Некоторые мысли на абстрактные темы // Some thoughts on abstract subjects (2010–2011) // electronics // 05.06.2011

Some thoughts on abstract subjects is a small 20-minute deep-in-thought-suite. A little sad reflection of the eternal: about the beauty in this world, about the passing of our past, the inevitability of a stop on the path of life… Simple things, simple language, simple sound.

List of compositions:

1. Hope 5:32
2. Joy 4:32
3. Memories 5:05
4. Inevitability 3:20
5. Beat 3:50
6. Memories II 2:46

Hope. Constant movement in the hope for the best, but with inner sense of the way to nowhere. The heart beats incessantly, bells joyfully ring in the distance, but the movement becomes harder — and the heart becomes anxious.

Joy. It’s a classical pastoral: hot summer, afternoon, almost motionless air and lazily breathing breeze. A world of pleasure, but at the same time a statue world.

Memories. Something that you’ve heard a long time ago, but something you can’t remember. Once it was joyful, but now you feel a slightly oppressive sadness through the vinyl crackle.

Inevitability. Music that’s frozen like a statue, a dead stillness of repetitions that’s drawn by large strokes. And it is inexorably marching on you.

Beat. Movement about nothing, movement for the movement, dead smile on the old portrait, joy that happened too long ago and that can’t touch anybody today. Alien rhythm with its own laws.

Memories II. After all, there were things which were worthy fighting for them, and there was a struggle, and there was a feeling of great accomplishments that will be remembered for centuries — but all is gone, strikes faded away, nobody remembered heroic overcoming of yourself on the path to victory or burdens of misunderstanding. Just drums ritually beat off the last memory that forever went away to the past from which nothing will be returned.

Tools

Made with REAPER sequencer and Kurzweil PC3x music workstation. Audio processing from Waves, Nomad and Ultrafunk bundles.