LYRICS
I’m finding the utmost interest
In relativity
Feeling dependence on existence
Surreality
Trying to make sense
Of perception without senses
Perceive what I believe
Experience presence
Leap from “Ludwig’s Ladder”
Leave logic a tattered
Chaos theory delivery
The irony of destiny
Sixth sense third-eye I see
Spring from the last rung
Among angels in song
Soul music being sung
Time can’t be too long
In the essence of existence
Is the essence of existence
In the absence of existence
Will exist persist?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Alternative Rock
Chords: Em C7 E C7 / E C7 A [C G7 A]
Recording: digital stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Wittgenstein’s ladder
A Wittgenstein’s ladder is a simplified explanation of a technical or complex subject that is used as a teaching tool, despite being technically wrong. The term stems from proposition number 6.54 by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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I heard a sound
I opened an eye
Looked around
n’ quickly found
The sound’s a sigh
Saw a mother worry
About her ba-aaby
And another scurry
To try n’ save me
An intuition
For solution
Evolution
Adaptation
The only hope… for our salvation
Against the current
Rush, rush, rush
The present is current
In a vortex flush
I’m not going to just sit here wiping my bum
Watching as the world spirals down, down, down…
Spinning round, round, round…
Spiraling dowwwwwnnnn
Gonna drown?
I heard a sound
I opened an eye
Looked around
n’ quickly found
The sound’s a sigh
An intuition
For solution
Evolution
Adaptation
The only hope… for our
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One door will make you small
The other one will make you tall
Fly out the window
Up to the sky
Or maybe you’ll follow
The call of gravity… and fall
Command and choose a hand
You’ll come to understand
The wisdom of random
In our chaos kingdom
Or maybe you’ll swallow
The bliss of ignorance
One side will fix it all
The other drop the ball
One lives in shadow
The other blue sky
Belly ache n’ wallow
Or get it on the ball
After all
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E G / A C / A C E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo
Vocals, Guitar, Organ
A song about chaos not being random (and the science of political science. ) “A dripping faucet seems random but when plotted… reveals an eerie order unexpected by conventional means.”
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Wait a second?
I can’t wait a second
’cause I reckon
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Leap a second
And before long
A second second
Thus this song
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
The spinoff of taking a spin off
You scoff?
Well, do you wanna get off?
’cause
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
It’s that mean solar time
Or UT1
Try to coordinate Universal time
Or UTC
And I for one can see
You won’t even give away
The time of day
No way
The Earth is slowing down
It’s been found
The Earth is slowing down
From going ’round
Screenshot of the UTC clock from www.time.gov during the leap second on December 31, 2016.
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E B E –> 7th fret and slide down to E
Recording: digital 8-track stereo recorded live
This song is about the Earth slowing down. Why is the Earth slowing down?
The Earth is slowing down and speeding up for many reasons. In general, the Earth is slowing down it’s rotation due to friction. The wind and the oceans and mountains, tides and gravity cause friction that slows an object in motion.
A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth’s rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation. Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 27 leap seconds have been inserted, the most recent on December 31, 2016 at 23:59:60 UTC.
So, every once in a while humans travel a second forward in time. “Specifically, a positive leap second is inserted between second 23:59:59 of a chosen UTC calendar date (the last day of a month, usually June 30 or December 31) and second 00:00:00 of the following date.”
Why is the moon falling farther away from us?
The migration of the Moon away from the Earth is mainly due to the action of the Earth’s tides. The Moon is kept in orbit by the gravitational force that the Earth exerts on it, but the Moon also exerts a gravitational force on our planet and this causes the movement of the Earth’s oceans to form a tidal bulge.
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Through the gully… through the trees
Listen to the whisper of the the leaves
Over the mountain… by the trees
Listen to the whisper of the breeze
By design
When the leaves turn over
It’s a sign
By design
Then, the clouds tower
It’s a sign
By design
There’s a storm brewin’
Chaos ensuing
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Dm Dm7 Dm9 Dm6 Dmsus4
Rhythm: 128 80’s Pop +
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers
Nature is giving us all the signs to forecast our future. The same techniques used in weather forecasting can be applied to political forecasting.
“The leaves of deciduous trees, like maples and poplars, do often turn upward before heavy rain. The leaves are actually reacting to the sudden increase in humidity that usually precedes a storm.”
“The butterfly effect is the concept that small causes can have large effects. Initially, it was used with weather prediction but later the term became a metaphor used in and out of science.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.”
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Is this the beginning of the end
Or, the end of the beginning
Is it all just relativity to me
The spacetime continuum that I am
I sure have amassed this mass
As long as this mass doesn’t pass
I suppose I am the creator of the spacetime continuum
Are you drawn into orbit
Some sort-of circular habit
Going round and round and round
Is this the end of the beginning
Or, the beginning of The End
Is all I see relativity
The spacetime continuum that I am
I think I am
I surely must be
Is that me
Relatively relativity
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Ebm9 F Eb
Rhythm: 140 BPM / Pop Ballad and Bebop
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: E / A G
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Frame-dragging is an effect on spacetime, predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, that is due to non-static stationary distributions of mass–energy. A stationary field is one that is in a steady state, but the masses causing that field may be non-static, rotating for instance.
Rotational frame-dragging (the Lense–Thirring effect) appears in the general principle of relativity and similar theories in the vicinity of rotating massive objects. Under the Lense–Thirring effect, the frame of reference in which a clock ticks the fastest is one which is revolving around the object as viewed by a distant observer. This also means that light traveling in the direction of rotation of the object will move past the massive object faster than light moving against the rotation, as seen by a distant observer.
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Quasi-synchronicity
Sure beats monotony
Oh the ecstasy
Of diversity
God bless me
Luke-warm milk-toast
Must warn… that ain’t “the most”
Thank the Lord for chaos theory
Quasi-synchronicity
The certainty of uncertainty
The un-ordered system I am
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C C4 G4 C9
Rhythm: 152 BPM / Slow Swing and Swing #2 with Groove
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and an Alesis Vortex controller to Albeton software (microKorg, Yamaha PSR-740, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, and a couple pedals)
LYRICS
How could I not know about the igneous flow
I’m just an igneous ignoramus
After investigation, one realizes… da… there’s no enigma
Quartz crystallizes from molten magma
A six-sided prism terminating in a six-sided pyramid
Down-to-earth geotropism hid under an inside-out geode lid
Cryptocrystalline can hardly be seen
Aggregate into an agate and see what you get
Some people only know the volcano
I must confess… I was an igneous ignoramus
Only getting to know about a lava flow (The mama of molten magma)
Then, my sights started to grow
Now I’m inclusive of extrusive and intrusive
Why not get ’em while they’re hot… these rocks rock
Crystals… fractals… for sure, crystals — fractals found in nature
Mandelbrot brought “beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.”
Might I add to this fad “beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s quartz crystals.”
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Step by step by step
Going up. Going down.
Work! The product of the force applied to move
(Is it work to groove?)
Work! Measure the height, right? Right!
Don’t be a dope and measure the slope
After all, moving forward is no work at all
Step by step by step
Going up. Going down.
Power! Am I dumb…
Power… the rate work is done?
Come on! Let’s have some
What? Watt! What? What!
Is it plain the plane requires less work…
Or, am I just being a jerk?
What if I’m to climb two steps at a time
Or better yet I get to go down
Is there any work to be found?
Can I get gravity to do it for me?
Let’s see…
Step by step by step
Going up. Going down.
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Come down to Earth? For what it’s worth, you force me to grasp the gravity… gravity of gravity
Creating the possibility of thermal energy
Putting the weight of the world on my shoulders
I suppose we’re all beholders
Gravitating toward one another
Stopping us from drifting further
Come down to Earth? For what it’s worth, you can’t force me to grasp the gravity of gravity
Maybe not a force at all
I’m not sure
If you’re just a consequence of the curvature
Not a straight line in space-time
Come down to Earth? For what it’s worth, you force me to grasp the gravity… gravity of gravity
Our attractive force is proportional
To the product of our masses
Igniting spheres of hydrogen gases
Creating complexities such as galaxies
Come down to Earth? For what it’s worth, you force me to grasp the gravity… gravity of gravity
Bodies in the universe
Drawn on a collision course
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Understanding the biology that is me
Some sort-of anatomy. Me.
I raise my hand
I don’t understand
“Oh, Teacher, may I use the restroom, pleeeeeease!”
“I gotta go peeeeeee!”
It’s not that I object to a by-product
It’s just the by-product’s got the better part of me
And, I really gotta pee
… call it an experiment in biology… can we… just call it an experiment in biology?
From what I can see, the anatomy making up me…
Well… if you want to get scientifical about my genital
I really gotta pee
When I don’t understand, I raise my hand
Me? I guess I major in biology… gee
Gee whiz, I guess I’m a master in biology
Like a Phd. I got a pee
Got my masters in biology
It mastered me
I really gotta pee
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em variations
Rhythm: 137 Beats Per Minute / 16 Beat Ballad #2
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and Computer Controller (microKorg, Korg N364, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Alesis Vortex, Korg MIli software and a couple pedals)
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And, now… for some science friction:
The coefficient of friction
µ (Mu)
Saved my life… how about you?
Why the fuss?
Friction is why rain doesn’t kill us
“In the real world” we all have some friction when we touch each other
Reach out and touch
Reach out and touch
… touch each other
The coefficient of friction
Let us go dimensionless
Well, er, a… we’re scalar
Curiously similar to measuring your luminosity
As in Candela. See. See?
The coefficient of friction
For that matter, when it comes to water… don’t drag a dead horse
Thus, the fuss — friction is why rain doesn’t kill us
Join the frictional force
µ (Mu), µ (Mu), µ (Mu)
The herd heard
If only in name, will it ever be the same?
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: F G F G F E Dm / Dm9 Dm7 C
Rhythm: 137 Beats Per Minute / 16 Beat Ballad #2
Recording: digital 1-track stereo
Daniel — Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers and Computer Controller (microKorg, Korg N364, Casio WK-3500, miniNova, Alesis Vortex, Korg MIle software and a couple pedals)
LYRICS
Gravitational potential energy
The gravity of the position that is me
Alas, my mass (times) gravity (times) height
Is that right?
Position in a force field
I’ve got power to yield
From on tall as I fall
I drop potential
Just as quick climbs kinetic
Me as energy
Spring into action
The potential of elastic energy
Awake from equilibrium position
Partake in taking part of action
Me as energy. The potential I see.
Don’t fear to kick it into gear
Me as energy
Be energy
We as energy
Energy we can be
ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: Em G Am / Am Aadd9 Am7
Rhythm: 110 to 164 Beats Per Minute / Dance
Recording: instrumentation performed simultaneously and recorded live in 1-track digital stereo
