13. Nothing Is Real (3:52)

[arvy]

Strangely Nothing Is Real reminds of Richard D James album

Also something about this track is so too dreamy and repetitive, that it makes you think, is this all real

[jcnporter]

The computer like code sound that comes in at 29 seconds onwards has me thinking.. Has anybody put this track through a spectrogram program?

It's probably nothing.

Never noticed that sound before, as you say sounds like a computer programme loading on tape. Now there's nostalgia...

The repeated main electric piano theme/riff in this tune is just so perfectly reminiscent of some forgotten 80s American soap opera theme, it could be a sample (is it?). I know they've talked of creating entire tunes on a particular theme just for the purpose of sampling them, I wonder is that what happened here.

[Betacord]

The repeated main electric piano theme/riff in this tune is just so perfectly reminiscent of some forgotten 80s American soap opera theme

Very much the sort of vibe I got from the riff on first listen as well.

The computer like code sound that comes in at 29 seconds onwards has me thinking.. Has anybody put this track through a spectrogram program?

I don't doubt someone's had a look at this and the other songs. Haven't myself, but do vaguely recall a look at the end of Gemini was discussed here a while back...?

To me, the noise reminded of two things - a bit of audio where only a fraction / milliseconds are being repeatedly looped and skimmed through, and also the artifacts some time stretching methods leave when used to extremes. It may well be neither of those, but that's the rough sort of impression.

[Techboy]

yeah I did, it's modulated sound
http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/nir-strings.mp3

Like I say, it's just a string line put through a ring modulator (demodulated above!)

[Betacord]

Had skipped over the previous page - good stuff... Was aware of the strings being ring modulated but hadn't been sure of how much it applied to that background noise fading in before :30

[apriorion]

yeah I did, it's modulated sound
http://hosting.earthshine.it/~mark/nir-strings.mp3

Like I say, it's just a string line put through a ring modulator (demodulated above!)

That sounds like you isolated the string sounds, which already pretty much that way, anyway. It doesn't address the glitchy sound that comes in around 0:30s in. Rather, the strings start around 0:41s, and they do the same in the isolated version you posted above.

[Lens Larque]

I love the animated sparkly swooshy twiddly blanket in the background near the end. Satellite Anthem Icarus has a similar part.

[jcnporter]

I've mentioned it twice already in this thread, but the main piano loop/riff that runs through this tune is so perfectly realised, it just blows me away every time, I never get sick of listening to it.

[d e n]

i am noticing that i seem to like tomorrows harvest more, when i listen to it in my car or using speakers.


which is strange because i usually prefer music and notice more effects when i listen with headphones. but there is something about tomorrows harvest quality that seems to sound better distanced.


actually. the third time i listened to tomorrows harvest it was while listening to it on a really shitty tv speaker setup. i think the downgrade of sound somewhat added to the experience of the album. and that was the first time the album really clicked for me.

to this day i still think the album sounds much better in my car or using a stereo. ive listened to tomorrows harvest multiple times with headphones (as i do with most music), and i just couldnt feel the same effect. split your infinities and nothing is real sound way more amazing through speakers.

it's good to get out of the headphones when you can, i think.

also, I highly recommend seeking out listening to a vinyl record of Tomorrow's Harvest... so much depth and space between everything

[ShaneAnthony]

on a computer or television screen. Final thoughts for internet archive.

[Valotonin]

Jesus was it you indeed
Who flirted so unkindly with my greed
Promising eternal life
When you knew it was not right
When you knew that what I'd need
Was willingness and comfort there

Videogame realisation. Addiction to virtual worlds. The creators become god for creating a reality,

Oh I am the one that corrected the quote on bocpages. It is willingness not wellness.

[Lens Larque]

breed or greed?

[Najlepsiejszy]

Definitely greed

[Lens Larque]

based on what

[Wildfire]

based on what

I guess the fact that 'greed' makes total sense (contextually speaking), but 'breed' doesn't.

[Najlepsiejszy]

Yes

Also, it just sounds like "greed"

[Lens Larque]

How does Jesus flirt with our greed?

[Lens Larque]

[d e n]

greed for sure ,

maybe

wanting the be in the kingdom of heaven and jesus knowing that heaven is already within us–yet we don't realize it... but want it and approach it the wrong way

[Najlepsiejszy]

It's probably the person realizing that God doesn't exist, he's going through an existensial crisis and he wishes he was never told about God. Nihilism is boring