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Time Travel (The Hourglass Beckons)
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My eleventh song for FAWM 2009. It's a chimera -- half technoballad, half incidental music from some unknown science fiction show.
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Jazz-influenced progressive rock.
artist is a middle and high school science teacher residing in Sterling, VA, USA. He switched to teaching after a career in medicinal chemistry. He is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, a Native American tribe originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States. As a musician, he plays bass, guitar, Hammond organ, keys, and various drums. Many of these appear on his first album, , it focuses on a jazz-influenced rock sound; however, like , it is almost exclusively built using odd time signatures (such as 5/4 and 7/8). In this way, although it was born in a different world, it retains its connection to the past. One more move: this time to a new house. It was a difficult change, and out of the struggle was born a new sound. is just that: a collection of jazzy, funky, cool -- and most of all, original -- compositions. In addition to the works above, Bruce is also on , where he releases raw (unmixed) tracks from his albums and other works for use by remix artists.
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#14,944 today Peak #249
#3,302 in subgenre Peak #37
Author
Bruce H. McCosar
Uploaded
February 18, 2009
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MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:10
Story behind the song
The concept behind this song: In Act I, we see a man leading an apparently normal life as a mathematician. At night, however, he works on a secret project -- equations that may result in a new method of time travel. In Act II, he becomes obsessed with building the device. The regular world ceases to have any meaning for him; he concentrates on his work to the exclusion of all else. In Act III, the machine is built -- he travels through time. The journey seems to take an instant that somehow spreads out to infinity. He feels time rushing past him, accelerating, converging to some unknown endpoint. In Act IV, he finds he's traveled back in time -- but to the wrong universe. There's no Earth, no stars, no normal space; he's trapped in an alien past. My compositional goal on this song was to use NO chords, in contrast to my previous efforts. Also, I wanted to try something I'd never done before, a more techno / electronica sort of song. Turns out that's very difficult for me to write. The result is a sort of chimera, half recognizable as my own, half something that sounds like incidental music on some sci fi series. This song uses a high quality crash cymbal sample from the Freesound Project, created by ltibbits, and available in a cymbal sample pack. * 6281_ltibbits_ride_A_Ping_20_crash.wav
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