Hi Sergey,
No5...this is a very strict proportional canon in the electronic sounds (which means that the 3 voices play the same music one after another BUT it comes together on the last tone of the piece), the "counterpoint" is a piece for strings, which is connected to the three voices of the canon...the strictness becomes (because its getting closer and closer) something unpredictable as power is, that follows its own rules!
best
CROG

on the form:

I think, there should be also a decision HOW it is presented...as ONE long film with music or in different short parts...(which I would NOT like so much, I saw it on the website of the organizer, that there was one piece with several parts in different Youtubes,,...I think that this is not a good solution)....or is it like this, that people see the whole work of Yours and maybe click on one part, to see it more closely (in a film) together with the music???? Do You have any idea how this is planned in the festival? or is it only in the net?? so many questiions

looking forward....maybe we can have a skype meeting next week??

Sergey,

about No. 6. The guy, who is talking in english about penises is a bodybuilder, who wants to sell Testosteron-Products

working today also on No 7

Dear Sergey, no. 7:
This time, I didn´t react on the soundfiles of Youtube, because I thought: in the musical context of the cycle it would be a little to much MARCHES!....so, I did a piece that refers more to the nervous system of a subject. The electronic outbursts are initiated by very short reminiscences to the first 6 pieces, in which the formation of the subordinate subject comes to a kind of end. The subject tries to stay or become apathic and numb by singing and the low tone, that should deafen the conscience. At the end it nearly works: the last cry has nearly no consequences in the "nervous system"....
have a good day

Dear Sergey,
the scetch I sent for an alternative no. 8 is defenitely too long, I can do a shorter version. For me, this proposal is (as a no.8) too similar to the sounds of no. 7 (as we think about all the pieces and videos as ONE circle)...but I can make a shorter version of the long feedback-piece (called 8b e.g.) and we see, what happens
best and have a good day

Hello Sergey,

you can find my (already planned) no 9 / wanted to finish it, before going ahead.

In this piece I tried to be a lot of radios just with my voice...I like the piece, but be free to choose about my no 8 being no 9.

Dear Sergey,
my number 10. You wanted Kitsch, and You get Kitsch.....but I LIKE it...so, its an improvisation with my cheap keyboard and voice (singing a phantasy-language)...a second voice was added afterwards, pitched a minor 3rd upwards, which does NOT fit all the time, which I especially like (and the first voice was defenitely NOT made with auto-correction!)....hope You like it? Maybe there is too less disturnbance?, ...but I think, following the cycle, it is good to have something unambigues....

Hej Sergey,

here is No 11

This time I used an orchestra piece by Aleksander Mossolow: „ZAVOD“ (one of this naturalistic crescendo pieces) but the fragments from the piece were taken backwards. So it is a decrescendo...in between toilet-sounds and dripping water (rotten socialism)

Have fun

Sergey, here is

No 12.

That took me a while: first I thought, just to leave the soundfile You proposed unaltered,.... it is, even if You don´t understand a word (I read some of the commentaries also (translated by google)), such a strong and terrible "music"...so, what can we do?? On the other hand: to capitulate before strong fasco-force???...so I first tried to cut the document in slices between audible "language" and silence, than I set the silence in its portions to 0 dB...this You can hear after a first part of the original document...one can hear, which I didn´t hear before, that there is a radio playing "under" the scene...from that sequence I took a rhythm out, over which parts of the document are heard...at the end the last part of document is heard WITHOUT any longer silences, which makes it even more disturbing I think...so this is my result...hope You "like" it

Dear Sergey, 
no 13th music is a kind of study onto the music of Gesualdo I made once for a choir...we listen to it played by the program muse-score, and here is the (improvised during recording) text of the „priest“ transcribed:

People´s Opium/Text

So, let us pray
and follow, and follow, follow

This taken emotional structure
you will find it
if in present or in past.....

You can imagine,
if You are inside
a following structure,
or if You are outside
if You are a non-knower:
that has the power to take You
by the itself
and You will find the way out.

And, in the last consequence,
be free in this structure of tones.
Follow the structure and You will be free.

No one is with You in Your ears,
no one is with You in Your brain,
no one is with You in Your body.

So, please, get up!

And now You got it,
and You get it in any layer of Your brain and Your body,
in Your soul and in Your mind,
You will have the total freedom,
by the power of the lord,
by the power of the music,
by anything that makes You
the one and only percieving.

So, You did raise?

Go out and follow this path,
stay insid, stay inside, stay inside.

Amen.

Dear sergey,
No 14 is (like no 7) a kind of collecting together some hints/fragments from 8 – 13 and bring them together with scratches of my violin with very short and low violin-sounds in between and very moved tones come in, the two channels form a kind of „canon“, starting frrom the same point, but the left channel is a little slower.

Hej Sergey,
by a very short decision I tried to do No. 15
There is a sound called "telephone" (which is defenitely an old us-american one) on my cheap keyboard...I recorded a small sequence...pitched and stretched it (some acoustical "corrections" also), made again a kind of proportional canon,..... I like it a lot and it could go on for hours for me...but in the cycle this 5 minutes should be enough.

Hi Sergey,
No.16....The tractor Youtube Video You gave the link did not function anymore, but I found several tractor sounds...in combination with melodica and nepali-oboe, which I recorded today...the form is a kind of crescendo, but in the end there is a longer period of decay because of the DECAY of the liver

Dear Sergey,
No. 17 is using parts of the recording from the videos about the bombing in the Minsk-subway You did send...in between feedback sounds (there is NO voice in it, nevertheless one could think it) and (introduced with harsh cuts) a groaning man from Pudowkins DESERTER (one of my most favorite films concerning sound and picture), You can hear it also at the end

Hej Sergey:
No 18: This time I used the LP of the first classical record I have ever heard (and I heard that a lot as a child): Schubert´s so called unfinished symphony. At the beginning, with the very low basses and the super-low dynamics, for me it was only a beautiful noise for years and I was in a way shocked when I heard it live for the first time,...there was no noise, there was very low music with the basses...so the piece 18 has very low dynamics in it...at the end there is a short reminiscence to a poem by Dylan Thomas: „Do not go gentle into that good night, rage rage against“....so death is not only a "good night" it is also something to fight in lifetime....

After finishing the cycle:

(From an imaginary mail)
Dear Sergey,
I think, in the music there is an inner structure, a form, which I found after listening to the cycle as a whole, one could say there is a

PART 1 public education (1 – 7)
PART 2 clichees to the head (8 - 14)
PART 3 resulting up to death (15 – 18)

But this is maybe not important for the listeners.........

C.O. January 30th, , 2021