Robert Rich — Perpetual. A Somnium Continuum (8h Complete Masterpiece) [2014]
Опубликовано: 29 окт. 2014 г.A Somnium Continuum
The Sleep Concert has been one of the dominant threads in my musical journey through life. It marked my first solo concert ever, in January 1982, in the lounge of a Stanford University dormitory. It became a sort of trademark for me, even as I explored a range of dynamic music throughout my career.
Occasionally I feel an urge to return to this slow-motion core of my creative heart, and occasionally the world comes back to remind me that I will always be connected to sonic explorations at the edges of perception, trance consciousness, dreams, altered states, communal ritual.
I returned to making all-night music when the Unsound Festival invited me to perform a sleep concert in Krakow Poland, October 2013. This would be my first sleep concert in ten years. I decided to create new textural soundscapes to use in this performance, to reinvigorate the concept for a new generation, a new millennium. After spending at least six months developing long evolving textures for the performance in Krakow, I proceeded to hone the material into a new long-form work, a sequel to the 7-hour long Somnium from 2001.
Technical note: The Blu-ray version of «Perpetual» contains both the 8-hour «Perpetual» and the 7-hour original «Somnium.» Each is divided into three chapters, split at the most quiet moments in each piece, in order to keep file sizes under 4 Gb. The audio files are stereo 16 bit 48 kHz, using over 13 Gb of the disc for audio. The remaining 11 Gb holds highly compressed video-black, required for navigation through the disc. The download of «Perpetual» available through CD Baby is divided into ~80 minute chunks (for technical reasons due to data-entry workflow) and uses CD-resolution (16 bit 44.1 kHz) files. These should segue into each other seamlessly on your computer, although a soft click might be audible depending on the software.
1. Moments of Solitude 0:00
2. Light Trails Across the Night Sky 9:28
3. Watching the World Go By 26:42
4. The City Beneath a Veil of Calm 41:02
5. Day Becomes Night 49:40
Опубликовано: 27 июл. 2014 г.Zardonic & Reid Speed's track called Sideshow amazingly remixed by Hecq (Ben Lukas Boysen) (2014)
seriously in my personal opinion what Hecq remixes, sounds incredibly awesome.
Дата загрузки: 4 июн. 2011 г.The second track in «Hypnos trilogy»
Released on Steeltongued [¥772], Hymen Records, 2009. http://www.hymen-records.com/all/y772...
Опубликовано: 5 дек. 2012 г.«Consumed» video by Andreas Wannerstedt
Track: Hecq «Enceladus» (with Skyence)
taken from Hecq's EP «Enceladus» (Ad Noiseam adn149)
«Consumed» is another self-initiated personal project that I've written, designed and animated.
It's a 3D short film about a not so distant future, where extreme overpopulation has become a global crises. The population growth has reached a critical tipping point and there's food and water shortages all around the world. The story revolves around a «Food Replicator», or a so called molecular assembler, a device that can rearrange subatomic particles and guide chemical reactions with atomic precision. In an attempt to prevent mass starvation, this device is used to synthesize nutritions with the ability to self-replicate. But during the initial tests something goes wrong and out-of-control self-replicating compounds starts to spread, consuming all matter while building more copies of them selves.
This is very similar to a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario called «Grey goo», a term coined by molecular nanotechnology pioneer Eric Drexler back in 1986. He illustrates exponential growth and the dangers of self-replication is his book «Engines of Creation»:
«Imagine a replicator floating in a bottle of chemicals, making copies of itself...the first replicator assembles a copy in one thousand seconds, the two replicators then build two more in the next thousand seconds, the four build another four, and the eight build another eight. At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion. In less than a day, they would weigh a ton; in less than two days, they would outweigh the Earth; in another four hours, they would exceed the mass of the Sun and all the planets combined — if the bottle of chemicals hadn't run dry long before.»
Well, obviously my scenario is all science fiction, since the required technologies to create this kind of self-replicating matter won't be invented until… hmm… no sooner than 2014?
There's a short breakdown video here: andreaswannerstedt.se/motion/consumed/breakdown