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A sound collage video called The Esperanto Group – X Minus One Mix

My thoughts while creating this sound collage involved the idea of leaving planet earth on an endless journey and all the new ways of living a person would have to adjust to… it would be like learning a new language for me.

Esperanto

Esperanto is the International Language invented in 1887 for the purpose for promoting World Peace through better communication.

Esperanto is an invented language and is not based on any particular nation or tribe’s native language. Thus it is considered a neutral language for International dialogue.

Sound Collage and Podcast

This sound collage was mixed on January 18, 2011 – Listen or download the sound collage here:

More Information Soon…

Note From The Captain

This sound collage was created during the week before the tragic shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona on the 8th of January, 2011. While creating this collage I could feel the violence in the air… My condolences go out to the victims of this senseless violence and  to their families, indeed, to all Americans who feel the loss caused by this terrible action.

Making Sound Collages

Most of my sound collages contain stories (actually, the same story told over and over again) told in vague and ambiguous ways with lots of blurry edges between the ideas.

I am telling this story and presenting these visions which can only be completed by the listener. Every listener brings their own mental filters to the listening experience.

My hope is each listener will develop their own view of the stories I am telling, understanding that there are many layers of thoughts embedded in these collages

Sometimes the UFOverdriver finds itself in the midst of a strange story – like some vision of sound or an audio dream of somewhere and somewhat familiar… and this is one of those times.

WARNING: This sound collage contains the sounds of gunfire and simulated war, as well as 1970’s era rock and roll music. It’s heavy man.

Track Information

Track 1 (0:34) Station Identification (this is a universal frequency broadcast)

Track 2 (0:30) Sweet Belief (yes you can)

Track 3 (1:08) Billion Dollar Babies (spray cans join the hype machine)

Track 4 (1:54) In The Middle Without Any Plans (machines are machines are machines)

Track 5 (2:03) I’m Going Through Changes (I’m a boy and I’m a man)

Track 6 (0:53) The War Pigs In The Wings (plans? we’ve got plans)

Track 7 (1:41) The War Pig Machine Keeps Turning (one ring to rule them all)

Track 8 (1:30) Overwhelming Mayhem Pig Feed (the spray can jams the machine)

Track 9 (2:46) The Hand of God Has Struck The Hour (the little hand is on the twelve, and the big hand is around your vote)

Track 10 (3:51) You Won’t Fool The Children of the Revolution (the spray can army)

Track 11 (3:49) Waiting For Mr. Blue Skies (I, Jon, heard and saw these things; visions of the brothership)

Track 12 (1:28) War For The Sake of Peace (what are we fighting for?)

Track 13 (0:59) Thirteen O’Clock (the hour of harvest)

 

Flying Into The Vision: the story told as a prose poem

This sound collage unfolds like a dream revealing the story of a revolution, of spray cans fighting the war pigs machine in a fury of mayhem, where war is waged in the name of peace, and of a moment in time when the Blue Katchina arrives to dance and City of God arrives for the great harvest hour.

In this dream I woke up aboard the UFOverdriver, as it was levitating towards cruising altitude, preparing to send out it’s audio transmissions.

The UFOverdriver is filled with sweet leaf and sweet belief – pipe dreams of smoke and hope – a dream within the dream begins…

I looked around me and saw armies of the new generation selling out their lives to the big machines, the money machines, the hype machines… shook-up and used up like so many discarded spray cans.

I looked and I saw a massive a life-like vision of endlessly recycled attempts to re-live that long lost moment of something important.

At the top the President recycles his advisers and begins to make his prearranged run for re-election, and I see a man in the grips of middle-age flounder without any plans.

From somewhere, the UFOverdriver picks up the following signal:

“Is it possible that the story can actually end very badly? I mean, who knew?

Who knew that the reigns of power were held by so many and yet so few? Who knew that all of this actually matters? Who knew that boys had to finally become men? I’m going through changes, and fighting it tooth and nail.

But plans – heck, I don’t even have a clue.”

And then I heard the sounds of grunting pigs, the voices of the war pigs speaking;

“Hey kid – ne[...]

Welcome to a new sound collage adventure from UFOverdriver. This is a densely layered space odyssey that involved new and experimental techniques... headphones are recommended for optimum immersion.

A Christmas treat for all UFOverdriver fans (and everyone who considers themselves a member of the unofficial UFOverdriver Fan Club) - and that's everyone who has sent me comments, passed along their compliments, told me how much they enjoyed the work, etc.

Introducing a new original sound collage from UFOverdriver called:

Dystopia (Is The New Utopian Dream)

…Music to help you party like it’s 1984 – or use it as your getaway soundtrack when you’re on the run from the Suede Denim Secret Police.

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Track Information

Track 1 (1:22) You Know What To Do

Track 2 (4:20) I Never Lost Control

Track 3 (3:54) We Will Go

Notes:

It’s been a very busy month for UFOverdriver – lots of recordings and new mixes.

Many of the new sound collages have become, for me, a record of this moment in time when our country is making a hard shift towards dystopia.

Nope is the new Hope, Secrecy is the new Transparency, Censorship is the new Freedom of the Press, Propaganda is today’s FauxNews…

I plan on remixing the material from this period into a bigger piece focusing on this recent dystopian shift. Stay tuned…

List of recent work

November 30th – Rule Number Two

December 6th – Rule Number Two Is The New Rule Number One

December 11th – This Is The Voice Of Your Conscience

December 15th – They Call Me The Breeze

December 16th – They Call Me The Breeze – Part 2

Definition: Dystopia

A dystopia (from Ancient Greek: δυσ-: bad-, ill- and Ancient Greek: τόπος: place, landscape) (alternatively, cacotopia,[1] or anti-utopia) is, in literature, an often futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian.

Dystopian literature has underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue to live how we do, this will be the consequence.

A dystopia, thus, is regarded as a sort of negative utopia and is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government.

Dystopias usually feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions and constant states of warfare or violence. Dystopias often explore the concept of technology going “too far” and how humans individually and en masse use technology.

A dystopian society is also often characterized by mass poverty for most of its inhabitants and a large military-like police force.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

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Until later, best of health.

Complete track information for They Call Me The Breeze – Run Baby Run On Mix has been posted here: http://ufoverdriver.onehumanbeing.com/albums-from-ufoverdriver/they-call-me-the-breeze-run-baby-run-on/

UFOverdriver has now released the They Call Me The Breeze – Run Baby Run On Mix – Wikileaks Version with extra media material included which covers some of the Wikileaks news from December 7th through 14th, 2010 – as well as some other sound bites for your listening pleasure – released here and through the UFOverdriver podcasts.

Listen to the Wikileaks Version right here:

This week I offer you a break from all the Christmas music you've been hearing while you're out shopping with an experimental mix from UFOverdriver using music and samples from Pink Floyd, Moby, U2 and Spiritualized. I spent some time on this mix playing with asynchronous beats that sublimely change relationship over the course of the piece. I made several versions of this piece with extra media material mixed into it - but the "clean" mix of music works very well on it's own, so here is the podcast only (and here on the website of course) mix of They Call Me The Breeze - Run Baby Run On Mix - Club Version.

After being deeply inspired by Sen. Bernie Sanders' filibuster/long speech on Friday, UFOverdriver worked quickly to make use of it in a sound collage. The goal was to capture the moment and preserve it in a form that would highlight long, uninterrupted stretches of his speech.

Sen. Bernie Sander began his speech at 10:25 AM and ended it over 8 1/2 hours later at 6:59 PM. Many of us who watched it as it happened felt we were watching a historic moment.

This sound collage is composed of 5 parts/tracks; with a short introduction, the beginning of the filibuster, a short interlude, another uninterrupted segment of the speech, and then the conclusion.

Enjoy!

Wikileaks address: http://213.251.145.96/

UFOverdriver has been busy this last week working on this densely layered sound collage of mixed-media from the first week of the Wikileaks Cable Dump – a week that will be remembered as a historical battle in the history of the InfoWars…

This new remix includes music from U2, Talking Heads and Radiohead, lectures from Alan Watts and sound clips from an audiobook version of 1984, as well as numerous other clips, cuts, samples and various bits of audio debris from this first week of skirmishes in the new InfoWars…

Rule Number Two Is The New Rule Number One

The Wikileaks Big Cable Dump Mix

Track listing:

(click on track name to hear individual track)

Track 1 (0:31) War is Peace – Freedom is Slavery – Ignorance is Strength

Track 2 (4:12) Rule Number Two Will Be Told To You In Reverse

Track 3 (2:06) One Step Closer To InfoWar

Track 4 (2:19) If You’re Going To Be Human

Track 5 (3:27) Life During InfoWar Time

Track 6 (1:45) The Infrastructure Will Collapse

Download MP3 files of complete album:

Just right click on the link below and download the zipfile to your computer. The zipfile contains all 6 tracks and the album art.

UFOverdriver – Rule Number Two Is The New Rule Number One – The Wikileaks Big Cable Dump Mix

Information About This Mix

First mixed on November 30, 2010 and released as a short pieces called Rule Number Two Will Be Told To You In Reverse, this remix was completed on December 6, 2010 and takes a broader look at this unfolding (or continuously leaking) situation.

While the first mix was only 3:48, this new re-mix is 14:20 and contains 6 individual tracks…

Music Pieces Used:

U2 – One Step Closer (from How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb)

Talking Heads – Life During Wartime (from Fear Of Music)

Radiohead – Videotape (from In Rainbows)

Radiohead – House of Cards (from In Rainbows)

Some of the material used in this sound collage (including the title) comes from an audio-cassette invitation to a party created by my friends Brian Maul, Kirk Jones (the voice saying “Rule number two will be told to you in reverse”) and Philip May back in the early 1990′s.

You can hear the complete invitation here (it’s about 30 minutes long and quite amazing…) http://onehumanbeing.com/central/2010/11/27/souvenirs-from-the-late-20th-century/

The drum loops came from the Acid Loops Universal Groove Elements, but I altered them somewhat… in the background are some strange loops from something I recorded in June of 1990, and there’s also some organ playing in there that I recorded last week for this collage.

FREE 1984 Audiobook download: http://www.archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book

“Hey Freethinker” – I took this sound clip from my friend’s audio-invitation, but it really comes from a group called Voice Farm…

Here’s the latest podcast from UFOverdriver – a sound collage about Wikileak’s release of over 250,000 confidential and secret U.S. State Department diplomatic cables to major news organizations around the world…

Rule Number Two Will Be Told To You In Reverse – The Wikileaks Mix (3:48)

(Yes, UFOverdriver occasionally does podcasts – you can subscribe for FREE through iTunes)

In case you’re not familiar with this story about “Cablegate” from Wikileaks, here’s a bit of info:

WikiLeaks’ Cablegate, the latest dump of confidential documents by WikiLeaks, has the website prominently in the news again this week. (Scroll down for live updates.)

WikiLeaks released 250,000 secret State Department documents on Sunday, including cables related to Iran and its nuclear program, leading to numerous reactions.

HuffPost’s Sam Stein reports that the Obama administration is not ruling out taking legal action against WikiLeaks after the online site’s latest leak. In July, WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 Afghan war logs. Iraq war logs were released last month. WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange says the next dump will target a U.S. megabank.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/wikileaks-cablegate-live-_n_789789.html

You can follow the story here on the Huffington Post (a whole page of ever-changing stories about this situation) – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/wikileaks

Also – here’s the link to the Wikileaks website: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/

About This Mix

Some of the material used in this sound collage (including the title) comes from an audio-cassette invitation to a party created by my friends Brian Maul, Kirk Jones (the voice saying “Rule number two will be told to you in reverse”) and Philip May back in the early 1990’s. You can hear the complete invitation here (it’s about 30 minutes long and quite amazing…) http://onehumanbeing.com/central/2010/11/27/souvenirs-from-the-late-20th-century/

The drum loops came from the Acid Loops Universal Groove Elements, but I altered them somewhat… in the background are some strange loops from something I recorded in June of 1990, and there’s also some organ playing in there that I recorded last night for this collage.

Enjoy the mix!