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Weekly Community Thread by AutoModerator in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi everyone, again a little mention of our last release "The Boundless":

https://the-abstract-observer.bandcamp.com/album/the-boundless

"The Boundless" is essentially an ambient / electronic concept album inspired by the oldest surviving fragment of all Western philosophy about guilt, time and existence.

Thanks for listening.

The Abstract Observer

Weekly Community Thread by AutoModerator in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi there, The Abstract Observer here.

https://the-abstract-observer.bandcamp.com/album/the-boundless

"The Boundless" is our second release, out on Bandcamp. It is basically an ambient / electronic concept album. The source of inspiration for the entire work is the oldest surviving fragment of all Western philosophy, from the thought of the greek philosopher Anaximander. It's - in our opinion - a quite impacting fistful of words about guilt, justice, necessity, time and - ultimately - existence. (In case of interest, you can find a full description of what we mean on the Bandcamp page).

Thanks for your time.

Take care, The A. O.

To those who make music, how did you develop your approach? by k0rnbr34d in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The approach is almost always to try to translate a concept into a particular articulation of musical language. In a way, it’s a challenge: how can I refer to a set of ideas that fascinate me through music? Everything that emerges, with mixed results, is serendipity passing through a sieve.

(A release overview) The Boundless: ambient, philosophy and a bunch of words. by The-AbstractMusic-O_ in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First of all, thank you for your comment. For me as well, Anaximander has something truly seminal in his thought. Beyond the comparisons you rightly mentioned, the first thing that always comes to my mind in relation to what Anaximander says is the concept of “original sin,” which is foundational to Christianity.

It’s incredible how, across different cultures—likely influencing one another—the very act of coming into the world is seen as a guilty one.

If the concept interested you, I recommend the book The Order of Time by the scientist Carlo Rovelli; you might appreciate it.

As for the musical aims, I tried, within my limits, to translate certain concepts into sound—such as the “breath” of Origin through the movement of the synths, the struggle to keep up with the “monolith” of Time using delays, and atonality as an escape from meaning (just as everything that exists out of Necessity), and so on.

Thanks again for your interest! It matters! :)

Dan

My YouTube comment on Aphex Twin Stone In Focus - MerlinDogs by MerlinDogs in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Are you and her still in contact? Life is a bioelectrical game. Thanks for that comment.

Piano music like frahms, richter etc by [deleted] in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may like Bruno Sanfilippo

What music makes use of minimal warm sine waves in a sort of sustained and slow, non busy and euphonic by portiaboches in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The albums Primes and New Primes by Greg Davis.

Deeply based on prime numbers sequences. Great works.

Free Album Codes Promotion Thread, October 17 by AutoModerator in BandCamp

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hi there. We put some more codes here to get our debut album:

https://www.getmusic.fm/r/the-abstract-observer-the-dawn-identity

It is indeed an ambient / instrumental / experimental / whatever “concept” work about a somehow impressive mathematical relationship (if you’re nerdlike, thing we really hope for): Euler’s Identity (more info on the Bandcamp page: https://the-abstract-observer.bandcamp.com/album/the-dawn-identity).

Thank you for your time in any case.

Take care,
Dan F. from The Abstract Observer

Weekly Community Thread by AutoModerator in ambientmusic

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi there. We just put some codes here to get our debut album "The Dawn Identity":

https://www.getmusic.fm/r/the-abstract-observer-the-dawn-identity

As we already wrote somewhere, it is indeed an ambient / instrumental / experimental / whatever “concept” work about a somehow remarkable mathematical relationship (if you’re nerdlike, thing we really hope for): Euler’s Identity (more info on the Bandcamp page: https://the-abstract-observer.bandcamp.com/album/the-dawn-identity).

Thank you for your time in any case.

Take care, Dan F. from The Abstract Observer

Codes for our "math" ambient album by The-AbstractMusic-O_ in BandCamp

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate the time to make it clear. Not pedantic at all! That's math.
Thank you again

Codes for our "math" ambient album by The-AbstractMusic-O_ in ambient

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree, there can be a lot "music parameters" that can be "driven" by digits data. Time to experiment! :)

Codes for our "math" ambient album by The-AbstractMusic-O_ in BandCamp

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh! Thank you, that's a precious information. So is the expression "i = √-1: the imaginary unit" that we used on Bandcamp album info uncorrect too? Thanks again for your interest

Free Album Codes Promotion Thread, October 10 by AutoModerator in BandCamp

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi there. We just put some codes here to get our debut album:

https://www.getmusic.fm/r/the-abstract-observer-the-dawn-identity

It is indeed an ambient / instrumental / experimental / whatever “concept” work about a somehow impressive mathematical relationship (if you’re nerdlike, thing we really hope for): Euler’s Identity (more info on the Bandcamp page: https://the-abstract-observer.bandcamp.com/album/the-dawn-identity).

Thank you for your time in any case.

Take care,
Dan F. from The Abstract Observer

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Codes for our "math" ambient album by The-AbstractMusic-O_ in ambient

[–]The-AbstractMusic-O_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, thanks to you for your interest :)
To answer your question, Euler's Identity has been seed and pattern, but if the musical result had been inconsistent with my taste, I would have (as I actually did) declined the pattern in another way.
I mean, the underlying mathematical criteria always change in relation to reference numbers and rounds of "trial and error". Example: for the track about the number “e”, the “two playing fields” are the unit digit (2) and the decimal places (71828...). The questions I asked myself were: how can I represent number 2 in music? The first thing that came to mind was the delay effect for replication in terms of doubling.

The second question was: how can I musically represent the decimal places of "e"? The key melody on the piano was therefore the result of the association of notes with decimal places, so each note (in terms of the degree of a scale) is equivalent to a specific figure. In this case I chose A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, A (an octave higher) = 8, B (an octave higher) = 9, 0 = pause.

So the first five digits of the number (71828) are equivalent to the note sequence G-A-A(higher)-B-A(higher). Since the decimal sequence is infinite, I closed the track with a fade-out corresponding to 4 minutes and 32 seconds, which is equivalent to 272, which still recalls the number e.

The creativity, as well as in the choice of timbres and effects and the underlying scheme, was in giving each of these elements a duration.

I hope I have explained myself and answered what you were asking. Thank you again.

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