Gravitas

Got a minute? Another ultra-compact song, called Fun with Cesium, in this case referring to the plug-in, not the element, although I understand the latter is also fun.

In keeping with the continuing decline of humanity’s attention span, or at least my own, I’m starting a new series of songs that will be around a single minute in length. Here are the first two.

I asked OpenAI to “write three haikus in the classic 5-7-5 structure, on the theme of experimental music.” It did pretty well, I think.

Electronic noise
The thrill of exploration
Innovative sounds

Unusual effects
A journey of sonic waves
Dance of the future

Noise is the key
An exciting musical path
Breaking the silence

The title is a reference to a psychedelic French prog album from 1975 called “Forever Blowing Bubbles”, which is itself a reference to “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, a popular American song written in 1918. It’s bubbles all the way down.

Floboes = Flutes + Oboes

When it came time to come up with some kind of topline or lead for the middle section, I ended up combinating (to combine using a Combinator) flutes and oboes from the BBC Symphony Orchestra library. Most of the rest is via Reason Studios “Scenic” instrument.