tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50463323519136138702024-03-05T15:56:40.776-08:00THE BRINK/JEFF PHILLIPS and friendsEXPERIMENTAL MUSIC WITH A MESSAGEJeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-39922179061271465092020-07-29T16:20:00.000-07:002020-08-01T15:46:48.406-07:00THE LUNAE SESSION: Music in Honour of Life, the UNiverse And Everything 22 July 2020 North Central Tasmania :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tristan Simon - tablas, percussion, native American flute, synth, sound</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><strong><em>ON THE BRINK</em> RADIO #331: THE <em>LUNAENCKE</em> NON-VERBAL TALK COSMICITY SESSION<br /><a data-cke-saved-href="https://soundcloud.com/user-344588439/on-the-brink-radio-331-lunaencke-nvtr-cosmicity-session" href="https://soundcloud.com/user-344588439/on-the-brink-radio-331-lunaencke-nvtr-cosmicity-session" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/user-344588439/on-the-brink-radio-331-lunaencke-nvtr-cosmicity-session</a></strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.naturesound.com.au/">DAVID STEWART, BIRD SONG RECORDIST</a></b></span></span><br />
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Thanks to Jules Stanley at UCY.TV for her on-going brilliant alternative-media work, and to Oakhurst, California musician/flute maker Stephen DeRuby, who gave me permission to use his wonderful cd 'Sacred Spaces' in this experiment in 'non-verbal talk radio.'</div>
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On this cd, Stephen played all the instruments himself. This particular cd, as he recorded it, not as you are hearing it now!, has been my favourite and most-listen-to cd over the whole past year. There's something really special, mystical, transcendental, and peaceful about this music. I have layered in the songs of hump-back whales, as well as numerous bird songs and calls from Australia and New Zealand. I don't know, some people might think that these sounds 'get in the way' of the music, but I actually love listening to this project, in which I have given almost equal emphasis or priority to the music and to the bird and whale songs, which is symbolic of my feelings that <i>mitakuye oyasin</i>, 'all my relations', are in fact of equal importance to humans in the grand scheme.</div>
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What you are hearing here is in some ways a precursor to aspects of the sound-track I am working on for my 'beyond film' on the whales and dolphins. Watch the trailer here</div>
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<a href="http://soundcloud.com/jeff-weffersonic/sets/first-ancestor-the-brink-jeff">"FIRST ANCESTOR" The Brink/Jeff Phillips & Friends</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jeff-weffersonic">JEFF WEFFERSONIC</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"This very spatial...I mean, special...piece of music is inapired by and dedicated to <i>'Te Wai Pounamu'</i>, the South Island of <i>Aotearoa</i>, and the ancient Waitaha peoples of Lemuria who once lived here. Originally a jam between three musicians who had never played together before, 'First Ancestor' has evolved into a fully-blown expression of 'geo-sidereal psychedelic-acoustic space-jazz.' After the initial jam, the legendary James Wilkinson returned from Melbourne and added an often-brilliant bass-line; later I filled in some simpler parts, and Blake 'boned' us. I've added such sonic anomalies as galaxy sounds from Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, environmental acoustics from David Dunn, and songs of the hump-back whale. Barry Brailsford tells us that 'stone is the first ancestor.' There you have it. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"THE WHITE ELECTRIC DOG </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>TRANSMISSIONS" <i> </i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The Brink/Jeff Phillips</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>GRAND PIANO IMPROVISATIONS INSPIRED BY NATURE AND THE COSMOS</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"POST-NEW AGE SCIENCE-FICTION ROCK PIANO"</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Here in its entirety is my first serious musical recording done in a state-of-the-art studio, my first...and only, to date...recording that I've taken the trouble to reproduce in cd form. I recorded these nine grand piano improvisations on 23 July, the Egyptian New year, of 1998 at Whitehorse Studios ini Portland, Oregon. In the (boreal) autumn of 1998 I had approximately 1000 cd's manufactured and proceeded to get them out to everyone I knew around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I never claimed actually really to 'play' piano in the true sense of people who are really good. I have always just done my own thing with it. My piano playing has never been about technical virtuosity or how many 'notes' I'm playing or what key it might be in. Even though I played trumpet and tuba and read music for several years in bass and treble clef, I never carried that over into my own music. My music for me has always been more about feeling and spirit than technical ability and notes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So don't expect any Bach...although one person said this reminded him of "21st century Bach'...and don't expect any Chopin...although someone said it reminded them of Debussy's solo piano compositions. It's also been compared to Emerson, Lake and Palmer...but I'm NOWHERE near as good as Keith Emerson. Then there's the George Winston comparison. Once someone over-heard me playing back in the early 1990's and said "Jeff, you sound like George Winston on acid." I liked that, and understood exactly what he meant. Comparisons have also been made with Keith Jarrett, whose playing I admore greatly. I don't grunt when I play, but I'll NEVER be even close to his league of playing piano. By the way, Jarrett was one of two keyboard players who participated in the jams recorded with Miles Davis at the same time Woodstock was happening that went on to become the legendary 'Bitches Brew' album. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I have time I'll re-type the liner notes above. You can listen to the whole cd as one continuous set thanks to <i>Soundcloud</i> above. You should also be able to isolate and/or down-load individual tracks.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You will recognize several of these tracks as we've used a few in the soundtracks to three of our films so far.</span></span></div>
Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-62758095930266817692012-03-23T14:06:00.008-07:002012-03-23T15:53:16.951-07:00"I AM AWARE" JIMI HENDRIX/JEFF PHILLIPS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFeDEdNrR8ZHfC0I6zAjjMQPZrL2PmCoibDsM90APEt3tqFnlbgv52pHMrKaEBnRqP0GxjdlEYda2UnQ29n8gBDBYnABvMpETMmFQ1B-kj3ouKVG7K9GLV8qus3ElzIRyhFxvgayWCZXE/s1600/jimi_hendrix-996.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRFeDEdNrR8ZHfC0I6zAjjMQPZrL2PmCoibDsM90APEt3tqFnlbgv52pHMrKaEBnRqP0GxjdlEYda2UnQ29n8gBDBYnABvMpETMmFQ1B-kj3ouKVG7K9GLV8qus3ElzIRyhFxvgayWCZXE/s320/jimi_hendrix-996.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723206914166988626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCcoK7Gnj-X9Sj931Gmqak7VUs9oLEsbahWBYVHAC-SvxssIevfsc71EVCOwBBLeL9XX9-wRwvIBZygKCn7GSVZ8VFUAY5KU9_OuLbbv_ULaBB3Ry2JveNuBQlfDot9RFdaP4AQo3Xvmn/s1600/lancaster-nuremberg_opt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixCcoK7Gnj-X9Sj931Gmqak7VUs9oLEsbahWBYVHAC-SvxssIevfsc71EVCOwBBLeL9XX9-wRwvIBZygKCn7GSVZ8VFUAY5KU9_OuLbbv_ULaBB3Ry2JveNuBQlfDot9RFdaP4AQo3Xvmn/s320/lancaster-nuremberg_opt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723206823184396482" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2NgctNdPhypYZP8joUwguOs96koKx-8SKObdDUwHOJk1RLuFMqUzrIv12Msx9KeV8F_BH8aZ6tVHRrj3j4I-MGtHIQtApg9I1EXP_B2wB0wbOVp_gXgE0IbzIhjc3_Q3GBZyxK0ptNEp/s1600/judgment.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix2NgctNdPhypYZP8joUwguOs96koKx-8SKObdDUwHOJk1RLuFMqUzrIv12Msx9KeV8F_BH8aZ6tVHRrj3j4I-MGtHIQtApg9I1EXP_B2wB0wbOVp_gXgE0IbzIhjc3_Q3GBZyxK0ptNEp/s320/judgment.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723206738320405410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cobject%20height=%2281%22%20width=%22100%%22%3E%20%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F40736166%22%3E%3C/param%3E%20%3Cparam%20name=%22allowscriptaccess%22%20value=%22always%22%3E%3C/param%3E%20%3Cembed%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20height=%2281%22%20src=%22https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F40736166%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20width=%22100%%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%20%3C/object%3E%20%20%3Cspan%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://soundcloud.com/jeff-wefferson/12-evox-i-am-aware%22%3E12%20EVOX%20I%20am%20aware%3C/a%3E%20by%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://soundcloud.com/jeff-wefferson%22%3EJeff%20Wefferson%3C/a%3E%3C/span%3E"><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F40736166"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" src="https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F40736166" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="81" width="100%"></embed> </object> </a><a href="http://soundcloud.com/jeff-wefferson/12-evox-i-am-aware">12 EVOX I am aware</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/jeff-wefferson">Jeff Wefferson</a><b><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br />NOTE FROM JEFF: Ian McAllister and I did this intense 'message' experiment in 2002 in the wake of 9/11. The messages concerning denial and awareness are of even greater importance in today's world of scientific dictatorship, 'friendly fascism' and a media-modulated reality inversion of hyper-Orwellian proportion. The tie-in with the Third Reich is also appropriate: Amerika, Inc. is inflicting globalist hegemony, resource theft and high-tech genocide in the guises of "humanitarian aid", "liberation", and "freedom and democracy" at levels that make Hiter and company look like silly clowns. And in the same way that millions of 'good people' in Nazi Germany pretended not to know about the concentration camps and went about shopping while the smoke from Auschwitz drifted over-head, millions of patriotic 'Amerikans' go about shopping while the radiation clouds from Fukushima fill their lungs and chem-trails fill the skies. Indigenous third-world peoples are decimated by U.S. military action, dolphins and whales are fried and exploded, yet many people insist that everything is "as its meant to be." Is humanity's obvious obsession with suicide 'meant to be'?</span></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-size:130%;" >“Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-size:130%;" class="GramE" >”<span style=""> </span><span class="SpellE">Jimi</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);font-size:130%;" > Hendrix</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" face="verdana"><o:p></o:p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span class="GramE">I’ve</span> had three dreams in which <span class="SpellE">Jimi</span> Hendrix was the focus.<span style=""> </span>All three dreams were in the past two years.<span style=""> </span>In the first one, I was vacuuming a bedroom and <span class="SpellE">Jimi</span> was asleep in the bed.<span style=""> </span>He <span class="GramE">didn’t</span> wake up.<span style=""> </span>I put a tape of some music onto the stereo, <span class="GramE">then</span> the whole room started to vibrate as if an earthquake was happening.<span style=""> </span>He still <span class="GramE">didn’t</span> wake up.<span style=""> </span>The third dream was at a large party of some kind.<span style=""> </span><span class="SpellE">Jimi</span> and I were there partying, as if we were close friends.<span style=""> </span>No one recognized who he was, except for me.<span style=""> </span>Finally, people started realizing it was <span class="GramE">him</span>, so he got on stage and started doing this really freaky dance with some kinds of fabric things twirling around.<span style=""> </span>He <span class="GramE">didn’t</span> sing or play guitar, just danced.<span style=""> </span>If I remember correctly, he suddenly disappeared into thin air and the fabric dropped to the stage floor. <span style=""> </span>And in the third dream, he was just smiling an<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">d he had a guitar on which he </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GramE">showed<span style=""> </span>me</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In none of the dreams did he ever speak a word.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><o:p></o:p><span lang="EN-GB">These notes concern an experimental piece of <span class="GramE">music which</span> was done on the austral winter solstice of 2002.<span style=""> </span>It was inspired by the film <i style="">Judgment at Nuremberg</i>, a 1964 courtroom drama re-enacting the trial of four Nazi judges, as well as by a dream I had in which a smiling <span class="SpellE">Jimi</span> Hendrix was showing me some stuff on guitar!<span style=""> </span>The dialogue in this piece is from former Minister of Justice for the Third Reich Ernst <span class="SpellE">Janning</span>, played by Burt Lancaster.<span style=""> </span>In the middle of his <span class="SpellE">defense</span> he <span class="GramE">had<span style=""> </span>enough</span> and decided to give the whole truth on why they fell for Hitler and why even men of <span class="SpellE">honor</span>, who weren’t depraved perverts, sat in silence or participated in the most heinous spree of brutality the world had ever witnessed.<span style=""> </span>“If we didn’t know, it was because we didn’t want to know.”<span style=""> </span>This is a <span class="GramE">psycho-therapeutic</span> exorcism of denial…and a message to us all here and now:<span style=""> </span>we ALL are responsible for what is going down in the world…because we all KNOW what is going down!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="GramE">This piece consists of Hendrix’s “The Star-spangled Banner” running normally, along with a “stretched” or slowed-down version of itself;<span style=""> </span>when it reaches the end of the song, it reverses and runs backward from end to beginning, also accompanied by a stretched version;<span style=""> </span>the dialogue is taken directly from the video;<span style=""> </span>in the background is my voice with effects, repeating the mantra “freedom and democracy…<span class="SpellE">greedom</span> and <span class="SpellE">dumbocracy</span>…”</span><span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">And</span> towards the end is my voice sounding like it’s on a loudspeaker reciting the lyrics to “The Scar-Strangled Banter”, a trans-national anathema!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> “There was a fever over the land.<span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger.</span><span style=""> </span>We had a democracy, yes, but it <span class="GramE">was torn</span> by elements within.<span style=""> </span>Above all, there was fear…fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our <span class="SpellE">neighbors</span>, fear of ourselves…only when you understand that can you understand what Hitler meant to us.<span style=""> </span>Because he said to us, ‘Lift your heads.<span style=""> </span>Be proud to be German.<span style=""> </span>There are devils among us…<span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE">jews</span></span>, liberals, gypsies, communists…once these devils will be destroyed your misery will be destroyed.’<span style=""> </span>It was the old, old story of the sacrificial lamb.<span style=""> </span>What about those of us who knew better, who knew the words were lies, worse than lies?<span style=""> </span>Why did we sit silent?<span style=""> </span>Why did we take part?<span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">Because we loved our country.</span><span style=""> </span>What difference does it make if a few political extremists lose their rights?<span style=""> </span>What difference does it make if a few racial minorities lose their rights?<span style=""> </span>It is only a passing phase.<span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">It is only a stage we are going through.</span><span style=""> </span>It will be discarded <span class="GramE">sooner or later</span>.<span style=""> </span>Hitler himself will be discarded…<span class="GramE">sooner or later</span>.<span style=""> </span>The country is in danger.<span style=""> </span>We will march out of the shadows.<span style=""> </span>We will go forward.<span style=""> </span>Forward is the great password.<span style=""> </span>History tells how well we succeeded.<span style=""> </span>We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.<span style=""> </span>The very elements of hate and power about Hitler that mesmerized </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB"> mesmerized the world.<span style=""> </span>We found ourselves with some powerful allies.<span style=""> </span>Things that <span class="GramE">had been denied</span> to us as a democracy were open to us now.<span style=""> </span>The world said “Go ahead, take it…take it.<span style=""> </span>Take <span class="SpellE">Sudanland</span>, take the </span><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Rhineland</span></st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">, <span class="SpellE">rematerize</span> it, take all of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Austria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">, <span class="GramE">TAKE</span> IT!”<span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">And then</span> one day we looked around and found that we were in an even more terrible danger.<span style=""> </span>The ritual began here in this courtroom swept over the land like a raging, roaring disease.<span style=""> </span>What was going to be a passing phase had become the way of <span class="GramE">life.</span><span style=""> </span>Your <span class="SpellE">honor</span>, I was content to sit silent during this trial.<span style=""> </span>I was content to tend my roses.<span style=""> </span>I was even content to let counsel try to save my name.<span style=""> </span>Until I realized that in order to save <span class="GramE">it</span> he would have to raise the spectre again.<span style=""> </span>You have seen him do it.<span style=""> </span>He has done it here in this courtroom.<span style=""> </span>He has suggested that the Third Reich worked for the benefit of people<span class="GramE">;<span style=""> </span>he</span> has suggested that we sterilized men for the welfare of the country;<span style=""> </span>he has suggested that the old Jew did sleep with the sixteen year old girl after all.<span style=""> </span>Once <span class="GramE">more</span> it is being done for the love of country….<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I AM AWARE</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="GramE">!!!!!!!!!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="EN-GB">My counsel would have you believe that we were not aware of the concentration camps.<span style=""> </span><span class="GramE">Not aware.</span><span style=""> </span>Where were we?<span style=""> </span>Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate and Reichstag?<span style=""> </span>Where were we when our <span class="SpellE">neighbors</span> <span class="GramE">were being dragged out</span> in the middle of the night to </span><st1:city style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><st1:place><span class="SpellE"><span lang="EN-GB">Dachau</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="EN-GB">?<span style=""> </span>Where were we when every village in </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">had a railroad terminal where children</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GramE">were being carried off</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to their extermination?</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Were we deaf?</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GramE">Dumb?</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GramE">Blind?</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He would give you the excuse we were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Does this make us any the less guilty?</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Maybe we </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="GramE">didn’t</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> know the details.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But if we didn’t know, it was because we didn’t want to know.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="EN-GB">THE SCAR-STRANGLED BANTER</span><b><o:p></o:p></b><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Say, oh why can’t you see, though <span class="GramE">there’s</span> plenty of light…<o:p></o:p><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB">From the <span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE">tv’s</span></span> bright glare, and incessant loud blasting.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Whose grim tripe and dull stars of the pre-programmed blight;<o:p></o:p><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> “What?<span style=""> </span>So DRY <span class="GramE">a pale</span> ale!” <span class="SpellE">Dubya</span> belched, he was beaming…<o:p></o:p><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> “And with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">’s red threat on our vast internet,<o:p></o:p><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Our </span><st1:state><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Nevada</span></st1:place></st1:state><span lang="EN-GB"> test site says new <span class="GramE">nukes IS</span> a bet…”<o:p></o:p><br /></span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> Oh!<span style=""> </span>Say, does your Sony Trinitron send brain waves…<o:p></o:p><span class="GramE"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="GramE"> O’er the land of those free to become their own slaves!</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="GramE"></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> “I pledge allegiance to the <span class="SpellE">schwag</span> of the New World Order on television;<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; color: rgb(153, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> And to the plutocracy for which it stands, one dictatorship, under <span class="SpellE">Dubya</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 255, 255);" class="GramE"><span lang="EN-GB"> Indistinguishable, from imperially-mobilized free-for-all.”</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-30179871252933114742012-03-02T22:29:00.005-08:002012-03-07T17:55:12.176-08:00"FIRST ANCESTOR" TRACKS W/BARRY BRAILSFORD SPOKEN-WORD<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;">Here are three tracks from my 2002 cd "First Ancestor". Inspiration from Barry Brailsford supplied the title...it's what the Waitaha called ro<span style="font-weight: bold;">ck..."the body of the Earth." </span>The spoken word is from the "Standing Tall in the Real World" volume of his <span style="font-style: italic;">Wisdom Walking</span> series.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Each of these links should allow you to both listen and down-load the tracks.<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:verdana;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">1) "Walking in Beauty"</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;">The opening track from a jam we did in Christchurch in May of 2002 at Duke Dixon's studio near Oxford, which became the "First Ancestor" cd. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ian McAllister</span>, who co-engineered and produced, had recommended Dukes because he had the nicest grand piano, a 100+ year old Steinway grand, and around $50,000 worth of mikes. I invited sax player and vocalist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carmel Courtney</span> (formerly of <span style="font-style: italic;">Hampster</span>), and drummer <span style="font-weight: bold;">Redford Grennel</span> (formerly of <span style="font-style: italic;">Shapeshifter</span>); none of us had ever played together before. Later I added in the simple bass part (in later tracks <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Wilkinson</span> put in some 6-string fretless) and some spoken word by south island metaphysician Barry Brailsford. The phrase "walking in beauty" is an English translation of a Hopi word I once knew but cannot remember...but to have one word that meant that is very cool eh?</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22100%%22%20height=%22166%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%22no%22%20src=%22http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38528811&show_artwork=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E" rel="nofollow"><iframe src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38528811&show_artwork=true" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" width="100%"></iframe></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">2) "SONG OF WAITAHA"</span><br /></span> <div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;">This track opens with gentle piano arpeggios that make me think of a Celtic Cat Stevens. Barry's spoken word, from his </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;">Wisdom Walking</span><span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;"> series, 'Standing Tall in the Real World", takes us on a journey into the world-view of the ancient indigenous people of the south island</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;">. "The real world is immense..."</span><br /><br /></span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?xnus5hkbd8dxcxg"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22100%%22%20height=%22166%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%22no%22%20src=%22http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38525303&show_artwork=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E" rel="nofollow"><iframe src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38525303&show_artwork=true" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" width="100%"></iframe></a><br /></span></div> <div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 153, 255);">3) "RETURN TO AOTEAROALON JAM (SEP TEPI PRE-MIX)"</span><br /></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:verdana;"> <span style="font-family:arial;">This is the last track of the "First Ancestor" cd...it's a 16 minute recapitulation of the whole previous jam. At around the 14 minute mark, after James Wilkinson's freaky bass glissando, it takes a turn for deep space...and ends up with time-stretched humpback whale sounds! check it out...("Sep Tepi" is the original world in the ancient history of the Egyptians...the "golden age" or "garden of Eden"...)</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 255, 255);">"We stand at the greatest cross-roads reached by human kind." Barry Brailsford</span><br /><br /></span></div> <a rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m1cikjo0ettcvqe"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22100%%22%20height=%22166%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%22no%22%20src=%22http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38525022&show_artwork=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E" rel="nofollow"><iframe src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38525022&show_artwork=true" frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" width="100%"></iframe></a><br /><a rel="nofollow"></a></span><a rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m1cikjo0ettcvqe"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20width=%22100%%22%20height=%22166%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20frameborder=%22no%22%20src=%22http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F38528811&show_artwork=true%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E" rel="nofollow"></a>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-77612851001913187132011-07-17T02:03:00.000-07:002011-07-17T02:26:19.916-07:00MUSICAL EXPERIMENTS by JEFF PHILLIPS<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-B7LPdYR4qiF9kBDhMNdl8V5-7hQsDtkTqKPnBIm8bAO6ujHU0jqDvWDHwZdBqzNVUwcvRwTc6iyO9erUbdIFN_WiHx2Kz12dEkRdhKJHD6F8f9dbCbHnyKgPLxhWZgRXev1TNUqtGZQ/s1600/hal_9000_1279206348.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHSd3GwVGoXY9AgWMPPUlAVuXpzM2I2S525OpJbG3KDh2fhv13G5WLyYWTEVsxNChgcG2lEv4jwONZUfQi71pm09Hb9rRUpqAfXAklhEqGW3cz_STeVOrG48GlSpouCLS4AVw024u8tge/s320/number3.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630248834956148514" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"HAL'S JUST ALRIGHT"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">In this <span style="font-style: italic;">Cubase</span> experiment I extracted the introductory drum phrase from "Jesus is Just Alright with Me" by the <span style="font-style: italic;">Doobie Brothers</span>, and layered some old Tangerine Dream in with some of the soundtrack from Kubrick's <span style="font-style: italic;">2001: A Space Odyssey.</span><br /><br /></span><a href="http://snd.sc/ieA6kJ"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >http://snd.sc/ieA6kJ</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >"TRILOBITE"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This "classic" science-rap song was recorded in Boulder, Colorado in 1995, after I'd been contacted by "trilobite consciousness" while climbing <span style="font-style: italic;">Sis Naajini</span>, "the home of the sky people" in the Sangre de Christos.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://snd.sc/nGkvTU"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >http://snd.sc/nGkvTU</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >"AQUATEAROA DREAMING"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">This piece was recorded by music wizard Ian McAllister in Christchurch, New Zealand in February of 2010. I played Yamaha 7-foot grand piano, acoustic guitar, and real drums. This song also constitutes the beginning and ending portions of the soundtrack to our film <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Te Waiwaia Dreaming"</span> which can be watched from the link below.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://snd.sc/qOUitd"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >http://snd.sc/qOUitd</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >"Te Waiwaia Dreaming"</span> (video)<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_video/tewaiwaia-dreaming.html">http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_video/tewaiwaia-dreaming.html</a>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-35633003513318336322009-10-25T15:54:00.000-07:002009-10-25T16:25:40.068-07:00E-VOX (1985-2002) [EARLY RECORDINGS]<span style="font-family: verdana;">These are my earliest recordings, from "Threshold/Infotoxin", which is my first multi-tracking experiment, to "Sanskrit Fourier Operator", done on the then brand-new NED Synclavier, to "science rap" tune "Trilobite", to "Frat Yak", which has a drum&bass beat at 180bpm!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">1) Interview, Jeff Phillips & Andrew Haig, PBS-FM, Melbourne, June 2001 (part 1)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?n1n2tdmjjtt">http://www.mediafire.com/?n1n2tdmjjtt</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">2) Sound Collage (Mickey Hart/Fiorella Terrenzi/humpback whales)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?p1l1yyluilz">http://www.mediafire.com/?p1l1yyluilz</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">3) Interview, Jeff Phillips & Andrew Haig, PBS-FM, Melbourne, June 2001 (part 2)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?m0jdqtimx2m">http://www.mediafire.com/?m0jdqtimx2m</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">4) "Threshold/Infotoxin" (1985)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?4ty2whn2jki">http://www.mediafire.com/?4ty2whn2jki</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">5) "Einstein's Brain" (1985)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?myzwmng5izm">http://www.mediafire.com/?myzwmng5izm</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">6) "SDI" (lyrics by Carl Sagan) (1985)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?kdoo1c1mduu">http://www.mediafire.com/?kdoo1c1mduu</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">7) "Air-borne Plutonium" (1989)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?thzg2n44xqn">http://www.mediafire.com/?thzg2n44xqn</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">8) "Sanskrit Fourier Operator" (1987)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?22nzo4ydwf2">http://www.mediafire.com/?22nzo4ydwf2</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">9) "American Lullaby" (1995)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2q3yymxdhmn">http://www.mediafire.com/?2q3yymxdhmn</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">10) "Kybernetes" (1991)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ft3kidnwzlz">http://www.mediafire.com/?ft3kidnwzlz</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">11) "Trilobite" (1995)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?kqgryi130iw">http://www.mediafire.com/?kqgryi130iw</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">12) "Return of the Lorax" (1995)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mn52zkjoqgj">http://www.mediafire.com/?mn52zkjoqgj</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">13) "Frat Yak" (1989)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?zwdzqwqwz2d">http://www.mediafire.com/?zwdzqwqwz2d</a><br /><br /><a id="ancfilename1" class="foldername" href="http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?n1n2tdmjjtt" target="_blank"></a>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-34621360846141961732009-08-15T01:36:00.001-07:002012-03-02T15:53:43.033-08:00"CRYO 2008" SOUNDTRACK MUSIC<span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >Here are the tracks from the movie in their order of appearance. Clicking on the url link will take you to my mediafire page where you can download an mp3 of each track. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >1) "Walking in Beauty" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?b1yjxmiimoj"> http://www.mediafire.com/?b1yjxmiimoj</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >2) "Volcano" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?rwwwztjemo2"> http://www.mediafire.com/?rwwwztjemo2</a></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?rwwwztjemo2"><br /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >3) "Water" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?2yun1jcjcx9">http://www.mediafire.com/?2yun1jcjcx9</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >4) "Song of Waitaha" <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;"> </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?xnus5hkbd8dxcxg">http://www.mediafire.com/?xnus5hkbd8dxcxg</a><div><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >5) "Sunny friends on dunes of flowers" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?jnb15hzkgou"><span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.mediafire.com/?jnb15hzkgou</span><br /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >6) "Maximal Tilt/Deconstruction of the Universe" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?bug110pm0zd">http://www.mediafire.com/?bug110pm0zd</a></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?bug110pm0zd"><br /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >7) "George Winston on Acid" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?q07znqobkmz">http://www.mediafire.com/?q07znqobkmz</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >8) Spring Studio Session 3 <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?8yrjhuzzzzt"> http://www.mediafire.com/?8yrjhuzzzzt</a><br /><br />9) "Spankin' the Yank" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?mjzx92vlmez">http://www.mediafire.com/?mjzx92vlmez</a><br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >10) "A Scottish Theme" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?dpm9lw1gtn2">http://www.mediafire.com/?dpm9lw1gtn2</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >11) "Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere/Charlie Brown Goes to Proxima Centauri" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?bwxu2xc1ksu">http://www.mediafire.com/?bwxu2xc1ksu</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >12) Spring Studio Session 4 <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?ymvyfbtgm3a">http://www.mediafire.com/?ymvyfbtgm3a</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >13) Theme from "The Rockist" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?vv1xhx">http://www.mediafire.com/?vv1xhx</a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 204);font-family:verdana;" >14) "Beyond the Eschaton (Back to Whaledreaming Remix)" </span><a style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 204, 204);" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?yzq3tic2oh5">http://www.mediafire.com/?yzq3tic2oh5</a><br /><div style="position: absolute; left: 536px; top: 491px; width: 80px; height: 14px; z-index: 99;"><embed id="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" src="http://www.mediafire.com/js/zeroclipboard/ZeroClipboard.swf" loop="false" menu="false" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="id=1&width=80&height=14" wmode="transparent" align="middle" height="14" width="80"></embed></div><div style="position: absolute; left: 536px; top: 491px; width: 80px; height: 14px; z-index: 99;"><embed id="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" src="http://www.mediafire.com/js/zeroclipboard/ZeroClipboard.swf" loop="false" menu="false" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="id=1&width=80&height=14" wmode="transparent" align="middle" height="14" width="80"></embed></div><div style="position: absolute; left: 536px; top: 491px; width: 80px; height: 14px; z-index: 99;"><embed id="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" src="http://www.mediafire.com/js/zeroclipboard/ZeroClipboard.swf" loop="false" menu="false" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="ZeroClipboardMovie_1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="id=1&width=80&height=14" wmode="transparent" align="middle" height="14" width="80"></embed></div>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-52177110744836490362009-08-15T01:15:00.000-07:002009-08-15T01:16:36.104-07:00NOTES ON THE MUSIC (4)<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PIANO EXPERIMENTS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Walking in Beauty"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...the opening track from a jam we did in Christchurch in May of 2002 at Duke Dixon's studio near Oxford, which became the "First Ancestor" cd. Ian McAllister, who co-engineered and produced, had recommended Dukes because he had the nicest grand piano, a 100+ year old Steinway grand, and around $50,000 worth of mikes. I invited sax player and vocalist Carmel Courtney, and drummer Redford Grennel (now of Shapeshifter); none of us had ever played together before. Later I added in the simple bass part (in later tracks James Wilkinson put in some 6-string fretless) and some spoken word by south island metaphysician Barry Brailsford. The phrase "walking in beauty" is an English translation of a Hopi word I once knew but cannot remember...but to have one word that meant that is very cool eh?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"George Winston on Acid"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Once a friend of mine in the states was listening to me play piano and he said "Jeff, you sound just like George Winston on Acid." I knew exactly what he meant...George Winston was/is a very popular sort of "new age" pianist who was one of the first artists to be released on the Windham Hill label. My piano playing that my friend heard, which was quite mellow, like George's, was significantly more abstract than Winston's...hence the "on acid" part. When I recorded my first cd of grand piano improvisations in 1998 ("The White Electric Dog Transmissions"), I was sure to record a piece by this name. it's quite melodic...thanks George for the inspiration!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere/Charlie Brown goes to Proxima Centauri" </span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This jam was the fourth track of the Proxigean Solstice Session I did in Atlanta in December of 1999 with drummer Zach Velmer of Sector 9. I was imagining seeing the stars of the southern hemisphere for the first time (although it was to be several months until I actually saw them) come out at dusk, then taking off on a journey out among them. The piano theme I came up with in this jam reminded me of the Peanuts theme, hence the name. Proxima Centauri is actually the closest star to the Earth/Sun. It's not very bright, but is a part of the trinary system we see as Alpha Centauri, one of the "pointers" in the southern sky...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) through 7) These are piano improvisations from my first cd, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"The White Electric Dog Transmissions"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I just sat at the piano and thought of tornadoes (on this one I told the engineer to go crazy with effects...", stars, and water, and the "insignificance of humanity" in the grand scheme...do we matter to anyone other than ourselves? Do we even matter to ourselves???</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Return to Aotearolan Jam/Beak of Time (Sep Tepi premix)"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This is the last track of the "First Ancestor" cd...it's a 16 minute recapitulation of the whole previous jam. At around the 14 minute mark, after James Wilkinson's freaky bass glissando, it takes a turn for deep space...and ends up with time-stretched humpback whale sounds! check it out...("Sep Tepi" is the original world in the ancient history of the Egyptians...the "golden age" or "garden of Eden"...)</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-14529314272998330552009-08-15T01:12:00.000-07:002009-08-15T01:14:27.973-07:00NOTES ON THE MUSIC (3)<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">GUITAR/JAMS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Vladischlock Chase"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and 2) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" Brink Anthem" </span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> These tracks were part of the "Frankenspine/Volcano Session" done in Wellington NZ in May of 2005, with drummer Glenn Fletcher. I was playing a Yamaha 7 foot grand piano and a Roland D-70 synth at the same time.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) This is a nicely recorded </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">guitar improvisation</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> done at Harry Williamson's studio in Melbourne in 2004. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) through 7) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"GAT-earoa Session"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> These are guitar over-dubbing experiments done again at Ian McAllister's studio in Chch in September of 2005...my first attempts at guitar over-dubbing. I used a Peter Stephen classical guitar, a Takamine 12 string, and my modified Crafter six-string...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Mountain Summer Jam"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This is a jam between me on grand piano and my friend Dave Bredel from New Jersey...we recorded this on his mobile tape deck in a practice room of the music dept. at CU in Boulder in the summer of 1989</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Night of the Electric Schmetterling Jam"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This is a 4 minute excerpt from a jam done in Wellington NZ with me on grand piano and acoustic guitar, Takumi Motokawa on piano, percussion and pipe organ, and Tristan Carter on electric violin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">10) through 13) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Berry Bunch Jam"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> a jam at my friend Helm Ruifrock's place in Christchurch...I was sitting in with Helm and his group which I called the "Berry Bunch" because Berry was the lead singer and female sex icon! On these tracks I was playing either drum kit or percussion.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">14) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Man was in the Forest" </span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This is really my first 'symphonic' composition, done on Cubase at pre-hacking levels while living on the base of an active volcano in Chile last winter. I was somehow inspired to layer together the following: samples of the Ligeti composition "Atmospheres" from the soundtrack from 2001: A Space Odyssey; Fiorella Terenzi's galaxy sounds (she's an essential ingredient for any serious space-sounding experiment!); I think some David Dunn might be in there; some didge tracks mutated in various ways; and the voice is Bambi's mom, from the original movie. There had been a disturbance in the forest, and in a moment of complete silence, Bambi asked his mom what was wrong. She replied, "Man...was in the forest."</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-24870651509122764342009-08-15T01:09:00.000-07:002009-08-15T01:12:06.287-07:00NOTES ON THE MUSIC (2)<span style="font-weight: bold;">(<span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EVOX "Electronic/Vocals")</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) and 3) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">interview with me and Andrew Haig</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on a radio show he was doing called "Future Static" on PBS-FM in Melbourne. I was involved in communication work with dolphins using music in the early 80's...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sound Collage</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> composed of three audio tracks playing simultaneously...no planned synchronizations...Mickey Hart, "Drumming at the Edge of Magic"; Fiorella Terenzi galaxy sounds; and songs of the humpback whale recorded by Roger Payne. This was done during intermission of a concert by a Boulder band called Midnight Kitchen. I was doing visuals for them, and at the break I had three cd players going into the board...I just started them one after the other...I let it run for all of the break, the whole thing is about 20-30 minutes long...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Threshold/Infotoxin"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> These are the first songs that I ever multi-tracked, playing Emulator "Drumulator" drum machine (that's a sample of John Bonham of Zeppelin on kick!), Prophet 5 synth, strat, and vocals. Engineer Rick Chapman played lead guitar on "infotoxin." It was meant to be a piss-take, an advert for 'infotoxin' = bullshit in mass-media! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Einstein's Brain".</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">..the true story of how they saved Einstein's brain in a jar, against his will! This song was recorded at Rick Chapman's Harmonic Labs in 1985; this and "Threshold/Infotoxin" got played on several college radio stations and enabled me to get to meet Frank Zappa in Berkeley in 1985.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"SDI" </span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> or "Strategic Defense Initiative"...based on the Reagan administrations plan to build "weapons in space"...to fulfill Hitler's vision of military dominance from space. I did this using a Korg Poly 6 synth and a Yamaha drum machine...this was 1985 when drum machines were just coming out. The lyrics are from a Carl Sagan pamphlet on the implications of nuclear war.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Airborne Plutonium"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This one was recorded only to a re-used cheap cassette on a Roland D-50 in the basement of a friend's apartment in Boulder CO in the summer of 1989. Rocky Flats, a plutonium processing facility, was located only 30 miles to the north and "airborne plutonium" had been a recent item appearing in various Boulder news media</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Sanskrit Fourier Operator"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> All I have of this was recorded on a cassette, hence the shitty sound. But the original was a brilliant digital recording done using an at that time brand new Synclavier with a Roland D-50 midied to it...my friend Scott was working at a studio called Prosonus in LA and he invited me to come and check out the new Synclavier...I just sat down at it and started dialing up some sounds. first the shaker part, then the bass/synth part...then the percussion, then the strings from the D-50. Because the Synclav was new and the sound samples were hot, he refused to give me the song in digital format. This was a great pity...by the time I made it back to LA Scott was in Berkeley...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Earthquake Jam"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This jam was a very special occurrence...I had met Carl Malone at the recording studio of Michael Boddicker in LA, at an Emulator party. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena working on I believe it was space probe power systems. He was a killer flute player and also had built his own digital reverb unit. He invited me up to his place for a jam. He played flute and I played his synth, using a bunch of his own samples/sounds, through his new reverb system. It was a KILLER jam. After we stopped playing, we sat on the veranda on the nice southern California September evening. We both noted that the crickets and bugs sounded unusually loud. Next morning, when I was on-lab at JPL nearby, a 6.2 earthquake happened. We figured that the insects somehow sensed that it was coming and were letting us know...and hence the name of the jam.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">10) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Trilobite"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This and track (11) were done at Daktaris Sound in Boulder in May-June of 1995. I played keyboard drums and synths, as well as vocals. I had just done a trek onto Blanca Peak in southern Colorado, one of the four sacred mountains of the Navajo, their name being "Sis Naajini", "the home of the sky people." After hiking on that mountain, all I could think about was trilobites. It was like trilobite consciousness hit me out of the blue. I was inspired to read up on them and do this song...they were nature's first use of the eye...a compound eye, like an insect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Return of the Lorax" </span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> After my visit to Sis Naajini, I also was inspired to write a poem called "Return of the Lorax", picking up where Dr. Seuss' s book leaves off. I did this at Daktaris studio; I played Doctor Dan Burns' 1964 Strat, keyboard bass and drum programming.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">12) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "I am aware"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> might be the freakiest thing I have ever done. It was inspired by a dream I had in which Jimi Hendrix showed me some stuff on guitar. I took his Woodstock performance of "The Star Spangled Banner", recorded it, then reversed it, all on one track. Next track was all of this but slowed down. Then we (I was working with Ian McAllister on the winter solstice of 2002 in Christchurch) added in some dialogue from an excellent film called Judgment at Nuremberg, which is a re-enactment of the trial of four Nazi judges for their part in the Third Reich. Then I recorded my own voice, pitch-shifted one octave lower and one octave higher, saying the words "Freedom and democracy...greedom and dumbocracy..." Then, near the end, I recite the words to "The Scar-Strangled Banter"...my piss-take version of Amerika's "transnational anathema."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">13) </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Frat Yak"</span><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> This was done during an impromptu visit to Steve Koppe's RedDoor Audio studio in Boulder in the summer of 1989. I had written the lyrics ahead of time...again, a piss-take on the partying scene in Boulder, based on my experience of being in a fraternity in college...I lovingly refer to it now as "Phry Krappa Trou"...a social group in which people were free to eat acid and shit themselves! My live-in experiment in primate social psychology lasted a year...but I will always remember "frat yakking"!</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-30925365075371352912009-08-15T01:03:00.000-07:002009-08-15T01:09:07.462-07:00NOTES ON THE MUSIC (1)<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;">(RECENT/FREAKY)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Coming Forth by Day" </span> This is the first time I ever over-dubbed synth with acoustic guitar. It's dedicated to my mom and dad who got killed in a car wreck a couple years ago...it was VERY heavy but it was if the angels came and got them...and they got to go together. Cosmically it was somehow all ok. "Coming forth by day" is how the ancient Egyptians referred to what we call "death"...to them, it was a waking up into a vaster and brighter eternity...to them, THIS life was the 'dream' and THAT the 'reality.' This song is not only for my parents...it is my message to anyone who has experienced the 'death' of loved ones...and it is a journey that we ALL will go on...and it's all ok!!! This song is my message to humanity...that what we call "death" is NOT an end or something to be feared...but a wonderful awakening into a vaster eternal reality...a return to cosmic love and a bliss beyond our wildest imaginings here now.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Beyond the Eschaton" </span> Tracks 1, 2 and 3 here I did at my friend Ian McAllister's studio in Christchurch last spring. I sort of went to the next level with my music...I played acoustic and electric guitar together for the first time, and I played percussion and synth together with these guitars as well. "Eschaton" means 'the end of the world.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">3) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Day the Sky Stood Down"</span> Here is the birth of the new style I created called "perc and gat"..."percussion and guitar" instead of "drum and bass." It's got a drum&bass rhythm done on bongos and congas played with mallets. I had my foot on the high-hat, and overdubbed the tambourine and shakers. Ian said it reminded him of music from an old ufo movie.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Day the Sky Stood Down"("oscillate your plasma column" remix) </span> This has the rhythm track from (3), with sound modulations, and an acoustic guitar part. I LOVE this sound. It's not really finished...it needs an electric guitar part over it and maybe a synth bass line.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">5) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Day..." (Colossus remix)</span> Colossus is a supercomputer in a science-fiction film by the same name. I put this onto a remix that Ian did of "The Day the Sky Stood Down"...it consists of these complex noise fields. I took Ian's mix then reversed it and overlaid it onto the forward version...pretty freaky sounding. It ends up with the introductory rhythm track going backwards.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">6) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"The Day...(Bone-seeker/Permanent Brain damage remix) </span> This piece is still pretty rough. There's a lot going on...the woman is Leuren Moret, probably the world's leading researcher/educator re: health effects of the nuclear scenario. You also hear Godzilla, theme from The Outer Limits and the Twilight Zone; Dr. Ted Wyman, Canadian DU researcher...over-laid onto Ian's remix of the original "Day the Sky Stood Down"...the vocals are are from mp3's I got from the net and reconstituted into .aifs...hence the poor audio quality. I will do more work on this track to clear out spaces where now you can't make out what they're saying...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">7) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Permanent Contamination"</span> Here we begin with sounds from Dr. Fiorella Terenzi, which are acoustic versions of the signals from two colliding radio galaxies, and the voice of Santa Fe artist David Dunn modulated by algorithms he devised based on mathematical properties of Enochian intelligences communicated with by John Dee in the 16th century (Dee was a psychic in the employ of the Queen of England and was supposedly the original James Bond). Then the voice of Dr. Ted Wyman, and a rhythm track of tabla and drum kit by Karsh Kale.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">8) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Burcsodni Whale" </span> This track has some whale sounds over-laid with a song called "Indoscrub" by Mickey Hart from his "Supralingua" cd..."burcsodni" is "indoscrub" backwards!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Cymbalic Supra-Orca"</span> This one has the opening high-hat phrase from Jeff Beck's "Blue Wind" over-dubbed with didge from David Johnson, Paul Horn playing flute inside the Great Pyramid, and sounds of the orca, aka the "killer whale"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">10) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Kyber-Kosmos Experiment" </span> Again, a very rough sketch of an idea...the opening synth part is from a piece I recorded in Atlanta in 1991 called "Kybernetes" using the "universe" patch of the Korg M1. The female voice is from Ann Druyan, widow of and former collaborator with astronomer Carl Sagan. This is from her introduction to the dvd release of the Cosmos tv series. My music fades and then comes a rhythm loop from a track from Charles Lloyd's cd "Sangam" with Eric Harland on drums and Zakir Hussein on tablas/percussion. Beneath that are 3 tracks of native American flute from Coyote Oldman, modulated and slowed-down.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Honky Zep-Smith"</span> This one starts with a synth line from Steve Miller called "Threshold" overdubbed with the opening drum riff from "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Stones as well as the opening bars of Led Zeppelin's "Immigration Song" going backwards; these give way to the opening bars of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles, then the opening phrase from the intro to the original Outer Limits tv series...then a rhythm loop alternating between "immigration Song"'s opening bar and Aerosmith's "Walk this way"'s opening beat...overlaid with the Outer Limits thing, a voice from an Adbusters "advert" for the fat content of a Big Mac, and the voice of the People's very own Dubya aka Herr Shrubdolf Gitler saying "go home and die"...this one is fit for MTV if any of my music is!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">12) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Godzilla-Tornado"</span> Here I took a segment from Steven Spielberg's really cheesy film Tornado where an F-5 is coming to suck them all up...then I put in Godzilla's footsteps and sound, from a Gong song called "Gongzilla" and then Godzilla's "actual" sound from the original movie. I LOVE doing this kind of stuff...I can't wait to do it with visuals, too! Imagine seeing Godzilla roar and the exhalation becomes an inhalation which sucks everything into her mouth, just like a giant tornado would do. The part I REALLY want to show is this really fat chick running for the storm cellar when all of a sudden she remembers her 3 liter bottle of Diet Coke is still in the kitchen..."Honey...my Diet Coke...IT'S STILL IN THE KITCHEN. YOU HAVE TO GO BACK IN AND GET IT...PLEASSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">13) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Dunn-Interspecies"</span>...here we have more of David Dunn's Enochian voice algorithms mixed with assorted marine life sounds courtesy of Jim Nollman's Interspecies Communication organization</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">14) <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Didge Project" </span> I took didge tracks from three different players and fucked them up as fully as I could...</span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5046332351913613870.post-41920782940519925262009-08-15T00:59:00.000-07:002009-08-15T01:01:08.544-07:00"The Music I Make" Jeff Phillips<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I began to play trumpet in the seventh grade when I was 13, then I switched to tuba/sousaphone in the tenth grade;<span style=""> </span>consequently, I learned to read and play both treble and bass-clef music.<span style=""> </span>My participation in band stopped after high school.<span style=""> </span>Then, in 1978, a couple years after I had quit college, I bought a classical guitar (the only instrument I have ever owned other than a shaker egg or drum-sticks!).<span style=""> </span>I took one classical guitar lesson.<span style=""> </span>Then I decided I would teach myself guitar and piano.<span style=""> </span>Now, 25 years later, I have developed a certain level of proficiency on guitar and piano, as well as drums and bass.<span style=""> </span>But I’m really more of a composer than a player.<span style=""> </span>I am by no means whatsoever anywhere approaching virtuoso-level abilities on any instrument, but I can do some cool stuff on them.<span style=""> </span>I am probably as good as or better than a good rock band, myself.<span style=""> </span>I cannot tell you much I love music, both to listen and to play.<span style=""> </span>To me, practicing and playing has always been the same thing.<span style=""> </span>My favorite instrument is a nice grand piano…there’s nothing like it.<span style=""> </span>I would have to say that my earliest and biggest inspiration here was Keith Emerson then maybe Elton John and Keith Jarrett.<span style=""> </span>I also liked Stevie Winwood’s piano, and the guys in Supertramp.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>It’s funny, I have a lot of friends who are musicians of various kinds, and some of them quite good.<span style=""> </span>Most of them have a lot of respect for what I do, although sometimes the more technically oriented might have a good laugh at how I play!<span style=""> </span>Which is all well and good, as I have never taken making music “seriously.”<span style=""> </span>This does NOT mean that I do not put my best efforts into what I do;<span style=""> </span><i style="">au contraire</i>, that is ALL I do.<span style=""> </span>It DOES mean that I have never taken myself over-seriously as a musical artist;<span style=""> </span>I do not dwell on technical perfection in terms of notes and I am not into repeated takes which diminish spontaneity.<span style=""> </span>My playing has been compared to people as diverse as Keith Emerson, Keith Jarrett, Lyle Mays, George Winston, Elton John, Stevie Winwood and composers Bach, Chopin, DeBussy, and Steve Reich.<span style=""> </span>I am nowhere nearly as good technically as most of these guys, and<span style=""> </span>could never hope to be;<span style=""> </span>it’s the spirit of the music that I am all about…not the notes, the technical precision, the stucture of the composition or the chord progressions…but the <i style="">music</i> in the music.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>My basic philosophy of music is that LISTENING is by far the most important aspect of the musical experience.<span style=""> </span>If you can’t hear or aren’t listening, you are completely missing the boat.<span style=""> </span>Even if you can’t play a note on anything, the entire universe of sound is available to you through your ears and through modern technologies of recording and transmission.<span style=""> </span>Even when you are PLAYNG music, listening is STILL the most important aspect;<span style=""> </span>only through acute listening do you know what the other musicians are doing and in fact what YOU are doing, and how it all fits together.<span style=""> </span>Really good music can be made from extremely simple parts played by several people, which fit together well.<span style=""> </span>It’s really what you DON’T play as much as it is what you PLAY.<span style=""> </span>And I put a lot of emphasis on “play.”<span style=""> </span>Why is it called “playing” music?<span style=""> </span>Because…AND DON’T EVER FORGET IT!…it’s supposed to be FUN!<span style=""> </span>That’s what playing is all about…it’s fun and you don’t take it too seriously.<span style=""> </span>This helps you keep the clear and open spiritual orientation needed to play good music.<span style=""> </span>All too many very talented musicians totally lose touch with the “fun” dimension as they plow deeper into the ruts of “success”, fame and celebrity, and related problem areas like molecular dependencies and having too much money in general.<span style=""> </span>All of this distracts you from PLAYING MUSIC.<span style=""> </span>It’s the music that I love, not all this other stuff.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>Over the years I have tended to do two basic things in terms of making music, other than playing piano or guitar alone whenever I can.<span style=""> </span>I have done several studio recordings, where I play mostly everything myself but then have say some flute or lead guitar put in by the owner of the studio.<span style=""> </span>The first of my studio recordings were a pair of “post-industrial techno-rap” songs, “Threshold/Infotoxin” and “Einstein’s Brain”, done in Atlanta in the spring of 1985.<span style=""> </span>These songs got airplay on maybe a dozen college radio stations over the next year.<span style=""> </span>I was big-time!!!!<span style=""> </span>The first time I ever played “live” in front of an audience was that first Widespread Panic show in Athens in June of 1985.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>Through the rest of the 80’s and all through the 90’s I would on occasion do a studio recording here and there, depending where I was or who I might meet.<span style=""> </span>I would also do an occasional live gig, mainly in either Athens or Boulder, where I would pull together some of who I considered to be excellent local talent, then we would just do a spontaneous live jam on stage.<span style=""> </span>These always turned out extremely well.<span style=""> </span>We did a few in Boulder that people said sounded like Miles Davis and Weather Report;<span style=""> </span>in November of 1989, we did one at Quigley’s, a coffee-shop at CU-Boulder, where we showed the film <b style="">2001:<span style=""> </span>A Space Odyssey</b> and jammed an alternative sound-track for it, in honor of the peak in the sunspot cycle happening at that time.<span style=""> </span>Probably the best live gig we ever did was an outdoor jam for Earth Day 1992 at the University of Georgia in Athens.<span style=""> </span>The feedback was great;<span style=""> </span>but the guitarist forgot to turn on the DAT machine, so the show went totally unrecorded.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>In 1985 I had decided to use the name <b style="">The Brink</b> for all of my musical projects.<span style=""> </span>I thought it summed up the state-of-the-world at the time…the Reagan administration threatening to nuke the Soviet Union’s “evil empire.”<span style=""> </span>And being an ecological and information activist I was acutely aware of the many problems confronting humanity as one of many life-forms on the Earth.<span style=""> </span>I realized that the word “brink” has a heavy connotation to most people…the “brink of doom”, the “brink of destruction”, the “brink of extinction.”<span style=""> </span>But I defined the brink as the limit of our perception, the horizon of navigation…not an edge we can fall off of!<span style=""> </span>Many people had told me that I should do the sound-track for a science-fiction movie, based on how my music sounded.<span style=""> </span>The Brink sounded like a good name to use.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.4pt; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=""> </span>In 1998 I recorded what was to become my first cd, <b style="">The White Electric Dog Transmissions</b>.<span style=""> </span>I did it in Portland, Oregon on July 23, the date of the Egyptian new year, after flying over to Salt Lake City and hitching down into the Four-corners area, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado all meet, to gather energy and inspiration.<span style=""> </span>According to the Hopi Indians, this area is the “navel of the Earth” and is a major planetary vortex.<span style=""> </span>This recording consists of nine grand piano improvisations, and is so-called because according to Jose Arguelles’ Mayan calendar, that day was the “white electric world-bridger”, and the Egyptian new year was when the star Sirius, the “dog star”, became visible again after 70 days of being in conjunction with the sun.<span style=""> </span>This music expresses a lot of feelings I have;<span style=""> </span>it’s not about the notes or technical ability or lack thereof.<span style=""> </span>It’s about conveying a sense of the cosmos…and the uncertainty of the human condition and the sadness of Mother Earth at what we are doing to her.<o:p></o:p></p><span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br /></span>Jeff Weffersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16055962946869392042noreply@blogger.com0