Music

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
DIGITAL BIRDS PULSATING, op.3 (for collab) (v.3.3)	Other	Sep 5, 2007	513
Invasion and Pulsation, op.1 (for collab) (v.2.0)	Other	Aug 8, 2007	337
Fragile Pulsation, op.2 (for collab) (v.4.0)	Classical	Aug 7, 2007	871
ATMOSPHERIC PULSES OF LIGHT, op.4 (v.2.0)	Ambient	Aug 1, 2007	640
Free Pulsation Sounda, op.5 (for collab) v.3.1	Rock	Jul 31, 2007	698

Collaborations

Title	Genre	Released	Plays
Summer Solstice	Jazz	Jun 21, 2009	680
Free Pulsation Sounda	Rock	Jul 29, 2007	766

Biography

FREE PULSATION: an online ensemble!
LIFE - FREEDOM - MUSIC - FUN - ART

Welcome to the iCompositions home of FREE PULSATION.

CALLING ALL ARTISTS (not just musicians -- see below).
Please JOIN OUR RANKS TODAY for a UNIQUE MUSICAL EXPERIENCE.

It's FUN and EASY to join our ensemble.

QUICK TIPS FOR JOINING IN THE FUN RIGHT NOW
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-Anyone may participate in these open collaborations! Sign up today!

-Listen and select a piece of music from the FREE PULSATION page that you want to play along with.

- Add a comment to the TRACK you are interested in contributing your music to that says "SIGN ME UP." I will contact you and arrange the file transfer. I will also add your name to the MEMBERS LIST when you return a track to me for the first time.

-Once you receive the file, grab your instrument, open your midi editors, what have you, and press record. Don't think too much, just play what FEELS right from your HEART, IN THE MOMENT.

- Feel free to submit a 'starter track' (basic ground track) for others to play along with.

-You don't have to play continuously; you might just want to add your instrument in a few places.

-Louder is not necessarily better. Try to weave your sound into the ensemble. Solos are fine, but try to respect the other sounds and participants without "stealing the show."

-HAVE FUN!

WHAT IS FREE PULSATION?
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-An ever-changing ensemble of sound explorers, musicians, composers, performers, visual artists, writers, and film-makers who want to participate in a fun, free, improvisational, and unique orchestra of sorts.

-Music which deals with large group improvisations. Imagine playing "on the fly," playing intuitively, playing whatever FEELS RIGHT IN THE MOMENT. Have fun with it! A freestyle JAM. Let yourself go free & DON'T THINK too much.

-Music which mixes more than one genre, pieces which build from many different approaches and schools of composition. Polystylism is key to Free Pulsation.

-Music that thinks "OUTSIDE OF THE BOX."

-A Musical therapy for those of you who want to let go of the rules and work without limitations.

- Think of all the different dynamics you can get from one instrument. All the different playing techniques, multiphonics, innovative tunings, special tones, mystical gems, unexpected sounds, lyrical beauty, and more!

-There is no predicting what dreams may come to life, where the song is going, or where we'll end up except that its going to be an impassioned quest! I never know where a song will lead us.

-Music that explores expansion and contraction, cycles, orbits, repetions, rising and falling.

-Music that might use wild systems of notation, graphic notation, no bar lines, no time signature, wildly shifting time signatures, extensive dynamic controls, etc.

-Music that employs large, varied ensembles, ethnic instruments, east-west fusions, electro-acoustic fusions, etc. The more synthesis the better!

-A KALEIDOSCOPIC FLEXATOR

HOW THE PROCESS WORKS...
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IF YOU ARE ENTHUSIASTIC AND MAKE MUSIC, YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!

Free Pulsation has two incarnations....
1. A group of people playing instruments simultaneously. (LIVE)
2. A digital ensemble. (ONLINE)

The digital ensemble will have to be managed sequentially--until other user-friendly solutions arise.

Composers: Submit a "BASIC GROUND TRACK" - a piece with some time (5 - 15 minutes seems appropriate to me) and space for other players' development. You may choose to submit information about the track (key, chord progressions, bpm, suggested number of players, suggested instrumentation, etc.) The parameters are really OPEN on this.

*NOTE: Reading music is not a requirement to join FREE PULSATION, though some people may provide information and sheet music for other interested participants who would like to use this.

Please submit all tracks to: zedzebra@gmail.com

Musicians: Add a comment to the TRACK you are interested in contributing your music to that says "SIGN ME UP." FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. I will send the track to the next person in line. The track will then be re-uploaded and the next person on the list will add their unique voice to the mix.

Visual Artists, Performers, Film-Makers, Writers: Contribute your original artwork (please don't use copyrighted material unless you have permission) and have FREE PULSATION create a soundtrack or an inspired piece of music to accompany your project. FREE PULSATION loves to interact with all the art forms. Submit movies, drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, lyrics, etc. Music always adds an extra dimension to every art project! Please contact me today with your artwork.

I will coordinate passing around the tracks and uploading each new version as they arise. At some arbitrary point we will declare the piece as "FINISHED."

I have also heard of software which allows you to join a server online and JAM with other people who have their instrument hooked up for recording into their computer (i.e. soundcard line-in device, microphone, pick-up, etc.) The original intended space for Free Pulsation is a live multi-person improvisational setting. Once I demo this software, I will write more about it. But this virtual jam session sounds like a cool way to capture many people at one time and freely pulsate together!

Any more questions or clarifications, I'd be happy to reply to any messages or e-mails. This has been a dream of mine for a long time. And some dreams really do come true.

Here's to the ADVENTURE,
~JUSTIN