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Lîla by Curioustín

Lîla

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«There is an old Sanskrit word, lîla, which means play. Richer than our word, it means divine play, the play of creation, destruction, and re-creation, the folding and unfolding of the cosmos. Lîla, free and deep, is both the delight and enjoyment of this moment, and the play of God. It also means love.
Lîla may be the simplest thing there is—spontaneous, childish, disarming. But as we grow and experience the complexities of life, it may also be the most difficult and hard-won achievement imaginable, and its coming to fruition is a kind of homecoming to our true selves.»
— Free Play, by Stephen Nachmanovtich

The root of all tracks are made together with my beloved ukulele named Lîla for the reason mentioned above. Whenever we play music together it's like time stops, and I have the opportunity to play God for a little moment; creating sounds, moving air, making brainwaves followed by emotions.. It's a form of communication beyond words, but the combination of both makes for a complete understanding of both ideas and emotions.

This short EP is about my journey through life, like all of my tracks are. It tells the story of how I moved from home to the great unknown, met Alan Watts and taoism, learnt to appreaciate the beauty in nature while understanding that I, too, am a part of nature. You and I, togheter we are joy. Our unconsciousness makes me sad...

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More tracks will come as we get to know each other.
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    Exploring Unknown Territory 3:40
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    Tomorrow Never Comes 5:20
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Mindless (WIP) by Curioustín

Mindless (WIP)

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Mindless is still a work in progress, and I will release updates as I compose them. It's an invitation to discover how I work with music. So even though you've heard it once now, it will certainly be a bit different in 3 months.

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From waking up in to a strange dream, to being plunged out into the brutal stress of modern reality, to mental and physical breakdowns, to perceving the beauty of nature, to the exploration of our consciousness, to invasions of outer space, to re-building a (micro) society, and to eventually ending up right back where you started?

Via mindful compositing, recording and soundscaping, Mindless takes you through the cycle of life, and all the small, seemingly unimportant situations, habits, and happenings that in all actuality makes up our reality, I question our view on reality as we know it, the meaning of life to put it more "clichely". Can we teach ourselves to perceive reality through a somewhat different lense, the lense of zen buddhism, taoism possibly psychedelics combined? Why, you ask? Because we're as a global society is in pain, and we're refusing to collectively acknowledge that.

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    Blomstereng Ved Eit Fjøs 2:26
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    Cows 3:52
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    Bones 3:13
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    Barbie 3:13
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    Løvet Rødmer 4:31
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    Kvardagspsykedelika 5:09
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    Reflections 3:06
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    Outcomes 3:21
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    Alien Civilization 2:21
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    Industrial Dance 5:24
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    Mindless 4:05
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    Shades of Blue and the Sun 4:45
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Bioluminescent by Curioustín

Bioluminescent

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INSTRUCTIONS:

– Sit/stand/lay down in a quiet place. Become aware of your surroundings. Where are you? How are you feeling right now? How are you breathing? Spend a minute or more on this process.

PREPARE YOUR LISTENINGEXPERIENCE:

– Make sure you can see the albumcover for 10 minutes, (turn off or extend the screensaver if it's activated).
• Put on your best pair of headphones, or place yourself in the "sweetspot" of your speakers.

PRESS PLAY. LISTEN WITHOUT LISTENING.

• After the playthrough, take a moment to reflect on what you are feeling now comapared to before. Write something down if you feel like it.
– Unless you've already read it, read the accompanying text below. Did your experience match the text?
• Optionally: do another listeningsession with this new knowledge in mind.

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Bioluminescence, the ability of a living organism to produce and emit light. Angler fish, fireflies, some types of jellyfish... The list goes on.

In this case it's a metaphor: I'm sharing with you my own, newly discovered bioluminescence, "the way" out of the darkness of my labyrinthian mind. Or rather, a way to live in some kind of harmony with my darker self.
Present is the essence of the yin yang-symbol from the Taoist philosophy, a way to remind myself that life is a balancing act, and also that there is light in the darkness if one only lets it shine through, if one lets go of all the mental obstacles.

Realize that the maze in your mind is «the Way», that no direction is more right or more wrong than another, that you are a unique creature too, just like everyone else.

Enjoy all the small moments in life. Make the best out of it, and don't be controlled by fear. We're all terrified to be alive, to be conscious, to be, but we are, and we create. Our two primary drive forces in life is to take care of ourselves, and take care of our species. In other words, eat, sleep and fuck. We reproduce = we create. Do your thing your way. Treat every "rule" in life as guidelines, but make up your own mind. Experiment. Be curious.
We are creations, creatures born (to be) creators.

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Field recordings were made with my previous Zoom Q3HD on a guided canal tour boat in Amsterdam, august 2016

Sound design made in Ableton Live with Circle 2 and Glitch 2 plug-ins mainly.

Everything is recorded, mixed and mastered by myself.
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Dreamescape by Curioustín

Dreamescape

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First selfmade EP, with some help from a few of my friends.

It is, what I like to call, Melodic Glitch and Intelligent Dance Music; experimental and playful. Track 3 is basically glitch-metal while track 4 is almost the opposite.

This EP is less than 20 minutes long, and takes you backwards on a little journey in a not so distant dimension; the dream world.
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    Dreamy Clouds of Glass 4:26
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    Bicycles 3:36
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    Subliminal 3:49
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    Interlude - The Drought And The Crow 1:59
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    It Ends or Begins 5:09
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Existentialism 

   Did it ever occur to you to stop for a brief moment? To pull your car to the side and step out into the wilderness. To place your butt on that bench on the way from your comfortable house. To take the longer route while walking home from work - through that park, natur reserve, or forest, over that mountain, along the coastline while feeling beach sand under your shoe soles.  
   Why would one do such a thing at all you might ask? Why would one leave society for a short period of time; all the problems, the stress, work, friends and family, chores, homework - the system - and let time stand still for a couple of minutes?  
   Have you ever questioned your existence, even just the slightest? You don’t have to tell anyone if you did, just know it inside your soul. And absolutely no one blames you if you never thought about this. It’s quite a radical and rebellious thing to do to be honest. I mean, what if this was the norm, questioning ones own existence, the realness and genuinity of it all, both the external things and living beings that surrounds your own, and the internal stuff, vision, ears, feelings, all the parts of you that constantly creates your own reality in a split second, all the time.  

   I think a select few people would go absolutely mad if the majority did this sort of stuff. The people you don’t see but worship anyways. These invisible creatures that have infested your mind with bullshit. How dare I, right? How dare I say that your thoughts and beliefs are all lies, all sprouted seeds that were planted in your mind a looooong, long time ago, right? How can you know that your beliefs are real, are true if you've never looked at them? How can you prove that your own reality is the realest one? How can you prove existence when you do not know non-existence? 
   We go to sleep most nights, for hours in one go. But are you really existing, or not existing then? How can you know if you exist, or not exist, when you are not aware, or conscious during all these hours. As far as we know no time passes. We go to bed, and the next time we open our eyes, it’s daylight again (except for when you live in the «dark times» way up north. Then it’s dark when you go to bed, and dark when you wake up. No sun for 2 months..!!! D: )  

   I have contemplated existence for a little bit, and it puzzles me a whole lot. How could it all have started?  


   Then there’s opposites. Some say you can’t have one without the other; good without evil, light without shadows, sound without silence, yin without yang, life without death, existence without non-existence. 
   But on the other hand, we are kind of stuck here in this dimension of existence. Everything here exists because you are making it exist. It all starts in your.. ehm... whatever it is. Perception, consciousness, awareness, mind, soul, brain, body, DNA, atoms..? Your inner universe.  


   Did anyone ever tell you that you are God, just as much as the person next to you is, just like your dear family members, the babies, the pets, and plants, and even mushrooms. You are all unique, special, individual beings with your own unique beliefs, needs and wants. And at the same time, we are all connected. If it weren’t for your perception, your house would not exist, nature would not exist, your closest friends would not exist, and you would not exist. 
   Knowing this could easily blow ones ego up and out of proportion, and you can see 'em blown up egoes everywhere if you just pay attention to most people.  

   Actually, isn’t it strange of me to use the pronoun you in this context? How can I possibly know if your reality somehow can align with mine? I can of course only speak for myself, and write for myself, and play music for myself, and just hope that some of you—if you are real, that is—have tuned your antennas to the frequency I am emitting, almost shouting towards you, this monologue of mine which I really hope will turn into a dialogue at some point.

12/11/2018

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