dacca

An attempt at funky synth pop positivity!

The therapy is helping!

This is one of my Apple loop compositions / mixes.

Image taken from here (cropped, and added title and my artist name):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Flash_of_Happiness.jpg

Having recently retired (late 2020), after working for 36 years in 'Information Technology', I feel qualified to create this tribute to the age of computers. Done in the style of Tangerine Dream, or perhaps 'Tangerine Dream light'.

All synths played by me in Logic Pro X, plus a customised drummer track.

A fusion of funk, metal and industrial sounds.

Created on my iPad Pro using GB (as DAW, and for FX loops) with Blocswave and Thumb Jam electric guitar.

Image taken from (cropped, colour saturated, and squared):

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Darvasa_gas_crater_panorama.jpg

A track to describe how it feels to try and pick your heart up from the floor, and start a new life.

The backing track was mostly created in BlocsWave, with some manual GB cello / bells / drums and a few other loops (vibes) plus my own vocals and lyrics.

Journey of the Optimist by dacca

Growing up, I sometimes felt like I was rehearsing for my life ahead. Wrong.

Life is never a rehearsal...life is always raw, life is always real.

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

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"Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" by Lewis Carol, 1871

I'm recently retired and planning to explore much more of the Australian Alps including driving the 339 kilometres on the Victorian Alpine Road from Wangaratta to Bairnsdale and the exploring Australian Alpine Walking Track (maybe one day doing the whole 655 kilometres).

Here's a link to the Australian Alps Walking track:

https://www.trailhiking.com.au/australian-alps-walking-track/

Here's link to the Great Alpine Road drive in Victoria:

https://www.travelvictoria.com.au/experiences/drivingroutes/greatalpineroad/

And here's the Alpine Way Drive in Kosciuszko National park, NSW:

https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/driving-routes/kosciuszko-alpine-way-drive

Photograph (cropped to fit for SoundCloud): "Mount Feathertop and Razorback" by Peter Campbell:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Alps#/media/File:Mount_Feathertop_and_Razorback.jpg

Influenced by recent events in my life. March 8th, 2021.

One of my Apple loop mixes/compositions. I'm really happy with this one...captured my thoughts exactly.

A dreamy ambient guitar track. This uses Apple loops for the various keyboard tracks, and GB guitar played by me on iPad Pro.

Photograph: "Bougainvillea" by David Coutts 2021.