The flute is a beautiful instrument. The sound we hear is the air that passes through the empty vacuum inside it. The form of the vacuum and the passing air create all these feelings.
I borrow this from Chapter-11 of the Tao Te Ching:
Allegory of the cave
Plato in his dialogue 'Republic' introduced, with Socrates' words, the concept of the illusion caused by the perception of reality through the limitations of the senses.
I copy here from the Wikipedia:
In the allegory "The Cave", Plato describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world.
This piece of music adopts an ambient atmosphere and attempts to recreate a state of mind that vainly attempts to pierce through the limits imposed by our senses.
I hope you will enjoy it.
Pines by the sea
Like most of my music, this piece was named after it was completed. The serenity of the melody reminded me of a beautiful beach on my favourite island. A place where a beautiful grove of pines is separated by the deep blue Ionian Sea by two stripes of sand and colourful pebbles.
I hope you will enjoy it.
Quarter of Eden
The melody and the sound seem to be outwordly to me. Like it's coming from another, beautiful world. A quarter of Eden.
The actual inspiration for the name of this piece is much less inspiring. When I finished it in my DAW, I happened to see on my distributor's website that the first two releases (Allegory of the Cave and Pines by the Sea) had reached an revenue of $0.25, i.e. a quarter of a dollar.
Despite this mundane story of the release, I hope you can enjoy the the various melodies that combine to make this music piece. After all, money is as real as Eden; i.e. it is highly dependent on each person's perspective.
Ionian Blue - an introduction
Welcome to my music blog
I am a musician and producer based in Wellington, New Zealand. I enjoy creating music on a combination of hardware synthesizers and computer software, which has evolved out of my love for classical and electronic music.
music workflow - the technical part
This post is not about inspiration, which is the most important aspect of music creation. It is about the equipment and tools that I use in order to create and finish a piece of music. The technical part of our creative process is integral to the inspiration we have when making music. As I read once on a wall:
"As an artist I aspire to become a craftsman. As a craftsman I aspire to become an artist."
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