The Higher Earth, the aggregationism, the Fine Arts, Beauty, Freedom, Purity, Passion, Gin..
we are comtemporary, gentleman
Coming back to this after eighteen months, it's quite peaceful. I'm not sure why I thought it was confrontational before. Alex, congratulations with the highlight and thanks for the reminiscing that goes along with it. You even have a comment from Mary before she left us.
Hey there... congrats on the weekly spot! I'm havin' a listen now. :)
REvisited!
Very clever, very confrontational.
I didn't mind the first part of the composition but found it hard to listen to the last bit. I found the dischords and madness on the key boards a bit too much for my likings. Art is art no matter how hard you look or hear it. The ending I found somewhat uncomfortable. From this stand point it could express a simple life gone mad or frustrated or totally over the top. Very melodic in some areas but in other areas of the composition you go mad....Expression
Difficult listening, wilfully so I daresay. I'm almost certain that this piece is not intended to be appreciated by a philistine such as my good self, and this proves to be the case.
You take me back to my university days ( I studied fine art ) I would go into the recital hall and listen to the "modern composers" practice their new works while at the same time I would paint. I understand in my understanding where you are coming from. In this piece you do capture a certain 19th century feel. The melodic to prove you understand melody parts are wonderful and the dischords to prove you won't be tamed parts are sad and contrast well. Life is not a long quiet river to the sea.
I have to say that from many of the posts you leave on the message board, I get the impression that you're not from being barking mad :-D So, I came over to see what kind of music this online persona produces, read through the comments before listening to the music (nothing like collecting a few herd induced preconceptions to judge something by ;-) )and very much expected aural violence. In actual fact this is very melodic and it is, to me, a very pleasant listen. Think I may have done too much second Viennese school when I was younger. It puts me in a place close to where I go when I listen to Janacek's piano music. I do have to say that it doesn't challenge my philosophy of life, but you definitely do have a talent for composition and I'm glad I came here to listen. Cheers Jon :-)
I've listened to this track four or five times now and while I find it interesting (intriguing) on an intellectual level it leaves me completely unmoved. I have asked myself why that should be and I think that the answer is I am in a place in which I am very happy. I have no desire to search for any higher meaning nor do I wish to go any further inside myself. My life, and the lives of those around me is good and satisfying and i terms that Maslow would undertstand I feel "self-actualised". One of the consequences of this is that it puts me beyond this piece as it is unable to chaleenge the place in which I am. I am pleased that you composed it and that I listened to it, nonetheless. Graham
i'm real sorry man..I love music, I cannot express sometimes of how music makes me feel..but this???? It has no relevance on anything apart from obviously your personal feelings and fantasies. There are no two chords that I like together and i'm not keen on the way it is played either. I do love just piano pieces but this feels real empty and seems to have no depth at all. I'm not a judge nor am I any kind of expert on music (although I have listened to music all my life so I reckon I know what sounds good) but this is a piece of music composed by an artist who thinks that they are cleverer than the average bear. It was always intreguing to me..I wanted to always find out what was around the corner but I was always dissapointed..sorry to tell you my friend, but this aint for me at all, peace.
I actually find this piece (aggregation) diffcult to listen to. Not for any reasons based upon me 'not getting it', as there is a clear and gradually unfolding theme being developed within it's structure. The different levels of stress within the piano work speak for themselves. In other words it perhaps reveals a little too much at once for comfort...particularly within the final notes. But then writing for the comfort of others (whose perceptions differ) is exactly the wrong way to go about constructing music/art, so I have no cause for complaint. However it focuses upon a specific high detail view of space/matter that exists in a realm that I am unable to visit at this stage within my life. It is a view that I would perhaps have been better able to relate to around 15 years ago...but even then, it would have remained a view rather than an active participation. However it does serve to remind me that human perception/objectivity is always flawed, and that labels are futile...or at best transitory/partial dependancys.... because perception itself is a mute point when confronted with things that cannot be described in words. The very act of acknowledging that things exist that cannot be described in words is one of the most terrifying barriers that a human can be confronted with in daily existance.
I really have no comment to someone who uses his time in such an unecessary way. I would just ask you to keep your fantasies to yourself.
thats a no then
..essentially mundane..the comment by "fudgepacker"
Have you ever had a girlfriend?
Excellent! 10/10
I really like your work. I understand to my understanding what you are trying to do. Bravo.
thank you, all your words are beautiful.
So deep, so Satie-esque in a way. It's soulfulness carries you along beautifully.
"Five days ago there was an aggregation, it was recorded. Natural/Spontaneous Exteriorization." You know I would bet real money, that I am the one person on this site that really gets where your coming from here most. This is the statement (along with your other very intellectual and spiritual themes) that draws me to your music most. I have always been reluctant to write in your comment box though because your viewpoint on this is much different than mine. "Five days ago there was an aggregation, it was recorded. Natural/Spontaneous Exteriorization." - If I were to compose something on the piano that was intended to communicate to others what that felt like it would sound much, much more like Fredric Chopin's Etude #4 Opus 10 than your music. So, with that in mind, might I make a suggestion? The next time this - "Five days ago there was an aggregation, it was recorded. Natural/Spontaneous Exteriorization." - happens, instead of floating around the universe sipping gin, which is what your music tells me you are doing, try something a little more exiting. Like, go sit out at the end of a prominence of the sun that has fully extended and turn on your sense of gravity. One hell of a ride! Let me tell ya! When you sit down to the piano to compose a "little ditty" about that experiance the tempo of your tunes will pick up markedly, which in my opinion would make for improvement. Going skating on Jupiters "liqued air" surface is also very interesting.
Well done on your chart entry!
Dear Alex, congrats for your entry in the TOP 20 of this week !
I just wanted to leave a note to say that I listened to this. I find this type of music very hard to appreciate. It's delicate, discordant, challenging, uncomfortable, always intriguing.
Nice work ***8***
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This is brilliant!
no creation, construction . deconstruction, destruction off
"we are comtemporary, gentleman" is now available for download from The Higher Earth's page on mp3unsigned.com (http://www.mp3unsigned.com/thehigherearth.asp)this follows the physical existance of "THE WORLD", painting/book/album/study and more, where the mentioned is included.If you are kind enough to leave a comment on why you downloaded it or a comment on how your opinion about the same is after you had the opportunity to listen to it in other "places" I will be very thankful. thank you for your time, thank you for listening to my work. "THE WORLD" will be available hopefully before the end of 2006.
something: the higher earth THE WORLD published on the 30th of June of 2005 by Paulo Alexandre A. Silva you'll be able to order it @ cdbaby.com, mp3u.com.(more to be defined in future)
"we are comtemporary, gentleman" occupies the number 8 on the Mp3unsigned.com Official Top 20 Chart next to the Giants, Nick Drozdoff, Oozish/AVanE Collaboration, Paradise Decay, Virus, Droll, Lloyd Warren, just to mention a few.. 23 January of 2005 thanks to everyone who visited my page, listened to my compositions, thank you mp3unsigned, thank you very much Stew. It is an Honour. Alex
what do you see?www.thehigherearth.comPaulo Alexandre A. Silva
"Einstein wrote three fundamental papers, all in a few months. The first paper claimed that light must sometimes behave like a stream of particles with discrete energies, "quanta." The second paper offered an experimental test for the theory of heat. The third paper addressed a central puzzle for physicists of the day – the connection between electromagnetic theory and ordinary motion – and solved it using the "principle of relativity." "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details." (taken from www.wyp2005.org)2005 is the world year of physics..due to the remarkable livelyness physics showed during exactly one hundred years ago..1905 the world was also marked by the publication of three documents by Albert Einstein..on the 30th of june of 1905 the special theory of relativity was published and changed the reality of the world, mostly the world of physics.don't forget this date.don't erase this words.Paulo Alexandre A Silva
messed, gentlemen, ladies, it is now, in this way that I ask you to expose your referentials to my art, from this point each mind will follow the way it, with legitimacy, has to follow..the ones that in reality want to know more of these constructions find in this composition, in this construction the motivation, curiosity, atomic excitement to explore more, this entity only has time as the enemy, and my friends time, in this exposition of madness is my works gallery..Paulo Alexandre A. Silva
an mp3 of "messed" will be on the site by wednesday(22ndDEC), as I have said before but now with more emphasis than before I say, "while it may please your referentials it will certainly excite them" the "second part" of this text was reserved for the announcement of the release of an album (the title may not be announced until its release) by the higher earth, something to happen by the end of March of two thousand and five. It is certain that it will include ALL the compositions that are at mp3unsigned.com and more, making it one of the most solid and pioneering albums of many referentials. It is also certain that it will be distributed through mp3unsigned.comThank you for your time. Paulo Alexandre A. Silva
more and more, higher and higher.. it is beautiful, It is wonderful to live through this human, it is beautiful to be this aggregate, I love to be Paulo Alexandre A. Silva now present at http://www.soundclick.com/thehigherearth as well, "messed" is almost there, a completely new piece is about to appear and a few studies are going to be exposed to your tremendous light, ladies, gentlemen.. Do not worry, I am just beautifully maturing, alive, being, at the peak of my energy - "to apply!, to apply!" "TRANSFORM, MAKE, CREATE" touch, I think, I taste - hum, salty! I will comment your work gentlemen, ladies, in a future, in a future..a review, who will make the next review on T H E Higher Earth? let me touch my body..penetration.. I would like to see mysel......................................................... I love you all
"The absolute beauty. Of your structures that are not structures, your time that is not time, your sense that is nonsensicle. The colors are so overwhelmingly clear. Crystalline. Pristine. The end of "study of an audiogram" shows such discord yet accordance with all. The absolute duality in all that you do never ceases to be a surprise." OxyGin "listened to this a few times today, and it is an addictive piece, playful, like a kitten with a toy at times, and thought provoking, I can't get enough." Stew "This is brilliant!" Beta17 "Today a friend let me hear a cd of a film score , Amelie. It was interesting and enjoyable, but all I could think was, Paulo is making much better music than this.(...)" StewThank you for your time, while listening, while inputing those characters into this virtual support. the "real" news now, I am at this moment working on the preparation of "messed" the NESP/audiogram that I'm going to put on this site hopefully during november, until then keep coming to the page keep exposing yourselves to these structures, let yourselves be known.In a few time The Higher Earth will be also present at "soundclick.com" and in a more distant but reachable future I will be able to expose to every human an aggregation of compositions with an interesting presentation that at the same time that it will excite almost any referential it will as well please many referentials. keep following the exposition in which our time is my works gallery.
I call the attention of everyone interested to the new recordings that are going to be posted on the site during november, one of them as one of the most appreciated exteriorizations among the ones who follow my work, my early work. The title of that aggregation/audiogram is 'messed', more than 8 minutes of the purest passion. The other new mp3s will include new material as well as the "oldest" part one, two three and four, that will be completely on-line very soon.listen, taste, lick, rate, comment, enjoy, be inpired, feel the colours, let me know your thoughts and visions.. thank you.
I come to you through this way to let you all know that there are two new and incredlibly pleasant recordings on my webpage here, at the mp3unsigned.com, and that anyone that wants to leave a comment on them is more than welcome. they are "we are comtemporary, gentleman" and "fifty two spheres" apparently the last one hasn't made anyone really excited with it, at least to listen to it long enough..oh well read the written about it, and also read the review by Stewart(mp3unsigned founder) in the reviews section of the site, about the futuristic and brilliant "study for an audiogram, passion and observation at distance", maybe with this you'll grow enough saliva in your beautiful mouths and then listen to everything else there is on my page, including the "out of our time" "fifty two spheres".I am waiting on your feedback and I am looking forward to read what the musicians between us that are into jazz and classical say about these early, early works. Thank you all for your time. P. Alex A. Silvahttp://www.mp3unsigned.com/reviewdetails.asp?id=109
I want to say that it is truly a pleasure to me to know that a select few are still able to express themselves with words that make me think that my work is still tangible, and that is a mark of the exclusive, those marks, those words, the personalities are marks, marks to me, marks of me. Thank you Stewart and Beta17 for your referentials. Paulo Alex A. Silva
n. 6 modern composers, 23/09/04
Like a great many people, I seem to live two lives; one in the real world and one in the virtual world. The same rules pretty much apply in both places especially in your perceptions of what is going on around you. Take, for example, The Higher Earth (THE). Almost everything I know about this artist is from his many postings over at MP3 Unsigned and anyone who has ever had the pl
The Higher Earth ( Paulo Alex A. Silva) steps up to the plate again. The composition in question is We Are Contemporary, Gentlemen. The Higher Earth’s music is always a challenge to review, but never dull. His comments to the world are just as cryptic as his music, which is saying alot. Here we go.
Let me preface this review by saying that I have had music education and studies in both theory and composition, for what that's worth. I also will say that I love classical music, but my main fondness is for the likes of Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Berlioz, Vivaldi, and Paganini. About the only “modern classical” composition I ever really cared for was Ives “The Unanswered Q
As ever, I need to preface this review with some background information. I’m a classically trained musician, steeped in the ‘traditional’ classical music, with a particular regard to the great baroque composers. The majority of ‘Modern Composition’ music, Cage, Stockhauser music, etc. leaves me cold. I regard most of the moder era classical composition as squeaky door music, clever for the sak
As ever, I need to preface this review with some background information. I'm a classically trained musician, steeped in the 'traditional' classical music, with a particular regard for the great baroque composers. The majority of 'Modern Composition' music, Cage, Stockhausen etc. leaves me cold. I regard most of the modern era classical composition as squeaky door music, clever for the sake of clev