Sketch from the Oort Cloud
By colorful grey on September 13, 2014 3:45 am
"The Oort cloud is a spherical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals believed to surround the Sun at up to 50,000 AU... The outer Oort cloud is only loosely bound to the Solar System, and thus is easily affected by the gravitational pull both of passing stars and of the Milky Way itself. These forces occasionally dislodge comets from their orbits within the cloud and send them towards the inner Solar System." (Wikipedia, thanks.)
Fascinating me to no extent. So there is this almost-structure, this leftover, this barely existent cloud, mostly nothing, but slightly different from outer space, and in between our solar system and larger forces. Anything that happens there happens very slowly, in response to remote energy bursts from long, long ago. Between existing and not existing.
Awesome right? Let's make some Kopfmusik.
So I tried to come up with music capturing this idea. Not really music with melodies, but not really silence. Something that echoes, that is a remnant of something from long ago. A sketch from the Oort cloud.
The notes played are from a 16th century lute piece known as "Pegaramsey", I have no idea what that means. But I played them so slowly that the melody is not recognizable any more (great training technique, I hear). In other words, I shot them into the far, far corners of our solar system. Then add Reaktor SpaceMaster 2 and Longflow with some live parameter tweaking. You can hear slightly faster versions of the melody at several points in the background - echoes, comets, who knows.
Hope you enjoy!! Special shoutout to my man @phillipegrishin who was kind enough to remix one of my pieces last week, and who said he wanted something chill. Maybe this will cool you off man!
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