Ambient Music

TreeArt Show with Iris Credo March 20, 2010 from Cheryl Petty on Vimeo.

Iris Credo has her own page of poetry

FROZEN TIDE

by Leonardo Rosado

The tidal wabe filling human bodies of intertwined links
Ether connectivity I would say bringing us all in one mind
Through mobile phones radio wave frequency bluetooth infrared you name it

Everything is connected
Passionately like your embrace to instant messaging
The world gladly embraced the idea of ubiquity as the ultimate form of liberation

What happened to Woodstock?
The feeling of righteousness and endeavor
What happened to you
And me

Technology happened
Knowledge virus spreading happened
Networking with one self happened
Reassuring single minded monologues through blah blah blah audiences
And disconnected realities with physical touch

What happened to the Berlin Wall?
It stayed there invisible
A void for electronic hertz waves
It's still there waiting

What happened to you and me?
We don't make love anymore
Not like we used to -- Let's get physical, physical, I wanna get physical

We play mind games through short message service
Discover each other weaknesses by email
Confront our fears in virtual reality

What happened to nine eleven?
Its ghosts still haunt our every brainwaves
We pretend it's not there
But the dust is still glued in our fingers
Preventing us, you, me and her to exchange fingerprints
Like blood brothers would do

Lights, Fog, Winds, Grasses by Gabriella Smith on Vimeo.

Raindrops fell on heads as singers plucked strings, unlocking emotions and stirring quiet memories. 'Lights, Fog, Winds, Grasses' by Gabriella Smith and performed by the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra June 19,2010 at the stage in the Dunsmuir Botanical Gardens, inspired by the beaches in Northern California, inspired me to grab my camcorder and attempt my own minimalist version in video.
The main audio track recorded live at the concert provides cues for the addition of cutaway overlays of golden California poppies for lights; for fog white and gray cerastium flower clouds, wind caresses ceanothus and grasses complete the palette.
Nothing is as it seems--
Surface appearances pierced--
Slide into the audio envelope--
Submerge in the currents of the mighty Sacramento River.
Repeating motifs predominate. The primary track is occupied by the string orchestra playing Smith's composition.
Smith's theme rides above the wave swells of James Johnson's 'Phased Piano' sets and ambient river white sound in the troughs. Building the wave mass flows exerpts from John Koch-Northrup's 'Living Room 2' and Subterminal Leonardo Rosado's 'For The First Time.'

STILL

by Leonardo Rosado

I'm still waiting for that decision
Still choosing between right and wrong
Still being you or your home

I'm still living breathing talking
Still floating with my lungs filled
Still exhaling whispers gone

I'm still here
You're still here
We're still waiting for the decision
We're still choosing between you and me
Still dying every night
Still resurrecting each morning

I'm still exhaling whispers gone
Still being you and your home
There's no more waiting each dying
No more dying each ressurection
No more resurrecting whispers
Just waiting still for that decision