Andrey Klimkovsky is a Russian composer working in the electronic music space. Musical images he created — «Music of Celestial Spheres», «Starry Sky», «ALEALA» and «DreamOcean» have become classics of the genre, gaining fame both in Russia and abroad. The musician regularly gives spectacular live concerts and collaborates with many other representatives of the Russian electronic scene, leads a popular community about synthesizers and workstations, participates in astronomical expeditions and practices a healthy lifestyle.
The final composition from the «Star triangle» album
By the way, just today and right now - on the night of August 30-31, is the “Last Night of August”. This year it coincided with the supermoon ("Blue Moon", as it is sometimes called - when two supermoons in a row) and on this night we had a conjunction of Saturn with the Moon - right during its opposition. Amazing picture...
By the way, year after year I have always intended to make a video for this tune and publish it on the last night of August. Finally it happened. True, in the video the night is completely moonless, but that's what makes it good - the last August night (in the classical sense of this metaphor), that nothing prevents the shining of stars in the black August sky. Supermoons come and go, but the image of the dark starry sky of August remains.
I and James Hill — American jazz trumpeter — spent some time choosing a piece for our next recording together. It must be said that electronic music is specific, and classical jazz instrumentation cannot be easily used everywhere. But the «Song of the Setting Sun», it would seem, itself asked for the brass section - its leading timbre was an electronic imitation of brass, and the trumpet is very much in tune with brass. In addition, this work is marine, and the trumpet is probably the most marine instrument in terms of its energy.
James recorded the trumpet part very quickly and accurately in his TCAB Studio, and sent me the record. I, as usual, could not refuse to make some adjustments to the overall mix, and suddenly realized that the work needed to be completely remixed — it's 2023, and you can't leave the sound of 20 years ago.
I disassembled the composition into parts, digitized them again, even added another new one part to them, and connected everything in a way that I could not do before. And besides, a completely new Sea now sounds here.
You can compare versions. In the Youtube channel of James Hill sounds the very first — traditional — version of the «Song of the Setting Sun»:
There is a new version of the work on my channel, and a slightly different sounding trumpet. And the video was created with the participation of the BlueWillow neural network.
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Unexpected collaboration with American jazz trumpeter James Hill.
Nothing foreshadowed such a turn of events. I just wrote a review of one of the experimental electronic albums of a musician I know from the social network Facebook. In that album, a completely divine trumpet sounded, from the voice of which I shed tears, and began to search the network for this trumpeter, who, like God, is able to breathe soul into everything created on Earth, and make it heavenly.
To my own surprise, I soon received a comment from James Hill on an earlier version of this composition. James liked it and would like to record a trumpet part for this tune. And a day later I was already listening to the beta-version. All I had to do was balance the mix and in the meantime James made a video version.
Friends, I can't listen to James play without emotions and tears. I am sure that voices of the trumpet and the feelings invested in them will not leave you indifferent either.
Many thanks to James for collaboration and such an unexpected surprise.
These are pictures from a recently published video about "Blue Moon". But it is these frames that are not in the video - the images were created later, and they have two additional figures of constellations, which, as it seemed to me after the publication of the video, were somewhat lacking.
Friends, you can guess which figures of constellations are added here.
The starry sky in this scene is taken from the Bryce 3D program and slightly fixed - some stars were initially out of place.
The Moon is borrowed from the Stellarium program and is set approximately on the date October 26, 2023.
Figures of constellations are from the stellar atlas of Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius — "Uranographia".
And everything is put together again in the Bryce 3D program. Mountains and trees are a typical "Brycean" implementation of fractal geometry.
