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Episode #014 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #014
  2. Jumpy Froggy
  3. Variations #3
  4. GDJWL74
  5. Magical Evening
Episode length: 32:26.

Another set of completely new music, written especially for The 16th.

I also continue with my Variations series with Variations #3.
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Episode #013 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #013
  2. Tik Tok
  3. The Happy Ghost
  4. Variations #2
  5. DRNG13
  6. Outside
Episode length: 36:02.

Today I'm concentrating on time and sound in my music, the way that sound can change over time and the way time can be changed over sound.

I also continue with my Variations series with Variations #2.
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Episode #012 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #012
  2. musicNerve Disco
  3. That Magical Place
  4. Variations #1
  5. Chilled
  6. Crazzzy Accordion
Episode length: 34:45.

All of today's music was written especially for the 16th podcast and it's not available anywhere else.

musicNerve Disco uses the voice of Miss Peter of the musicNerve podcast and creates a fun little electro tinted piece.

Variation #1 is a minimalist piece that is heavily influenced by the work of Philip Glass.
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Episode #011 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #011
  2. Derdoflok
  3. Fantasy 1
  4. Zkr24
  5. Mantra
  6. Adriped
  7. Fantasy 2
Episode length: 33:35.

Most of the music on today's podcast was created especially for this episode, except for Mantra - that one is from my free Voice Machine album. You can download it from my Discography page.
The 16th Icon Download The 16th #010

Episode #010 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #010
  2. Night Guy
  3. China
  4. Thermo
  5. Omreth
  6. C
Episode length: 33:39.

Night Guy is the theme music for a new podcast I'm working on, called Night Guy (now how surprising is that?).

China is a new musical piece I wrote that for some reason evoked in me visions of China. I've never been there, so my vision might be completely wrong.

Thermo and Omreth are two opposite twins existing on another sphere of existence.

C is an old recording I made in the mid 90's. I must have been listening to Terry Riley allot at that period.
The 16th Icon Download The 16th #009

Episode #009 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #009
  2. Alien Chant
  3. Poppy Guy
  4. More About Aliens
  5. A Mouth In A Box
  6. Love Poison Remake
Episode length: 33:48.

I had a writer's block this month. I couldn't write a single note of music, then something miraculous happened - a spaceship landed on my doorstep and out came a band of alien musicians that offered to help me finish this month's podcast. The first part is collaboration work with those peaceful aliens. They sang some of their traditional chants and played traditional alien music, which I enhanced with my own interpretations. One of them even sang a song from one of my previous podcasts. This fun part was inspired by the Diggers Story podcast - check it out, you won't regret it :)

The last two tracks are an old recording I made back in 1991 called "A Mouth In A Box" and a new recording incorporating a loop, taken from a track called "Love Poison" from the same 1991 session.
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Episode #008 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #008
  2. Ambient Jungle
Episode length: 41:24.

Ambient Jungle

This is a recording I made back in 1991. The only surviving copy of this recording was on a home cassette tape and the quality isn't state of the art, but it does show a stage on my development as a musician. This is my first attempt in creating something of this magnitude, and I'm very proud of the way it turned out.
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Episode #007 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #007
  2. Poppy Guy
  3. SonSun
  4. Crazy Bunny
  5. Boogadoo
  6. Curiosity
  7. Don't Say No
  8. Memory
Episode length: 38:21.

Poppy Guy

Ooh - I'm a poppy guy
I'm as sweet as "Y"
And marshmallow pie

Oh - I'm a munchy guy
You won't hear me cry
'Cause I'm sugar high


Ooh - I'm a happy guy
Hear me say you're mine
I'm like honey pie

Ah-Oh - I'm a shallow guy
You won't hear me cry
'Cause I'm a cyber fly

SonSun

This is something I recorded back in 2003 around samples of my son singing. He was 6 years old back then.

Crazy Bunny

This is a new track, based on some of the same recordings of my son from 2003.

Boogadoo, Curiosity, Don't Say No

Those are recordings I did back for my baby boy in 1997. He would go to sleep with them every night for the first 3-4 years of his life.
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Episode #006 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #006
  2. The Ethereal
  3. The Table is Set
  4. Words
  5. GD20
  6. Peace
  7. Techno Rebel
  8. Going Home
Episode length: 33:24.

The Ethereal

I was going through some of my old tapes, when I came across a recording I did back in 1992. This song was very different from anything I ever wrote, and it had my wife singing in it. I decided to take a small sample of my wife's singing and build a completely new piece around it.

Words

Words - what are they but a reflection of reality?

Words - they melt into meaning, and out of meaning. They are a reflection of reality, but not reality itself. They are our own vision of reality since reality is not reflected in words, but words are reflected in reality.

Words are our way of representing realty. They are what we see as reality but not reality itself.

DG20

This is an old recording I did in 1991. It was later mutated into a piece called Under Water and opened Legend Music Demo - the first CD I ever released.

Peace

Peace is art, whether it's painting, sculpting, music, literature or any other form of art. In art we create new realities. Art is the opposite of war, for the essence of war is destruction while the essence of art is creation, therefor - art is a form of peace.
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Episode #005 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #005
  2. wise lan tAN t (feat. Conrad Slater)
  3. Soft Storm
  4. Virtual Tone Jungle
  5. Dreams of Insects
  6. Insects Awake
  7. Blood Machine (feat. Maya Sky)
  8. Time and Consciousness
Episode length: 40:36.

Time is elusive. It can't be touched, though we seem to feel it passing. It is a fourth dimension, all though we're not sure if it's possible to travel in it. It leaves it's mark, changes things constantly. It can be measured, but measurements differ relative to speed, energy and mass. In some ways, time is a surreal experience, changeable through art and music with the use of technology.

We try to hold time in our hand, with departure breathing down our neck. We try to catch the best of time, but we are always aware of the passing of time. We stroll through the ruins of time, trying to make sense of the bird of our life before it goes on it's way.

Time stands still and stares. Into the chasm we go as the pale light flickers into the unknown. Time stands still again as if he always knew, the waves that call us home are just the shadow of passing by.

Our children look into the future. Using a computer is as natural as eating or sleeping for the next generation. They will grow up embracing new technologies, developing them, and as technology will develop our children will befriend technology, making it part of them, becoming part of it, part of the pattern of frequencies.

Frequencies are all around us, in color, in sound, in the air and in the water. Frequencies have the shape of chaos. They are both random and highly organized. Frequencies are the shapes and sounds of life. There's a light shining through. It's the light of knowledge, it's the light of wisdom, it's the light shining through new technologies, advancing the human race to a new horizon.

She is being created in a void, by a passing stream of electronic chaos. She is being created by light. She is being given birth, not in the ordinary way, but in an artificial way. She is almost ready to step out of the light, and into the real world, but when she gets there - what would she find? What is the purpose of her creation? A new artificial being, introduced into a world of the future.

She is the ghost in the machine. She is the human component in the artificial. She is the connection between technology and biology. She is the real in the unreal.

She is strolling along the paths of her sub conscience, looking for her alter ego, lost a long time ago. See comes alone some ruins, where she finds her other self, trapped in a rusty cage. Then, her alter ego is free from the cage, but now there is a chasm and a glass wall between them.

We fight a constant internal battle. It's a battle against ourself, between our conscience mind and our sub conscience self. It's like splitting into two entities, one that we perceive as ourself and one which is our true self. It is said that when we lose that battle, we lose our sanity.

The Emerald Cavern of Tears, is where sorrows are being processed with compassion and turned into dreams of hope. Reflection of pure thought, a pure play of light, transparencies and dreams, forged in light and fire.
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Episode #004 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #004
  2. Plasma
  3. News Room
  4. The Hunger (Short Version)
  5. Robodance
Episode length: 33:21.
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Episode #003 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #003
  2. Rat Race
  3. Small Utopian Mirage
  4. Waves of Steel - Part I
  5. Waves of Steel - Part II
  6. Waves of Steel - Part III
  7. New Atlantis (feat. R. Francis "Random" Smith)
Episode length: 36:20.
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Episode #002 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #002 (Introducing the voice of my son, Evyatar)
  2. Podcaster Podcaster
  3. Podcaster's Revenge
  4. Dreaming Blue - Shine On (Guy David Remix)
  5. Old Charm
  6. Thorn (Forest Fairy)
  7. Reflections
  8. Disassembling and Assembling
Episode length: 43:36.
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Episode #001 of The 16th.

Track listing:
  1. Intro #001
  2. Dance of Electricity (Slow Dawn Mix)
  3. Ethereal Unreal
  4. Airwaves Backwards
  5. Through Yellow Clouds
  6. Thick Jelly Attack
  7. Awakening (With Sandhya Sanjana)
Episode length: 40:44.
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