Halfway thoughts – Late Libran love songs

Just over halfway through my 6th year of the project approaching the actual halfway point of the circle at the end of 6th, beginning of the 7th part. This moment is represented by the sign Libra, a symbol of balance and harmony and the only non-animal sign in the Zodiac.
Does this suggest that balance and harmony are unnatural states? ideas or ideals created rather than observed?

Ruled by Venus it led me to a Welsh folk song “Mae Nghariad I’n Fenws” which I have one version of on the vinyl record above. I found it first in a book of sheet music for recorder ‘ Alawon Cymru ar gyfer y recorder’.

One thing leads to another as Libra and Venus led me to ‘Liebestraum’ by Franz Liszt and a Youtube short. There will be a longer version at some point..

And on to Chanson D’amour by Libran composer Gabriel Faure, which eventually glitched up to become Chanson D’ommage, a combination of Hommage and Dommage – A damaged tribute song perhaps?

During the last week of Libra I worked with Erik Satie’s Gnossienne No1. I know Satie wasn’t a Libran but he is a favourite composer of my good friend and Libran Sean Vicary, for whom this was a birthday gift.
Interesting challenge trying to sequence a composition that has no bar markings and no time signature!

Gnossienne: The Awareness That Someone You’ve Known for Years Still Has a Private and Mysterious Inner Life.
Definition by the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

Sŵn Annwn

As part of the Annwn / Otherworlds exhibition in the Old Sail Loft last week we set up a space to play live with my video projections in the basement. The performance went on through the evening exhibition opening, with each of us playing different parts, drifting in and out over a few hours. The extract above is from the last section where we condensed most of the processes into a manageable 15minutes.

The video projections were of ‘Otherworlds’, a video made from filming clips of trees reflecting in puddles seen on walks around the local area over the last 2 or 3 years.

Live streamed 30th Nov 2024

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Once in a lifetime. The precise second where the palindromic time and date hit last night.

It was 20 years ago in 2002 that I first started playing with virtual synthesisers. I rediscovered them recently and have been finding my way around the amazing free VCV Rack since last September, finding ways to apply live visual effects and overlays to live captured synth improvisations.

This fairly minimal droney one started at 22:00 on 22/02/2022 and lasted 22min. Annoyingly Youtube seems to have cropped a second off to spoil my Twosday!