A lot of comments here but nothing detailing how he actually made this. Zappa deployed the synclavier a powerful synthesizer with sampling and re synthesis capabilites throughout his latter years of his life. He had a personal programmer and engineer to run the machine and over 10 years he fed many household objects, found sounds, Foley, Musique concrète techniques he'd previously used, his own previous recordings in snippets, and orchestral instruments as samples into the synclavier synth. He excitedly talked about in a Guitar magazine interview before he died, which is sadly not republished anywhere (I've got it! Hence why I'm telling everyone here,) he described been able to turn a drill into a duck call or a cello using the synclavier and having just learned the virtual instrument that's available myself I can say it's all true. In this piece he morphs between sounds and synthesis seamlessly, yes he utilises xenochrony too but to a whole new level. It did take him 10 years because he literally kept adding elements, he'd compose it, have ths engineer perform re synthesis on the sound, then the programmer would morph the sound snippet into something else and so on with midi programing allowing the notes to retain their clarity. There's not much like it anywhere else but like I say Artuira recently released the digital version a vst playable instrument and it has all these features. It's remarkable but I wouldn't know what it was without zappa telling me
This is a sensational album, an absolute masterwork. I’m amazed that Zappa found the strength to complete three album projects in his final year, and that the quality would Be so high. He’s pushing into new territory on his final compositions. Please release this album on LP! I will gladly pay for the deluxe box set.
@@mrkremko1 If this is what he was able to accomplish in the early 90's, then I can barely comprehend what he would be able to make if he were still alive.
@@sega-megadeth1276 Especially with the technology today. Back then Zappa had spent a good half a million plus on his synclavier setup to help him make music that was perhaps a bit too complicated for humans to perform accurately. And the result (notably on Jazz from hell) occasionally comes across as a little bit mechanical and not quite realistic. It was revolutionary at the time, but the production sounds pretty digital these days. Nowdays you can spend $500 to $1000 and get the BBCSO or VSI sample libraries that have every instrument in the orchestra sampled at every note, with the transitions between them, 20+ articulations, from multiple mic positions set up so you'd *really* struggle to detect it was generated from a computer if the composition was made with expert hands. Had zappa access to this tech its mind boggling to think what he could have done (whilst having a *lot* more spare cash lying about to do other things). Zappa spent an exceedingly large amount of effort massaging 8 and 16 bit samples into things that *almost* sound real (note the large amount of reverb, its an old trick to try and get things to sound a bit more natural, but at the expense of, well, a large amount of reverb). Can you imagine if he had modern tech, and could just focus on the music knowing the software will generate something vastly more realistic without having to waste a load of effort on it.
yes folks the zft honors FZ everyday that passes with no vinyl... the last decade of his life gets in line behind the new albums and the Halloween masks.... its unforgivable and it says everything about where they're really coming from.. thank god this track is proof FZ himself had other priorities. 1993 and no vinyl...still counting....
This piece took ten years to compose. I'm in love with all the individual elements of it. You can detect some modern classical influences here - Conlon Nancarrow, Olivier Messiaen, Edgard Varese. "Civilization Phaze III" is one of my favourite Zappa albums, I wish it was more easily available.
Work of a genius! Pushing boundaries to extremes. How inspired and inventive and hard-working was he?.. unbelievable. Shows what a human mind can achieve. Always loved and will love Zappa and his music, humor and and and, outrageous and provoking he/it may be. He didn't die, as the saying goes for musician/composers: just decompose.
Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as early as the early 1960s, by Frank Zappa, who used it on several albums.
I would like to add that this composition is COMPLETELY in the PROJECT/OBJECT and Conceptual Continuity theory of of his music …. Right from the start he liked “SOUNDS” and this piece is fantastic for his choices for the final result of what we get to hear. … Like i said, I forgot how good this sounds ….
I just read that FZ quoted "In the Navy" in this piece (apparently, it's what the "N" is from). I've listened to this brilliant piece a million times but I had never noticed that. But listening to it again it stands out, it's right in the beginning, at 0:28. LOL.
By the way, I'm a little dark on one of the release decisions on this. After Zappa died, literally weeks after finishing this, Gail made the decision to make this mail order only for a considerable period of time. I had known zappa was on the way out, and that this was to be his magnum opus at the end. But months and years came by but I could never find any reference to this album ever being released. I had assumed it was to be a lost album and was heart broken by it. Its only in recent years, the last 5-6 years I was aware it WAS released, but only if you wrote asking for it. How was a young guy in australia in the time before widespread internet supposed to know that!. I had to contend with Yellow Shark, itself a fine album, being the last album, thinking that was it, and yet this serious minded masterpiece was out there, without the Zappa trust ever letting it on outside their own mailing list :(
Sorry I know Im late, however a little story by me might add to your knowledge. A few years ago I worked at a grocery store where one of my favorite older customers (68) would come in and we started talking about Zappa. Anyways Gail came up and he sais that hes glad she died because because she was constricting the release of Zappas music. Thought he was being a little mean then but now I know he was accurate.
Why do I gotta feel like the freak just cause I can relate to shit like this more so than all the boring shit that's popular music. Diarrhea for the masses. What a gift F.Z. was & continues to be.
Most of Zappa's Synclavier compositions has the feel of a chamber orchestra... or a string quartet, as opposed to a larger orchestra (like his LSO recordings)
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A lot of comments here but nothing detailing how he actually made this. Zappa deployed the synclavier a powerful synthesizer with sampling and re synthesis capabilites throughout his latter years of his life. He had a personal programmer and engineer to run the machine and over 10 years he fed many household objects, found sounds, Foley, Musique concrète techniques he'd previously used, his own previous recordings in snippets, and orchestral instruments as samples into the synclavier synth. He excitedly talked about in a Guitar magazine interview before he died, which is sadly not republished anywhere (I've got it! Hence why I'm telling everyone here,) he described been able to turn a drill into a duck call or a cello using the synclavier and having just learned the virtual instrument that's available myself I can say it's all true. In this piece he morphs between sounds and synthesis seamlessly, yes he utilises xenochrony too but to a whole new level. It did take him 10 years because he literally kept adding elements, he'd compose it, have ths engineer perform re synthesis on the sound, then the programmer would morph the sound snippet into something else and so on with midi programing allowing the notes to retain their clarity. There's not much like it anywhere else but like I say Artuira recently released the digital version a vst playable instrument and it has all these features. It's remarkable but I wouldn't know what it was without zappa telling me
Thank you
7:00 a brief snatch of pleasant melody buried in miles of thicket
This is a sensational album, an absolute masterwork. I’m amazed that Zappa found the strength to complete three album projects in his final year, and that the quality would
Be so high. He’s pushing into new territory on his final compositions.
Please release this album on LP! I will gladly pay for the deluxe box set.
Daniel Thomas MacInnes If only FZ was still with us.
@@mrkremko1 If this is what he was able to accomplish in the early 90's, then I can barely comprehend what he would be able to make if he were still alive.
@@sega-megadeth1276 Especially with the technology today. Back then Zappa had spent a good half a million plus on his synclavier setup to help him make music that was perhaps a bit too complicated for humans to perform accurately. And the result (notably on Jazz from hell) occasionally comes across as a little bit mechanical and not quite realistic. It was revolutionary at the time, but the production sounds pretty digital these days. Nowdays you can spend $500 to $1000 and get the BBCSO or VSI sample libraries that have every instrument in the orchestra sampled at every note, with the transitions between them, 20+ articulations, from multiple mic positions set up so you'd *really* struggle to detect it was generated from a computer if the composition was made with expert hands. Had zappa access to this tech its mind boggling to think what he could have done (whilst having a *lot* more spare cash lying about to do other things). Zappa spent an exceedingly large amount of effort massaging 8 and 16 bit samples into things that *almost* sound real (note the large amount of reverb, its an old trick to try and get things to sound a bit more natural, but at the expense of, well, a large amount of reverb). Can you imagine if he had modern tech, and could just focus on the music knowing the software will generate something vastly more realistic without having to waste a load of effort on it.
yes folks the zft honors FZ everyday that passes with no vinyl... the last decade of his life gets in line behind the new albums and the Halloween masks....
its unforgivable and it says everything about where they're really coming from..
thank god this track is proof FZ himself had other priorities.
1993 and no vinyl...still counting....
Love this ! Feel like I am watching a movie with a perfect soundtrack !
This piece took ten years to compose. I'm in love with all the individual elements of it. You can detect some modern classical influences here - Conlon Nancarrow, Olivier Messiaen, Edgard Varese. "Civilization Phaze III" is one of my favourite Zappa albums, I wish it was more easily available.
+vampira1409 Maybe his ultimate masterpiece !
hahahahahaha
He stole a lot also from Stravinsky, Vincent Persichetti and Roger Sessions
DLX STOLE. REALLY!!!
I have the cd, you can order it off the Zappa official website.
I'm obsessed about this kind of stuff by Frank
I have compiled a Spotify playlist with all is synclavier work in one list, if you're interested can send you a link
@@tunastunesrecords Please do.
@@tunastunesrecords it’s been 2 years, still haven’t sent it yet
just surprise after surprise harmonically and melodically, total amazement. Zappa Concentrate.
Abdolutely Brilliant!!! Longlive MAESTRO, Salute from India.
Work of a genius! Pushing boundaries to extremes. How inspired and inventive and hard-working was he?.. unbelievable. Shows what a human mind can achieve. Always loved and will love Zappa and his music, humor and and and, outrageous and provoking he/it may be. He didn't die, as the saying goes for musician/composers: just decompose.
Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as early as the early 1960s, by Frank Zappa, who used it on several albums.
N-Lite is so great. So much dedication to the beauty of every moment. LOTS of musical jokes. The sort of human sounds are hilarious!
Chef d’œuvre absolu de Zappa compositeur « N-Lite » représentante une somme de travail incroyable et complexe mais vivante et vibrante
Forgot how great this was . . . . . T H A N K S !
Sublime. Full of thought. My mind feels transported.
wwhhhhhooooohhhh........To imagine what and how Frank would make his music nowadays........Yowsa!
I bought this CD in Rotterdam in 1994
I would like to add that this composition is COMPLETELY in the PROJECT/OBJECT and Conceptual Continuity theory of of his music …. Right from the start he liked “SOUNDS” and this piece is fantastic for his choices for the final result of what we get to hear. … Like i said, I forgot how good this sounds ….
This is awesome! I feel I've entered listening to an old Doctor Who or other sci-fi series without the dialogue! It's gold :D
I just read that FZ quoted "In the Navy" in this piece (apparently, it's what the "N" is from). I've listened to this brilliant piece a million times but I had never noticed that. But listening to it again it stands out, it's right in the beginning, at 0:28. LOL.
In the Navy in minor Key? scary..🙄
He quotes My Favorite Things in None of the Above
@@MrJadePinwheel Also never noticed! Very cool.
@@vinvanveen 20 second mark
ruclips.net/video/qLfBmR18HlY/видео.htmlsi=uGTjTrS1Nl6uYNvx
Dio Fa from this same album is pretty impressive too. Kinda scary as well.
The Tuvan throat singing in that song is downright haunting.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
fun fact: this track gave my channel its name
By the way, I'm a little dark on one of the release decisions on this. After Zappa died, literally weeks after finishing this, Gail made the decision to make this mail order only for a considerable period of time. I had known zappa was on the way out, and that this was to be his magnum opus at the end. But months and years came by but I could never find any reference to this album ever being released. I had assumed it was to be a lost album and was heart broken by it. Its only in recent years, the last 5-6 years I was aware it WAS released, but only if you wrote asking for it. How was a young guy in australia in the time before widespread internet supposed to know that!. I had to contend with Yellow Shark, itself a fine album, being the last album, thinking that was it, and yet this serious minded masterpiece was out there, without the Zappa trust ever letting it on outside their own mailing list :(
Sorry I know Im late, however a little story by me might add to your knowledge. A few years ago I worked at a grocery store where one of my favorite older customers (68) would come in and we started talking about Zappa. Anyways Gail came up and he sais that hes glad she died because because she was constricting the release of Zappas music. Thought he was being a little mean then but now I know he was accurate.
One of Bob Stone's bestie faves ♥♫ •° Wunderbars ~ Thx Duke of All !
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L. F. G
Hey hot stuff! - Just poppin' in 4 a quick break- hope you and the fam a lam are doing well. Miss you lots! Hugs 'n hearts xo~♡~xo
Jason Harris
Well howdy stranger ! and i should know ( : Hope you and yours are doing AWESOME!!! Keep it weird. Miss you lots xo
L. F. G
Very good to hear ! yeah uber bizzee but all good darlin'. Be good, stay well ( :
L. F. G Aww okay & yeah true that! Thxx babes you too. Keep yer ❤️❤️❤️'s as big as Texas ! ( :
Jason Harris Will def do thanks Jason !! Stayin' universally connected in betwixt 'n T'Mershi 'tween ~ Doreen ( :
Why do I gotta feel like the freak just cause I can relate to shit like this more so than all the boring shit that's popular music. Diarrhea for the masses. What a gift F.Z. was & continues to be.
To me,Frank was Always Goofin', like at 03:56 with the whistling!
5:02 reminds me of harry partchs chromalodeon wind moans.
The 3 dislikes were from Jimmy Carl Black, Roy Estrada & Ray Collins...
lol
"Synclavier likes this"
Most of Zappa's Synclavier compositions has the feel of a chamber orchestra... or a string quartet, as opposed to a larger orchestra (like his LSO recordings)
There will be no other mind like his. Don't bother trying to explain it to anyone.
Brilliant album.... once you get into it... Xenochrony technique.
lost him saw him witch....