Principles of "Atlantean Music Style"
NOTE: Many "Atlantean" complete remixes & compositions of professional quality are located in:
http://www.soundclick.com/omadeon
The
"Atlantean Music Style" is partly a controversial kind of music innovation, partly an attempt
of the (author's) imagination to superimpose Logic Order into the creative musical chaos that
resulted from
a vast multitude of similar-sounding "Atlantean compositions", and
(finally) a harmonic pattern (or set of patterns) residing deeply
inside many types of modern Rock / Pop / Trance music, without their composers being
conscious of it.
After many years of contemplation and composition, I began realising that the number of music pieces which can be transformed into "enhanced Atlantean versions" of themselves, is unlimited. Given a music piece of any type or genre, and provided this music piece is dominated by major harmonies, it can (in about 90% of the cases, I believe) be transformed into an Atlantean "higher order enhancement" of itself, which will sound usually better than the original music piece. Does this wild claim sound pompous, exaggerated, or over-ambitious?
Well, listen to some of the resulting mp3 samples of Atlantean music in this site, and decide for yourself:
"Atlantean Style" began many years ago, when I was beginning to play keyboards more systematically, and came up with some strange compositions that sounded awesome and eery, such as "Magic of Atlantis" (later on renamed to "Rebirth of the Dolphins"), a song which was "commended for effort" in the all-UK Electronic Music Composers Contest (organised by Roland Corporation, many years ago). This song "Magic of Atlantis", which in a more recent remix (renamed to "Rebirth of the Dolphins") won awards of distinction in the Internet, contains personalised music patterns which (as usually happens to most composers) are repeated incessantly in my music, and (in the past) sometimes monotonously.
However, these initially annoying "repetitious music patterns", in the end revealled themselves to possess a refreshing, innovative essence, with a quasi-mathematical flavour: -New ways were found to combine them together into new variations, as well as to transform other kinds of harmonies into"Atlantean Style".
One important step in discovering what "Atlantean Style" is all about, has been the quest for "isolating the music virus" (or viruses) of "Atlantean Style". Well, "Atlantean Style" appears to contain simpler music elements, which act as building blocks in compositions, or as tokens (of an unknown music grammar or semantics) when creating "transformations" of existing music into "atlantean-style re-makes". These basic elements of Atlantean Style are involved in transformations, forming a large family or class, which I've called "Atlantean Scherzos":
After many years of contemplation and composition, I began realising that the number of music pieces which can be transformed into "enhanced Atlantean versions" of themselves, is unlimited. Given a music piece of any type or genre, and provided this music piece is dominated by major harmonies, it can (in about 90% of the cases, I believe) be transformed into an Atlantean "higher order enhancement" of itself, which will sound usually better than the original music piece. Does this wild claim sound pompous, exaggerated, or over-ambitious?
Well, listen to some of the resulting mp3 samples of Atlantean music in this site, and decide for yourself:
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Haddaway
- "What is Love":
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Alphaville - "Forever Young":
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| DJ Tiesto - "The Anthem": |
Atlantean
Expansion 1 Atlantean Expansion 2 Atlantean Expansion 3 Atlantean Expansion 4 Atlantean Expansion 5 |
Paul Oakenfold - 2004 hit: |
Atlantean Expansion 1 |
Robert Miles - "Rain": |
Atlantean Expansion 1 Atlantean Expansion 2 |
| George
Stathis - "Rebirth of the Dolphins": |
2004 remix,
sample 1 2004 remix, sample 2 |
"Atlantean Style" began many years ago, when I was beginning to play keyboards more systematically, and came up with some strange compositions that sounded awesome and eery, such as "Magic of Atlantis" (later on renamed to "Rebirth of the Dolphins"), a song which was "commended for effort" in the all-UK Electronic Music Composers Contest (organised by Roland Corporation, many years ago). This song "Magic of Atlantis", which in a more recent remix (renamed to "Rebirth of the Dolphins") won awards of distinction in the Internet, contains personalised music patterns which (as usually happens to most composers) are repeated incessantly in my music, and (in the past) sometimes monotonously.
However, these initially annoying "repetitious music patterns", in the end revealled themselves to possess a refreshing, innovative essence, with a quasi-mathematical flavour: -New ways were found to combine them together into new variations, as well as to transform other kinds of harmonies into"Atlantean Style".
One important step in discovering what "Atlantean Style" is all about, has been the quest for "isolating the music virus" (or viruses) of "Atlantean Style". Well, "Atlantean Style" appears to contain simpler music elements, which act as building blocks in compositions, or as tokens (of an unknown music grammar or semantics) when creating "transformations" of existing music into "atlantean-style re-makes". These basic elements of Atlantean Style are involved in transformations, forming a large family or class, which I've called "Atlantean Scherzos":
"Atlantean Scherzos" are the "musical
DNA molecules"
of Atlantean Music Style. They consist of serial note sequences (arpeggios)
and/or parallel note combinations
(chords) which sound "epic" and joyful in mood, but are neither
"definitely major" nor "definitely minor" in their harmony. One of the
simplest "Atlantean Scherzos" is the following "simple D scherzo",
which replaces both a D major
and a D minor chord:
a "simple D scherzo"
In this sequence, the absence of the definitive middle note of the D-chord ("F sharp" for major, or "F" for minor) is important: This "middle note" has been replaced by an "indirect pointer" to itself, consisting of the shorter notes A and E (which remain the same, in both major and minor harmonies). This "indirect pointer" does not "bind" the chord to a major or minor "completion", but acts like an "uninstantiated variable" inside a... Prolog program! :) This "music variable" is eventually "instantiated" with the composite result of the (human ear's) evaluation of further note sequences (in Atlantean style), eventually creating "ordered chaos", since in this way it becomes impossible for the ear to decide (with a 100% certainty) whether a major or a minor harmony is conveyed to it.
Meanwhile, it is always possible to construct "higher order Atlantean Scherzos", based on any existing Atlantean Scherzo. E.g. a "Second order D scherzo" corresponding to the (previous) "simple D scherzo", is the following:
example of a "Second Order D scherzo"
Musically
educated readers may have now realised that the latter can be expanded
further, indefinitely, creating scale-like improvisations in "Atlantean
Style", and unlimited "Atlantean variations" based on particular
scherzos.
"Atlantean Style"(tm) is based on "Atlantean harmonic transformations", which act upon sequences of chords and melodies, typically found in many types of modern pop/rock/techno music, to produce "higher-dimensional enhancements" of the original music pieces. "Atlantean Style" usually works better with major chord sequences, but minor chords can also be "atlanteanized" by taking only the root-note and the note at 7 semitones above the root, while adding "Atlantean Scherzos" around the latter.
Here are some examples of "Atlantean Scherzos", recorded while playing a Yamaha "Motif 6" synthesizer:
"Atlantean Style"(tm) is based on "Atlantean harmonic transformations", which act upon sequences of chords and melodies, typically found in many types of modern pop/rock/techno music, to produce "higher-dimensional enhancements" of the original music pieces. "Atlantean Style" usually works better with major chord sequences, but minor chords can also be "atlanteanized" by taking only the root-note and the note at 7 semitones above the root, while adding "Atlantean Scherzos" around the latter.
Here are some examples of "Atlantean Scherzos", recorded while playing a Yamaha "Motif 6" synthesizer:
Examples of Atlantean Scherzos:
"Atlantean Eco-Trance"
A
particular variant of "Atlantean music style", which is based on Atlantean Harmonies combined with
modern Trance and Rave Rhythms,
is "Atlantean Eco-Trance": This type of music is ideal for Aerobic exercises, or for "natural
highs", which exploit the beneficial
side-effects of Endorphines (the natural pleasure hormones of the
human brain), without the
use of drugs or other intoxicating substances. So, "Atlantean
Eco-Trance" is drug-free!
Moreover, It is also... "dog-free", in the particular sense that the negative vibrations of "skyladiko music" (or
"dog music", as it's called in Greece) are absent, and (in their place) there
are pleasure-inducing music
antidotes.
Recently, "Atlantean Eco-Trance" acquired a new incarnation, the music CD: "Olympix EcoTrance".
Recently, "Atlantean Eco-Trance" acquired a new incarnation, the music CD: "Olympix EcoTrance".
