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Bit of the old Joanna: A Dream Within A Dream
“Is all that we see or seem / But a dream within a dream?
Greater even than Lovecraft, that G.O.A.T of all dreamers of dark and troubling things, one Mr Poe from Boston, would have understood our current living-in-the-Matrix madness of simulacra and deepfakes better than most of his fellows, I feel, at least if his famous short poem of 1849 is anything to go by.
The second of its two brief verses is worth repeating in full, I think:
“I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
@rottencat reminded me recently with one of her own pieces how lovely the Mood Units Waverly Big Softy piano preset is, so I found myself fooling with it this morning, together with a random patch or three I made in the rather excellent and free Primer 2 synth. Atom 2 on sequencer duty. A short and simple little thing, really, but I like the way it turned out.
As ever, shamefully thirsty for your attention…
Happy Weekend, all. Seize a few of those grains while you can…. 
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Nicely done as always @Svetlovska. It’s what we’ve come to expect from you.
Made me think of This Mortal Coil. Really well done!
beautiful dreamscape … really enjoyed it !
You inspired me, will probably watch Inception again today evening ..
Needed headphones for this one, BT speakers ‘strangely’ didn’t cut.
Thought that title was just for artistic purposes, ohh, how wrong I was. You delivered that theme perfectly without any compromise. Your beautiful work reminded me why I love experimental stuff so much, thank you for that. 🤩
@Ben @dendy : thanks, for the listens and the comments.
Yes, Inception, pretty much the movie of that poem. Christopher Nolan frustrates me. Memento was a work of stone cold clever clever genius, but many of his other movies since just seem to be trying too hard. I enjoyed Inception, mainly for the mind bending visual fx, and Interstellar for exploring, like Joe Haldeman’s novel The Forever War, the time dilation effects of star travel. The Batmans, of course. But Dunkirk apparently took place on another, very underpopulated beach in Dunkirk to the one history recognises, and Tenet was borderline incomprehensible. This captures it, I think:
I will see Oppenheimer, of course. Let’s just hope he can resist being too up himself this time. (I’m going to double book and Barbieheimer it
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@michael_m : This Mortal Coil is high praise indeed. They are peerless. Song To The Siren, of course, but also Acid Bitter and Sad, inter many alia
@Luxthor : I’m concerned about the Bluetooth thing. I experienced something similar myself with an audiobook on wireless earbuds recently, where, for whatever reason, the way it had been mastered meant that, presumably, the gating the engineer had used on the actors’s voice, cut off the start of almost every sentence, rendering the audio unlistenable - but only via the wireless buds. Wired headphones worked fine. Other audiobooks still worked fine…
I don’t pay as much attention to mastering as I should. I listen on the iPad, phones, and my home cinema soundbar, and that’s pretty much it. I obviously missed a trick. Thanks for persisting, and mentioning it.
😂😂😂
Actually Tenet is the kind of movie you need to be time travel topic junkie + watch it multiple times ... i am both so i enjoyed it a lot .. saw it already 5x and with ecery new round i understand more and more and discover new detail which makes sense - so i am very satisfied :-))
But it's comolicated movie, ni doubt, even more comolicated which than Primer which was before Tenet for me most complicated TT movies
Warning - huge spoilers:
Ah. Now, Primer I got. Also: what a genius piece of micro budget moviemaking, a very high concept in, literally, a very small box. A handful of actors, a storage facility… and a super smart script.
Each of those hypnotic swells felt like short dreams ending up falling from the sky ! A new kind of Sysyphus torture !
@JanKun : yes, I suspect many people experience my noises as a form of torture
yes, amazing piece … i think budged literally $5000 or something like that .. main actor wrote also script and made all music .. masterpiece
you mean deaf people .. 🤣
I actually like this sensation I am sometimes having while dreaming: free fall, then wake up just before hitting the ground. In this track, each swell feels like this. The repetition of the same free fall dream. I mentioned the word torture because of the adrenaline overdose. I am probably a weirdo 😉
Very hypnotic indeed. So eerily deceptive how the piano pattern continues through the whole track but never sounds dull or uninteresting. those lovely sweeping sounds coming in and out add such atmosphere to this. Very, very nice.
Your words reminded me of a track I haven't listened to in a while, not sure why as it is as beautiful as your track,
Yes, exactly this ! Some serious composition and sound design skills here !! 🫡
I can see the Inception reference here ! Definitely agree with you about Nolan. He is a great director, Memento being his Manifesto. But I find the rest of his filmography to be a repetition of the same frame each time with a different landscape. He has access to incredibly huge budget. That gives him the freedom to create mind bending visuals. I find The plots in recent movies slightly thin. His obsession for the final last twist lost the initial shine of Memento... It sometimes feels like a private joke he is making with himself. I truly hate The Prestige (the only good point is David Bowie as Tesla but the final twist is so expected that I felt I had been taken hostage), and found Tenet boring as hell. Still I like to watch most of his output cause the aesthetic and visual is incredibly detailed and beautiful. The precision reminds me of Kubrick's eyes without the genius mind. Wondering what Oppenheimer final twist will be ...
“Kubrick’s eyes without the genius mind.” - exactly!
Oppenheimer plot twist: the third, hitherto unmentioned bomb actually did end the world as we know it, as they feared it might. We are now living in the reboot, Earth 2.0, in the pocket universe the second, super-secret Staten Island Project was designed to create as a failsafe in just this eventuality…
Final frame, Oppenheimer places a top modelled to look like a miniature mushroom cloud on a table and sets it spinning…
@Sandstorm : Ah, thank you! I had that album back in the day, I loved Propaganda. I forgot they had set the poem to music like this. The relentless metronome of the beat against the fluidity of the brass, and Claudia Brucken’s clipped Germanic delivery… It’s wonderful.
A very interesting piece which kept my attention all the way through. I particularly liked the "reversed?" sounds/noise coming in every often.
@AlterEgo_UK : actually, no. It was my usual trick of creating a second channel for the voices, with reverb on, then riding the reverb trail rapidly from zero and back manually in time (ish) with the running loop on the original channel. ‘Ish’ because riding multiple faders on a glass screen live sometimes is less than precise. A more professional person would have set my various external MIDI fader options up instead, and had actual hands on faders control. I really should do that next time…
Cool idea! Thanks for the information. 😀
Lots of modern music is better when listening on cheap BT speakers. But your piece really needs closed headphones, so they can detach you from the surroundings and emphasize that ‘multidimensional splitter’ passage.
I've kind of developed a habit of changing speakers / headphones til I get the right mood for the target song. Doing the similar for my projects, differences in sound between devices are more than significant. Having a hard time making compromises in my mastering, lack of experience not helping at all. I guess it will come with time.
I deliberately limited devices to three per group. Speakers: MacBook internal speakers -> BT JBL -> Adam monitors. Headphones: Apple in-ears -> DT 240 monitors -> DT 880 Pro. And for the extreme low end checking on my hi-fi, those ones you can only feel but not hear. 🤓
Love it! And you say you’re not a musician…
Final frame, Oppenheimer places a top modelled to look like a miniature mushroom cloud on a table and sets it spinning…
😂🤣😂🤣
And everyone leaves the theater with their own theories. six months from now, a dedicated Oppenheimer website is created. There, a fan explains why the spinning mushroom cloud will keep on spinning for ever: take the audio dialogue around 1hours 36min reverse it, boost the signal by 50dB, if you pay really close attention you'll hear "clearly" the word "Belzebuth" in the background.
+1 Edwards comment 2 up 👍