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Waka Ky​ō​ka (​倭​歌 狂​歌​)​, for piano solo

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.

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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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Waka Kyōka (倭歌 狂歌), for piano solo, is my latest algorithmic composition.

Waka (倭歌 or 和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.
Kyōka (狂歌, "wild" or "mad poetry") is a popular, parodic subgenre of waka.

The seed (sentences describing a collection of Japanese Waka poetry used in a card game)
is transcoded into initial configurations for my simulator of... a card game! The result is interpreted
as the music you can hear here.

"Waka" made me think of "Waka/Jawaka" by Frank Zappa and, by association, I thought of the Mojave (Frank and his family lived in Lancaster, "a charter city in northern Los Angeles County, in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California".

The result of the above wild and mad associations is the videoclip you can see at youtu.be/dJT36-2jg6g XD

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from Ballet M​é​canique, track released October 30, 2022
Music by Eidon.

All info about Lancaster, Waka, and Kyōka, are from Wikipedia.

The video is "010112_001: 1950s road trip Las Vegas and desert southwest", from Prelinger Archives Home Movies, archive.org/details/010112-001

The cover picture is "Open road in Death Valley 1960s", archive.org/details/1_20210907_20210907, CC0 1.0 Universal, treated with Gmic filter "Cubism".

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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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