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INSTRUMENTAL
Momentum Chaos Theory Video.mp4
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Key of C
Recording: live 1-track digital stereo
Daniel — Keyboards and Synthesizers (microKorg, Korg N364, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, KorgMIle software)
From the album Classical Fractal
by Daniel Brouse
INSTRUMENTAL
ABOUT THE SONG
Intro. notes — E D C# C B
Esus Em
Chaos Theory — “A dripping faucet seems random but when plotted as a strange attractor, reveals an eerie order unexpected by conventional means.”
Daniel — Guitar
From the album Speechless
by Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Does anybody know if this is it?
The decision of the ribbon
The decision of the rhythm
Ribbin’
Like string theory
Doesn’t have to be such a mystery
Just use your mind’s eye… I
Decypher the cypher in the sky
The decision of the ribbon
Rubbing the ribbon
More like how a butterfly flaps it’s wings
The resulting things
Chaos theory
The decision of the ribbon
The decision of the rhythm
In the chaos theory
ABOUT THE SONG
Chords
B Bm Baug Bsus4 Bmadd9 B7
98 Beats Per Minute / Dance
1-track live extemporaneous stereo recording
The song was inspired by the ribbon controller on an Alesis Vortex keyboard.
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and a Computer
From the album You Are Getting Warmer
by Daniel Brouse
Free-radical Theory of Aging Music Video.mp4
Free-radical Theory of Aging.mp3
LYRICS
Oh noooooo!
OONO
The damage age damage
Age damage Damn age
The damage of age
Oh nooooooooooo!
OONO
Worse than a Yoko to the Beatles
Oh, no
One two many free radical for us all
Oh, no
One too many free radical for us all
The dismay of decay
Don’t want to fade away
Fade away
Worse than a larva attack of beetles
Snakeoil salesman are just weasels
Damn us from the animal kingdom
Longevity travesty of me
… and, it’s getting old
Foretold
… getting old
ABOUT THIS SONG
The free radical theory of aging (FRTA) states that organisms age because cells accumulate free radical damage over time. A free radical is any atom or molecule that has a single unpaired electron in an outer shell. Strictly speaking, the free radical theory is only concerned with free radicals such as superoxide ( O2– ), but it has since been expanded to encompass oxidative damage from other reactive oxygen species such as hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), or peroxynitrite (OONO–)
Chords — Dm Dm7(11) Dm9
Em Dm
(guitar tuned to open Dm)
152 Beats Per Minute / Techno
A live recording.
Daniel — Simultaneous Vocals, Electric Guitar, Yamaha-740 Keyboard and microKorg Synthesizer
From the album Free Radical
By Daniel Brouse
Increase Beats Per Minute Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
Can we speed things up a little bit
Please, can we?
Of course we’re on a collision course
Plain to see
Inevitable collateral damage from the hit
Unfortunately, includes me
But, even worse…
Includes all of us
No sense in slowing down
Seize or freeze
Wear the devil’s crown
Cease to be
Can we hurry things up a bit
Please, can we?
Get a divorce from this collision course
Ohhhh humanity
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — E E7
E G
130 –> 155 Beats Per Minute (BPM) / 4/4 Blues
Daniel — Simultaneous Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
From the album Free Radical
By Daniel Brouse
Have You Heard the Big Bang Music Video.mp4
Have You Heard the Big Bang? .mp3
LYRICS
Don’t let the gravitational pull
Pull the wool
Over your eyes
Big bang!
Surprise
Now, here’s the thang
Though not quite in grasp of your fingers
It still lingers
The way Big Bang behaves…
Primordial gravitational waves
I mean, it’s worthy of a primal scream
Yeeha! Big bang!
ABOUT THIS SONG
This song is about the discovery of The Big Bang. (Big Bang animation courtesy of NASA)
Chords — Em FM7
Em7
Em7(11)
136 Beats Per Minute / Fast Ballad
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
From the album Lifterupper
By Daniel Brouse
Impending Gleam Music Video.mp4
LYRICS
Polar vortex, clipper or nor’ easter
Take it as another kick to the keister
Or consider the splendor of the impending gleam
Know what I mean?
Snow — what I mean
Veil the frail in fractal white crystal
As to the blind man’s Braille
The third eye’s sail
See it all
Ensure splendid grandeur for their future
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — C Am
add G D Bb
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers, Guitar
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album Yes
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
Have you ever felt like you’re underwater
Walking through Jello ever further
Converge concentration
Emerge in a mind explosion
ABOUT THIS SONG
Chords — B C
132 beats per minute / Cool Night beat
Daniel — Vocals, Synthesizers
Written and recorded in West Chester, PA, USA.
From the album Cruel Fool
By Daniel Brouse
Um, though it might appear random
To call it such would dumb
It’s much more complicated than that
Better put on my thinking hat
A butterfly flaps it wings
Causing devastating things
Showing up as tornadoes in Kansas
Your smallest intention effects all of us
Smoke rising up into the air
A most fascinating thing as a smoke-ring
Crystals forming where it was bare
Call it a gem. Call it rare
ABOUT THE SONG
Bb / Bb with natural / B with C / A
Am
Written and recorded using an extemporaneous fashion in West Chester and King Of Prussia, PA on November 4 and 5, 2012. It is about Chaotic Systems Experimentation In Acoustic, Business, Vortex and Social Environments and featured as a chaos theory theme song.
Daniel — Piano, Vocals
From the album Blessed Bliss
By Daniel Brouse
LYRICS
The wind does howl
To the pour of rain’s growl
Poor, poor, poor visibility (Can’t you see, you can’t see?)
Ohhhh… I thought the day I’d never see
Full moon. High tide.
You’ve got no place left to hide
“Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good”
You should’ve run, should’ve run just as fast as you could
Full moon. High tide.
Worst time to make landfall
Full moon. High tide.
It’s a wonder if there’s anything left at all
ABOUT THE SONG
Music by Eric, Carpenter John and Daniel; written and recorded as an impromptu blues jam as we waited for the Hurricane to arrive; Norristown, PA on October 28, 2012.
Lyrics by Daniel; written and recorded inside the truck as Hurricane Sandy was making landfall; West Chester, PA on October 29, 2012.
Inspired by:
“Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good”
the author of “When The Levee Breaks”, Kansas Joe (as made famous by Led Zeppelin)
Pictures I saw going by on the Internet:
The science of a high tide, full moon and landfall of a hurricane —
Higher-than-normal tides — tied to a full moon — have added to Hurricane Sandy’s coastal flooding threat.
As you might expect the explanation is a matter of simple astronomy, not any kind of lunacy associated in folklore with a full moon.
“It’s not the moon’s phase that matters, but the position,” says astronomer Phil Plait on his Bad Astronomy website.
During a full moon, the moon is essentially lined up on the opposite side of the Earth from the sun (this is what allows the near surface of the moon to be illuminated in its full splendor) and the gravitational tug of war between those two intensifies at this time, resulting in higher tides.
This kind of alignment of astronomical objects is called a syzygy (SIH-zhih-jhee) and sailors have understood the effect for centuries. So, for Hurricane Sandy, the higher-than-normal tides that threaten to add to an 11-foot storm surge feared for lower Manhattan are simply a matter of bad timing. — USA Today
Songs I’ve been writing — Eternal Spirit, Frankenstorm and Sandy.
Articles I’ve been writing — When Storms Collide, Philadelphia Closed and Under (Low) Pressure.
CHORDS
E
E / A / E
Bm7 / G / A / E
Eric Loos – Electric Guitar
John Cressman — Drums
Daniel — Rhythm Guitar, Vocals
About Four Dimensional Music and Chaos Theory
These comments were made about the above discussion:
Ed called… and left a message (he has experience with the dead, is a member of the Family):
He has already attempted to contacted with “the bear” on other matters… and this type of music sounds like it is right up his alley.
He suggests we should also try to get with the bear, too.
The bear http://thebear.org/
I ask, “the bear is the grateful dead sound guy that kind-of invented the modern PA? right?”
Wally added:
His real name – Owsley Stanley
but yes, helped conceive and implement the the dead’s early sound and the infamous “wall of sound” (’74-’76)
75 tons of equipment
http://www.audiojunkies.com/blog/730/an-insiders-look-at-the-grateful-deads-wall-of-sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB4XK8lkzEM&feature=fvw
Eric chimed in:
I’m going to research information about the the specific musical note of Bb (B flat).
It is of great significance. Exploding stars, musical waves, groovey.
Peter replied:
Numbers and beats–which also affect pitch, but ultimately it is rhythm. the area of four dimensional music must manifest in rhythm as it relates to time. pitch is just a quality of rhythm. the act of a phenomenon in space time and finding a new paradigm in space time, that is the area to attack! computers can help, but it is better to apply this to live experience.
The songwriters, musicians, sound engineers, producers and computer programers have updated the discussion on Music And Chaos Theory.
Peter wrote to us: Hello. I am a composer and I have been obsessed with four dimensional music recently. I don’t know what it is, even though it is a recurring idea. I have been reading a lot and have discovered that the world of fractals and chaos seem to have a definite relationship to four D. I am not a computer programmer, so I would not be applying this to a program but am interested in applying it to acoustic works.
WE REPLIED:
Dear Peter,
OK. Let’s see what we can do.
How would you like to get started?
Sincerely,
Daniel
PETER REPLIED:
How to translate irrational numbers into a tangible working time signature — like Pi or Cantor Dust.
SIDD OFFERED:
Take the digits of pi and set them to tune, using the numbers for chord progressions?
WE ASK:
Anyone have ideas?
PART 2
rick (guitar, vocals, sound engineering) replied:
Beyond my ability to compute, but interested in the outcome…..I have trouble just keeping 6 strings in tune
krishna (guitar, percussion, computer engineering) replied:
One interesting feature of fractals is the self similarity at various length scales.
Of course the length scales aren’t simple multiple or rationally related with each other which is what makes it fractal.
Not sure how one would play that without a computer.
I have a hard enough time staying with a band playing a regular meter :-0
chris asked:
Is this what you and Eric were working on?
I responded:
Yes. Here are a couple examples —
http://famedomain.com/going-down-video/
http://famedomain.com/palace-at-farnese-video/
fransico said:
Dan, I gave your info. to Tumaini Johnson. Maybe you can explain your knowledge and insight on 4 dimensional and chaos theory to combine the two into music. I think it’s chaos systems within
a chaos system that can be duplicated into math sequences delivered through sound and visual effects??? cc me i would like to learn… and tumaini im sure will have a good canvas to create his own ideas.
tumaini wrote:
I’m a friend of Francisco Baiz he told me about your work with dimensional audio and some experimenting with algorithms and the sorts. I’m a music producer and audio engineer so this type of stuff got my attention. Francisco said that you would be able to explain exactly what 4D music is and its future applications to me, I’m very curious.
Thanks
i try to explain:
About 4D Music and Chaos Theory Experiment
The experiment with four dimensional music and chaos theory started in the 1990’s. The word music may not be the best way to describe the experience; for now, since I do not know a word for this design invention, I will call it four dimensional music.
The experiment has evolved into solving the following design problem(s):
If you were to go on a real, real, real long roadtrip… such as in a spaceship traveling at a speed approaching that of light, what music would you take with you?
Because many of the people involved in the experiment are also musicians, we added the requirement that the design should allow for “live music” and the ability to see a concert.
The closest example of the concept that I can think of is helping a deaf person hear music.
I think the movie was called “Mr. Holland’s Opus” — the movie about Glenn Holland, a musician and composer who wants his deaf son to hear his music?
4D Music and Chaos Theory Part 2
4D Music and Chaos Theory Part 3