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Run Time: 124 Minutes
Street Date: July 26, 2026.
TRACK LIST:
TRACK LIST:
1. You Got a Mouse in Your Pocket?
2. Ding Dong, Stockhausen Is Dead
3. Hydrogen-alpha, So Hot Right Now!
4. Live Witnessing Wiggling Active Region Filaments
5. Music to Shoot the Sun To
6. She’s My Dummy Load
7. Barlow Bortle Binning Bias Bahtinov Bayer Broadband Backfocus
8. Magnetohydrodynamic Shock in My Favorite Sunspot
9. I Successfully Cheated The Universe
10. Sucker Punch Park
11. Energy Rejection Filter
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All composing, playing, voice, engineering, production, mixing, mastering, cover art, and solar photos by Michael W. Dean.
Four songs on this double album are 12-tone adjacent. They use 12-tone rows but are not strict proper 12-tone, I learned the rules to break them, but it’s more “serial-inspired” or “post-serial” than textbook dodecaphony. Some utilize “super-rows” (row chains) of multiple 12-tone rows in a row, then treated as semi-standard from there. There are some inverts, reverts, plus both, but some free use of all.
The four songs are:
“Ding Dong, Stockhausen Is Dead”
“Barlow Bortle Binning Bias Bahtinov Bayer Broadband Backfocus”
“She’s My Dummy Load”
“Live Witnessing Wiggling Active Region Filaments”
“She’s My Dummy Load” is also microtonal it’s in
diaphonic 12a
(2nd 12-tone Diaphonic Cycle, conjunctive form on 10/7 and 7/5_
Also, this song starts at 455 BPM and ends up at 1 BPM.
“Barlow Bortle Binning Bias Bahtinov Bayer Broadband Backfocus” sounds microtonal, but it’s not. It just has some very out of tune parts, intentionally.
In Krist Novoselic’s 2021 blog post praising my old band Bomb, he says that I’m now “a sober libertarian / electronic musician (Including some 12 Tone composing)”
https://deepriverdispatch.com/musicwriting/bomb.html
I told him “I do microtonal, not 12-Tone…that’s like saying Nirvana’s a blues band.” Actually “Nirvana’s a blues band” would have more truth, technically. He didn’t correct it (he’s a busy guy, and I’ve made it true now.)
https://deepriverdispatch.com/musicwriting/bomb.html
Words for “I Successfully Cheated The Universe” from the novel “Starving in the Company of Beautiful Women” by Michael W. Dean (2000, Kittyfeet Press, link https://amzn.to/3TW0rjm )
TITLE NOTES:
“Hydrogen-alpha – So Hot Right Now!”, song title came from a comment by u/ScienceForge319
That person was making a double entendre about one of my solar photos, but is also obviously referencing a line in Zoolander.
“Sucker Punch Park”, title from Bean Von Beansteen, formerly bass player of Helios Creed.
You Got a Mouse in Your Pocket? sample file from here:
Speaker: Flame, not lame
Recorder: Flame, not lame
This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User_talk:Flame,_not_lame
“Ding Dong, Stockhausen Is Dead” is because he praised mass murder.
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