Blue Moon Night. Video version

«Blue Moon Night» is a track from the album «Music of the Celestial Spheres — part 2 — Birth, Life and Death». The album is completely dedicated to the Moon, or to be more precise, to the cycle of lunar phases, which is presented in the album in full — from new moon to new moon.

This 3-minute episode corresponds approximately to the 12th lunar day... or is it more correct to say — to the 12th lunar night?

This is closer to the truth, because the melody has a "nightly" name.

When I gave the play a name, I proceeded from my own associations that had developed over hundreds of observational nights. Despite the fact that the Moon in our minds is strongly associated with yellowish hues (which is quite reasonable), near the full moon, the Moon can cause the illusion of a blue glow. this is especially noticeable in cities where street lighting is most often orange — much yellower than the Moon. And in contrast to this difference, the Moon itself, and everything that it illuminates in the sky, begins to appear blue to our eyes. There was even such a term "Blue Moon". But when this music was created, it was practically not used. Now (perhaps) I would call the work differently — «Night of the Blue Moon». But it's too late to change the name of this melody.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tViCHiN09Q

Happy viewing and listening!

«Phantom galaxy» on Youtube

Friends, the album of the «NGC» project — «Phantom galaxy» — is entirely uploaded on YouTube. And this time it's not just a picture with music — it's a dynamic image born from the cover design that lives and breathes, and you can look at it as long as this music sounds.

Welcome to an intergalactic journey to the «Phantom galaxy» NGC 628 in the Pisces constellation:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXL1bmxYzu4

Celestial Pisces. Video-version

It's not hard to guess which album this visualization is from. «Pisces» is the sixth album in the Starry Sky project, dedicated to the constellation of the same name. And "Celestial Pisces" is the second track from this album - you can find it in its entirety at the links below:

• NEANE Records: https://neane.ru/rus/4/katalog/1606.htm
• Bandcamp: https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/pisces

A variety of technologies and sources of inspiration are mixed here. The result is somewhat unexpected for me. It was hard to imagine what would happen if we combined star maps from the Stellarium program, celestial-underwater abstractions drawn by the Midjourney neural network, romantic images from the old-world stellar atlas by Johannes Hevelius and a photographic survey of the sky SIMBAD. By the way, the innovative DaVinci Resolve platform helped to mount all this - this is the best thing I have touched in working with video. But this clip, of course, is largely experimental.

Happy viewing and listening!

After the sunset. Video-version

This tune is presented in the maxi-single «Song of the setting sun», released in 2005, and it sounds only there - it is not present in any album (this was not supposed to be - this is an exclusive track specially written for the single). Nevertheless, the melody turned out to be memorable, touching something in the depths of the soul. And it needed a video-version for a long time.

This footage was created using the BlueWillow neural network. It is hardly worth considering it as an unambiguous correspondence to music - it turned out that modern artificial intelligence very easily reacts to seascapes in the context of sunsets and sunrises, but it is not so easy to convince it to do something close to the night element. As a result, it was decided to leave the dawn-sunset design, which is quite in tune with the entire maxi-single «Song of the setting sun».

By the way, if one of you, my listeners, missed this release, it's not too late to get to know it and even make friends:

• NEANE Records: https://neane.ru/rus/4/katalog/0051.htm
• Bandcamp: https://klimkovsky.bandcamp.com/album/song-of-the-setting-sun-maxi-single-neane

This music continues to fill me with faith in the best for almost two decades. And the longer I listen to it, the more I realize that I am not quite its author, but maybe a guide.