Created in GarageBand using a mix of smart piano instruments, one smart 'fairytale bells' instrument and a few manually played synths.

It's a gentle, sad, and beautiful track. I hope you like it.

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Art from here:

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/heart-glass-broken-crack-fragile-7424658/

The Doomsday Clock symbolises human-made global catastrophe, and in January 2023 it was set to 90 seconds to midnight (the closest to catastrophe that it's been).

What better way to meet the end of the world than through rock?

One of my Apple loop compositions / mixes.

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Image taken from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock#/media/File:Doomsday_clock_(1.5_minutes).svg

Dark matter, dark energy, dark photons...dark universe. Engage dark photon drive, let's go exploring!

I felt it was time for another epic space metal anthem with the Star Nomads and some of my favourite Novation Launchpad pads, Novation Launchkey synths , and dacca guitar(see playlist).

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Art cropped by me from the following image:

Dark matter map of KiDS survey region (region G12)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_matter_map_of_KiDS_survey_region_%28region_G12%29.jpg

"It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe. " John Archibald Wheeler.

Wheeler is said to have gone through three phases of thought (in order) in his physics career. 1) Everything is particles 2) Everything is fields and 3) Everything is information...

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Art derived and altered (by me) from here:

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/participatory-universe

I've retired, renovated, separated, divorced, sold the family home, left Melbourne for remote country Victoria, renovated...its been a busy couple of years! Oh yeah, and we all got to experience COVID...

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Art (cropped by me):

Marco Verch, "Golden bokeh festive blurred background"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/50396719717

I've been absent for a couple of months as, for no declared reason, I couldn't upload tracks. All sorted now, so enjoy my little synth track!

The title of the track references the feeling I get from 80s synthpop... it's way in the past but it still feels and sounds futuristic to me...just like the Tron movies.

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Art (cropped by me) from here:

https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-face-light-painting-light-6194370/

I seem to be in the mood for ambient music these days, and was thinking about gentle rainfall upon a mountain (one with ferns!). All synths played by me.

Image: Louis Docker - "Raindrop on a fern frond."

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raindrop_on_a_fern_frond.jpg

Cropped by me to get a square image.

To live a life is, quite frankly, hard. The longer that you live, the more people you've lost. But...it has its moments of beauty and poignancy and it's this mixture of emotions and feeling that I hoped to capture here.

One of my Apple loop creations.

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Photograph (edited by me) - David Coutts

Here's a short excerpt of NASA's description of the beautiful Crab Nebula:

"The combination of rapid rotation and a strong magnetic field in the Crab generates an intense electromagnetic field that creates jets of matter and anti-matter moving away from both the north and south poles of the pulsar, and an intense wind flowing out in the equatorial direction."

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Art (composite image - Chandra X-Ray / Hubble / Spitzer) - cropped by me from the original.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/a-crab-walks-through-time.html

This track was created using 6 Alchemy synths (two arpeggiated) with the artwork created by me using the art AI Midjourney bot on Discord (my first piece of Midjourney art).

Inspired by astronomy which is...looking back in time.