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One Media® presents "Going Up!" by Nowhere Near (Space Jazz Fusion Electronica Music Video)

"Going Up!"

An electro-acoustic Jazz Fusion music video about space elevators with dueling monosynth and violin, lots of electronica, and a swinging uptempo shuffle.

One Media® humbly submits its Steemit Music League #Beatbattle season two round 2 (S2:R2) entry ...

One Media® chose to play 'Space elevator music' as was the theme in this round's #beatbattle ...

First inspiration was perhaps a remake of Antonio Carlos Jobim's 'The Girl from Ipanema', as we 're all fairly certain the most famous 'elevator music' licensing syndicate, Musak, remade that beloved classic featuring the great Stan Getz on saxophone into something...

Perhaps for this round, One Media® could have remade it into, 'The Girl from Andromeda' (?) ... However in it's final assessment, One Media® decided to go with a more direct technological definition of 'space elevator', thus engaging the first two-thirds, instead of the second two-thirds, of the double entendre, 'Space Elevator Music', in its entry here, because One Media® simply could not reconcile the notion of elevator music in a beat battle ...

In regards to Space Elevators , 'Going Up!' may qualify as a 'triple entendre' as their theoretical purpose is for manufacturing in space (truly amazing what one can accomplished when gravity is substantially less of a constraint...). Elevator passengers going up, new construction going up, and, of course, going up into outer space...

As far as the music itelf, a synthetic groove was found to suggest an uptempo (also appropriate for 'Going Up!') jazz shuffle beat... the modal improvisation here may be original in that Zig devised a mode that incorporates the Whole Tone Scale (a scale that predominately suggests 'space' according to this author's subjective experience and likely was discovered (by Arnold Schoenberg?)/(somewhat) popularized in the same century that brought space travel, 'Modernism' in the modern era) ...

However, soloing on the Whole Tone Scale alone can become as vacuous as space itself after a relatively short period of time. Thus to bring some inkling of humanity back into the art ;-) Zig split the scale in half, inserting a Half-Step Diminished Scale in the lower half then the Whole Tone Scale in the upper half; the tritone being the 'relativistic' (in equal temperament tuning) half-way point common to both scales. The resonance of the synthetic groove seemed to be around A-flat, and although the mode Zig used was a C Half-Step Diminished/Whole Tone Hybrid Scale, it all fit nicely together, but apparently not in any of the Classical Modes, such as Dorian, Locrian, Lydian, Phrygian, Mixolydian, etc.

The violin, the only acoustic instrument, was recorded using a Sennheiser MD421 microphone. The other instruments include a Korg T1, a PAiA Gnome analog synth, and Zig's very own SIDnth prototype doing a lot of the random ring modulation bleeps and bloops the modern audience expects from Space Music.

Happy listening!
Zig

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