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MISSISSIPPIN’ MEDITATION

Here is a video I recorded around the time I first moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. This might even be the first time I walked along the shores of the Mississippi, at least one of the first times. There is nothing like a southern sunset. I’d just walk along looking at the mangroves, watching the large cargo ships coast up and down the river… and eventually there would be a bench in the most perfect spot where I could just contemplate everything in a state of peace. I miss these moments. I live back in my home state of California now, in a place that has two intersecting rivers, but nothing beats the Mississippi. It’s everything that novelists wrote about.

One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver, not aloud but to himself, that ten thousand River Commissions, with all the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream…” – Mark Twain

Music and footage by SUBQUiRE Instrumentation: Acoustic piano, Sequential Pro3, Serum, Omnisphere, Ableton Live

A LAKE AT PEACE

Lake Pontchartrain. This is a clip I took when I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, at one of my favorite spots: the walkway along Lake Pontchartrain. I would ride my bike all the way from the Marigny, sometimes 7 days a week, and sit watching the boats pass and people run by, waiting for the glorious sunset that happened there almost every night. These were tranquil moments where I could meditate, read, gather my thoughts. I spent much of the beginning of the COVID lockdown here. I set this to a clip from a live jam I performed with my Sequential Pro3. Enjoy 🙂