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Artist Ward Spring paints The Glass Road to “Upon A Child’s Doll Reflection [disquiet0180-matryoshkamusic]” off my 2015 record Sunrise Highway.
…YouTube Liner Notes
Puddles everywhere. Certain angles are nice to ponder. The Upside Down. Although I am now dogless, I still go out for “dogwalks”. This scene was 7AM yesterday in the Union Bay Natural Area.
religion isn’t about the god, it’s about the faith
faith in a god (irrational and unprovable as any deity is) translates to faith in oneself
that is to say, one’s faith in a god is not faith in itself/himself/herself/theirself being true. one’s faith in a god is faith in one’s belief the god is true.…
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A fav song took on new resonance in late May when I escaped NYC for a few days, for the first time since December 2019. Performed in Bridgehampton NY, interspersed w/ footage from the heaviest part of NYC’s (1st?) lockdown from March to May.
Original Version on Sunrise Highway (2015)
Lyrics
I set out walking, just to find a friend,
Make a human connection in a world of pretend,
To share faith in the future, in the face of decay,
‘Cos when you can’t escape the night, every dawn is the end of days.…
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Rag top down. Flying past exit signs, through memories, to the end of the island.
Released 02 July 2015
Written, performed, programmed and produced by Westy Reflector.
Cover Photo: “She Rode East” (1994)
take me back, to the end of the island
early ’94 in the dead of winter
before the hedge funds bought all the sand
before the century came to an endare you waiting for me
standing on that point of land
where the atlantic meets the sound and
everything’s going according to planand we’re at the head of a table in a house full of windows
at the end of an island that only the sunrise knowsthe northern lights from providence
bleed into the milky way
and the whole wide world
stays a safe distance awaywe’ll meet under the lighthouse
embrace on top of the bluff
the light will erase the time between us
once again we’ll be the onesat the head of a table in a house full of windows
at the end of an island that only the sunrise knowsso i’m in a 20 year old car
with a dream baby dream i drive
ever eastward ever eastward ever eastward
into the sunrise
…I’m chasing this dream. I’ve got a few chords.
And I’m just riding on the F, back + forth,
Thinking one thought, since I got on.
I think that I’m the only one on this train who realizes what went wrong.Jolie, I just missed falling in…
Jolie, I just missed falling in…
You sped off in that taxi
Before I said the seventh word
Now I’m afraid you only heard
“Jolie, I just missed falling in…”She wasn’t looking for a cushion.
My latest guitar is named Fabien, after the pilot in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “Night Flight.” It has quickly become my fav instrument. I read him the passage below from the book last night and woke up to this track in my DAW. Seems Fabien dreamed me reading to him in French.…
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PROCESS
A loose adventure in nested loops. There are a few drones (each 1 note) underneath respective two, three, four, five and six note loops. the main section consists of the two note and six note loop played together with some variation, looped six times. Everything else fades in and out.…
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We traveled the world together in the same dime store shoes
We had our ups and our downs but we never spoke of the blues
Then the sun started shining on you
And the rain held off until you were through
Running around leaving this life behindThe next thing we knew, you were the next big thing
You said success wouldn’t change you, it’d only open the door
For you to escape the ones who never wanted more
So you left for the city in spring
By winter you were crowned king
And we faded away behind all your new memoriesThe next thing we knew, you were the next big thing
Now you’re up with the stars
And we got all the time in the world
Sitting down here watching it from afarHome is a place you can never go back when you change your point of view
And home is a place you always invent when the moment is right to be new
We get the feeling you’re gone
Lost to the great beyond
Farewell my friend
We’ll remember youThe next thing we knew, you were the next big thing
PROJECT
Please record the sound of an ice cube rattling in a glass, and make something of it.
PROCESS
My 54th Junto contribution is my first stab at the ice challenge.
Dropped ice into a brandy sniffer.
Recorded into Samplr for iPad then sliced and diced with Samplr’s onboard effects and my guitar pedal board.…
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…sirens out my window
echo down the alleyway
explosions and fragmentation waves
made the city shift and shakewe saw it loud
we heard it clear
‘cos no one lives in isolation herenow we have to save the world again
so zero out time
because now is then
baby, take a look around you
save your requiems
we’re gonna have to save the world from ourselves again…driverless cars running the lights
everywhere we are tonitethink it over
think it through
in this moment, who are you?
I set out walking, just to find a friend,
Make a human connection in a world of pretend,
To share faith in the future, in the face of decay,
‘Cos when you can’t escape the night, every dawn is the end of days.
The walls get high,
The darkness amplifies,
(And) there goes the sky.…
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PROJECT
Record your own cover version of the “song” sung/emitted by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
PROCESS
The comet’s rhythmic oscillations took me to a droning arpeggiation space. With this “cover,” wasn’t replicating the comet so much as evoking its spirit.
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Copyright Notice: Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG.…
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