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Edward Givens

@edwardgivens.bsky.social

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Not the astronaut. Composer. Imaginative, mystical and life affirming music for your daily soundtrack. edwardgivens.bandcamp.com I've also been known to edit videos. Other interests include modern art and wordplay. Hear, here!

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

the clock
strikes off the hollow half-hours
of all the life that is left to you
one by one.

- Emily Brontë

music from Clockwork Shadows

Clockwork Days, including the Hush-Hush Dance

🏷️ #mondays #musicsky #neoclassical #musicvideo
🔗 edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/clockwork-shadows

Edward Givens - Clockwork Shadows - Clockwork Days, including the Hush-Hush Dance

YouTube video by Edward Givens

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 5h

all good! I like lots of music, moderation kinda fing, just don't buy into what we got in music school - that it's "where music went" with frankly lame parallels to early modern art. My position is that garden variety 20th century music is best typified by stuff like Jazz and Rock, not Bleepsquawk.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 9h

A very Sophia Loren look on that there kitty!

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 16h

Pablo Picasso :
The Dove of Peace, 1949

With Guernica hailed as one of the world's most moving anti-war paintings, Picasso was invited to design an image to represent peace.

Further description in the alt text 👇

Picasso's first Dove of Peace, chosen as the emblem for the First International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949, was a traditional, realistic picture of a pigeon which had been given to him by his great friend and rival, the French artist Henri Matisse.

Picasso later developed this image into a simple, graphic line drawing that is one of the world's most recognizable symbols of peace. He also named his fourth child 'Paloma', the Spanish word for 'dove'.

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 16h

It really is a good site. Crystal clear, easy to navigate.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 16h

I did know a girl in 1978 who liked them. 😐

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 17h

Shout out to Tonal Drift, who among other things has a terrific website🌐
#musicsky
tonaldrift.com

Tonal Drift Music

Music by Tonal Drift - ambient, cinematic, contemporary classical

tonaldrift.com

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 18h

Going thru the 2nd punch list on my new project.
Finally admitted, after nearly 2 months, that I hated the penny whistle part on one track. Ugh.
So I spent half my valuable afternoon yesterday revamping that part into...
strings?! Amazingly it balanced out nicely. Sometime ya gots ta let go.

hand tossing crumpled up paper into a basket

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 18h

I apparently offended someone who likes atonal music.
I'm sorry. 😐
If it sounds like something my dog could play then I'm only listening for so long. Like it? No skin off my nose.
Personally I like the sound of parallel fourths and fifths.
When not writing music to spec, I write what pleases me. 🤷‍♂️

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 19h

The problem with pure atonal music is that it has a logic to it but in the end it's even more restrictive than tonality. You get fewer choices.
Check out topic two in Wendy Carlos' excellent take down here:
www.wendycarlos.com/resources/2e...

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 19h

PS I like Stravinsky. Never mentioned him actually.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 19h

and you continue to ignore the outstanding influence of cubism on everything from painting to architecture to fashion. Surrealism's on cinema. A similar influence was not shared by the Adorno crowd.
Stockhausen was a fraud.
I could clean the dirty contacts on my synth and get a similar sound.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 19h

which is who I brought up at the top.
Feel free to demonstrate Arnold's influence on Rock/Pop
But then you try to compare Stravinsky and Bing so I'm thinking no.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

Edward Givens - Clockwork Shadows - Clockwork Days, including the Hush-Hush Dance

YouTube video by Edward Givens

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

The point is the essentially African American quality of all effective, influential 20th century music, outside of academia.
We were taught, incorrectly "where music went".
eg. Stockhausen?
...by comparison to visual artists from Bauhaus to the Surrealists? not even close
Price a Picasso anytime.

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

What a voice!

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

I just posted a track from that album :)
I believe his shakuhachi player was Kazuo Matsui.
It's the breathiness, the splatter, the intensity of the articulations.
To me that style of flute playing really brings out all the possibilities. It both whispers and shouts...

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

something beautiful
#music #prog
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZU...

Purple Hills and Crystal Streams

YouTube video by Osamu Kitajima - Topic

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

GREAT album! I like Tengu.
His singing is amazing on this album.
Dropped for his later stuff.
I'm a big fan of his self titled album. Great shakuhachi playing - got me into playing and even making (for a while) bamboo flutes

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

we were so close going metric. (sigh) my car still gets 50 rods to the hogshead

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 1d

people forget that it was supposed to be entertaining - and it is!

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 2d

looks unsafe

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 2d

it's been a while, but I usually just ride western

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 2d

I guess the lyrics were there to give the singer something to do.
Awkward when you like the human voice but not words necessarily....
Magma?

Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 2d

who was the fool?
was wise?
was a beggar?
or a king?

whether poor
or rich
in death
we are all alike

🏷️ #musicsky #halloween #bandcamp #composer #musicvideo #multikulti #darkambient #neoclassical

🔗 edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/album/blue-yonder

Edward Givens - Danse Macabre

YouTube video by Edward Givens

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 2d

like most Americans I only knew of him via King Crimson - a band he didn't like. Totally missed his big hit and his other solo material - great stuff. Interesting life as well.
psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/05/gordon-haskell-interview.html

Gordon Haskell interview - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Gordon Haskell has been a musician and singer/songwriter for 50 years. Haskell first gained recognition as bass player for the British band The Fleur de Lys, and subsequently spent a short period in K...

psychedelicbabymag.com

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