Thank you Jeremy. When I retraced the same route with Google Streetview, I noticed that the misery in March 2023 (date of Google Streetview recording) was not as severe as in January 2024 (date of video recording). How can this change so quickly and reach such proportions? Yours, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Hi, Markus! I’m not sure if there is something particular about this city, but in general there is the usual pattern of prices rising while income stays the same. It is now bad enough that my family has to be careful to have money to pay bills and eat. In this kind of environment, scenes like this aren’t a surprise to me. Thanks again for the music, and for the look at what happens in part of the world.
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Nice shiny cars, not so shiny people! Dreamy music! 👍👍👍Great work Markus!
Dear Tomas, thank you for your comment. I was also surprised that in the middle of all this misery there were such expensive, shiny cars everywhere. Yours, Markus
Dear Mister Generator, thanky your for your words. Often, when I am in a bad mood, I look for dark sounds and dark images to express my mood, to better understand and thus cope with it. In fact, these images put me in a bad mood, which I then try to cope with using art. But if that is my entire motivation, then that would be a disgrace to myself and completely inappropriate and disrespectful to the poor people in this video, because it would only be about me and my inner world. Nevertheless, I live in such a outer world full of misery. So from time to time I have to shake myself up with such actions so as not to forget this outer world and the suffering of people. Yours, Markus
Hallo Frank, vielen Dank für Deinen Kommentar. Ich hoffe, dass wir solche Bilder nie in Berlin sehen werden. Oder irre ich mich da bereits? In Hamburg habe ich vor 30 Jahren ähnliches auf der Reeperbahn und in St. Georg gesehen. Was die Reeperbahn anbelangt, hat die Stadt dort _aufgeräumt_ . Allerdings nur _aufgeräumt_ . Ich glaube nicht, dass die Stadt das Drogenproblem in den Griff bekommen hat, es hat nur verlagert. Ich finde es sehr beklemmend, welche Ausmaße die Drogenszene in den meisten Großstädten in der USA angenommen hat. Ähnliche Bilder gibt es auch aus Seattle. Mir tun ebenfalls die Menschen leid, die nicht drogenabhängig sind und die jeden Tag dieses Elend miterleben müssen. Diese scheinbar unwrikliche Realität macht etwas mit den Menschen und ich befürchte, dass manche sich immer mehr radikaliseren werden, weil Sie keine andere Lösung mehr sehen. Die Nazis z.B. haben die sog. _Asozialen_ einfach deportiert und umgebracht. Andere verzweifeln an der Welt, und ja, zu denen gehöre ich, obwohl ich es mir mit meinen schönen Synthesizern im schönen Konstanz ganz schön gemütlich gemacht habe. Aber wie gesagt, dieses Elend macht etwas mit den Menschen und von Zeit zu Zeit ist es wichtig über den Tellerrand unserer schönen Welt hinauszuschauen. Aber werden solchen Aktionen Veröffentlichung dieses Videos, Taten folgen? Ich fürchte nein, vielleicht ein paar neue Videos... ganz sicher neue Eskapaden inden tiefen Raum 😔 Liebe Grüße, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Ein schwieriges Thema, auf jeden Fall, und auch ich denke über die vielen Probleme auf diesem schönen Planeten nach. In meiner Gegend wird zwar viel gebettelt, aber es gibt nicht dieses Drogenproblem. Ich lasse mich trotzdem nicht runterziehen. Es gibt täglich viele gute Dinge, die es einfach nicht in die Nachrichten schaffen. In dem Sinne blicke ich positiv nach vorne, bin mir aber so einiger Probleme bewusst... Lgfx
@@MarkusGrandpre I felt like I'd hit a creative wall lately, but then I realized it was my illness and the depression it caused. Thankfully, I'm starting to find my way back to making music. It's really helping me push back against the negativity.
A very enigmatic piece. Like a call from help that we hear coming from the darkness at a very great distance but it has been distorted by the fog and we cannot tell where it is coming from or what it is asking for. I enjoyed listening to this.
Dear Jorge, sometimes it's good to clear the fog a little so I can see where I live. Unfortunately, the aim of this article is not primarily to help these poor people, but to raise my own awareness of the world I live in. Is that any help? The actual cry for help, if you can even recognize a cry for help in these pictures, remains unanswered. When I watch the video, I feel a sense of relief that I am not living in misery, that I have not sunk so low. I can also read that in some of the comments. But to create this relief would be the completely wrong motivation, effect and objective of this video. Perhaps I would have been better off staying in outer space instead of accompanying these powerful images with my sinister music. Yours, Markus
A-ha! I had listened to this piece without looking at the images. I thought the video was just the cover image, so I put my phone in my pocket So my comment while I listened on my headphones. I had not realised that there was this footage to go with it. I will listen again while looking at the footage.
Hyper triste, sombre et absolument malheureux de voir tant de misère humaine..😢Ta musique va parfaitement bien avec tes images filmées, c'est effectivement un cauchemar éveillé 😩
Chère Tara, cette combinaison est née par hasard. Lorsque j’ai vu pour la première fois ces images combinées à ma musique, mes cheveux se sont dressés et je me suis demandé : vais-je prendre le risque de créer et de diffuser cette combinaison ? Quel risque ? Eh bien, le danger du voyeurisme et de la frime avec ces images puissantes. Il y a un risque qu'avec cette vidéo je crée le sentiment d'être heureux, de ne pas avoir à vivre dans ce monde brisé. En fin de compte, je voulais offrir un contrepoint au monde électronique d'images et de sons fabuleux dans lequel je passe la majeure partie de la journée. Cordialement, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Je crois que tu as sacrément bien résumé l'état dans lequel on se trouve lorsqu'on voit de telles images et je crois que c'est une réaction totalement humaine. On se rassure en quelque sorte, mais c'est certain qu'on désire ne pas devoir voir de telles images choquantes et bien tristes. PS , il n y a aucune frime, mais une triste constatation qu'une certaine population est bien malheureuse et délaissée. :((
For some reason I never saw this one. It’s deliciously perturbing and ominous. It’s dark but not only dark. It’s full of anger, despair and desolation. Like someone shouting “look at what you’ve done, you fools”. Certainly the most frightening piece you have ever created but of course I love it. I’m not someone dark but I love dark ambient and I can recognize good dark ambient when I hear it, this is freaking good.
Thank you Fred. The simple sequence is made with the Subharmonicon's sequencer, whereby the sounds come from Odessa and its little extension Hel. I think this sinister video with its sinister ambient music was once necessary. When I often listen and watch for a long time what fancy kind of videos people like me have uploaded to showcase their electronic music. After a while I get too much of this brave new world full of expensive electronic devices and shimmering effects and beautiful illusions. A world we both belong to. That's why, from time to time, I need a hard nudge that this super-privileged world is not all there is on this planet. This world is rather the exception and we both, dear colleague, really live on the sunny side. Yours, Markus P.S. Here is a brilliant artist, I've recently discovered in this wonderful YT world: www.youtube.com/@youwillknoweventually
Nice music indeed. Though, I barely buy the channel’s stats. Not pretending the guy is cheating but the more I’m on YT the more I see desperate people and I try to support musicians who create music to make music, not to pretend they are something the always dreamed to be. Reason why I have so much respect for your work, Jeremy’s, Frank’s, etc.
Honestly, dear Fred? I love slipping into a new role when I make music, into a different life, so that I'm no longer who I am in my everyday life. Then I'm often what I've always dreamed to be: a star wanderer who is constantly discovering new things, celebrating the size and diversity of the universe, and adding his 5 ct to it. Yours, Markus
I do not understand, what you mean by "pay". Do desperate people on YT pay YT to become what they wanted ever to be on YT? And if so what (creative?) help would YT offer if YT would get paid? Please excuse my stupid questions.
Dear Colin, I think and feel very much the same way than you. This upload is a reminder that there is more out there than my peaceful, lush and easy world, in which I so often and so exclusively deal with the beauty of electronic sounds. Afraid of dystopian images like these, I do often escape the unpleasant parts of reality into deep space with my imagination, or I do circle around myself like moon Io circles around Jupiter. But my base, our base, is always here. Yours, Markus
P.S. When I retraced the same route with Google Streetview, I noticed that the misery in March 2023 (date of Google Streetview recording) was not as severe as in January 2024 (date of video recording). How can this change so quickly and reach such proportions?
@@MarkusGrandpre La mondialisation est responsable mon cher Markus. Regardes en France, les prix augmentent de partout, le fossé entre les riches et les pauvres se creusent de jours en plus de plus en plus. Et l'immigration ne cesse de grimper. On délaisse les hôpitaux, les écoles et les agriculteurs, mais on augmente le budget militaire.... Va comprendre ! C'est diviser, pour mieux régner.
Yes, a nightmare, dear Stefano. I think that pictures and music go very well together. Even if it was a coincidence this time that I found these images for this music, I try to realize from time to time through such actions what kind of world I live in and that my ideal world of synthesizers and computers is not everything that is happening right now. Yours, Makrus
@@MarkusGrandpre They do go well together. Yeah, I know. I've seen similar videos many times. Humans always find special ways to destroy themselves. They never failed at that.
Ich hab mir die 10 Minuten sehr fasziniert angeschaut und angehört (ich finde die Musik und das Video gehen gut zusammen - _Statik des Elends_ hab ich mir zwischenhinein gedacht). Ich hab mir gewünscht, die Menschen in dem Video wären alle bezahlte Schauspieler ...
Lieber Hansi, es ist schwer auszuhalten in einer Welt zu leben, in der es solche Armut tatsächlich gibt, während ich mir jeden Monat teure Eurorack-Module bestelle. Ich will diesem Konflikt nicht aus dem Weg gehen. Mit meiner Kunst flüchte ich gern und allzu oft in die Weiten des Weltraums,. Aber Kunst kann solche krassen Unterschied sichtbar machen. Mit meinem letzten Stück "Another Descent" ist mir das nicht so sehr gelungen, weil ein Gedicht nicht dieselbe starke Wirkung hat, wie dieser kurze Film, den ich gestern Nachmittag durch Zufall und zur rechten Zeit bei YT gefunden hatte. Liebe Grüße, Markus
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Powerful synth tones over this footage of Philadelphia, PA. Like a force of nature. Nice work, Markus!
Thank you Jeremy.
When I retraced the same route with Google Streetview, I noticed that the misery in March 2023 (date of Google Streetview recording) was not as severe as in January 2024 (date of video recording). How can this change so quickly and reach such proportions?
Yours, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Hi, Markus!
I’m not sure if there is something particular about this city, but in general there is the usual pattern of prices rising while income stays the same. It is now bad enough that my family has to be careful to have money to pay bills and eat. In this kind of environment, scenes like this aren’t a surprise to me.
Thanks again for the music, and for the look at what happens in part of the world.
Nice shiny cars, not so shiny people! Dreamy music! 👍👍👍Great work Markus!
Dear Tomas, thank you for your comment.
I was also surprised that in the middle of all this misery there were such expensive, shiny cars everywhere.
Yours, Markus
My pleasure!
A very dark soundscape over footage of a very grim area. The two fit together perfectly. Great work. 👍👍👍👍
Dear Mister Generator, thanky your for your words.
Often, when I am in a bad mood, I look for dark sounds and dark images to express my mood, to better understand and thus cope with it. In fact, these images put me in a bad mood, which I then try to cope with using art. But if that is my entire motivation, then that would be a disgrace to myself and completely inappropriate and disrespectful to the poor people in this video, because it would only be about me and my inner world.
Nevertheless, I live in such a outer world full of misery. So from time to time I have to shake myself up with such actions so as not to forget this outer world and the suffering of people.
Yours, Markus
Guten Morgen Markus! Starke Musik, die hervorragend zu dieser scheinbar unwirklichen und äusserst bedrückenden Szenerie passt. Lgfx
Hallo Frank, vielen Dank für Deinen Kommentar.
Ich hoffe, dass wir solche Bilder nie in Berlin sehen werden. Oder irre ich mich da bereits?
In Hamburg habe ich vor 30 Jahren ähnliches auf der Reeperbahn und in St. Georg gesehen. Was die Reeperbahn anbelangt, hat die Stadt dort _aufgeräumt_ . Allerdings nur _aufgeräumt_ . Ich glaube nicht, dass die Stadt das Drogenproblem in den Griff bekommen hat, es hat nur verlagert.
Ich finde es sehr beklemmend, welche Ausmaße die Drogenszene in den meisten Großstädten in der USA angenommen hat. Ähnliche Bilder gibt es auch aus Seattle. Mir tun ebenfalls die Menschen leid, die nicht drogenabhängig sind und die jeden Tag dieses Elend miterleben müssen. Diese scheinbar unwrikliche Realität macht etwas mit den Menschen und ich befürchte, dass manche sich immer mehr radikaliseren werden, weil Sie keine andere Lösung mehr sehen. Die Nazis z.B. haben die sog. _Asozialen_ einfach deportiert und umgebracht.
Andere verzweifeln an der Welt, und ja, zu denen gehöre ich, obwohl ich es mir mit meinen schönen Synthesizern im schönen Konstanz ganz schön gemütlich gemacht habe. Aber wie gesagt, dieses Elend macht etwas mit den Menschen und von Zeit zu Zeit ist es wichtig über den Tellerrand unserer schönen Welt hinauszuschauen. Aber werden solchen Aktionen Veröffentlichung dieses Videos, Taten folgen? Ich fürchte nein, vielleicht ein paar neue Videos... ganz sicher neue Eskapaden inden tiefen Raum 😔
Liebe Grüße, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Ein schwieriges Thema, auf jeden Fall, und auch ich denke über die vielen Probleme auf diesem schönen Planeten nach. In meiner Gegend wird zwar viel gebettelt, aber es gibt nicht dieses Drogenproblem.
Ich lasse mich trotzdem nicht runterziehen. Es gibt täglich viele gute Dinge, die es einfach nicht in die Nachrichten schaffen. In dem Sinne blicke ich positiv nach vorne, bin mir aber so einiger Probleme bewusst... Lgfx
Lovely powerful synths!
Thank you Sioreji.
This music immersed me in a state of deep meditation, an almost mystical experience.
Thank you very much, dear friend. It's good to know that you're around.
Yours, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre I felt like I'd hit a creative wall lately, but then I realized it was my illness and the depression it caused. Thankfully, I'm starting to find my way back to making music. It's really helping me push back against the negativity.
A very enigmatic piece. Like a call from help that we hear coming from the darkness at a very great distance but it has been distorted by the fog and we cannot tell where it is coming from or what it is asking for. I enjoyed listening to this.
Dear Jorge, sometimes it's good to clear the fog a little so I can see where I live. Unfortunately, the aim of this article is not primarily to help these poor people, but to raise my own awareness of the world I live in. Is that any help? The actual cry for help, if you can even recognize a cry for help in these pictures, remains unanswered.
When I watch the video, I feel a sense of relief that I am not living in misery, that I have not sunk so low. I can also read that in some of the comments. But to create this relief would be the completely wrong motivation, effect and objective of this video. Perhaps I would have been better off staying in outer space instead of accompanying these powerful images with my sinister music.
Yours, Markus
A-ha! I had listened to this piece without looking at the images. I thought the video was just the cover image, so I put my phone in my pocket So my comment while I listened on my headphones. I had not realised that there was this footage to go with it. I will listen again while looking at the footage.
Hyper triste, sombre et absolument malheureux de voir tant de misère humaine..😢Ta musique va parfaitement bien avec tes images filmées, c'est effectivement un cauchemar éveillé 😩
Chère Tara, cette combinaison est née par hasard. Lorsque j’ai vu pour la première fois ces images combinées à ma musique, mes cheveux se sont dressés et je me suis demandé : vais-je prendre le risque de créer et de diffuser cette combinaison ?
Quel risque ? Eh bien, le danger du voyeurisme et de la frime avec ces images puissantes. Il y a un risque qu'avec cette vidéo je crée le sentiment d'être heureux, de ne pas avoir à vivre dans ce monde brisé. En fin de compte, je voulais offrir un contrepoint au monde électronique d'images et de sons fabuleux dans lequel je passe la majeure partie de la journée.
Cordialement, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre Je crois que tu as sacrément bien résumé l'état dans lequel on se trouve lorsqu'on voit de telles images et je crois que c'est une réaction totalement humaine. On se rassure en quelque sorte, mais c'est certain qu'on désire ne pas devoir voir de telles images choquantes et bien tristes. PS , il n y a aucune frime, mais une triste constatation qu'une certaine population est bien malheureuse et délaissée. :((
For some reason I never saw this one. It’s deliciously perturbing and ominous. It’s dark but not only dark. It’s full of anger, despair and desolation. Like someone shouting “look at what you’ve done, you fools”. Certainly the most frightening piece you have ever created but of course I love it. I’m not someone dark but I love dark ambient and I can recognize good dark ambient when I hear it, this is freaking good.
Thank you Fred.
The simple sequence is made with the Subharmonicon's sequencer, whereby the sounds come from Odessa and its little extension Hel.
I think this sinister video with its sinister ambient music was once necessary. When I often listen and watch for a long time what fancy kind of videos people like me have uploaded to showcase their electronic music. After a while I get too much of this brave new world full of expensive electronic devices and shimmering effects and beautiful illusions. A world we both belong to. That's why, from time to time, I need a hard nudge that this super-privileged world is not all there is on this planet. This world is rather the exception and we both, dear colleague, really live on the sunny side.
Yours, Markus
P.S. Here is a brilliant artist, I've recently discovered in this wonderful YT world: www.youtube.com/@youwillknoweventually
Nice music indeed. Though, I barely buy the channel’s stats. Not pretending the guy is cheating but the more I’m on YT the more I see desperate people and I try to support musicians who create music to make music, not to pretend they are something the always dreamed to be. Reason why I have so much respect for your work, Jeremy’s, Frank’s, etc.
Honestly, dear Fred? I love slipping into a new role when I make music, into a different life, so that I'm no longer who I am in my everyday life. Then I'm often what I've always dreamed to be: a star wanderer who is constantly discovering new things, celebrating the size and diversity of the universe, and adding his 5 ct to it.
Yours, Markus
Indeed. But would you pay for that or would you dream that it comes to you naturally?…
I do not understand, what you mean by "pay". Do desperate people on YT pay YT to become what they wanted ever to be on YT? And if so what (creative?) help would YT offer if YT would get paid?
Please excuse my stupid questions.
stellar!
Thank you, bexiexz.
The underlying issue of this music piece is quite earthly.
Yours, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre so earthy, so gooood!
Very powerful upload Markus! We often think that things are bad where we live, but compared to Philadelphia we have it easy.
Je suis totalement d'accord avec vous. En voyant celà on peut s'estimer heureux d'être loin de cette misère humaine 😢
@@tarafly67 💔
Dear Colin, I think and feel very much the same way than you.
This upload is a reminder that there is more out there than my peaceful, lush and easy world, in which I so often and so exclusively deal with the beauty of electronic sounds. Afraid of dystopian images like these, I do often escape the unpleasant parts of reality into deep space with my imagination, or I do circle around myself like moon Io circles around Jupiter. But my base, our base, is always here.
Yours, Markus
P.S. When I retraced the same route with Google Streetview, I noticed that the misery in March 2023 (date of Google Streetview recording) was not as severe as in January 2024 (date of video recording). How can this change so quickly and reach such proportions?
@@MarkusGrandpre La mondialisation est responsable mon cher Markus. Regardes en France, les prix augmentent de partout, le fossé entre les riches et les pauvres se creusent de jours en plus de plus en plus. Et l'immigration ne cesse de grimper. On délaisse les hôpitaux, les écoles et les agriculteurs, mais on augmente le budget militaire.... Va comprendre ! C'est diviser, pour mieux régner.
Subharmonic Nightmare oder? ;) Die Musik ist doch traumhaft aber die Bilder sind 'ein bisserl' zu deprimierend und tragisch. Ein schònes Wochenende!
Yes, a nightmare, dear Stefano.
I think that pictures and music go very well together. Even if it was a coincidence this time that I found these images for this music, I try to realize from time to time through such actions what kind of world I live in and that my ideal world of synthesizers and computers is not everything that is happening right now.
Yours, Makrus
@@MarkusGrandpre They do go well together. Yeah, I know. I've seen similar videos many times. Humans always find special ways to destroy themselves. They never failed at that.
Ich hab mir die 10 Minuten sehr fasziniert angeschaut und angehört (ich finde die Musik und das Video gehen gut zusammen - _Statik des Elends_ hab ich mir zwischenhinein gedacht). Ich hab mir gewünscht, die Menschen in dem Video wären alle bezahlte Schauspieler ...
Lieber Hansi, es ist schwer auszuhalten in einer Welt zu leben, in der es solche Armut tatsächlich gibt, während ich mir jeden Monat teure Eurorack-Module bestelle.
Ich will diesem Konflikt nicht aus dem Weg gehen. Mit meiner Kunst flüchte ich gern und allzu oft in die Weiten des Weltraums,. Aber Kunst kann solche krassen Unterschied sichtbar machen. Mit meinem letzten Stück "Another Descent" ist mir das nicht so sehr gelungen, weil ein Gedicht nicht dieselbe starke Wirkung hat, wie dieser kurze Film, den ich gestern Nachmittag durch Zufall und zur rechten Zeit bei YT gefunden hatte.
Liebe Grüße, Markus
@@MarkusGrandpre ist ein Dilemma, ja ... ...