Synthetic Zen Trip Through Synthville Music Video 20150205a

A trip through Dark and light in three movements.
Synthetic Zen's 2014 Buddhalicious album.
A whopping 15 minutes & 45 seconds long! Started it months ago, then forgot about it, or was overwhelmed by all the changes in key. Then I stumbled across it a few weeks ago, dabbled with it, and finally today worked it into something usable (and long). It has two up-beat movements, with slower movements at the beginning, middle, and then very slow at the end. The "trip" in the title is a pun (should be obvious when you listen), both the use of the word as in to travel as well as related to altered states. Should seem like traveling through different parts of a city's districts, during various times of day and night and the denizens within, occasional emergency vehicles and more implied musically but not directly. Created with Logic Pro 9, Logic Pro X, Mac, Linux, ZynSubFX, microphones, my vocals (one area), Audacity, Arturia Analog Lab, Arturia 32 keyboard, Arturia Keylab 49 keyboard, and other tools. Enjoy!

[Blogfather]

Really love the transition at 8:15 onwards.

[Blogfather]

Listening while I finish report cards. Enjoyable. If Tolkien had something like this to get him through grading papers, he might never have written, "In a hole there lived a hobbit" on a blank page of a term paper!

[thesyntheticzen]

Notes about the music:

Had originally started it months before, then life sidetracked me and I forgot about it, and/or was overwhelmed by all the changes in key.

Then later I stumbled across it, dabbled with it, and finally worked it into something usable (and long).

It has two up-beat movements, with slower movements at the beginning, middle, and then very slow at the end.

The "trip" in the title is a pun (should be obvious when you listen), both the use of the word as in to travel as well as related to altered states.

Should seem like traveling through different parts of a city's districts, during various times of day and night and the denizens within, occasional emergency vehicles and more implied musically but not directly.

Created with Logic Pro 9, Logic Pro X, Mac, Linux (OpenSuse), ZynSubFX, microphones, my vocals (layered in one area), Audacity, Arturia Analog Lab, Arturia 32 keyboard, Arturia Keylab 49 keyboard, and other tools.

Can download this music (without video) here:

11. Trip Through Synthville (R mix) 20141108r MP3