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A Chord Line Beneath The Geodesic

by Kindred Lost

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spinach pizza Great album, start to finish. So many creative musical ideas are on display here. The Primrose Path is absolutely gorgeous. Favorite track: The Primrose Path.
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An infinite line is a perfect circle.
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Geodesic A 01:44
Geodesic!
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Five Eyes 05:59
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Geodesic B 01:09
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As the analytic beings we are, we want to correct nature by adding meaning to otherwise chaotic, chance events. Forcing a straight line into a curve like a square peg in a round hole or to associate the golden ratio to the Fibonacci sequence.
This collection is a set of music ideas based on interaction between full-bodied chords and straight, static sequencer lines. A study in fuzzy, blurred structures against rigid rhythmic lattices. Intuition against mathematic certainty.
A secondary theme came along somewhere in the interim. The mad idea of geometry carried too far in the 17th and 18th century with the notion of a straight line underground to connect two points along the outer surface of the Earth as a "Gravity Tunnel". This idea was based on the chord distance across a curved geodesic and was even proposed as late as the 1960's as a serious idea. Our minds can create amazing models but the reality is far from practical sometimes.
This misdirection of reality can also be used for music ideas. I tend to force chord structures into places where there is discord waiting, as a way to pit tension against release. I also entertain an alternate scale in the piece "How The West Was Lost" to shoe-horn divergent intervals which would normally be locked into the 12 tone equal tuning system.
The majority of this release is made utilizing a modular synthesizer and a few keyboards and soft synths. There are occasional guitar parts and samples added. Recorded from 2010 to 2016.
No Moog's were harmed in the making of this CD.

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released August 6, 2017

An eternal "Thank You" to the following for their endless support over the years... Richard Galbraith, Ron Sunsinger and John L Rice. Dedicated to my father Wallace Ryle and Mike Williams. Two dudes who always have the goods yet remain humble.

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Kindred Lost

David Ryle has been playing and writing music for a lifetime. This page offers a look into some of the electronic music treatments and a few other related genre.
Although David is mostly comfortable with a modular synthesizer, the variety also includes a bit of guitar and found sounds.
Thanks for listening and purchasing if moved to do so.
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