are so closely
spaced that
it’s one
continuous
sound. So
reverb is
really many
closely spaced
echoes. So
they’re really
the same<br>
thing but the
spacing is
primarily the
real
difference. In
heaven,
there’s a lot
of reverb,
because
there’s a lot
of space. <br>
<br>
When you add
echo or
reverb, it
subjectively
creates the
sense of a
bigger space.
<br>
As a matter of
fact, many
people when
they’re
mixing, they
can control
how close<br>
or far a sound
is by how much
reverb or echo
they add. They
want the sound
close:<br>
they don’t add
any reverb or
echo. If they
want the sound
far away, they
make the<br>
volume less
but add a lot
of reverb to
it. So it’s
like a front
back control
to <br>
how much
reverb you
have. <br>
<br>
It’s a
wonderful way
to create
spaces in
different
spaces and the
wonderful
thing<br>
is now with
convolution
reverb: it
enters a
magical world
and for those
who don’t
understand
convolution
reverb, here’s
how it works:
Let’s say I
want to create
the <br>
s sound of me
talking in a
cave. Let’s
say I go to
the cave and I
blow up a <br>
balloon and I
have a
portable
recorder and I
record the
sound of
popping that <br>
balloon. Pop!
So the
recorder
records the
sound of the
balloon
popping, which
is basically
all
frequencies
but very
briefly. The
recorder
records the
echoing <br>
through that
cave. Now I
can bring that
sound back
into my studio
and I can <br>
record me
talking, dry.
<br>
<br>
No echo - no
reverb just me
talking. And
then
convolution is
magic. What <br>
convolution
does is it
multiplies one
sound with
another. if I
multiply the
sound<br>
of my voice
talking, with
the sound of
my balloon
popping in a
cave.,<br>
with
convolution
reverb, the
result is: it
sounds like
I’m talking in
a cave. <br>
<br>
If I hit a
timbale drum,
BOOM, and I
record that
sound and I
convolute the
sound <br>
of me talking
with hitting
the timbale
drum, it
sounds like
I’m talking
inside a<br>
timbale drum.
If I record
the sound of a
balloon pop or
a pistol shot
inside the<br>
Taj Mahal,
then later on
I convolute
that into the
sound of me
talking or any
<br>
sound really,
then it sounds
like me
talking in the
Taj Mahal. So
convolution <br>
now is
wonderful and
totally magic
because it
allows you to
superimpose
the <br>
ambiance of
any space onto
any dry
recorder
sound. It's
really really
magic, really<br>
potent, but
people use it
just for
reverb. You
don’t have to
just use it
for reverb.<br>
You can use it
for all kinds
of wild
effects. For
example, I
made a sound
of just <br>
white noise
and then I
made that ramp
up in volume.
So it goes
from quiet and
then <br>
it ramps up in
volume.
If I convolute
that with an
other sound,
it’s like
hearing<br>
that sound
with
pre-reverb.
You can get
all kinds of
incredible
wild effects.
<br>
Outrageous
playground.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Is there any
kind of higher
dimensional
context?</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah the
higher
dimensional
context is;
there’s a lot
of heaven,
there’s a <br>
lot of reverb
in heaven.
There’s a lot
of reverb in
the music of
the higher <br>
dimensions. So
here on earth
if you play
music with a
lot of reverb,
it tends to<br>
remind people
of heavenly
realms. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
And where do
you see delay
then? Do they
also have
delay in
heaven or is
it <br>
mostly reverb?
</font><br>
<br>
I: Mostly
reverb. When
Paul Horn
released
Inside the Taj
Mahal, for the
first time<br>
many people
were hearing
music that was
like heaven
music. Because
it had a lot
of <br>
reverb. Before
you didn’t
have a lot of
music with
such a long
reverb. It’s
the<br>
reverb of the
Taj Mahal, an
eight second
reverb, and
for many
people it
triggered
something deep
inside them
cause it’s
like a
subconscious
reminder of
music from <br>
the heavenly
realms..<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
I’m going to
continue about
the echo and
the time, more
about the time
<br>
itself in
tracks...</font>
<br>
<br>
I: When I did
<a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-white-fire-light"
target="_blank">Crystal*White*Fire*Light</a>, one of the pieces on my
Elixir album,
<br>
there were a
lot of time
manipulations
in there. But
especially
pre-echo and <br>
pre-reverb.
Which tends to
stimulate a
persons’
precognitive
abilities. A
persons’
ability to
sense the
future before
it happens.
Yeah you can
stimulate that
by <br>
letting people
listen to
pre-echo and
pre-delay.<br>
<br>
And the way
you do that in
the old days
was with a
tape. You put
the tape<br>
backwards on
the tape
recorder.
While you
record you put
the reverb on
another <br>
channel, on
another track,
and once
you’ve
recorded the
reverb, you
make it<br>
forward again;
return the
tape to it’s
original
direction, so
now the echo
or<br>
reverb
precedes the
sound
rather than
follow it.
Nowadays, it's
of course much
<br>
easier.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
That’s very
interesting, I
never thought
of it.</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah and
when you do
that, it tends
to stimulate
precognition
in the
listener. <br>
And
"Crystal*White*Fire*Light"
had a lot of
that in it. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Do you see
time as
linear? Or
something that
just happens
all the time?
Do you<br>
see it more as
a metaphysical
thing?
</font><br>
<br>
I: I can talk
a lot about
time. First of
all, as a
musician I
consider
myself a <br>
time
architect.
Someone that
creates forms
in time.
According to
many of the <br>
advanced
scientists,
time is a
spiral
spiraling
within a
donut,
continuously <br>
in a loop,
it’s spiraling
within a loop.
But the most
profound thing
is: Time is an
illusion which
each persons’
consciousness
creates. The
truth is
there’s only
the <br>
eternal now,
all things
that have
happened in
the past are
happening now,
there’s <br>
only now. But,
our
consciousness
creates the
sensation of
the flow of
time because<br>
we experience
it one moment
at a time. <br>
<br>
I can give you
an analogy of
this. In a
movie theatre
there’s a
projector that
has <br>
a big roll of
movie film. If
you put it in
the film
projector, the
projector
shows <br>
it one frame
at a time, in
rapid
sequence, so
you get the
sensation of a
smooth <br>
flow of time.
But if the
projectionist
takes that
reel out of
the projector,
puts <br>
it on the
floor and
opens it up,
you can see
all the frames
at the same
time. <br>
That’s more
like reality,
seeing all
frames at the
same time.
There’s only
now. But <br>
your
consciousness
is like the
film
projector,
only one frame
at a time.
Billions of
frames every
second so you
get the
sensation of a
smooth flow of
time, which is
an illusion
that each
persons’
consciousness
is creating.
And the irony
for me is,
well,<br>
if I’m a time
architect and
time is an
illusion, then
all I am doing
is creating an
illusion
hahaha. Makes
me feel funny
about my
career.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Would it be
possible to
give an
example of
that with
sound, in
music? If you
<br>
would do that
with music, it
would sound
very chaotic,
of course, it
would be white
noise,
basically? </font><br>
<br>
I: No no no,
you can’t do
it that way
because you’re
experiencing
music through
<br>
your
consciousness
and your
consciousness
is flowing
through linear
time. And you
<br>
can only
experience
linear time
while you are
functioning in
your
consciousness.
<br>
<br>
Now, there are
people,
sometimes with
psychedelic
drugs
sometimes with
high states<br>
of meditation,
who achieve a
state of
sensing, ‘it’s
all happening
now.’ Many
years<br>
ago I had a
lady friend
here in
Sausalito, she
kept saying to
me, ‘it’s all
<br>
happening
now!” and I
had no idea
what she was
talking about,
it just seemed
like <br>
crazy talk to
me. <br>
<br>
Now, I
understand
what she was
referring to
then. Because
there really
is only now, <br>
so what this
means is. Have
you heard of
past life
readings? You
go to a
psychic <br>
and they tell
you what you
were doing in
a past life.
Well, you can
have a past
life reading,
you can just
as easily have
a future life
reading. <br>
Because its
all happening
right now. All
your lifetimes
are happening
right now. <br>
Well, what
does that have
to do with
free will,
then I don’t
have any free
will. <br>
Yes, you do
because you
pick how your
going to steer
that because
it can go
infinite
different
ways. So,
while you’re
in your normal
consciousness,
you can only <br>
experience
linear time,
because that’s
one of the
definitions of
having an
earth
consciousness
is;
experiencing
linear time.
And when we
reincarnate we
agree to
experience it
that way.
You’re higher
self, you are
a projection
from your
higher <br>
self. I’m a
projection
from my higher
self. Your
higher self is
outside time,
and<br>
it projects
many parts of
itself as
incarnations
in many
places. One
might be <br>
3000bc,
another might
be 1967,
another might
be 2015,
anther might
be 4312, <br>
and from the
point of view
of the higher
self all those
incarnations
are happening<br>
at the same
time, getting
information
through all of
them
simultaneously.
But for <br>
each one of
us, we're in a
time-space
matrix. When
you’re in a
time-space
matrix <br>
there’s past
present and
future and
there’s space.
When you’re
outside of it
its <br>
all happening
in the here
and now.<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: As a
musical time
architect, is
there some
kind of
control you
can do with
the<br>
music?</font><br>
<br>
I:
Absolutely
not. I’m a
linear
consciousness.
I can only do
the linear
rate of <br>
time flow. I
can speed it
up, you can
play a tape
double speed,
you know, I
can<br>
ramp things up
faster or
slower but its
still linear
time; past
present
future. <br>
It’s vector,
it can only go
in one
direction, I
can't really
play with that
too <br>
much.<br>
<br>
I can do funny
tricks like
pre-reverb and
pre-echo.
Jimmy Hendrix
playing guitar
backwards, it
had great
emotional
effects that
most music on
earth didn’t
have. <br>
Because with
normal earth
music you
either get a
sound that
builds up,
sustains <br>
and then goes
down like
playing a
violin. Or you
get a sudden
beginning and
a <br>
gradual fade
like plugging
a guitar
string. You
don’t get
sounds that
build up <br>
and suddenly
stop.<br>
<br>
That’s what
you get when
you play
guitar
backwards. So
certain sounds
are pretty<br>
rare. And when
I do my harp
controller,
one of the
sounds I use
is the sound
for <br>
every note
builds up
gradually,
then suddenly
stops, well,
fairly
suddenly
stops.<br>
And when you
do a whole
stream of
these, like
strumming a
harp, you get
<br>
all these
overlaps,
beginnings of
notes, which
has a very
unique
emotional
effect.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Sort of like
an arpeggio, a
polyphonic
arpeggio
effect? </font><br>
<br>
I: No nothing
like that.
It’s many
sounds where
each goes like
*whhaaAAA, you
know,<br>
very
gradually. But
they overlap
because you’re
strumming the
sequence. And
so <br>
as one is
building up,
the next one
is building
up, whilst the
first one was
still building
up. So when
you’re playing
them
simultaneously,
all at the
same time
while
strumming
them, that has
a very unique
emotional
effect that
very little
earth
instruments
have, none
that I’ve
heard, have
that emotional
effect. Very
rare. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: Ok, almost
the last
question, on
the paper. I
read somewhere
that you’ve
been visiting
alien worlds
and hearing
their music in
your sleep?</font><br>
<br>
I: (LAUGHS
LOUD) You talk
about
‘Nighttime ..
sounds on
planet
allura?” is
that <br>
what you’re
referring to?
Yeah. At the
bottom left
corner it
says, one.
“All this<br>
is purely
imaginary, and
two, your
imagination is
real.”
However, this
is what <br>
I do do. If a
musician wants
to stimulate
their idea of
what music
could be,
rather<br>
than staying
in the rut of
the
conventional
ideas of what
earth music
is, like <br>
chorus versus
chorus and
stuff like
that. What you
can do is
this, just
before you <br>
go to sleep at
night, intend,
“While I’m
sleeping
tonight I
intend, that
I’m going <br>
to be visiting
other
civilizations
around the
universe and
I’m going to
be exploring <br>
and
experiencing
their idea of
music.” Now if
you do that
every night
before you
fall <br>
asleep, when
you wake up,
changes are
you wont
remember any
of it, but
that’s ok, <br>
just keep
doing it. If
you keep on
doing it for
about two to
three weeks,
pretty soon <br>
unusual music
ideas will
bubble up to
your
consciousness
from your
sub-consciousness.
<br>
<br>
Things that
you experience
then, that you
don’t remember
consciously,
will gradually
<br>
start bubbling
up to your
conscious
mind, from
your
subconscious
mind. All
these <br>
unusual music
ideas. And all
you have to do
is experience
them when
you’re
sleeping at
night and all
you have to do
is set out a
clear strung
intention just
before you
fall <br>
asleep. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
That’s lucid,
right? It
sounds like
lucid
dreaming.</font><br>
<br>
I: It can be
lucid, but it
doesn’t need
to be
necessarily.
Even if you
wake up and <br>
don’t remember
anything, even
then you’re
benefitting
from it. If
you can do it
<br>
lucidly that’s
even better,
but it doesn’t
have to be
lucid. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
Can you
remember
sometimes? Or
is it all
unconscious?
</font><br>
<br>
I: Let me give
you an
example. I
heard music
that sounded
like a beaded
curtain <br>
and how can I
do that with
sound? I
finally
figured out a
way and you
can hear <br>
that in a
piece of my
new album
"Essence of
Lemuria" in
the piece
called <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/track/warm-tropical-rain"
target="_blank">Warm Tropical <br>
Rain</a> where
each raindrop,
coming down
independently
of each other,
and all the
drops <br>
fit a chord
with the notes
and as the
chords change,
the notes
change, but
it’s all <br>
just beaded
drops of
sounds coming
down. So
that’s an
example. I got
that idea by
visiting other
civilizations,
exploring
their idea of
music.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff"><br>
SW: But do you
also see the
architecture
these
civilizations
have?<br>
</font><br>
I: If my
intention was:
I want to
experience the
architecture
of other<br>
civilizations,
then I’d
probably
remember that.
But that was
not my
intention. <br>
I could start
tonight
saying, I want
to explore
other
civilizations
and explore <br>
their
architecture.
But I can tell
you this
already, they
tend to have
curves<br>
and avoid
right angles.
Because angles
are very
unsupportive
to life.<br>
So you won’t
find right
angles at all.
And many of
their
buildings
are made by<br>
crystalline
substances
controlled by
consciousness,
and they can
grow<br>
their homes,
for example
they’ll have a
crystalline
home, a clear
wall where you
<br>
can see the
backyard. And
if you want to
have privacy
you can
telepathically
tell<br>
the wall,
‘please go
opaque,’ and
the wall will
go opaque.
Please, I want
to have <br>
a couch now,
and a couch
will grow out
of the wall. A
couch you can
sit on. <br>
And its
wonderful. You
don’t need
anymore, you
need the
space. "You
can go <br>
away now", and
it will
retract back
into the wall.
It’s
crystalline
material that<br>
is highly
responsive to
consciousness.
And a lot of
them I know,
have that.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
You are kind
of like an
alien dream
anthropologist?</font><br>
<br>
I: [laughs out
loud] I’ve
never been
called that.
Once, a woman
said, “You’re
an <br>
animal from
another
dimension.” <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
You were
talking about
how VISTA
gives you
inspiration,
he also tells
<br>
you what
equipment to
use?</font><br>
<br>
I: No he tells
me technical
ways to
achieve the
sound effects.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
You also said
that at the
same time, the
technology has
evolved. So
then would <br>
you say that
because the
message was
the same
right? Or
would you say
that, while <br>
the technology
evolved,
because the
earth is
vibrating on a
different
frequency, <br>
that the
messages are
automatically
tuning in into
those
developments.
So it’s all<br>
one flow.</font><br>
<br>
I: Yes, it’s
all one flow.
Basically,
VISTA adjusts
his
technological
suggestions <br>
to what
equipment he
knows I have
available
then. He knows
I have this; I
don’t have
that. He’ll
adjust it to
what’s
available.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
So you could
say that
you’re music
evolves, and
the equipment
you use
evolves,<br>
we can mirror
the
involvement of
the earth-</font><br>
<br>
I: Yes, see,
everybody is
going really
fast pace now.
For example,
no one can
keep<br>
up with all
the VSTi’s
that are
available.
They keep on
going faster
than anyone
can<br>
keep up,
because they
keep on going
faster with
their mind,
whilst they
are creating <br>
these
wonderful
synthesizers.
In one
synthesizer,
there’s a
whole galaxy
of sounds. <br>
It took me
three months
to explore the
sounds in
Omnisphere...to
explore every
single<br>
one of them.
And I logged
the ones that
were of
interest to
me. Which were<br>
maybe 2 or 3%
of the sounds.
But it was
worth it. And
so I go
through all of
them, <br>
and it takes a
while because
these
synthesizers
have such a
vast realm of<br>
possibilities.<br>
<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
What other art
forms can be
inspired
through VISTA.
Film?<br>
</font><br>
I: Yes, as a
matter of
fact, there’s
one called"
Crystal Vista"
HAHA. If
you’ve seen<br>
my DVD called
"Realms of
Light - the
DVD", you can
see <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yr0MytmY0g&list=PLCAOQn60d-2Qr_0Rt5c6o3VxSxJEjQbr0"
target="_blank">examples</a> of it on YouTube. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">
SW: You get
the images
also from
VISTA?
</font><br>
<br>
I: Oh yeah, I
had my music
album … after
I finished I
thought this
is very
visually
inspiring
music. I’d
like to make
it into a DVD
.. but nobody
was doing the
kind of
celestial
visuals that
I wanted
to see with my
music. So I,
thought, I
will do it<br>
myself.
So it took me
four years to
master video
special
effects, and
another 3.5<br>
years to
create the
visuals to
synchronize
with the
music. So it
was a 7.5-year
<br>
project for
that DVD. BUT,
if you want to
see Vista's
ideas on
visuals. Go
see <br>
Realms of
Light the
DVD.. You’ll
see<br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">
SW: Do you do
that on a
computer? What
kind of
program?</font><br>
<br>
I: Yeah I
was also using
Premiere and
After Effects.
But most of
what I did was
<br>
through
plugins in
After Effects.
Most of the
time I was
studying
plugins. <br>
<br>
They don’t
call him VISTA
for nothing.
His specialty
is the All
Seeing Eye of
God,<br>
which really
means a highly
evolved third
eye. And they
call him VISTA
because his
specialty,
even more than
music, is god
vision. Divine
visions. The
musical <br>
outpour of
divinity
through sound
and visions,
through
visuals. <br>
<br>
And the reason
why I like to
do visuals,
like in my
DVDs, but also
in all my
concerts...since
1973 I’ve
always had
visuals in my
concerts. The
reason is
because
they’re very
powerful when
they work
together.
Because music
has the
potential of,
<br>
not the
obligational
role but the
potential to
induce divine
emotions. And
visuals <br>
again,
not the
duty or the
responsibility,
but they have
the potential
to induce <br>
divine thought
forms. And
when they’re
working
together: the
music creating
divine
emotions and
the visuals
inducing
divine thought
forms, when
they’re
working <br>
together
synchronistically
and
synergistically,
their combined
influences can
ignite<br>
a person into
a higher and
more expanded
state of
consciousness.
And that’s the
whole point of
my multi media
concerts and
my dvd’s. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d0ff">SW:
One more last
question. Do
you think
there are also
demons, that
some people
have <br>
a demon evil
minded being
controlling
them?<br>
</font><br>
I: Yes, of
course just
listen to
heavy
metal...See
there are many
floors to
reality. <br>
From the
lowest
frequency
negative, to
the highest
celestial
angelical
heavenly. And
<br>
each person
gets to pick
where he
focuses his
attention.
It's his life
- every single
<br>
human being.
Musicians are
merchants that
selling
emotions
served on the
platter of<br>
sound. What
musicians are
really selling
is not sound,
but emotions,
and people get
<br>
the emotions
through the
sound. And so
for every
emotion that
you can
imagine, there
<br>
are musicians
who specialize
in exactly
that emotion.
For example, I
specialize in<br>
inducing the
emotion of
ecstasy. <br>
<br>
~'.'.'<br>
<br>
<font
color="#aaaaaa">Time's
running out on
the recorder
and we decide
its time to
stop. We make
some <br>
pictures and
say goodbye.
Iasos drives
off into the
forested
distance of
Marin<br>
county. Indeed
like the wild
animal
returning to
his own
dimension.<br>
<br>
Visit <a
href="http://iasos.com/">IASOS
homepage</a><br>
check out his
bandcamp <a
href="https://iasos.bandcamp.com/">here</a><br>
<br>
<br>
S.W<br>
transcribed by
Sierra Nobo
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- I just<br>
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the word QUIZ
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<font
color="#ff8899"><font
color="#ffaadd"> <br>
COMING EARLY
2018:<br>
<br>
SATOMI
TANIYAMA -
EDEN IN A SEA
OF MISERY</font><br>
Satomi
Taniyama's
long awaited
EDEN IN A SEA
OF MISERY
album will
appear on
Nightwind <br>
records early
2018 - 2xvinyl
CD and
cassette
versions are
being
prepared. it
will come <br>
with a graphic
novel
revolving
around
Satomi's
backpacking
adventures in
an eerie<br>
seaside
holiday
village.<br>
<font
color="#ffaadd"><br>
LOCH NESS
EXPANDED
SOUNDTRACK
TAPE</font><br>
The LOCH NESS
Commodore 64
original
videogame
soundtrack
gets a tape
& CD
release -
entitled LOCH
NESS EXPANDED
SOUNDTRACK -
the release
will include
new unreleased
<br>
material made
on the
Commodore 64
SID soundchip
and brand new
artwork//<br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffaadd">SMACKOS
- COMPUTER DAY
& SAMMY
OSMO SCHADUW
HORIZON
cassettes</font><br>
Nightwind
records is
going to
re-issue some
classic
Strange Life
releases - <br>
Smackos -
Computer Day
& Sammy
Osmo - Schaduw
Horizon will
be the first
ones. <br>
The albums
will be
remastered and
recorded on
CHROME Type II
cassette with
lots of <br>
info in
the inlays.
Maybe they
will come with
more stuff
too, we will
see. <br>
Expect early
2018.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<br>
<font
color="#33ddff">***
TOP SECRET ***</font><br>
<font
color="#3366ff"><br>
Let's return
to the height
of the late
cold war -
circa 1987<br>
BONN was the
capital of
West Germany -
the CHAOS
COMPUTER CLUB
ruled supreme
-<br>
the Commodore
AMIGA was the
most advanced
home computer
on the market
-<br>
New Wave and
Punk were
making way for
a new strange
electronic
subculture <br>
<br>
The
mis-en-scene
of FRANZ
FALCKENHAUS -
WESTERN
EUROPEAN SUPER
SPY<br>
<br>
Giallo records
is going to
release a
compilation of
previously CD
only <br>
FRANZ
FALCKENHAUS
material
entitled
TUPOLEV SYSTEM<br>
<br>
It will be the
first time
this material
will be
released on
vinyl and will
<br>
come with a
full color
artwork
sleeve.
Releasedate
somewhere in
February.<br>
<br>
For those who
don't know -
Franz
Falckenhaus is
a fictional
cold war spy
who<br>
released four
albums on the
defunct
Strange Life
records -
mostly in the
minimal <br>
wavish cold
war electro
soundtrack
genre. He made
four albums
between 2006
and <br>
2010. The
first two ones
were made in a
couple of days
on an EMU
Vintage Pro <br>
through a Korg
Ampworx FX
unit. Later on
Falckenhaus
switched to a
DX7IID and <br>
TR808.<br>
<br>
There was also
a videogame
based around
him called
TRIDENT
CRISIS.<br>
This came out
on the
Commodore 64
in 2010 and
was programmed
rather hastely
<br>
for an
Intergalactic
FM benefit
auction event.
The game came
with the
Secret
Microcassettes
release
- of which
only 1 copy
exists which
sold at the
auction<br>
for 200 UK
pounds to
someone in
England.<br>
<br>
Trident Crisis
is considered
to be one of
the worst
videogames
ever on the<br>
commodore 64.
Presented as
an exciting
cold war
'interactive
spy novel' it
was<br>
a text only
adventure game
with an
extremely
basic
unintelligible
A.I.parser.<br>
<br>
The aim of the
game is to
escape from
the eastern
bloc state
Dagavonia, <br>
dodging enemy
agents and
police,
finding a
covert way to
escape on a <br>
train to the
west.<br>
<br>
You can
download it <a
href="http://www.pacificmicro.org/trident_crisis.d64">here</a> and run
it on a
Commodore 64
emulator.<br>
<br>
TRACKLISTING
Franz
Falckenhaus
TUPOLEV SYSTEM
<br>
coming on
GIALLO RECORDS
February 2018<br>
<br>
A1 – My Cold
War<br>
A2 – Siberian
Missles<br>
A3 – Rainy
Roads Through
Gypsy Forest<br>
A4 –
Transylvania
Airlines<br>
A5 – MIT
Research Theme<br>
B1 –
Falckenhaus
Cosmic Dance<br>
B2 – Alpenland
Detective<br>
B3 – The
Europa
Judgement<br>
B4 – Manhunter<br>
B5 – The
Tragic Sadness
Of F.
Falckenhaus<br>
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<br>
<font
color="#eeeeee">Synth
sounds can
sound very
sterile
sometimes,
especially if
you only have<br>
1 waveform -
one oscillator
- a static
cold flat
wave.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#e9e9e9">Of
course, you
can add some
vibrato with
an LFO on the
pitch to make
it less<br>
sterile and
more alive.
But you can
also add soft
'overtone
harmonics' <br>
to make it
sound more
'organic' and
less harsh.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#e7e7e7">An
important
factor in real
instruments,
and what gives
them their
character, <br>
is how certain
harmonics
resonate in
and outside
the
instrument.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#e3e3e3">For
example:<br>
When you hit a
note on a
piano you
don't just
hear the pure
pitch of the <br>
note you just
played.
Inside,
certain other
strings apart
from the one
you <br>
just hit also
vibrate, a lot
softer in
volume, almost
unnoticeable....<br>
but enough to
give a certain
harmonic
content and
character to
the sound.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#e0e0e0">Nature
has its way
and these
harmonic
frequencies
always follow
the same <br>
path, we won't
go in too much
scientific
blablah here
now if you
want to<br>
know more
about that
look it up in
google.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#d9d9d9">So
the
frequencies
that give
these
harmonics,
which are
always pretty<br>
much the same,
are called
overtones or
partials.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d7d7d7">And
these are the
notes/frequencies
of these
overtones:</font><br>
<font
color="#d5d5d5"><br>
C - C(1
octave up) - G
- C(2 octaves
up) - E - G<br>
</font><font
color="#d3d3d3"><br>
With these
notes in mind
its easy to
create
'natural'
sounding
overtones <br>
on a
synthesizer.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0d0d0">EXAMPLE:<br>
<br>
Let's say we
have 5
oscillator
synth, a
modular system
of some sorts.<br>
and we want to
add some
overtone
harmonics:</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#b0b0b0"> ________________
______________<br>
|
whatever
|
|
|<br>
| osc 1 you
want
|______________
volume 100%
__________|
filter
|<br>
|________________|
| env
etc.
|_______</font><br>
<font
color="#a9a9a9"> _________________
|______________|
|<br>
|
pitch
|
|<br>
| osc 2 sine
+12
|_____________
volume 20%
__________
|<br>
|_________________|
\
______________
|</font><br>
<font
color="#a7a7a7"> _________________
\
|
||<br>
|
pitch
|
\
| filter.
||<br>
| osc 3 sine
+19
|_____________
volume
10%______________\____|
env etc
||<br>
|_________________|
/ _/
|______________||<br>
_________________
/
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pitch
|
/
|
|________|<br>
| osc 4 sine
+24
|_____________
volume 5%
___________/
|
|<br>
|_________________|
|
|<br>
_________________
/
mixer</font><br>
<font
color="#a3a3a3">|
pitch
|_____________
volume 2%
_____________/
maybe other
<br>
| osc 5 sine
+28
|
filter vca<br>
|_________________|
env etc.<br>
|</font><br>
<font
color="#a0a0a0">
|<br>
\ / <br>
V<br>
output<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#b9b9b9">Oscillator
1 is the main
fundamental
frequency tone
- tuned
neutral on C<br>
<br>
Oscillator 2
Tune 1 octave
up (+12 )
volume 20%<br>
Oscillator 3
Tune 1 octave
+ 7 notes up
(+19) volume
10%<br>
Oscillator 4
Tune 2 Octaves
up (+24)
volume 5%<br>
Oscillator 5
Tune 2 Octaves
+ 4 notes up
(+28) volume
2%<br>
(If you have
more
oscillators
you can tune
oscillator 6
to 2 Octaves<br>
+ 7
notes up (+31)
volumet 1%
etc.etc.etc.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#b7b7b7"><br>
Of course you
don't have to
follow the
laws of
nature, try
any different<br>
frequency and
see what eerie
vibes you can
give to your
sounds -<br>
from a
universal
parallel
dimension were
our laws of
physics do not<br>
comply.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#b5b5b5">If
you have a
more common 3
oscillator
synth like a
minimmoog,
novation <br>
nova, Waldorf
Blofeld etc.
you can add
only 2 more
overtone notes
- <br>
either G, C,
E...experiment
see what gives
the best
result.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#b3b3b3">Some
stuff to
check:</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#b0b0b0">Give
different
volumes to
different
oscs..use
keytracking,
randomize<br>
the volume
etc. It should
be barely
noticeable,
slightly
within the<br>
human hearing
range. Let the
volume of each
oscillator
gradually go<br>
down, the
lower ones
louder, the
higher ones
softer.<br>
</font><font
color="#a9a9a9"><br>
If possible
give each
oscillator or
at least the
overtone ones
its<br>
own VCA
envelope,
higher pitches
overtones have
shorter
sustain/release<br>
then the lower
ones.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#a7a7a7">Try
different
waveforms,
maybe even for
the different
partial
oscillators: <br>
A sinewave
might be more
suited to the
high
overtones, a
soft square to
the <br>
low- but it
can also be
the other way
around.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#a5a5a5">To
finish it off
add an almost
unnoticeable
amount of
noise to blend
<br>
everything
together in a
nice organic
soup.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#a3a3a3">If
you have a
pitchshifter
that can do
more then 1
tone at the
same time<br>
(Harmonic
pitchshifter
or whatever
these things
are called) -<br>
you can set
the pitches to
the overtone
series and put
the dry/wet
mix <br>
really low so
you can barely
hear it but it
does effect
the sound.</font><br>
<font
color="#a0a0a0">
___<br>
/ /<br>
By
Prof.Dr.Emiel
EmmerEend
University of
Texel.
/ /<br>
\_/<br>
</font><br>
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<br>
<font
color="#33aaff"><font
color="#33ddff">By Dr. Z. van Zerval<br>
<br>
I. The lucid
dreamer</font><br>
<br>
Lucid dreaming
- the act of
dreaming while
in a state of
awareness – is
a skill <br>
that can be
practiced,
improved, and
mastered. A
lucid dreamer
has the
ability to
intervene in
dreams,
leading to an
expansion of
the outer
limits of his
or her
consciousness.
Lucid dreaming
has formed an
integral part
of the belief
systems <br>
of aboriginal
groups such as
the Nabesna,
Atna,
Wetsuwet’in
and Dénés of
Northern<br>
Canada, for
centuries.
At the heart
of their
customs is the
belief that
dreams <br>
are more than
mere
individual
experiences;
rather, they
belong to the
community, <br>
and dream
wisdom is
passed on from
generation to
generation.
[1] With some
<br>
practice, a
passive
dream-state
can easily be
transformed
into an active
extension <br>
of waking
life, where
everything
becomes
possible.
Through lucid
dreaming, one
can navigate
and explore
the infinite
depths of
perceptions
and reality.
It is also <br>
super fun!
Here are some
tips to
achieve daily
boundless mind
adventures.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#33ddff">II.
How to lucid
dream</font><br>
<br>
1) Mnemonic
induction is a
method whereby
lucid dreams
are triggered
through memory<br>
cues. It is
one of the
most effective
techniques to
practice lucid
dreaming. <br>
The first step
involves
identifying
‘reality
cues’. This
can be done
anywhere and <br>
anytime, in
both waking-
and dream
states of
consciousness.
A famous
technique is<br>
the digital
clock
test. To
perform this
exercise,
stare at a
digital clock
for a <br>
few seconds
(eg. a golden
digital casio
watch will do
the trick),
look away, and
<br>
look back at
the clock and
ask yourself:
am I dreaming?
If the numbers
appear normal,
then you are
probably
awake. In
dreams,
numbers
typically
appear jumbled
or scrambled<br>
(or do weirder
things like
recite a verse
from Dante’s
Inferno in
Uzbek). Try to
do <br>
this exercise
several times
during your
waking-day
(like at your
boring
day-job) and <br>
in your
dreams.
Another fresh
trick is the
mirror test.
In dreams,
images
reflected <br>
in a mirror
are typically
nebulous and
tend to morph
rapidly. The
same applies
to <br>
text, whether
a book or a
street sign;
letters and
words rarely
stay together
or<br>
remain
consistent in
dreams. <br>
<br>
After some
practice, you
will become an
expert at
spotting these
classic ‘dream
anomalies’ and
distinguishing
between
waking- and
dream states.
Bringing
awareness <br>
to your dream
state through
mnemonic
tricks will
allow you to
lucid dream.
Don’t <br>
worry if you
don’t succeed
at first,
lucid dreaming
takes
practice. Once
you’ve <br>
joined the
ranks of the
international
society of
lucid
dreamers, let
the <br>
adventures
unravel!<br>
<font
color="#33ddff"><br>
2) Dream
journaling</font>
is a good way
to improve
your lucid
dreaming
skills by
recording<br>
your
observations
and results
from all your
mnemonic
experiments.
Also, writing
down
everything you
can remember
from your
dreams, even
when it is
only a vague
or <br>
ambiguous idea
(eg. a color,
a feeling, an
object), will
enhance your
chances of <br>
lucid
dreaming. This
is because
dream
journaling
reinforces
your dream
existence <br>
through the
very act of
recording it,
fostering the
development of
lucid-dreaming
<br>
skills. It
also allows
you to keep
track of
progress.
After you
start lucid
dreaming <br>
on a regular
basis, one
major
challenge is
retaining
control over
the lucid
dream. <br>
Often,
(especially if
you are a
beginner) upon
triggering,
lucid dreams
quickly <br>
spiral out of
control and
the dreamer
wakes up,
which can be
disappointing.
<br>
But don’t give
up! Record
every progress
made and
develop your
own tricks and
tips<br>
to lucid
dreaming.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#33ddff">3)
External
triggers</font>
such as sound
and light can
help trigger
lucid
dreaming. For
example,
programming
sounds to
match the
frequencies at
which your
brain operates
<br>
during REM
sleep,
including
dream-state
frequencies
(between 4 and
8 hz) can help
<br>
unlock lucid
dreams (see
article on
binaural beats
in this SWCZ
issue). Lights
are <br>
also effective
lucid dreaming
triggers. By
programming a
light to turn
on during <br>
REM sleep
(when dreams
typically
occur), this
light may
‘translate’ in
the dream <br>
in a different
form (for
example, an
external light
may appear as
shimmer over
water<br>
or as a fire
in the dream).
Once you make
the connection
between the
external <br>
trigger and
the dream, you
become lucid
and gain the
ability to
control and
intervene<br>
in your
dreams. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#33ddff">Hot
tips: </font><br>
- Mental
pollution:
avoid screens
or
overburdening
the brain with
information
and<br>
input
before bed.
Before falling
asleep, you
want to focus
on your
objectives and
project
yourself
becoming lucid
in your
dreams.<br>
<br>
- Drugs and
alcohol: be
aware that
drugs and
alcohol affect
sleep cycles
and dreams <br>
in different
ways. <br>
<br>
- Stretches:
doing
stretches
before bed
creates blood
flow
throughout the
body and <br>
to the brain,
improving
dream
performance.<br>
<br>
Sources: <br>
[1]
Marie-Françoise
Guédon, ‘La
pratique du
rêve chez les
Dénés
septentrionaux’,
<br>
(1994),<br>
18 Rêver la
culture 2,
Université
Laval, p. 76<br>
</font></font><br>
<br>
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<font
color="#a9aaff">There
is something
unique with a
lot of
ethiopian
music - it has
a tantalizing<br>
effect on the
human soul.
Its full of
melancholy and
possesses a
peculiar <br>
mystifying
enchanting
undertone.
Ancient and
otherworldly,
taking you to
other<br>
places. Due to
its mysterious
nature
traditional
ethiopian
music flowed
into<br>
a more jazzy
style with
ease - in the
1960s
ETHIOJAZZ was
born, one of <br>
the coolest
music styles
in the world.
<br>
<br>
Ethiopia is
big and
therefore we
can't really
talk about one
all
encompassing <br>
music style -
there are many
regions with
their own
distinct forms
but<br>
generally we
see that
ethiopian
music uses a
pentatonic
scale. This
means<br>
that there are
5 notes in a
scale.<br>
<br>
A system of
four
pentatonic
scales is used
- these scales
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AMBASSEL <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUY-03E4TqI"
target="_blank">listen</a><br>
<br>
C
Db.
F
G Ab<br>
<br>
A scale from
the Gonder
& Wollo
regions - that
is often used
in songs with<br>
historical
subjects. The
tears will
flow like
waterfalls -
an intense <br>
emotional mode
to squeeze out
feelings you
thought you
never had.
Almost<br>
like a musical
therapist. My
all time
favorite
scale. Also
very jazzy.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
TIZITA <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq5bq-Ic354"
target="_blank">listen</a><br>
<br>
C
D
E
G A<br>
<br>
The Tizita
scale stands
for 'longing'
a certain
melancholia -
there is not<br>
really an
english word
for it - The
words tesknota
in Polish or
sehnsucht in <br>
German come
close. The
Saharan Tuareg
Assouf scale
is similar...a
very<br>
'Bluesy'
scale.<br>
<br>
<br>
BATI <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXlSZBXp_Io"
target="_blank">listen</a><br>
<br>
C
E
F
G
B<br>
This is a more
uplifting and
less
melancholic
scale then
Ambassel and
Tizita. <br>
But it still
has a very
modest,
subdued feel
of melancholy.
A very pensive<br>
and sensual
scale.<br>
<br>
<br>
ANCHIHOYE <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DoWoo46Qmc" target="_blank">listen</a><br>
<br>
C
Db
F
Gb
A<br>
<br>
Almost
microtonal in
nature this is
the most
authentic of
Ethiopian
scales,
<br>
it has a more
'celebrational'
feel to it.
But like all
Ethiopian
scales,<br>
underneath its
celebral
nature it can
also have a</font></font></font></font></font></font></small></font></big></big></font></font></small></font></big></big></font></font></small></font></font></small></font></font></font></small></font><font
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face="Courier"> devotional sacred
attitude, <br>
reminding us of ancient sites or
what we percieve in the west as
'rudi v<br>
alentino 1920s desert movie music'<br>
<br>
<br>
This above is all a ***very*** basic
briefing on ethiopian music,
hopefully <br>
to spark your interest - Just sit
behind a keyboard and jam out on
these <br>
scales - its a lot of fun! if you
want to know more, like the
different<br>
variations and of each mode you can
read (PDF):<em></em><br>
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color="#ffffff"><font color="#a933f0"><font color="#a9aaff"><a
href="Abate,+Ezra.+Ethiopian+Ki%C3%B1it:+Analysis+of+the+Formation+and+Structure+of+the+Ethiopian+Scale+System"
target="_blank">Ezra Abate's Ethiopian Kiñit: Analysis of the Formation
and Structure
of the <br>
Ethiopian
Scale System</a><br>
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<font
color="#d09900">An
interview with
Alexander
Robotnick send
in by Panos
Pandis<br>
let's start
with the
lyrics of his
classic
'Problemes
D'Amour':<br>
<br>
Les Yeux que
tu regardes<br>
J'ai peur
qu'ils
semblent pas
humains<br>
La main que tu
caressesm<br>
tu sais
qu'elle n' a
pas l'exacte
chaleur, aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0a300">Aua!
C'est le cri
d'un robot
souffrant
d'amour aua<br>
Aua! Meme sans
ses larmes il
pleure
toujours aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0a700">La
bouche qui
veux
t'embrasser<br>
Tu vas bien
t'apercevoir
qu'elle n'a
pas de gout,
aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0a900">Aua!
C'est le crie
d'un robot
souffrant
d'amour, aua<br>
Aua! Même sans
ses larmes il
pleure
toujours, aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0b000">Mais
l'amour n'a
pas de règles<br>
Ça reste le
même dans les
siècles<br>
La nuit je ne
ronfle pas<br>
Et le matin
mon haleine
n'est pas
mauvaise</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0b500">Aller,
je t'invite
chez moi ce
soir<br>
J'ai pas de
toilette, pas
de cuisine
mais viens
quand même,
aua.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#d0b900">Aua!
C'est le crie
d'un robot
souffrant
d'amour, aua<br>
Aua! Même sans
ses larmes il
pleure
toujours, aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#d0d000">J'aimerais
tellement
faire l'amour
avec toi<br>
Même si on me
juge vachement
mécanique,
aua.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#b9d300">Aua!
C'est le crie
d'un robot
souffrant
d'amour, aua<br>
Aua! Même sans
ses larmes il
pleure
toujours, aua</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#b5d700">Mais
l'amour n'a
pas de règles<br>
Ça reste le
même dans les
siècles<br>
La nuit je ne
ronfle pas<br>
Et le matin
mon haleine
n'est pas
mauvaise</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#99d700">(Lyrics
of Alexander
Robotnicks'
Problemes
d'Amour - <br>
Maurizio Dami
1983 Firenze
Italy)<br>
</font><font
color="#d0a900"><br>
//////////<br>
<br>
MAURIZIO DAMI,
aka Alexander
Robotnick, aka
the TB-303
wizard. <br>
His iconic hit
"Problèmes
D'amour", a
flop according
to him, since<br>
"it only sold
10.000
copies", had a
huge influence
on the<br>
Chicago and
Detroit scene
in the early
80's.<br>
<br>
Maurizio did
not start
producing
until his
early
thirties. In
fact he<br>
began learning
jazz guitar at
the age of 27.
Knowing that
it was<br>
unlikely to
become a
professional
guitarist at
that age and
having <br>
already been
exposed to the
sounds of
Kraftwerk et
al, he turned
to <br>
electronic
music instead.<br>
<br>
In case you
need a
refresher or
you are
unfortunate
enough to
never<br>
have heard any
of MAURIZIO's
music, here
are some
representative<br>
tracks:<br>
+ <a
href="https://soundcloud.com/alexander-robotnick/probl-mes-damour-ah-ou-ah"
target="_blank">Problèmes D'amour</a> - Alexander Robotnic's signature
track.<br>
Produced using
a TB-303, a
TR-808, a Korg
Mono/Poly, a
guitar and<br>
lyrics by
himself.<br>
+ <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttpUjAcJL3k&feature=youtu.be"
target="_blank">Dance boy dance</a> - Some say that this track is
probably
Robotnick's<br>
second biggest
hit. It was
originally
produced as
the sound
track to a<br>
theatrical
play.<br>
+ <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC903B6DE0A15873D">The
Analog Session</a>
- A fairly new
project by
MAURIZIO and
LUDUS<br>
PINSKY (Lapo
Lombardi). A
live
performance
with full
analog
equipment<br>
featuring
LUDUS handmade
modular
synthesisers.<br>
<br>
PANOS met with
MAURIZIO in
Firenze Italy
and had a long
chat about<br>
music,
synthesisers
and some
totally
unrelated
stuff.<br>
<br>
## How did you
start making
music?<br>
My father and
my mother knew
how to play
the piano. So
when I was a<br>
child there
was a
pianoforte in
my house. Back
then every
time I<br>
would play the
piano my
father would
yell at me to
stop, because,
as I<br>
understood
later, I had a
curiosity for
all the odd
intervals, as
they<br>
sounded more
interesting to
me. I was
playing a note
and then a
sharp<br>
5th and then a
sharp 2nd etc.
So I did not
think about
music for many<br>
years but then
in the 70's I
went to
Morocco with
some friends
by<br>
auto-stop
(hitch
hiking), all
the way from
Italy. One
afternoon I
was<br>
in the
Marrakech
square, in a
little, lets
say coffee
shop. Old
people<br>
would go there
to smoke weed
and the trick
was that after
you inhaled<br>
from the pipe
you would try
to blow the
smoke as far
as you could.
It<br>
was like a
game, the one
who would go
the furthest
would win a
free<br>
pipe, the
worst of all
would have to
pay for all
the others.
These<br>
people had
spend the last
twenty years
of their life
doing this. So
I<br>
joined them
with a friend
of mine and in
front of us
there would be<br>
two people,
one playing a
socra, a
primitive oboe
from Morocco
and the<br>
other one
playing a hand
drum. And you
know, smoking
this weed for
an<br>
afternoon a
day, playing
this game with
old people and
listening to<br>
this music,
every next day
I would still
hear the music
in my head.<br>
And one week
later I still
had this music
in my head.
And I would<br>
start to add
different
instruments,
or play with
my mind only
the bass<br>
sounds or the
drums or make
some chords.
So I said to
myself, ok I
can<br>
make music
now, because
if I can make
music in my
head then I
can also<br>
make music
outside of it.
That is how I
started and I
started with a<br>
guitar because
at the time
the most
affordable
instrument was
the<br>
guitar. I got
a second or
third hand
guitar. By
that time I
wasn't<br>
very young, it
was 77', I was
already 27.
One year later
I went to a<br>
popular school
in Florence to
learn music
and I learned
modal music,<br>
popular jazz
music. And
this is how I
still compose
music.<br>
<br>
## How easy
was it back in
the day to
obtain your
equipment?<br>
I don't come
from a wealthy
family, for me
most of the
time it was<br>
hard to buy
these
synthesisers.
In the late
70's and early
80's<br>
synthesisers
where still
very
expensive, you
needed to work
for six<br>
months maybe
to be able to
afford one. I
started with a
Casio
keyboard,<br>
the kind of
stuff for kids
and then came
the TB-303,
the 606 and
then<br>
the 808 that I
exchanged with
an amplifier
because I was
a guitarist<br>
at that time.<br>
<br>
## Do you
regret selling
the 808?<br>
No, honestly,
no. I think it
is important
to have an
analogue<br>
synthesiser,
at least one,
in your
studio. But,
an analogue
drum<br>
machine, why?
I think there
is no
difference
between a
sample of an<br>
808 and an
808. You can
not really
listen it.
Maybe if you
make<br>
something
really obscure
where the 808
plays a big
role and you
can<br>
listen to the
very subtle
difference
between one
hit and
another...<br>
and then the
808 has no
shuffle and
this is not
good for me,
for my<br>
music. The 909
has this
possibility
and is much
better and I
think the<br>
bass drum of
the 909 is
unforgettable
and still
relevant. For
the rest<br>
you can use a
plugin!<br>
<br>
## Earlier you
mentioned
tapes, do you
still use
tapes?<br>
Yes I do
sometimes, I
like to use
them to
compress the
bass.<br>
<br>
## While
talking about
hybrid
synths...<br>
When memory
was added to
the
synthesisers,
the
possibility to
memorize<br>
a sound, for
us was like
science
fantasy. When
it came out we
where<br>
enthusiastic
about it. But
30 years later
I think that
it is better<br>
not to save
any sound. I
don't save any
sound.
Every time I
find it<br>
again, because
every time
there is
something
different, it
depends on<br>
your mood it
depends on the
situation.<br>
<br>
## What about
India and the
Indian
TexPress?<br>
I started
going to India
in the 80's
because I like
Indian music,
I go<br>
there every
year. I have a
couple of
friends there
that are into<br>
production and
are also djs,
I told them
about my idea
of a<br>
compilation of
dance music by
young Indian
artists and
they brought
me<br>
in contact.
Also, I met
some of them
while playing
music in
India.<br>
Sometimes they
might not
understand why
I prefer one
of their
tracks<br>
over an other,
but I have a
vision about
this project
to be
something<br>
that you can
listen to from
the beginning
to the end and
not just a<br>
compilation.
You can read
more about the
Indian
TexPress <a
href="http://hot-elephant.com/portfolio_page/20-01-2018_indian_techxpress/"
target="_blank">here</a><br>
<br>
## Any
suggestions to
future
artists?<br>
Go local!
Build an
audience on
your block and
then on your
city and<br>
then in the
club you use
to hang out.
Don't think
about the
whole<br>
world
immediately
because the
world is just
the sum of
little things.<br>
To me nowadays
it is
important to
get local and
build an
audience that<br>
you can turn
to when you
are not famous
anymore. Dutch
musicians for<br>
example, their
music was
really in
fashion in the
early 00's
when I<br>
started
dj-ing,
Rotterdam and
music from the
Netherlands
and Belgium<br>
in general.
Three or four
years later it
was not in
fashion
anymore<br>
because house
music came
back again.
But these
musicians had
deep<br>
roots in their
cities and in
France etc,
because they
had local<br>
audiences they
managed to
resist and
reach their
next peak.<br>
<br>
## Thank you
MAURIZIO!<br>
<br>
## Studio
equipment list<br>
+
Oberheim SEM<br>
+ EDP
Wasp<br>
+
Roland JX-3P<br>
+
Roland
JUNO-106<br>
+
Roland TB-303<br>
+ Rolad
SH-101<br>
+
Roland Space
Echo RE-201<br>
+ Korg
Mono/Poly<br>
+ Korg
Stage Echo<br>
+ Korg
Microkorg XL<br>
+
Vermona drum
machine</font><br>
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Oscillation
Brain Wave
modulation
with</font><br>
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<font
color="#b0ff88">*****
BANNED IN
SAUDI ARABIA
*****<br>
<font
color="#a9f985"><br>
A Binaural
beat is not a
beat from a
drummachine or
drumkit - it
is,<br>
quite simply,
a remarkable
auditory
illusion that
occurs when
you<br>
play two
different
sinewave
frequencies in
your right and
left ear <br>
seperataly on
headphones.<br>
</font><font
color="#a5f583"><br>
Somehow your
brain will
percieve the
interference
pattern of
these <br>
two
frequencies. A
new frequency
that is the
substraction
of the two <br>
different
frequencies.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#a3f380">An
example: On
headphones, in
the right ear
we play a pure
sinewave<br>
tone of 600
Hz. In the
left ear we
play a pure
sinewave tone
of 605 Hz.</font></font><br>
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------<br>
| 5 Hz |<br>
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<font
color="#55dd33"><font
color="#a0f079">Now we deduct these two frequencies: <br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#97e975">605
hz - 600 hz =
5 hz</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#95e573">Our
brain will
perceive a 5
Hz tone. This
is well below
our normal <br>
auditory
perception
range of 20 hz
- 20 kHz. <br>
<br>
It happens
that 5 Hz is
also a brain
wave
frequency.<br>
<br>
What are brain
waves???<br>
<br>
The brain
operates at
certain
frequencies -
All kinds of
mental <br>
states
operate on
different
neural
oscillation
frequencies -
dreaming,<br>
focusing, deep
relaxation,
flow,
hypnosis,
various forms
of altered <br>
states of
consciousness,
deep sleep
etc.<br>
<br>
It is
theorized that
we can
influence
these
frequencies
with external<br>
stimuli - like
light &
sound. The
brain's neural
oscillations
can be <br>
'entrained' to
follow the
frequencies of
these stimuli
- like the<br>
interference
patterns we
can perceive
created with
binaural
beats. <br>
<br>
So these brain
waves/neural
oscillations
operate on the
following<br>
frequencies:<br>
<font
color="#aaf5dd"><br>
DELTA WAVES
0.2 - 3 HZ </font>Basically
the lowest
brain wave
possible -<br>
near the
threshold of
non existence.
This is what
you start out
with <br>
in the womb.
Every night
you go in this
state when you
sleep.<br>
The Delta wave
is associated
with slow-wave
sleep - the
deepest <br>
stage of NREM
(Non Rapid Eye
movement)
sleep. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#aaf5dd">THETA
WAVES 4 - 7 HZ</font>
Asociated with
deep
relaxation,
drowsiness,<br>
hypnotic
states,
dreaming.
Colourfull
visions inside
your mind.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#aaf5dd">ALPHA
WAVES 7.5 -
12.4 Hz</font>
Ascociated
with a relaxed
mental state.<br>
<font
color="#aaf5dd"><br>
BETA WAVES
12.5 - 30 Hz</font>
ascociated
with focus and
problem
solving<br>
<br>
So in theory
if we create
any of these
frequencies
with our <br>
binaural beat
technique and
play them for
a while on
headphones <br>
our brain
should entrain
to it and we
can make
ourselves feel
<br>
relaxed,
drowsey,
dreamy etc.
This is
ofcourse quite
whiseywashey<br>
science but
fun
nevertheless!<br>
<br>
Lets say you
want to make
some THETA
WAVES to get a
bit drowsey,<br>
or even better
put it in your
music to
influence the
listeners<br>
brain:<br>
<br>
We need two
sound sources
that can
produce pure
sinewave tones<br>
and these
sources need
to be panned
hard left and
right. <br>
So a mixer
comes in handy
to do the
panning stuff.<br>
<br>
As for the
sound sources
we can use two
synthesizers,
or a <br>
DAW, sampler,
tone
generators,
whatever can
make a pure
sine-waves.<br>
If your synth
can make
triangle waves
you can use
the filter to
<br>
soften it to a
sinus.<br>
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color="#ffffff">
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/
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Filter
-->
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that
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<br>
Now the
difficult
thing in this
whole venture
is to measure
the<br>
frequency of
each synth. We
have to know
the exact
frequencies.<br>
<br>
There are
probably some
hardware
devices that
can measure
the<br>
exact
frequency of a
tone, some
modular
oscilloscopes
can do it<br>
like the
Mordax DATA or
ED702
Synth-a-Scope,
maybe some
tuners?<br>
</font> <br>
<font
color="#a9f985">You
might have a
synthesizer
were you can
exactly
program<br>
the frequency
you want, but
this is one of
those things
that<br>
seems super
easy on paper
but more
difficult in
reality.<br>
<br>
Some DAW's
have a build
in frequency
analyser - we
can do it<br>
in Ableton for
example with
the TUNER (you
can find it in
the<br>
Audio Effects
map):<br>
<br>
put the Tuner
on the
channels that
have the
soundsource -<br>
click on CT to
set it to HZ
mode. Now you
can view the
exact<br>
frequency in
HZ coming in.<br>
<br>
We want to get
some Theta
waves, these
operate
roughly
between<br>
4 and 7
Hz...we have
to tune the
two sound
sources so the
<br>
difference
will be within
that range.
The
frequencies
can not be <br>
lower then
1500 Hz and
should be
within the
audible
hearing range.<br>
<br>
Lets say we
take 64.5 HZ
and 70.5 HZ -
This should
result into<br>
a 6 Hz
interference
binaural beat.<br>
<br>
Pan one
soundsource to
the hard left
and the other
one to the<br>
hard right.
Put on some
headphones,
check out your
binaural<br>
beat and start
experimenting
with neural
oscillation
brain wave<br>
modulation in
your music!<br>
<br>
<br>
An easier way
to skip the
whole
measuring
process is to
use <br>
a tone
generator
where you can
exactly enter
your
frequencies.<br>
Like this
online wave
generater:<br>
<a
href="http://onlinetonegenerator.com/"
target="_blank">http://onlinetonegenerator.com/</a><br>
<br>
enter any
frequency you
want (below
1500 and
within the
audible<br>
human hearing
range) and
save it to
your computer.
Enter another<br>
frequency so
its difference
is within the
brain wave
frequency <br>
range you want
to use. Save
that one too
and import
both audio<br>
files to your
DAW, pan them
hard left
& right
and now you
can<br>
start mucking
about with
them.<br>
<br>
Remember:<br>
<br>
-Headphones
should be used
- the two
different
frequencies
have to be <br>
seperetaly fed
into each ear<br>
<br>
-The
frequencies
should be
audible,
within the
human hearing
range.<br>
<br>
-Both
frequencies
must be lower
then 1500 Hz<br>
<br>
-The
difference
between the
two
frequencies
can not exceed
40 Hz<br>
<br>
-Pure tone
sinewaves
should be
used.<br>
<br>
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<font
color="#b3b3b3">Love
and Saucers is
a new feature
film
documentary
from Brad
Abrahams, who</font><br>
<font
color="#b0b0b0">made
the 'Swansong
of Skunkape'
documentary a
few years ago.</font><br>
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<font
color="#a8a8a8">It
is the strange
story of David
Huggins, a 74
year-old man
who claims to
</font><br>
<font
color="#a3a3a3">have
had a lifetime
of encounters
with
otherworldly
beings -
including </font><br>
<font
color="#a0a0a0">an
interspecies
romance with
an
extra-terrestrial
woman (with
whom he lost
his </font><br>
<font
color="#989898">virginity
to). As a form
of
self-therapy,
he chronicled
it all in
surreal oil </font><br>
<font
color="#939393">paintings,
few of which
have ever been
seen.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#909090">Filmed
in an
intimate,
nonjudgemental
style, the
film lets
David tell his
story, </font><br>
<font
color="#878787">and
in turn lets
the audience
decide what is
fact, fiction,
and everything
</font><br>
<font
color="#838383">in-between.</font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#808080">Watch
it on <a
href="https://www.loveandsaucers.com"
target="_blank">loveandsaucers.com</a></font><br>
</font><br>
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<font
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EQ's</font><br>
<font
color="#aaaaaa">Back
in the 1970s/80s
and well into
the 90s hifi
systems came
with cool<br>
graphic
Equalizers.
Do not disregard
them as useless
junk, these can
be <br>
powerful sound
shaping devices.
Put them behind
your
synthesizer,
drummachine, <br>
in an effects
chain or
wherever and
tweak those
frequency bands.
With some <br>
good finger
action you can
even create off
worldly filter
sweep effects. <br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffffff">CYBER
GLOVES</font><br>
Empower your
music with a
"different set
of hands for
your mind". If
you<br>
wear gloves your
instruments will
feel different.
<br>
Satin gloves
will make your
instruments feel
more delicate -
leather <br>
cyberpunk gloves
will result in a
more stronger
powerfull though
experience.<br>
This will
ofcourse affect
the course of
your music.<br>
</font><br>
<font
color="#ffffff">DRONE
LEVERS ON YOUR
SYNTH </font><br>
You want to drone
out on your
synth/keyboard but
it doesn't have a
hold/latch<br>
function and you
need your hands to
tweak the
parameters &
FX? There are many<br>
ways - tape,
toothpicks,
tablecloth clamps
to hold down drone
notes. Best is<br>
a thin but sturdy
piece of long
rectangular
cardboard so you
can fold it to<br>
hold down more
then one note.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffffff">SOUNDPROOF
RECORDING BOOTH
IN YOUR BED</font><br>
A real low budget
"sound absorption
silent recording
booth" to get<br>
rid of excessive
reflections and
ambient noise/hums
when recording
with<br>
a microphone. Take
your microphone,
recorder, laptop
or whatever under
the<br>
blanket in your
bed. This will
create a makeshift
but probably
useful <br>
soundproof
recording space.<br>
<font
color="#ffffff">
</font><font
color="#ffffff"><br>
GUITAR STANDS </font><br>
Guitar stands also
make great
vertical mixer
stands for on your
desk.<br>
you will have room
to put something
else on the
horizontal space
were the <br>
mixer used to be.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffffff">GUITAR
AMP MODELLERS ON
SYNTHS &
DRUMMACHINES</font><br>
Guitar amp
modellers sound
great on synths -
instant lo-fi
minimal wave <br>
raw vibes. These
FX boxes simulate
the sound of mic'd
up valve guitar
amps<br>
and most of the
time have some
cool FX too -
guitar orientated
stuff like <br>
autowah compressor
sustainers etc.
which sound very
cool on synths but
also on <br>
drummachines.
These were all the
rage 10 years ago,
crap like the
Behringer <br>
V-AMP's
(that looks like a
cow dung), Korg
AmpWorx, Line6
PODs, ZOOM<br>
G-series etc.etc.
can sometimes be
bought second hand
for next to
nothing.<br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffffff">A
field recording
tip from Jimi
Elektrovolt</font><br>
try some cheap
piezo discs from a
musical greeting
card and solder
the wires<br>
to a mini jack
connector and use
your field
recorders mic
input. Stick the <br>
piezo disc to a
table, window,
singing bowl, fish
tank or wherever
you like <br>
and enjoy some
eerie sounds! You
might want to turn
up the recorder
gain a bit, <br>
causing noise to
enter the
recording but that
is just part of
the magic sounds <br>
you will get.<br>
<br>
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<br>
A few semi
ill-informed lines
on music gear
manufacturing in
Guangdong Province
<br>
of China, by our
special reporter
BoeufStroganoff.<br>
<br>
We've all heard
about South China
being the Factory
of the world, the
Mecca of
electronics, the
Vatican of
consumer good, the
Wall Street of
plastic and metal
processing,... You
get the idea. But
aside from these
lousy stereotypes,
what's <br>
the deal ? Is the
bad picture
usually depicted
about work
conditions any
true ? <br>
How do you get
something
manufactured up
there ? What is
life like in the
place <br>
that makes all our
lovely music toys
and tools ? All
those questions
won't get <br>
any answers, but
chillax, pour
yourself some
spiced-up hot
wine, open your <br>
shakras, and here
we go.<br>
<br>
There is a massive
probability that
most items you own
come from the
Pearl River <br>
Delta. This
ancient name is
even more relevant
today, as all
cities surrounding<br>
that delta do
indeed touch each
other, like pearls
threaded on a
necklace.<br>
This area is
forming de-facto a
megacity of more
than 120 million
people and very <br>
soon, all the
subway systems for
each cities will
be connected. You
might want to <br>
take something to
read if you ride
the 130km
subway trip from
Hong Kong island <br>
all the way up to
Guangzhou. Here's
a schematic map of
the place :<br>
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Let's zoom into
the Shenzhen area
for a bit. 30
years ago the
local water <br>
buffaloes and
fishermen saw
their place
designated as a
Special Economic
Zone. <br>
Some dudes from
Beijing clicked on
the map like in
SimCity, foreign
capital<br>
poured in, and
factories
mushroomed from
the rice paddies
in the tens of
thousands. <br>
Then millions of
peeps moved in
from all over
China, creating
the most
cosmopolitan<br>
city of Chinese
culture. It's cool
because you don't
need to travel all
around <br>
china to try the
different
cuisines, it's all
there. Because
initially nobody
was <br>
born in that
place, the people
of Shenzhen enjoy
a strange sense of
freedom. <br>
Eccentricity is
not frowned upon,
and the definition
of what is
socially permitted<br>
is much more
flexible than
anywhere else in
China. When your
family is 2000km
away, <br>
there is less
pressure to comply
to social
constructs. No
heads will turn if
you're shopping at
the supermarket
while cross
dressing in a
tight leather
string and <br>
dominatrix boots.
<br>
<br>
There is a few
reasons to visit
Shenzhen,
especially if you
like absurd
surreal <br>
holidays. As a
hardcore synth
DIYer you would
probably go to
Huaqiang market,
the<br>
now well-known
electronic
component
neighbourhood.
This place is made
out of <br>
multi-story malls
full of millions
of booth selling
electronic
components. But
it's<br>
also an entire
ecosystem with a
fauna and flora
endemic to this
place, feeding on<br>
the only available
resource :
ultra-spicy
instant noodles,
corn cobs, and
hardcore
cigarettes.<br>
<br>
After school
hours, many kids
join-in and wait
for their parents
to be done <br>
with their adult
weirdness. Dressed
like modern
samurai's they are
always at war, <br>
running around
with swords made
of
integrated-circuit
packaging tubes,
discarded <br>
resistor boxes as
armour, and
helmets crafted
with diode's
reels. Close your
eyes, imagine a
deep winter
wasteland. You can
hear them,
shouting like
fierce warriors, <br>
you can hear the
cracking sound of
fresh snow under
their steps as
they rush to <br>
burn the enemy's
village. It's of
course just bubble
wrap on the floor
and the <br>
air-con jacked to
the max because
it's freaking hot
outside, but what
a childhood!<br>
<br>
This place can be
overwhelming. If
you're a bit too
shy to ask for the
price of <br>
these cool
switches or this
nice LED matrix,
you can always go
right outside and
<br>
get some much
needed sparkling
hoppy beverages. A
couple of those
will work like a <br>
charm. Now you're
quite mellow and
tipsy enough to
appreciate this
wonderful <br>
environment and
engage in the
occult art of deal
making with weird
gestures and <br>
pocket
calculators. While
you're there, just
ponder a bit about
the economy of the
<br>
world that is
happening in front
of your very eyes.
Everywhere you
look, packages <br>
are being sent
around the world.
It's almost like
every time your
hear that typical
schrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitchhhh
sound of wrapping
tape being pulled,
the stock <br>
market goes up!
But I digress.<br>
<br>
After fiddling
with modular
synths I realized
that, as awesome
as it is, the <br>
complexity of
having millions of
modules in a big
case was not
really helping my
<br>
musical output. I
wanted a minimal
set-up, and a way
to turn this
austere format <br>
into an expressive
instrument,
especially for the
cool new digital
modules. So <br>
why not trying the
adventure of
manufacturing a
device/case just
like that ? <br>
<br>
Let's bypass the
design process,
irrelevant here.
But once you're
fairly confident <br>
that it will work,
it's time to find
some cool people
that will help you
building <br>
it. You need to
find two
factories. One for
the metal, and one
for the circuit <br>
boards. <br>
<br>
After firing a
bunch of
pre-formatted
emails to weird
companies having
retro <br>
flash-based
websites, some
will reply. After
this initial
contact, you must
<br>
perform the
traditional
seduction dance
together, to see
if they can do
what you<br>
want, and if they
want to work for
your puny project.
You're not exactly
the perfect client
for them, since
you won't need to
make 10.000 piece
of your cool gear.<br>
To improve your
chances of making
a deal, why not
avoid saying the
total truth about
<br>
the exact numbers
? They kind of
expect you to do
it anyway, so make
it look like a <br>
big order ! Once
you have
successfully
hooked a few of
them you can now
send <br>
schematics of your
design for a
precise quote.
Some will not
answer, some will
be ridiculously
expensive. But
there will be like
2 or 3 of them you
could work with. <br>
<br>
Now comes the best
part : Going up
there, meet them
in person, and
check if the <br>
factory looks cool
and uses
eco-friendly soap
in their toilets.
It usually goes
like <br>
this : You arrange
a meeting with the
guy you emailed
with, somewhere
right after <br>
the border or at
the airport. After
an hour of driving
on urban highways
and <br>
realizing
communications in
this customized
English might be
more difficult
than envisioned,
you will get to a
gated compound
filled with
hundred of small
factories. <br>
Your cell phone
case,
hispter-bike's
rubber tire,
bamboo furniture,
flamingo neon <br>
sign, and all your
LED stuff come
from a place like
this. <br>
<br>
Factories come in
all flavours. Even
if you can
determine quite
quickly that you <br>
might not work
with them, it is
always an
adventure to see
the conditions and
the <br>
way the workers
are doing their
thang. In the
worst ones you
will see dudes
smoking <br>
over vats of
highly flammable
chemicals while
wearing underwear
only, because the
<br>
boss think that
air-con is too
expensive. Some of
those visits feel
like they are <br>
very well
rehearsed, North
Korean style.
Workers fake it to
make the floor
look <br>
super busy and
professional.
Sometimes you can
even get a glimpse
of fear when <br>
their eyes
accidentally look
at yours, because
the boss forbids
interacting with
visitors. Go
with your
instinct, go for
the ones you can
truly communicate
with <br>
and where the
workers are
smiling and
laughing in your
presence. The PCB
factory I <br>
ended up working
with has a neat
program to help
their workers own
a car and an
apartment. They
even send their
staff to
university to keep
them interested
and <br>
happy. You'll see
the worse and the
best. <br>
<br>
It is also fun to
check the "sample
room", a place
full of shelves
where you can <br>
see products
previously
manufactured by
the place. It
gives you a lot of
ideas. <br>
You can also
recognise some
products from
other brands. Ha !
So this famous
audio compressor
brand is doing
things here !
Oooooooh but I
recognise this
drum-machine
enclosure ! <br>
<br>
After the visit,
tradition has it
to take you to
dinner in
the compound and
get<br>
you drunk on booze
that the EU labs
would rather
classify as
industrial <br>
window-cleaning
chemical. But
close your eyes
and take it in
like a man. <br>
The price of your
product might
suffer if you
don't comply.<br>
<br>
I must mention
here that my first
visit to a factory
and what
eventually led to<br>
this project, is
totally linked to
this very
cyberzine. Because
of an article in <br>
the second issue
of Shadow Wolf, I
was able to meet a
cool Swiss dude
travelling <br>
to this part of
the world for
work. He took me
to a LED factory
he was working <br>
with, and we had a
blast. I still
fondly remember
the exoticness of
being <br>
constantly burped
in the face by the
factory owner,
downing beers and
baiju on <br>
little plastic
chairs like there
is no tomorrow. It
was hard to remain
serious, <br>
but that boss gave
me plenty of very
good advices, and
my factory
contact. Other<br>
memories are more
bitter-sweet.
Like that time
rushing out of a
meeting with a<br>
power-supply
manufacturer
without the luxury
of giving them an
explanation, <br>
running around the
factory with a
livid face. That
face being a
ISO9001 <br>
international
standard, you'll
be quickly pointed
to the nearest
gentlemen's <br>
(or lady's) room
to release the
dangerous Szechuan
food / baiju
mix your body <br>
was naively trying
to process. But
those visits are
mostly fun and
you'll <br>
collect many cool
weird memories
doing it ! <br>
<br>
<br>
Most worker spend
their only day-off
playing League of
Legends until way
too late <br>
at night, crammed
in the unisex dorm
provided by the
factory. It's not
so comfy but<br>
they can save more
money staying
there. I'm still
not totally aware
about how they <br>
fulfil some of
their more primal
needs, I should
investigate. After
spending many <br>
days with some of
them, I'm glad
that this
experience allowed
me to befriend
cool <br>
people in China.
Those guys really
feel like they are
improving their
living <br>
standard for
themselves and
their families and
are happy to move
forward in their <br>
life, compared to
where they came
from. Of course
you will always
find people who <br>
think that
Shenzhen
industrial suburb
is a hell hole,
where everything
is dirty <br>
and where people
live shitty lives.
But this
conclusion is held
most probably by <br>
people who fail to
see things from a
worker's
perspective, in a
company that is <br>
not crushing them.
It's not all rosy,
and there's some
harsh conditions,
but so <br>
far there's still
plenty of jobs and
it is easy to
leave yours and
get another <br>
one next door if
you'renot happy.<br>
<br>
Then comes
manufacturing
time. First rule :
Everything that
can go wrong WILL<br>
go wrong. You must
quadruple check
everything, and
nothing works
better than <br>
photoshopping red
circles on
pictures, when
being present
physically is not
<br>
possible. The
factory is not
fucking-up the
production on
purpose but there
is <br>
a charming sense
of clumsiness to
it all.
Communication-wise
it is important to<br>
remember that they
are not trying to
rip you off.
Manage your
frustrations. <br>
From their
perspective, the
quality of their
work is way ahead
compared to <br>
the local
competition. But
they won't tell
you exactly what
they do, and they
<br>
themselves use
other
subcontractors to
do processes that
they are not
equipped <br>
for. This is
usually where
problems happens :
because it is your
baby and not <br>
theirs, they don't
have the same
level of quality
control than you
would, <br>
when stuff comes
back from the
subcontractor. <br>
<br>
One cannot avoid
being horrified by
a trip to the
region's
countryside. Or
what's<br>
left of it. The
landscape is a
never ending
forest of
chimneys, electric
poles, <br>
bizarre pseudo
Greek-looking
property
developments and
skyscrapers lost
in the <br>
middle of nowhere.
Quite dramatic at
night with a loud
drexciyan
soundtrack. A few
<br>
dark rivers lay
sandwiched between
all this grey
concrete and
destroyed ruins of
<br>
old villages turn
to rumbles. Some
very optimistic
people even farm
vegetables <br>
where there is a
bit of space left.
Those rivers look
more like an
open-air oil
transportation
system actually,
so I wonder what
those veggies
taste like. <br>
<br>
Industrial
development is the
only thing that
matters and its
cost is tremendous
<br>
for the
environment and
people's health.
Working hard and
giving better
education <br>
and life
opportunities to
your kids is
priority number
one. But the price
they are willing
to pay to allow
that may be
considered far too
expensive in the
future. <br>
Their kids will
probably despise
the previous
generation for
their choices. <br>
Having a good
diploma is no use
if your health
isn't good enough
to make the best <br>
out of it. Is it
because they feel
like that they can
always go back to
the <br>
beautiful
countryside of
their childhood, a
nice and comfy
1000 km away, that
<br>
people seem to
have no sacred
connection with
the land here ? Of
course, all of<br>
this is easy to
say when you come
from a European
background, where
the same <br>
process occurred
during the
industrial
revolution, so far
away in time from
now. <br>
Do we curse our
ancestors who cut
the forest to
build coal mines
and steel <br>
processing plants
back then, so we
can enjoy
pondering about
what eurorack <br>
module we want to
buy next, instead
of having our mind
crushed by labour
<br>
intensive manual
work ?<br>
<br>
Politically,
things are moving
forward, but it
seems pointless.
For example the <br>
Shenzhen
prefecture,
suffocating on
weird chemicals,
has banned PCB
manufacturing
industries in its
area. The growing
middle class wants
to live in nice
pollution<br>
free districts, so
the pressure grows
on officials to
make things
change. <br>
Gentrification is
also going on at
full steam.
Understandable,
the money is good.
<br>
But just a little
further away, in
places still not
affected by
pollution, there <br>
are countless
smaller cities,
eager to cash-in
on industry tax.
So in this
example, instead
of regulating what
chemicals can be
used, cities who
have "made it"
just <br>
ban those
chemicals and the
problem moves on
to a new area
where it is
perfectly <br>
fine to use them.
Seen from above,
polluting
industries move in
a similar way to
bacterias in a
Petri dish,
leaving a corrupt
land behind them.
The future seems<br>
grim, so being
able to work with
factories that can
prove the
non-toxic nature <br>
of their processes
is a priority. It
is not something
that we usually
think about<br>
when we give-in to
our gear addiction
syndrome, but
whenever you buy
anything <br>
making blips and
boings, remember
that you are the
most powerful
actor of this <br>
whole chain of
events. Consume
with a clear and
well-informed
mind.<br>
<br>
The project is now
done, it works and
I forgot the
frustration of all
the things<br>
that went wrong.
It took almost 2
years from start
to finish and now
it's time <br>
to make some real
music again ! But
part of me can't
wait to sit again
on a <br>
plastic stool
shooting
anti-freeze down
my hatch and
exchanging
google-translated<br>
jokes with some
cool crazy Chinese
boss. If you're
interested to see
what that <br>
machine ended up
looking like, it's
here
>> <a
href="http://www.mtblsm.com"
target="_blank">www.mtblsm.com</a><br>
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Stein Loop</font><br>
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color="#90f025">Boom
back -
Roadblock
AcidHall Remix</font><br>
<font
color="#85e520">Delroy
Edwards Buy
The Car E.S.G</font><br>
<font
color="#80e015">Lo-Key
- On That
Devil Shit
(instrumental)</font><br>
<font
color="#75d510">Ron
Crowfort - I
Am Normal</font><br>
<font
color="#70d000">Chemise
- She
Can’t Love You</font><br>
<font
color="#65b910">Legowelt
- Cruise Till
The Sun Shines</font><br>
<font
color="#60b500">Transient
Sun - ESFOF</font><br>
<font
color="#55b000">Ceeephax
Acid Crew -
The Zone</font><br>
<font
color="#50a900">John
Heckle - Shape
Of The
Universe</font><br>
<font
color="#39a910">Richenel-
Autumn</font><br>
<font
color="#35a500">In
sync Tape Jam
1991 3</font><br>
<font
color="#30a000">SCI
Uprising
Legowelt DX200
AphexTwinBassdrum
mix</font><br>
<font
color="#259500">Roy
Of The Raversr
Entrance 10</font><br>
<font
color="#209000">Jungian
archetype -
The lost
Contact</font><br>
<font
color="#158500">Motorbass
- Les ondes</font><br>
<font
color="#108500">Japanese
Telecom -
Remote
Transmission</font><br>
<font
color="#108000">M+M
I wanna House</font><br>
<font
color="#107530">Boston
168 -
Vapour</font><br>
<font
color="#107050">Change
- The End</font><br>
<font
color="#107060">Johnny
Nash &
Suzanne Kraft
- See Yourself
Out Of The Way</font><br>
<font
color="#107070">Siege
Shinto - The
World II</font><br>
<font
color="#107080">Dwight
Sykes &
Jahari - Walk
With Me</font><br>
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color="#dd9933">====================================================================================</font><br>
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<font
color="#996633"><font
color="#dd9933">TRAINS, the best hobby for every sophisticated lady and
worldly
gentleman.<br>
You might ride
them everyday
- but what do
you really
know about
them?<br>
A person
should always
know the train
model type he
or she travels
in - <br>
Transform the
mundane
everyday
commuter honor
into an
exciting
adventure<br>
of a lifetime.<br>
<br>
Here are some
classic trains
to get your
interest
sparked:</font><br>
</font><br>
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color="#ffee00"> __________________________________________________<font
color="#999999">-</font>_</font><br>
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color="#ffee00"> <font
color="#33ccff"> <font color="ddffff"> _</font>/<font
color="#ddffff">__</font>/
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color="#ccffff">__</font>/<font
color="#ccffff">__</font>/</font> <font color="#33aaff">/</font>____
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color="#66ffff">
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color="#ccffff">_____
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color="#ddffff">__/</font>\___<br>
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color="#ccffff">
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color="#3366ff">/</font>|___|_|</font>
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color="#33ddff">
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color="#ddffff">-</font> | <font color="#ccffff">|___|_| |___|_| </font>1
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color="#33ddff"> <font color="#ddffff"> -'</font></font> \<br>
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color="#777777">
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color="#ffee88"><br>
<font
color="#dd9933">MAT
64 NS Dutch
Railways 1964
operational
until 2016<br>
The iconic
dutch train of
bygone years</font></font><br>
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color="#fff9ff"><br>
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color="#ddeeee">___________________----------------_--------</font><br>
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color="#ffffff">__</font></font><font
color="#ffffff">---- <font
color="#ddddd">
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color="#66ffff">/
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color="#3388ff">
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color="#fff5ff">
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color="#88ffff">
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color="#ffddff">
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color="#ffe5ff">| |
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\
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\|______________________________________________________________________<br>
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color="#3366ff">/
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color="#3366ff"> <br>
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/_____________-----------------------
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</font></font><br>
<br>
<font
color="#ffee88"><font
color="#dd9933">0 Series Super Express Japan Railways 1964 <br>
The first and
most iconic
train series
of the high
speed
Shinkansen-lines</font><br>
<br>
</font><br>
<br>
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color="#ffffff"> <font color="#aaaaaa">____------</font>------</font><br>
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color="#dddddd"><font
color="#999999">________________---------------|
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color="#66ffff">__|__\</font><font color="#dd0000">____________ </font><br>
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color="#aaaaaa"><font
color="#aa0000">________________</font>/<font color="#aa0000">_________________________</font>/
</font>
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color="#ffffff">---____ </font> <font color="#aa0000">
-----___</font>
<br>
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color="#ffddaa">________________________________________________________</font>
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color="#eeeeee">--__
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color="#aa0000"> \| </font>
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color="#ffffff">____
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color="#ff0000">_____ ___ ___ </font> _ </font> <font
color="#ffddaa">\</font>
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color="#990000">\</font><br>
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color="#aaffff">____|
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color="#ff0000"> / /-_ /-_</font> (_)</font> <font
color="#ffddaa">\</font> <font color="#dddddd">
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color="#880000">\</font>
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color="#ffaa99"><font
color="#33ffff">____|</font><font color="#ffddaa">___</font><font
color="#33ffff">|_____|</font><font
color="#ffddaa">__</font><font color="#33ffff">|_|</font><font
color="#ffddaa">_</font><font
color="#33ffff">|_|</font><font color="#ffddaa">_________________________________/</font>
</font>
<font
color="#aaaaaa">
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color="#880000">|</font><br>
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color="#880000"> |_| |_|</font>
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color="#880000"> <font color="#999999">-</font>|</font><br>
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color="#770000">_______________________________________________________________________|</font><br>
<font
color="#999999">______________________________________________________________________/</font><br>
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color="#666666">\___/
\___/
\___/
\___/</font><br>
</font><font
color="#cccccc"><br>
<font
color="#ffee88"><br>
<font
color="#dd9933">TRANS
EUROPA EXPRESS
TEE DB CLASS
VT 11.5
BAUREIHE 601
1957<br>
This is the
train
serenaded in
Kraftwerk's
Trance Europe
Express</font></font><font
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<br>
<font
color="#00aaaa">A
new sensation
in the
psychedelic
cuisine - a
Holy trinity
of powerful<br>
substances:
Weed -
Chocolate -
Garlic <br>
<br>
0.5 gram of
your favorite
weed, ground
with a grinder<br>
half a cup of
High content
cocoa Dark
Chocolate -
85% - 99% -
cut/shred<br>
into small
pieces<br>
3 Cloves of
Garlic (or
more)<br>
Herbs like a
fistful of
Rosemary
leaves <br>
Sea Salt<br>
half a cup of
Olive Oil <br>
2 Cups of
flour<br>
1 cup of
Lukewarm Water<br>
1 tablespoon
of yeast<br>
<br>
Add 1
tablespoon of
yeast to the
lukewarm cup
of water -
leave for a
few <br>
minutes.<br>
<br>
Pour water and
yeast mixture
into bowl with
the 2 cups
flour.<br>
<br>
Heat up the
olive oil in a
little pan,
don't let it
sizzle/cook
only heat it <br>
up -add the
ground weed
and stir with
the oil. Add
the shredded
garlic and <br>
herbs and
stir. <br>
<br>
Heat it up for
a few minutes
- turn off as
soon as it
starts
sizzling.<br>
<br>
Pour 2/3rds of
this olive oil
weed garlic
herb mixture
into the dough
mixture.<br>
Leave at least
1/3 of the oil
mixture for
use later in
this recipe.<br>
<br>
Add shredded
chocolate
pieces.<br>
<br>
Stir and work
the dough with
your hands, if
necessary add
more flower or
water<br>
to make the
right dough
consistency.
Massage the
dough for at
least 5
minutes<br>
so the gluten
get more
flexible.<br>
<br>
Shape the
dough in a
disc sized
"flat bread
form" about
the size of a
plate<br>
put it in an
oven dish or
tray with
baking paper.<br>
<br>
Leave in
refrigerator
to rise for a
few hours (2
or 3 should be
enough).<br>
<br>
poke holes on
the bread
surface with a
fork - every 2
cms / 1 inch
in rows<br>
also use your
finger to poke
more shallow
holes every 3
cm's.<br>
<br>
Pour and
spread the
rest of the
oil weed
garlic herb
mixture over
the bread <br>
so it drips
into the
holes. Add
some seasalt
on top of the
bread.<br>
<br>
Preheat an
oven 210
degrees
celsius/410
fahrenheit<br>
Put the
Foccacia in
for 20 minutes
or longer if
needed.<br>
<br>
Don't eat too
much - it will
take some time
before the
psychedelic
effect<br>
starts.<br>
</font><br>
<br>
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color="#009999">==================================================================================</font><br>
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color="#ffffbb"><br>
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<font
color="#eedd33">Roberto
Detree </font><font
color="#ee9933"><font color="#eedd33">- Architectura Celestis 1982</font><br>
Balmy ambient
improvisations
with a deep,
almost
ritualistic
feel. Acoustic
<br>
guitars and
additional
self-made
instruments
are used,
creating
spheric layers
<br>
of what sounds
like some kind
of ethereal
glass strings.
It might be
more of a<br>
meditation- or
wellness-record,
but with
something
enigmatic
about it!<br>
(Review by
Wormholio) <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wNVu4qolo" target="_blank">listen</a><br>
<br>
<font
color="#eedd33">X.Y.R
- Mental
Joruney To BC
2015<br>
<font
color="#ee9933">Like
a sonic time
machine that
takes you to
the stone age.
There you jam
with<br>
troglodytes in
a nice upscale
cave with a
view on the
forest
treeline and
by<br>
a nice little
freshwater
lake. A safe
area. Far
removed from
bear or
sabre-tooth<br>
tiger attacks.
A littlebit
simplistic at
times - But
the sounds are
so nice<br>
and uplifting
its actually
very ok and
you wished it
went on for
another<br>
20 minutes.
listen <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec2Ib64Ppo0"
target="_blank">here</a></font><br>
<font
color="#ee9933">SW</font><br>
<br>
Terekke -
Plant Age
(2017)
L.I.E.S. -<br>
<font
color="#ee9933">A
collection of
eight
feel-good
reverby
tracks, which
feel like a
slow <br>
and soft spin
into
infinity.
Terekke’s
debut album
follows a
succession of<br>
EPs on L.I.E.S
and a latest
self-released
2015 album
funnily titled
“( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”.
<br>
Very much the
same deep vibe
like 154's
Strike album -
so #*@(*#(@
ethereal <br>
and out there
it seems like
Terekke is
some kind of
vaporous mind
energy being<br>
from a Star
Trek TNG
episode (one
with Will
Wheaton and
the traveler
in it <br>
ofcourse)
Combines
perfectly with
any houseplant
care ritual
too.<br>
(Review by
Wesley
Crusher)
listen <a
href="https://terekke.bandcamp.com"
target="_blank">here</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
Fauli – Jugend
Unsinn 1982 –
Gry Records. </font><br>
Jugend Unsinn
is the first
out of two
albums
released by
Danish minimal
synth<br>
musician and
film-maker
(ie. punk cult
movie "De
skrigende
halse") Søren
Fauli,<br>
which precedes
the slightly
better-known
but equally
rare Fauli til
Dauli LP <br>
(1983),
released on
Copenhagen's
defunct Gry
Records. Both
albums have <br>
surprisingly
not seen a
re-issue on
any of the
punk and
minimal wave
re-issue <br>
labels. Jugend
Unsinn is an
enigmatic
11-track
never-sold-on-discogs
C40 tape <br>
release with
untitled
tracks, which
takes the
listener on a
maddening
journey <br>
of staggering
industrial
rhythms, D-I-Y
punk
aesthetics,
sweaty
jungles,
unholy<br>
organs, with
vocals sung in
Danish,
English and
German, and
uncomfortable<br>
(but catchy)
falsetto
back-up vocals
by Fauli
himself.
Jugend Unsinn
is a <br>
collection of
intimate and
unabashed
minimal wave
gems that will
take you for <br>
a ride.
(Review by
Penelope
Schnitzel)<br>
<br>
<font
color="#eedd33">German
Army - Pyura
Chilensis 2017
– Luce Sia.</font><br>
Anthropological
studies on a
remote island,
green moss
growing <br>
uncontrollably,
basement goth
parties, and
vast
uninhabited
deserts, are <br>
among the
images evoked
by prolific
and entrancing
German Army.
Among 17 <br>
releases from
the 2016-2017
period -
including on
Opal Tapes and
Total Black <br>
labels - Pyura
Chilensis
(described as
a 'tunicate
that somewhat
resembles a <br>
mass of organs
inside a rock'
and which has
the ability to
self-fertilize)
is <br>
on the mossy
side of
things. And it
is addictive.
The album
artwork feels
<br>
intrinsically
part of the
album and so
does German
Army's
extensive
video work; <br>
after buying
PC on bandcamp
this Fall I
received an
e-mail from
Peter Kris - <br>
founding
member of
German Army -
five days
later asking
whether I
wanted some <br>
GA vids with
my purchase.
Off course,
intrigued, I
responded in
the
affirmative. <br>
Two days later
I received a
wetransfer
link to a
couple dozen
entrancing <br>
GA videos,
bringing new
dimensions to
the listening
experience.<br>
(Review by
Penelope
Schnitzel)<br>
<br>
<font
color="#eedd33">Wigsplitaz
- Represent
the Dead 2017
- Samling
Recordings/Pop'Em
Records </font><br>
Recent
cassette
release of a
2013 digital
album by
Swedish
horrorcore
duo, <br>
picked up at
Today's Art
festival in
The Hague in
September. I
was mostly <br>
drawn to the
artwork (a
bloodied hand
holding a mic)
and the
format. The <br>
tape revealed
chilling synth
melodies, deep
vocals, and
gruesome text,
likely<br>
influenced by
memphis-rap.
Just what you
want to listen
to when you
feel like<br>
drinking
strychnine and
frying brains
for breakfast
on a Saturday
morning. <br>
Zombie themes
are arguably
redundant, but
at least they
compensate in
humor.<br>
(Review by
Penelope
Schnitzel) <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJB5urO_Z2I">listen</a><br>
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2 Poems from
Cal LaFountain
check more of
his stuff at <br>
<a
href="https://www.callafountain.com/">https://www.callafountain.com/</a><br>
<br>
Goodly Charged<br>
<br>
Recognized
were the
several,<br>
and by
committee,
slaved.<br>
Families sent
to wage
examinations <br>
found
seventy-six
cents is not
much <br>
but maybe half
a sandwich, <br>
ordered from
the right
window.<br>
Good therefore
requires
commonplace
grounds,<br>
a really
first-rate
courage.<br>
<br>
But, to
return,<br>
to brown the
strange
details,<br>
and honor the
rot,<br>
the numerous
dignitary
perversions,<br>
violations of
ethic and of
stance,<br>
first, well
wishes must
hurl<br>
hours through
the nimble
shadow.<br>
<br>
Why, in the
experiment,<br>
are the sick,
philosophically,<br>
the
reasonable?<br>
<br>
What is the
constant worry
making? <br>
<br>
So save for a
period of
organization;<br>
a period of
people in all
forms<br>
and united in
opposing<br>
the changes
forced on
them.<br>
The slayer
obtained,<br>
served the
whole
spiritual
course, <br>
apprehended in
the city where
man was god <br>
only in
saying.<br>
<br>
-=-<br>
<br>
<br>
Transmissions
from a Worn
Down Godhead<br>
<br>
Here in
eternal orbit,
I’ve spawned
throngs of
ascendant
guilds. <br>
I’ve made
galaxies my
vestibules, <br>
licked
planetary
surfaces, <br>
and mouthed
whole
ecologies to
cleanse my
sacred palate.
<br>
I’ve flipped
listlessly
nations<br>
in peak to
sense<br>
their minor
gravities<br>
feather my
holy membrane.<br>
<br>
Each sprite
and pixie
comprise me of
obligation.
<br>
Forever
knee-high
figurines
tempt <br>
my clemency
through prayer
and mantra. <br>
With a morsel
of motive <br>
I could mist
their bones,<br>
rend their
cores to
purpled
playthings, <br>
and scrub
their
compact
histories from
the universal
lexicon. <br>
But I refrain,
<br>
for their
distant
proximities
and headstrong
beliefs <br>
are where I
mine<br>
my view.<br>
<br>
-=-<br>
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ALUCARDA ***<br>
1975 MEXICO
Juan Lopez
Moctezuma<br>
BADASS highly
controversial
piece of
mexican
cinematography.
<br>
Two orphaned
girls unleash
a satanic
force in a
Catholic
convent.
Renowned <br>
for its
extreme
explicit
subject
matters and
dreamy
mis-en-scene.
A BIG<br>
F.U to
religious
tyranny and
stupidy. After
a while the
movie loses
some<br>
of its
momentum and
we get the
idea, but
horror &
nunsploitation
fans <br>
should take
notice.<br>
<br>
<br>
A BUCKET OF
BLOOD <br>
1959 USA Roger
Coreman*****<br>
A Sinister
comedy that
takes place
around a
beatnik cafe/
art gallery,
the<br>
hippest spot
to be. The
workplace of
Walter Pasley
- a slow
witted waiter
<br>
whose dream it
is to be a
respected
beatnik
artist. One
day he decides
to <br>
try
sculpturing -
he seems to
have a lack of
inspiration
until the <br>
landlady's cat
gets stuck in
the wall. I
won't spoil
much further
of the <br>
plotline now,
just go see
it.<br>
A great satire
of the beatnik
scene and for
that matter
any subculture
around.<br>
Replace
beatniks with
modern
pretentious
berlin techno
wankers and
you would <br>
have a cool
contemporary
version. Lines
like 'Nobody
asked for your
opinion<br>
Walter, you
are just a
simple little
farm boy and
the rest of us
are all <br>
sophisticated
beatniks" and
"What ya
havin'for
breakfast? -
Soy and wheat<br>
germ pancakes
and Garbonzo
Omelets with
smoked yeast"
make this
movie <br>
timeless.
watch <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgZvV0Yi9A"
target="_blank">here</a><br>
<br>
<br>
THE HELLSTROM
CHRONICLE ****<br>
1971 USA, dir.
Walon Green,
Ed Spiegel <br>
A gloomy
pseudo-documentary
that takes you
on a deep trip
into the realm
of<br>
insects.
Quirky
scientist Dr.
Hellstrom
shares his
sinister
thoughts about
<br>
this
underrated
microcosm and
its lurking
dangers and
potentials.
Acting <br>
pretty much as
a prophet of
insect-armageddon,
his message is
clear: THEY <br>
will continue
to breed, feed
and kill,
while our own
lousy species
is doomed!<br>
It might be a
bit over the
top here and
there...
Anyways - the
camera work is
<br>
excellent and
features lots
of
atmospherical,
colorful
macro-visions
from <br>
flora &
fauna. The
mysterious,
buzzy
soundtrack was
composed by no
other than <br>
Lalo Schifrin
and is really
another great
asset here! An
oddball
niche-movie <br>
for the whole
family!<br>
(this review
was written by
Wormholio
Limburger)<br>
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review of the
Yamaha UB-99
Magicstomp
BASS amp
simulator Fx
box send in<br>
by Ali Berger
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A while back,
maybe in 2007
or so, I was
in high school
and into
playing <br>
bass and
wanted to get
an effects
pedal. My dad
and I did a
bunch of
research<br>
and came
across the
Yamaha
Magicstomp
series.
There's not a
lot of
official <br>
info available
online these
days: the
Magicstomp had
its own site,
<br>
www.magicstomp.com,
which no
longer exists,
and there are
manauls on the
<br>
Yamaha site
but no actual
product page.
Google Trends
shows some
searches<br>
for "Yamaha
Magicstomp"
being made as
early as 2004
(that's as far
back as <br>
Google Trends
goes) and
"Yamaha
Magicstomp II"
starting in
January 2005.
So <br>
it's from
around that
time.<br>
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Basically the
Magicstomp is
a very
smartly-designed,
versatile,
powerful <br>
digital
guitar/bass FX
box. Mono
input with
low/high level
switch (for <br>
instruments vs
line level
input), left
and right
outputs, a
two-line <br>
16-character
LCD screen, 3
control knobs
& "STORE"
button under
the <br>
screen, 3
footswitches
and a volume
knob. There
are 3
models--the
UB-99 <br>
(for guitar),
the UB-99A
(for acoustic
guitar), and
the UB-99B
(for bass). <br>
<br>
As far as I
can tell the
only
difference is
what presets
come on them
and <br>
the color of
the casing.
There are 99
factory
presets and 99
user-editable
<br>
presets. Every
preset has the
3 knobs
assigned to 3
different
parameters, <br>
so there's
some control
already. But
then it gets
crazy...<br>
<br>
By pressing
STORE and then
tapping the
ON/OFF
footswitch you
can enter <br>
"DEEP EDIT
MODE" - this
allows you to
page through
all the
parameters of
<br>
a preset and
modify them.
Some of the
effect types
have 19 pages
x 3 <br>
parameters per
page = 57
parameters!!
And you can
change the
effect type <br>
for any preset
as well--there
are standards
like
distortion
(which
everyone<br>
online says is
bad on this
pedal, they're
mostly right
but sometimes
bad is<br>
good), several
types of
phasers/flangers/choruses
(inculding
dynamic ones<br>
which follow
how loud your
playing is,
pretty cool),
and then some
wild <br>
stuff--symphonic
+ reverb
effects from
expensive
Yamaha rack
units, <br>
8-line
multitap
delay, amp
simulation
mega FX with 5
bands of
parametric <br>
EQ, and my
favorite, a
dual
pitchshifting
delay which
sounds like
Ableton's <br>
Grain Delay.
All this in a
pedal that now
costs like
$150 on eBay.
If you're <br>
mostly a
hardware
person this is
a cheap way to
get yourself
into some
freaky<br>
sounds outside
of the
standard
stuff. <br>
<br>
Bonus features
include "NAME
EDIT MODE"
where you can
name your
patches <br>
with capital
&
lowercase
letters &
special
characters. Or
hold down the
ON/OFF<br>
switch to
activate the
tuner mode,
super handy if
you have
analog or
modular <br>
synths
around--or if
you're doing
advanced
maneuvers with
a sampler.
There's <br>
also a
software
editor for it
but it's not
online
anywhere now
and I don't <br>
have the CD
that came with
the pedal
(maybe my dad
does).<br>
<br>
I can't
recommend this
thing enough,
I've been
using it
steadily for
10 years,<br>
from my funk
bass days
through to my
current
house/techno
obsession. Pro
tip, <br>
it doesn't
have a power
switch, so
make sure you
unplug it when
you're not<br>
using it. Mine
got too hot at
some point and
loosened the
solder around
the <br>
power
connector--luckily
it's very easy
to open up and
resolder, I
did it once<br>
and haven't
needed to
since. Now go
hit those
auctions, and
if you get one
<br>
with the CD
please host
the installer
files
somewhere!<br>
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2018 I am
going to use
my midiERROR
ARPIE more,
because I am
pretty<br>
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box lets you
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cursor down
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screen scrolls
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obstacles,
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