Nick Levantis

somewhere between music, art and thoughts

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Nowhere Song

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Carnal manikins

Driven by selfish desires, manipulative individuals use seduction as a tool to exploit others. They extract what they need and discard the rest, treating others as mere objects. These callous beings, devoid of empathy, exploit the vulnerabilities of those around them. Their superficiality stems from a distorted worldview shaped by a hypocritical social upbringing.

To hide their inner insecurities, manipulative individuals engage in a hollow performance of life. Like insatiable parasites, they prey on others, causing harm and ultimately crushing human spirits. These morally bankrupt individuals, cowardly and untrustworthy, are capable of great cruelty. They ruthlessly disregard the beauty, authenticity, and individuality of others, driven by their twisted logic.

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Romance Song

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Your post is too short…

I’ve noticed that some bloggers are putting agonising efforts to show off Thousands of meaningless words and these kind of articles could be written with 10 words but they have to show that they are something special in this world ….

By finishing this post, SVBTLE warns me that it’s too short …

In a world that observes the following is reasonable that everything around us is programmed according to ..

  • Passive acceptance and coexistence
  • Poor aesthetics and life goals
  • Opinions built on common and safe recruits
  • Consumerism and Discrimination
  • Success without a strong philosophy of life
  • Understanding only that we perceive it as safe for us
  • Lack of judgment and perception of diversity
  • Lifestyle that fits only the views we have learn & adopted
  • Compromise …
  • Vanity..

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Industrial Lights

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Nice music?

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Creating unique and meaningful music is no easy task. It requires not only formal musical training but also a rich imagination and a deep engagement with the world around us.

Unfortunately, we live in an age dominated by social media, where precious time is squandered in front of screens. I know musicians who spend more than half their day on social media, not composing music but chasing fame and success.

The pursuit of success without a genuine artistic purpose is at best ridiculous and vain. Without dreams, imagination, and a creative lifestyle, art becomes mere repetition and recycling.

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Sonic Pi

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Software programmer and musician Sam Aaron has made it his mission to “play the computer”, and to help others do the same. From his base in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Sam has developed Sonic Pi, a free live coding sequencer and synthesizer based on simplified Ruby programming language that produces music from text commands.

It is designed initially for the low-cost programmable computing platform Raspberry Pi. The Sonic Pi is now powerful enough, fully fledged multi platform music program and there are versions for OSX, Windows and Linux.

Sam’s work was initially funded by the Broadcom Foundation, which supported the project for the first three months. After that, the Raspberry Pi Foundation stepped in, providing support by way of donation to the Computer Laboratory.

Sonic Pi is a social project, rather than a commercial one. It encourages everyone to...

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Radium music editor

I am particularly pleased about the inclusion of my musical ideas as demo songs for Radium Music Editor . Radium evolves from the developer of the legendary Octamed (Amiga) Kjetil Matheussen.

Radium is a music editor with a revolutionary interface. Compared to the normal sequencers (or DAW if you prefer) interface editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen.

Compared to trackers, note positions and effects are edited graphically, which should be quicker, provide more vertical space and give a better musically overview. (Everything can also be edited by text, like in a normal tracker)

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However, despite its unusual appearance, it’s a design goal for Radium to be straightforward to use, and easy to learn. It should not be harder to learn Radium than any tracker or most MIDI sequencers. Users who are accustomed to more traditional trackers might use a little bit time in...

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Paralogik

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Eugene Broumidis and Nick Levantis began playing and writing music in the early eighties influenced initially by the punk and new wave bands of that era. Through three decades of common and uncommon musical exploration and societal experiences they’ve made personal projects and also formed and played in Greek Bands TNT, Prisoners, Joint, Tarot, Sonar Blips , Ethereal Movement.

Today with Paralogik which is a paraphrase of the Greek word “παράλογο”, they’re trying to present through music something quite different by combining elements of electronic music with atmospheric guitars and dark vocals. Their industrial and dark electronic sound travels through ethereal and nostalgic melodies with lyrics that touch many unresolved social concerns ..

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Din is noise sonic exploration

DIN Is Noise is a computer program, You can use your mouse and keyboard to make sounds Inspired by central-asian bowed string instruments, The Morin Khuur, the Kobyz, the Erhu, the Kamancheh, the Sarangi, and Cello.
An excellent Theremin when you arent playing right ;) Or play a raga of Indian classical music, OK, it is a sound synthesizer. Yes, it can accept input from your MIDI keyboard: Notes, control change, pitch bend and clock sync and5 oscillators.

1 for lead voice on the Microtonal Keyboard.
1 for plucked notes on the Keyboard-Keyboard.
1 for the balls of Mondrian.

And 2 for drones. Goodbye again, Sine, Triangle, Pulse and Saw,
While we install Bezier curves on Carriers and Modulators,
Chowning’s Yamaha pipe still pours $$$

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