Art: Positivity

Guitar Meditation in D with Strings

A recent rainy Sunday, and I turned on the recording system and began flowing with some images of recent travels out into the desert at Sedona...the "pictures" had motion and resonance along with a quiet feel of a wind from ancient times. I may alternatively call this "Road To Sedona"

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Specs:

Solo guitar meditation, improv in modal tuning with mellotron strings 
Guitar recorded with Blue Yeti Microhone to Live 8 
Mellotron strings MIDI direct to Live 8 
Mixed in Adobe Audition 3

"Guitar Meditation #1-with strings" by ChaoSurfer is licensed under a Creative Commons License

Stormwatcher

The weather around the planet is clearly communicating that "things are unbalanced." We can think about the massive tsunami/quakes of the last seven years, starting with the 2004 Indian Ocean quake, the the Haiti and chile quakes of 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano...to the bird kills seen around the planet early 2011, and the massive cycles of tornadoes in the south, culminating with the tragedy of deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma. A storm, quake, or other natural upheaval is a "sign", an omen, of the condition of our relationship with the earth and the energy systems mirror our own collective consciousness. 

There is majesty in nature, even as it unfolds its fury...we all become stormwatchers and marvel in the terrible power that can be uleashed in a matter of minutes.

This video was shot from our deck on Friday May 27, about 24 houirs after a massive storm hit the region and took out power to over 20,000 homes and businesses. Thank God we did not lose lives or property...and are reminded of those now mourning their losses across the country...God preserve us in the storms.

Trauma Drama

Children Taken By Entities and Government Psy-ops?

As unbelievable as it may sound, children have been abducted under mysterious circumstances in the US, and globally, since the 1950s under any number of secret projects. Additionally, the stories do not cease of those abducted by "ETs" as part of a government agreement, made under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, called the Greada Treaty. Thousands of documented testimonies have surfaced over the last fifty years from credible sources, including the late radio talk show host William Cooper , Dr. Karla Turner, Ph.D, and Laura Magdelene Eisenhower, the grand-daughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

While children are not the only targets of abduction by far; and it is insidious that anyone should be taken against their conscious will; imagine the terror of a child subjected to being seized, probed, experimented on; and having his or her personality split, and memories erased...at the "consent" of the leaders sworn to protect them. This track is a disturbing cry for immediate disclosure, cessation of all abductions and  inquiry into the dark history of our nations' "security state" pacts with undisclosed entities and their technologies.

It is likely that many victims of  abductions by unknown beings and government "black ops' (under the CIA and other agencies) are missing, never to be found. Others, suffer silently with the doubts and fragmented memories...or continue to be abducted. As to who or what these "EntiTies" are, remains to be solved; but they are part of a large mystery which demands accountability and exposure. To these victims this work is dedicated.

Trauma-Drama-Final-Cut by Randy Maugans

"Trauma-Drama-Final-Cut" by Randy Maugans is licensed as Creative Commons

Release date: Jul 3, 2010 

Production notes: Not so much "musical" composition as sound design, in a similar vein as the Beatles' "Revolution #9.' Elements of ambient mixed with effects to present a rather graphic view of abduction, abuse,  and trauma. Sampled and sequenced in Ableton Live v.8, recorded to Steinberg WaveLab v.5, and mixed in Adobe Audition v.3

"Trauma Drama" by Randy S. Maugans is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at randymaugans.com.

Iain Matthews - "Woodstock (Live)"

A performance I shot Friday night, August 13 (and yes, a black cat DID cross my path)...the legendary Iain Mathews and the classic "Woodstock". The venue, Stage On Herr, was an intimate space with game players and interesting bar clientèle, postered with lots of art work and a genial host. 

Iain Matthews was a founding member of Fairport Convention, Matthews Southern Comfort, and Plainsong; as well as a long, fruitful solo career. This was shot in performance at Stage On Herr last Friday night by moi. the classic MSC version of "Woodstock"---Matthews Style.

I dieted on Iain's (then spelled "Ian") music, notably, "If You Saw Thro' My Eyes" as a teenager...he never stops making great music in a whole range of styles...including his recent jazz-leaning, "Joy" with the Searing Quartet. The guy also happens to look great...and sings in a voice years younger than his age.