New Version

Titan's Kiss (2013)
(originally appeared in TRA)

One year ago

One year ago, aweing at the passing of time, I started to publish the "TRA" album, one song per day (freely available in Soundclick and Google Play).
Time passes and things change. In this blog songs have birthdays, hence birthday parties. Sometimes I will give them a candle moment, eventually with some time-shift because time is strange, and we'll see how they get old. Or younger. Time is strange.

Yes!!! This blog has goals!!!

And probably one of them is to provide a cosy shelter for all those lonesome wanderers that serendipitously find this place. Come in, sit by the fire, not too close, and be well.

"Sanctus"

I'm onto it and feeling beatified and beautyfied.

Halloween

Juice is murder.

New song

Happy Halloween!!

Making history

The owner of this blog is proud to announce that starting from today, this blog is now part of a network. It has joined efforts with the prestigious "One Year Blog" that started operating in January 3, 2013 (one post, 18 visualizations, some of them are mine).

This will introduce a new dynamic in this blog, with some hot new features, as you shall see in the near future.

This blog is suffering from a severe case of time shift, so Happy Halloween.

Is everything connected?

23 days after I saw Lou Reed in concert, in my "small town" (the first song he played in that concert), I decided to lauch this band/blog.

Lou Reed

He died yesterday.
Ten years ago, I saw him at the concert in Coimbra and at the restaurant "A Taberna". 10 years, it seems like yesterday. Unforgettable, as the article says. He will survive time.

Clumsiness

Oops. This blog was 10 years old yesterday.

Intervention

This is the instrumental version ("Karaoke") of the song. Everybody is invited to add vocals, make their own version of the song, make and upload videos, etc.

A suggestion for the lyrics is as follows:

A philosopher in Paris (Stay There)
by The Serendipitous Cacophonies, 2013
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It's a Wonderful place
So far away
I could live there
For the rest of my life

So why don't you stay
For as long as I'd like
Forever and a day
All your life

You're a wolf in sheep's clothes
A grandma in drag
And I am an innocent child
That trusted what you said
But my oh my
"What a big mouth you have!"
And what a fake you are
If only you'd stay there

Chorus:
Stay there, Stay there
Why don't you stay there, Forever
Stay there, Stay there
Stay there, Forever

Forever far away...
It's a dream I have
So why don't you dare
To "make the dream real"
And others like you
Can go there too
And stay there
Forever

Chorus:
Stay there, Stay there
Why don't you stay there, Forever
Stay there, Stay there
Stay there, Forever

(instrumental: he's coming (Oh no) he's coming (Oh no))

Chorus:
Stay there, Stay there
Why don't you stay there, Forever
Stay there, Stay there
Why don't you stay there, Forever

And others like you
Can go there too
And stay there
Forever

New Song

New Song

I wonder...

... if this happens with many other musicians: being mad for not being in the mood to finish a song while wanting to share it with everyone else. Being fed up of listening occasionally to the song in the disk while thinking "one day I will finish it" and knowing it will be forgotten until the next listening.

Well, this one goes tonight, as it is. I have to sleep, so I will not even try to mix/master it, whatever that means. So, the next song will be called "Awake to Dream" and this should be described as chaotic publishing.

I'll be right back.

New Song

 

True reality

(updated mix, 18/03/2013)

TSC on Facebook

A Facebook page? Why? Well, let's find out.

New Song

 

"A Prelude To Spring"

Tensions

One of the main tensions in this blog is to decide when to "publish" a song. Common wisdom says that an artist should show its art only when it is finished. It makes sense if you want to maximize the impact of your art on the public, but is this really what I want?

Well, yes I guess, but I don't have time (or discipline) to "finish" hundreds of songs the way I would like, especially when I see infinite possibilities of developing each song. So, I will show the songs in sometimes a very crude form and let people develop their own versions.

And yet... some songs clearly deserve more thought, a better understanding of what makes them interesting and a lot more exploration. It does not feel right to show them naked, deformed, when they could be beautiful with just a bit more of polishing. Besides, each time I listen to them they crystallize in my brain and it is more difficult to change them.

Well, people die, sometimes suddenly, so I will not wait for the right time to publish a song. Internet will be full of garbage if everyone does the same, but... well, it is full of garbage anyway. The pursuit of beauty in this blog will thus be truncated, but will continue. I hope you can imagine the songs the way they should be, instead of the way they are.

Those two

Serendipity

Play and click, it's different each time!

(buttons: left=draw, right=erase; upper left corner draws tiles, sometimes; Reload page to restart.)

This could be Phil's-osophy

Thought of the day: "music creation is a taste-driven test drive".

Happy 2013!!

Sorry, I had to change this post (which linked to a song from the TRA album in Soundcloud) because I was running out of space in SoundCloud. The TRA album is no longer in SoundCloud, but you can still get it in the link (free).

TRA (2012)

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[Meanwhile, this album was made available in Google Play]

Dec 25 [mp3] Titan's kiss (after hours) (*)
Dec 24 [mp3] Tra Theme (ending) (*)
Dec 23 [mp3] Ambiance (*)
Dec 22 [mp3] Cool Treat (*)
Dec 21 [mp3] Tracks (*)
Dec 20 [mp3] Savannah (*)
Dec 19 [mp3] The Intruder (*)
Dec 18 [mp3] Smooth Sky (*)
Dec 17 [mp3] Laundry on Canvas (*)
Dec 16 [mp3] Stupid Walk (*)
Dec 15 [mp3] Boing (*)
Dec 14 [mp3] Rhapsody with a kiss in Titan (*)
Dec 13 [mp3] With Love by my side (3:49) (*)
Dec 12 [mp3] Time for the Indians (4:15)
Dec 11 [mp3] And the band kept playing (2:30)
Dec 10 [mp3] Enchanted garden (1:05)
Dec 09 [mp3] Slip into sleep (1:49)
Dec 08 [mp3] Mexican Interlude + scythe of d. (2:49)
Dec 07 [mp3] Oh! To find a name (2:17)
Dec 06 [mp3] No name (1:04)
Dec 05 [mp3] Tra Theme (1:34)
Dec 04 [mp3] Dream of Songs (11:11) (*)
Dec 03 [mp3] Ode to the great abundance of maple sirup and cheese sticks in Coimbra, 2007 (*) (7:39)
Dec 02 [mp3] The Connection (3:27)
Dec 01 [mp3] Entrance (12:20)



(*) - Temporary version. It will (hopefully...) be replaced with a newer one as soon as possible.

TRA is arriving

From now until Christmas, I will try to upload a new song everyday. The reason is simple: TRA has 25 songs. TRA is a pseudo-album, forever unfinished and infinitely editable. I will try to improve what I have now and will share it with the billions of fans out there (fans of other bands I mean)...

This blog is now awake...............uploading......

.......First song was not uploaded to Soundclick due to file size problems..................3rd December deadline was missed due to time constraints - temporary version uploaded..................................... Idem 4..... Idem 5............time problems.... this does not compute...........................%$&#$$$%.......................patchy, too patchy##!@#$$[{%..................no time no time..........song level is not uniform............ deal with that later......................................the best is yet to come..........................temporary, forever temporary.............No time, using super-temporary versions........ And now there's an Intruder, he kicked off another song..................... Xmas reached, all songs uploaded...... Status: get a life but fix temporary versions.

Wake up, blog.

New Song

"Circular Song"

New Song

"One minute song"

A simple question.

What is beauty?

Beauty

I am distracted. Only now I discovered the planets. Mercury, Venus, etc... even Earth! In case you are not familiar with them, the others are: Mars and Sun (yes), Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto (yes). Oh, and the Moon. Don't be distracted, the solar system is only a few clicks away.

Horta

This blog is back and I hope to be posting more "songs" in the coming months. Instead of trying to post finished songs, which I now know that I would take forever to terminate, I will just leave them as they are, more or less free, with errors, embrionary, unmastered, etc. They will evolve, in time. They are my experimental garden of Whatevers.

New Song

"Cutting clouds with string". That's the spirit!

New Song

"The pursuit of happiness" (free mp3).

New Song

I'm back to my pointless, erroneous, unfinished songs. You can ear or download them freely from SoundClick: "The freedom of a Maddening Man (restarts)".

(I just felt like posting something.)

Jean Giraud 1938-2012-...

Moebius died today, but some people just never die. 

 Click to enlarge. More images here.

Good morning!

It's a beautiful day! Wake up and have a nice day!

Arte Aborígene. Não tenho certeza absoluta do autor, poderia ser este. Clicar para ver melhor.

Vou voltar. A correr.

New Song

"Starting Again". Mais do que uma grande música, uma música grande.

New Song

"Two for the time of one". Os mp3 já eram à borla, mas ainda tinham o custo dos neurónios terem de formar uma ideia e ordenar o dedo para clicar, o computador ter de pedir a file ao servidor, etc, etc. Mas eis que agora de uma só vez têm-se 2 músicas! A evolução técnica é imparável!

Yes, I was there too...

... no concerto do Sufjan Stevens no coliseu de Lisboa, no passado dia 31 de Maio.
Foi simplesmente o melhor concerto que já vi.

Os videos também ajudarão a recordar...

Yes, I was there too...

...na Maratona Fotográfica FNAC de Coimbra, no passado dia 21 de Maio.
6 palavras (que íamos conhecendo ao longo do dia) dão 6 fotos a concurso (não processadas).


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Isto está tudo ligado. Seremos nós partículas de um gás que ascendem aos céus se tiverem o engenho de viver sem pecado, para reencarnar num novo ser, qual fénix renascida?

Bem, uma coisa é certa: gases temos.