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Randomon: Divertimento Aleatorio

from Ballet M​é​canique by Eidon

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  • euqinacèM is a peculiar version of "Ballet Mécanique" (1923–24), "a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy" (Wikipedia). euqinacèM plays "Ballet Mécanique" in reverse -- from its last frame to its first -- and in fast motion: 64.58 frames per second. Finally, as a soundtrack, I applied my "GoHachi" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/gohachi).

    I found the result truly surprising! Especially when you consider that I composed the music without considering the use I ended up making of it.

    Enjoy!

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  • This is my second Dada experiment, following "euqinacèM" that I published a few months ago. The video is Walther Ruttmann's "Lichtspiel Opus 1", which has been sped up to match my track "Seventy-Four" (eidon.bandcamp.com/track/seventy-four).

    Ruttman's first Opus was created between 1919 and 1921, and is the "oldest fully abstract motion picture known to survive, using only animated geometric forms, arranged and shown without reference to any representational imagery" (M. Betancourt, "Walther Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Films". Cinegraphic. Cited by Wikipedia).

    The geometrical shapes in Léger and Murphy's "Ballet Mécanique" clearly owe to Ruttman's. For a strange kind of serendipitous magical audiovisual xenochrony, both videos appear to be in synch with my tracks, despite the fact that the decision to use them as soundtracks came to me long after I had composed them. In sooth, magic does exist!So here's to you my Klang- und Lichtspiel. I hope you'll like it!

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"Randomon: Divertimento aleatorio": A contrast between the regular and the irregular, the ordered and the chaotic. A piece for saronkembe (that's a synth patch), double bass, and Moroccan percussion, then followed by two pianos, derbake, and darbuka.

It is the result of a little experiment in composition: I have written four bars of a theme; then I overlapped those bars as follows:

1|2|3|4
. |1|2|3|4
. |. |1|2|3|4

(where 1-to-4 are the bars and "." is an empty bar.)

Then I listened to the result... and I continued from there ^_^

The piece was conceived for two pianos; but the mixing here also includes the above mentioned paraphernalia.

For no clear reason, the music made me think of the beginning of a famous track of a band that I love. So I did something *really outrageous* and, just for the fun of it, I chained a minor portion of that music with mine. And here you can listen to the result XD

I also created a clip using the video archive.org/details/Scvtv20-apollorestored103 from NASA, in the public domain via the Internet Archive, and portions of "SMP Earth The History of The Moon Landing", a MystS production, also in the public domain via the Internet Archive.

It's on youtube at youtu.be/PDPAM4zu0Pw, together with my other productions (www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0UIBDZEYlvn8thxv3aOxw)

Cheers,
栄屯。

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from Ballet M​é​canique, track released October 14, 2022

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Eidon Leuven, Belgium

Jazz, neo-classical, avant-pop, generative.

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"Eidon put ook uit mathrock, minimal music, jazz, etnische muziek... Hij zou perfect passen als support van Gogo Penguin, Battles of Dijf Sanders en kan op termijn misschien wel een plaats veroveren op zowel Rock Werchter als Gent Jazz of Couleur Café. Benieuwd hoe hij dit live brengt"

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