O I C U, by Stan Stewart (aka @muz4now) 4 track album

#nowplaying #bandcamp

O I C U
par Stan Stewart (aka @muz4now.com )

muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/o-i-c-u

#music #fedimusic #mastomusic #musodon #jazz #ambient #chambermusic #chillwave #improvisational #neoromantic #piano #synth #synthesizer #organic #composer #singer #songwriter #Ithaca #musicsky

#nowplaying #bandcamp

O I C U
par Stan Stewart (aka @muz4now )

https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/o-i-c-u

#music #fedimusic #mastomusic #musodon #jazz #ambient #chambermusic #chillwave #improvisational #neoromantic #piano #synth #synthesizer #organic #composer #singer #songwriter #Ithaca

From Sevilla in Spain (1882) - Christian Skredsvig (1854-1924) #naturalism #architectural_painting #neoromantic

“May It Be Time” Music Videos ### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Even while trying to take a holiday from blogging, I’ve continued to create. Two of the creations are music videos from the suite “May It Be Time“. ## Creativity Calls The call of the muse has no respect for arbitrary human schedules. Even holidays (aka vacations) don’t get special treatment. For the first music video, I was drawn into one of my favorite video subjects: moving water and specifically, Taughannock Falls. If you’ve been following along on this blog or Twitter, you already know how inspiring this waterfall is for me. Two enchanting music videos for the suite named MAY IT BE TIME. Click To Tweet ## Music Video: Slow Motion In this video, I chose to use slow motion for the majority of the moving images. I think that the sul pont and flautando style strings lend to the sense of slowing down. It seems to me that a holiday should be about slowing down. I rarely meet my own expectations on this, however. Maybe if I watched this video before planning each vacation, I’d be reminded to downshift. My wife calls the flute part in this track, “Peter Pan”. Like Peter, I sometimes long to go away to Never, Never Land. But that’s impractical at best. So, I usually settle for a few moments of behaving (either internally or externally) like a carefree Pan. “Prelude: May It Be Time” ## Music Video: Moving On The next version of “May It Be Time” in this suite is the main one. By that, I mean that it was the first one I composed and arranged. It is track 4 (of 7) on the EP, sort of _holding the center_. This is the dramatic version. Though it keeps the cello as one of the two solo instruments, the flute is gone. In its place is a distorted electric guitar. I enjoyed creating the drum part on this one. I had to go back and improve it several times because it never quite seemed to carry the beauty and intensity that I wanted. The images in this music video range from thunderstorms to flower gardens to people dancing and moving through fields of grain and blooms. My intention is to walk us through some version of the circle and the cycle of life. I hope you enjoy these music videos. Thanks for dropping by! “May It Be Time (2 studio version)” ### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _More for you_ * * * ### Discover more from Stan Stewart - @muz4now Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

"May It Be Time" Music Videos
#NeoRomantic #MusicVideo
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"May It Be Time" Music Videos Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"May It Be Time" Music Videos
#NeoRomantic #MusicVideo
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Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem? Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Composing a Requiem:
What Is A Requiem?
#Composing #NeoRomantic
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Composing a Requiem: What Is A Requiem? ### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * I’ve been composing a requiem for several weeks. Usually, when I share this with friends, they simply say, “What’s a requiem?” So, I thought it might be interesting to really answer that. ## The Requiem Mass in History The Catholic Church brought us the requiem: it was the mass for the dead. Think of it as music for a funeral. Though there are indications of a specific funeral mass from as early as the 2nd century, it seems that the church did not adopt musical forms (mostly chants) in this ritual until about the 10th century. Though the church called it a “mass for the dead”, they celebrated this mass for one person who had died. Much like our modern funerals, these commemorated one individual. ## What’s In A Name? The name “requiem” comes from the first lines of the text: _Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis._ Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may light eternal shine upon them. What’s a requiem? And why compose one now? Click To Tweet ## Changes Since it started as a mass, most Protestant musicians (such as Bach) did not compose a requiem. Over time, some composers from other traditions did find their way to writing requiems. Most of these did not follow the form or text of the Catholic mass. These changes included a departure from using the Latin text as well, notably in Johannes Brahms’ “German Requiem”. By the 20th century, requiems were composed for humanity as a whole. John Foulds’s World Requiem (1919–21) and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem (1961) are examples. These were inspired by the first and second world wars, respectively. ## Why a Requiem Now? The short answer is: COVID-19. We have lost so much humanity in the past year. Currently, more than three million people are confirmed dead from this terrible virus. Sadly, this pandemic is not over — though we have greater hope with multiple vaccines. In my own life as well as what I’ve witnessed with other people, there is so much grief. I was looking for a way to express this grieving and loss. For me, that’s currently taking the form of a requiem. Next week, I’ll tell you more about composing the five movements in “Requiem for a Stranger“. ### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _More for you_ * * * ### Discover more from Stan Stewart - @muz4now Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe

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soft focus film-style portrait of a woman with long black hair in a pale ambient room, side profile lit with diffused pastel light, dreamy atmosphere with gentle blur and retro lens vignette, 85mm lens at f/1.8

Velour Haze

Prompt in ALT

#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #dreamyaesthetic #filmlightportrait #softfocus #moodylighting #backlightportrait #aicommunity #pasteltones #editorialstyle #neoromantic #portraitblur #gloweffect #analogfeel

🔥 which one would you like to be in this artwork? #sketch #art #artist #fauvism #loveism #neoromantic #queerart

Landdtraßenallee im Schnee

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (* 1955) 🎨
Straße im Schnee 🖼️
#ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #BskyArt #winter #snow #NeoRomantic

My submission for Wolf & Goat Tattoo’s art show in December (:

#denvertattoo #denvertattooartist #neoromantic #neotraditionaltattoo #bodysuittattoo

#nichlava
#zefra.records
#neoromantic #1990th

I wish I could take credit for this cool idea, but Sydney had this concept of a “woman in free fall” and let me do what I wanted with that. Thank you for the trust!

#denvertattoo #denvertattooartist #illustrativetattoo #blackwork #blackworktattoo #neoclassical #neoromantic #romantictattoo

You could say I’m a FAN of this tattoo. And of Kelsi for getting this done ✌️

#denvertattoo #denvertattooartist #neotraditional #neotraditionaltattoo #neoromantic #neoromantictattoo

Little colour portrait 🥀
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#tattoo #neotraditional #neoromantic #tattooist #illustrativetattoo #illustrative

Lil fella called Norton (bonus peets pic) 😺
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#tattoo #cat #cattattoo #australiantattooist #melbourne #tattooist #illustrativetattoo #originalart #neoromantic

Tattooed her✨️
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#tattooist #Melbournetattooist #neotrad #neoromantic #knight #gothic

And Also The Trees
#80sBritishBands #NeoRomantic #PostCharlesDickens #NOIR

And Also The Trees
#80sBritishBands #NeoRomantic #PostCharlesDickens #NOIR

Thought I’d share some flash here 💕 (rough shading)
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#tattooartist #tattooflash #knight #priest #neotrad #neoromantic

El pasado día 21 hizo 41 años que se editó "7 and the ragged tiger", en mi opinión uno de los mejores álbumes de Duran Duran con clásicos como "The reflex" o "New Moon on Monday" Fue el primer disco que tuve en CD allá por 1985... ¡Imprescindible! #pop #duranduran #neoromantic

NICHLAVA
artist.link/nichlava
ZEFRA RECORDS
y2u.be/_tt-HNheyz0

#neoromantic #1990th

Caucasian women with black sunglasses and with tattoo on her arms and a new one on her chest

C'est tout frais ça sort du four 🥖💪🏻

{Fait par @noiroccult au studio Utopia}

#tattoo #inked #neoromantic #chesttattoo #jaibeauetrematinalejaimal

#piano #pianomusic #neoclassical #neoromantic #pianolove

May It Be Time, by Stan Stewart (aka @muz4now) 7 track album

May It Be Time
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7 neo-romantic compositions -
Introspective creations for those inner moments in your life
#OriginalMusicTracks
#NeoRomantic
muz4now.bandcamp.com/album/may-it...

This piece is from an album I made which is kind of a precursor to the album I'm writing right now. Not as polished, but captures some of the mood: m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ybm...

#theinfernalsymphony #epicorchestra #epicchoir #music #epicmusic #neoclassical #neoromantic #classical #romanticeramusic