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OORT CLOUD PROJECT PART I-IX

OORT CLOUD PROJECT PART I-IX: Composed and Played by David J Svensson 2016. Keyboards, Organ, Electric and Classical Guitars, Drum Pads, Drum Loops. Related to the track 'IGNITION' (see further below).

An 18 minute instrumental of the 'epic' kind, meaning lots of related parts and self-references, themes developing, as if telling some story, a journey ... A genre I personally very much like, regardless of the actual style of the music.

The track took more than a year to complete, and hopefully evokes images of a vast and abstract project taking place far beyond our sphere of influence, beyond our control and original intentions...

Such were the thoughts of the day-dreaming composer while working on this suite :)

The initial inspiration came from the rather simple but quite amazing fact that the outermost region of our solar system goes as far out as one light year (or even further). Totally out-of-reach for us, with our current technology...

Just imagine some grand project with trajectory to Oort Cloud ... A relic from Earth, an anomaly in the Solar System, finally at target after 12000 years.

Perhaps having escaped some runaway technology; some really annoying nano-Von-Neumann sonds, growing exponentially in numbers, with a just slightly mis-specified goal criteria... A machinery superintelligence, (the last invention of the Human race?), trying to solve a hard mathematical problem by building computing infrastructure in a runaway unlimited fashion; turning the planet into computronium?

Or, perhaps a mission for finally settling the Fermi Paradox - where is everybody, damn it!? There are trillions of suns and no clear evidence of life - is there some shield out there? Are we really alone ...

OORT CLOUD PROJECT is not a guitar piece and so features rather few lead guitars.. Instead I have opted for a 'colder' sound, with all those montone sequencers and church organs responsible for unfolding the story. There are however (I couldn't resist to add) lots of supporting guitars, hidden or integrated withing the mix.

Some of this work lead to collaborations with soundcloud.com/tolubai: "Silence" and "Ignition". Special Thx to him for many greatly inspiring discussions and co-work on the spin-offs tracks! We decided to work on shorter segments, for no other reason than both having a limited amount of time for composing. (Here, I use a reworked segment of "Ignition" for opening up the suite, the first burn initiated, escaping Earth ... I had to use it again, since it contains material that I develop further downstreams. Bonus points for correctly identifying all such events ;)).

Special Thx to HIBERNOLOGY (soundcloud.com/user-778034516) for kindly giving useful feedback on a draft version, and for a lot of support.

Thanks for listening/commenting - very much appreciated.

Yrs//DS (20 November 2016)

ps. I lost some files in a computer chrash earlier this year; therefore, (in some sections) I had to work with surviving WAV files rather than the actual 64-bit DAW data files... As a result, the sound quality isn't as good as I hoped for. My appologies for this, and in the future I will constantly backup all files in a truly paranoid fashion. The wonderful irony that a technological disaster occured in the middle of this work ;)