Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Pink Floyd cover]

*please listen with headphones

Our first attempt to do a complete cover song and it's full of pretension, dreams, delusions, and ambition - considering it's from the Floyds'! But hey, we need to get this psychedelic paranoia out of our heads, also this is a personal favorites of us from them and we are deeply moved after hearing the version of this song from the great Mr. Mika Vainio (electronic/noise musician), and our newly found progressive metal band OSI (Office of Strategic Influence). So we dearly hope that we give justice covering this trippy-enigmatic-magical song though the recordings is not on its best quality and vocals is a bad idea haha :)

All sounds was made from analog electronic hardware, except for the "bell" or the sine wave sounds which we done/programmed using a free android app called S.A.M.M.I., there is also some noises that happens during recording and editing which is not intentional but we see it as "happy accident", we like it so we keep it.

- recorded using an old multitrack tape recorder.
- arranged, master, and mixdown using DAW.
- spoken sampled words by Morpheus from The Matrix movie (redpill scene).

And for the visuals, obviously it is composed of several random footage of our gears that we used overlapping each other, combined with a different video feedback loop clip that we shot using an ordinary webcam staring at itself on a pc monitor... No special effects and animation.

Lyrics-

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Lotuses lean on each other in yearning
Under the eaves the swallow is resting

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Over the mountain watching the watcher.
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine.
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun.

Morpheus: The matrix is everywhere, its all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. (Neo: What truth?) That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind.

Look/Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his questions to Heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving?

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun, the heart of the sun (several times).

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes...

Remix the Mixer

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Photography: minimal

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iLLUSTRATION no. 31:

"H++"

 

*first time in pastel

visuals

Pasta.Electronika

[Random_Sculpture]

Reflective.Soundproof002

[Found_Object]

bit||sculpture

The Glow

random||realization

Noise Music|Feedback Loop|Sound Sculpture

Strange Noise in the Sky ~ Gen Thalz

*All parts of this audio-video experiment was created out of feedback signals recorded live.

-The sound is a sculpted feedback signals coming from all the hardware stated below looping and controlling each other, the mixer and the effects pedal is solely the one acting as oscillator or sound/tone generator. There is no external sound sources, all is coming from within the hardware natural hiss, hum, buzz etc. noises.  And by patching cables
and arranging every equipment in different ways, the possibilities are endless, almost like a semi-modular synthesizer.
We try to be gentle with outmost care as possible twiddling and manipulating the knob because just a slight of a turn can
change the form, tone, timbre, volume and pitch of the frequencies.

Hardware:

1.Analog Mixer
2.Mini Synth Delay Effects
3.Chorus Stompbox
4.Vibrato Stompbox
5.DIY Feedback Looper


-The visuals is also a feedback signals coming from a camera staring at its-self or by its own monitor creating loop
and a slight delay on its output. The results is very generative and may vary using different types of camera and t.v.,
the equipment we used is stated below. By pointing the camera at different angles and zooming it in or out, it can creates
a vast variety of organic-geometrical-fractal shapes, designs, and patterns as if one is on a wonderland trance-like altered-state visions. We put together here some of the videoclips that we created.

Equipment:

1.SLR Camera
2.CRT TV
3.LCD TV


"Sometimes it was enough to barely touch one of the recording or playback potentiometers to develop a sound. It was in this way, i think, that i discovered the pleasure of a work made with the tips of the toes or rather the fingers, and above all in looking for a certain kind of sound." ~ Eliane Radigue [electronic music composer]

Mixology||Concoction

White Russian [remix]

 

Instead of vodka we used gin, and instead of cream or fresh milk we used full cream milk to give it more thickness and creaminess.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Full Cream Milk

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

 

Gray Russian [version]

 

A little experiment that we try like an alchemist trying to turn lead into gold, it's almost the same as the White Russian but this time we add choco syrup on the mix to give it more textures and taste.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Full Cream Milk

4.Choco Syrup

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

 

Black Russian [remix]

This is the opposite of White Russian, it's darker and acidic. The only thing that we change here is vodka, again we used gin.

ingredients:

1.Gin (vodka for the original)

2.Coffee Liquor

3.Cola

Glass = Old Fashioned/Rock Glass

*inspired by "The Dude" from the movie The Big Lebowski

 

Golden Sunset [version/stir]

 

Because it's mango season, why not use/add its juice to the White Russian recipe instead of cream or cola. Aside the title suggesting its color, the mango juice creates a thick but soft textures to the mix and its sweetness reflects the calmness and mellow-ish-esque of a sunset on the boulevard. BTW please don't be trick by its name, you can also enjoy this during sunrise. ;)

 

Ingredients:

 

1.Vodka
2.Coffee Liquor
3.Mango Juice

 

Glass = Old fashioned/Rock Glass