Week 43 10/29/17

I am, in fact, promoting an aesthetic concept and concrete idea of sound that is not music.

It is, of course, sound designed with an entirely different purpose than that of music, and one which frees, rather than dominates,  the listener's consciousness, with none of the emotional manipulation that is expected of "musical entertainment".

It is the type of concept commonly viewed as "disruptive". 

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The Celestial Way (Excerpt)  by Black Mountain School

Night Traffic in Open Secrets (Excerpt)  by Black Mountain School

Ancestral Shadows  by Ghost Radio Orchestra

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Compatible with iPod®, iTunes, Windows Media Player and other MP3 players.

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All Black Mountain School and Ghost Radio Orchestra Albums may now be ordered directly from the publisher.

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Week 42 10/22/17

There is a difference between daybreak and twilight.

To generate representations of environments requires transformation and conversion.

The composer must, through myriad means, transform perceptual imagery into sound, and convert the impressions of the senses, particularly the visual and tactile, as well as the auditory, into authentic arrangements of imaginative sound. And what composer and listener hear must be complete in evocative experience.

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Week 41 10/15/17

Ambient music is, first and foremost, music.  It follows various musical paradigms.

"Ambience" is its strength, that being its atmospheric and environmental qualities. Its weakness is predictability: one anticipates its development in musical terms.  Most listeners may find this to be agreeable, yet those with little interest in the style will likely find the experience boring, or less than adequate to their attention.

My interest as a composer of these works lies in the ambience, not in the "music"

I am in opposition to predictability, thus one who utilizes musical elements for purposes "other than the musical".  The object is to create aural metaphor, which is to say, representations of non-musical, atmospheric events as they exist in non-manipulated environments, whether natural or artificially constructed.  An illustration of the former, "natural" sound is the composition The Celestial Way, reflecting Yángshuò, China; the latter, or "man-made" sonic atmosphere may be heard in Night Traffic in Open Secrets, reflecting the municipalities of Beijing and Shanghai.

See below:

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The Celestial Way (Excerpt)  by Black Mountain School

Night Traffic in Open Secrets (Excerpt)  by Black Mountain School

Ancestral Shadows  by Ghost Radio Orchestra

© Crucibulum Publishing (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. 
Compatible with iPod®, iTunes, Windows Media Player and other MP3 players.

Note from Crucibulum Media: 

All Black Mountain School and Ghost Radio Orchestra Albums may now be ordered directly from the publisher.

© The Crucibulum Media Recording Label; Crucibulum Publishing (ASCAP) All Rights Reserved.

Comments?  Questions?  mediaworks@ambimusica.com 

Week 40 10/8/17

Sound is perpetual.

The perceiver tends to become acclimated to environmental sounds, take them for granted, ignore them, and lose perception of them.

While there are numerous paradigms and methods for developing sound compositions, my interest is in manipulating artificial sounds with the goal of reconnecting the perceiver to the continuum of the sonic environment, at all times, anywhere and everywhere.

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Week 39 10/1/17

Perceive sound beyond the senses, through the imagination.

By doing so, heighten the awareness for those sounds that may be perceived. This requires conscious effort, thus a degree of difficulty few will attempt or sustain.

The rewards, nonetheless, for the composer, are commensurate with the task.  Some might suggest these perceptions attain to the borders of the paranormal, and this may not necessarily be a false or misguided perspective.

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Week 38 9/24/17

Perceptions inform consciousness: awareness.

Consciousness informs perception: visionary perspective.

Subjectivity informs perceptual consciousness: falsity.

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Week 37 9/17/17

Utilizing concepts associated with the composition of visual art, manipulate sounds.

The object is a composition created with the elements of music that is not music.

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Week 36 9/10/17

It is never the burden of the artist to accept or address cultural failure.

The failure of a culture to thrive and progress is a collective failure, with collective causes, not the failure of the individual. When the consequences of ignorance are groupthink result in the inability to distinguish objective reality from subjective appearances, cultural perspectives are devalued and degraded.

One may as well expect a stone to applaud the subtleties and dynamics of authentic artistic expression.  And the artist will not waste time seeking such things.

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Week 35 9/3/17

To evoke atmospheres, the composer must minimize the subjective.

The result, in the final expression, is a sense of vibration and the engagement of perception with as little interference, or influence of personal dynamic, as possible.

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Week 34 8/27/17

Widen and expand that which is narrow.

It is possible to listen, and hear, beyond commonly-perceived limits.  The same is true for the art of thinking, as it is so for all the creative arts.

Yet few will make the effort, and to do the work is a challenge only a very few will accept.

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Week 33 8/20/17

Events may be viewed as natural or contrived.

Those who attempt to control culture will be overcome by it.

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Week 32 8/13/17

Artistic expression often serves as a portal to the future.

Where doors are closed, one is looking in the wrong direction.

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Week 31 8/6/17

Authentic perspective lies in the transcendent.

But the word "transcendent" is ruined by shallow usage. Better to say, simply, it is a perspective that is rarely understood.

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Week 30 7/30/17

Momentum is a wave gathered in Memory.

Time Future is potential brought into being by Thought.

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Week 29 7/23/17

Authentic expression worthy of interest implies response, rather than unthinking reaction.

As information alone is of no value without interpretation and evaluation, so is artistic expression of a superficial nature lacking meaning.

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Week 28 7/16/17

Dream Machine is a forward thinking musical group from Austin, Texas.

As a free thinking individual, it is my pleasure to recommend the music of DREAM MACHINE.

DREAM MACHINE

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Week 27 7/9/17

Look, it cannot be seen; listen, it cannot be heard.

Only the artist understands.  And this is the penalty paid by those cultures who demand creativity they will not support because they cannot comprehend that which transcends the mundane.

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Week 26 7/2/17

American music may be compared to radiation, moving in every direction.

It is rooted in a source of American impulse, that of striving, and driving, toward freedom.

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Week 25 6/25/17

Step away from conditioning.

Look ahead, listen ahead.  Do not simply accede to the given narrative of culture.

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Week 24 6/18/17

The limits of the mind are unknown.

The limits of perception may be extended beyond the narrow confines of subjectivity.

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