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Overdrive Synth 1st go: In The Days Of The Crisis
“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” - Haruki Murakami
Created entirely in AUM on ipad with three instances of Overdrive Synth, no other instrument apps, fx courtesy of SpaceFields, Rydimgare, Alteza, mastered with Bark Filter and FAC Bandit, edited in AudioShare. Artwork: Dream by Wombo.
I think this is going into my ‘fave synth’ slot, alongside Lo-Fi Tape and VHS Synth, category ‘Crispy’ 
Somewhat had in mind the mood, though not the form, of Bowie’s great track ‘Five Years’. How would we respond, if we knew in five years it would be over for everyone? Sadly, I suspect, not much different than we are now, rabbits in the headlights of the Great Heating…Substitute 50 years for 5, and it might not be that wide of the mark. Or would you currently take bets on the human race seeing out maybe another 500 years? A blink of Eternity’s eye…
The annoying thing about the Apocalypse is that I may be dead already by the time it rolls around. I’d like to have seen that.
Then again, maybe I will.
As ever, listen, comment, fold spindle or mutilate… pip pip!
Comments
Thank you for sharing. Totally understand the feeling... I had some concerns since I was a teen in the 90s, feeling that something was wrong with our way of living. Those concerns built up over the years, up until 2018, when signs and experts reports indicated clearly that it was definitely happening, starting with the obvious animal mass extinction.
Even if we reacted now (which doesn't seem to be the direction we're heading) the inertia of what we generated would make this earth hardly liveable in 50 years, so at our current pace...
I sometimes wish the climate skeptics were right. I sometimes wish the "technology will save us" believers were right. So comfortable. But there are tangible facts, and facing those feels like hitting a wall at full speed... You're right, rabbits in the headlights...
This was released in 1996, and nothing has contradicted their apocalyptic visions in the last 25 years
I know that apocalypse is a biblical reference hence its anthropocentric meaning. But mankind extinction would only be the end of OUR world, not the end of THE world. Funny to think that we see ourselves so important and so powerful that we believe we will bring everything with ourselves in our fall.
Sorry for polluting your thread... While speaking up eco-anxiety doesn't help solve the problem, it soothes for a while.
Your track is great (very good textures) and did its apocalyptical work perfectly!
Hi, @JanKun, and thanks for your thoughtful and interesting response. Not a pollution at all, an extension of the idea, most welcome,and thanks for the GSYBE track , it is beautiful and I didn’t know it..
My selfish thought, being an unnatural being with no issue and no stake in a future without me in it is that, if I do have to die, which apparently I do, I’d find it - interesting- to go out in the end event of all humanity, which would be something, I suppose, rather than just anonymously slipping off the ledger like the countless billion unremarked dead before me… (how’s that for arrogance?).
I think of an image from the movie Deep Impact where at the moment the ‘Extinction Level Event’ asteroid that will kill humanity hits, one character chooses to go to the beach to await the annihilating tsunami it will cause, to meet and almost celebrate the moment of total unavoidable destruction.
At least that would be drama.
I expect though, humanity’s fate will be the much more credible, and grim apocalypse of The Road, a mean, pointless struggle to survive as everything sinks into savagery and despair.
Yes, you are totally right about the anthropocentric view of ‘apocalypse’. There is a fascinating book called ‘The World Without Us’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Without_Us
which makes it very clear that the planet, and the vast amount of the life on it, would be fine, in fact better than fine, if all of humanity were to vanish overnight, and that it would take a lot less time than one might expect for the Earth to recover from the disease of humanity, and for us and all our works to just become a geological layer in the dust.
The hypocrisy of pontificating about such matters on a device assembled by industrial processes which are very much part of our current problem is not lost on me.
One thinks of Shelley, who got it right just over 100 years ago:
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Our arrogance got us to here. Our arrogance may not take us much further.
Lovely stuff as always, foreboding and threat emerging from the clashing harmonies…
I really favour the personal apocalypse theory espoused so beautifully in Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean’s book Signal to Noise; we all see our own inevitable deaths as the end of the world and bringing the rest of it with us somehow eases or rationalises that for us.
Not to say that current developments aren’t pointing to some sort of reckoning for humanity though, but as has been said, it’s not the planet’s problem…
Thank you! I’m enjoying the crunchiness of the presets, rather promiscuously about to post a second, using just one instance this time.
Yes - the world ends when I end. Or should do… I’ll have to check that book out. (My envy of Neil Gaiman frequently prevents me reading him, just because his stuff is so much up my street he’s moved in and started drinking my milk, except he’s brilliant and successful.Mark Gatiss ditto.)
I remember as a child fantasising about having a device implanted next to my heart which would detect when it stopped beating, and would at that moment automatically trigger thermonuclear apocalypse.
I was not a pleasant child.
Um, that was a scary read...
Like the track though...
Ha brilliant, that’s taking it a step further for sure! S2N well worth a look, graphic novel rather than pure prose, I was involved in the abortive attempt to get it made into a feature, though we made some beautiful sequences from it as the pitch/pilot…
I think that’s a brief selection, we used an array of about 13 mini DV cameras to capture the live action stuff, really good fun shoot and wonderfully creative post production, nearly twenty years ago now 😬
Wow, @krupa, that’s some great and creative footage. You have been involved in some interesting projects. And a second vote now for Signal to Noise. Sounds like I need it on my graphic novel list next to Junji Ito…
@Svetlovska Wonderfully dramatic stuff. And I may yet reconsider my decision to pass on Overdrive (disc space was the deciding factor in this case).