2021

length: 17:06

Music: Patrick Schouten
Photograph: Roland Mey

Enjoy the chillin trip of the tangerine. It is almost a meditation.

Chillin Tangerine

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The video is created with Magic Music Visuals. Photograph by Roland Mey

1997

The music on this album was released in 1997 on cassette tape and is not digitally distributed.

MAUD'S THEME

This is a song that I created after a former colleague Maud had told me about the television series "Twin Peaks". For a while I watched the series and the music by Angelo Badalamenti inspired me to create this song.

THEME OF VANGELIS

I wrote this song some days after Vangelis Papathanasiou's concert in the harbor of Rotterdam, which he performed on the closing of the Eureka project.

THE DANCE OF THE DRAGON

This is a song that was not released on the original cassette tape. Special about this song is that it was recorded live, so no editing in Cubase.

2006

The music for this album is dedicated to the Solar Sail project of Cosmos 1 project by the Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios.
With minimal funds they created a spacecraft that would be propelled by sunlight. They lanced the spacecraft from a Russian submarine with a remodeled Volna rocket.
On June 21, 2005, Cosmos 1 was launched as planned from the Delta III submarine Borisoglebsk of the Russian Northern Fleet. Unfortunately, the first stage of the Volna never completed its scheduled burn, and the spacecraft did not enter orbit. Cosmos 1, the first solar sail, never had a chance to test its revolutionary technology.

A solar sail, simply put, is a spacecraft propelled by sunlight. Whereas a conventional rocket is propelled by thrust produced by its internal engine burn, a solar sail is pushed forward simply by light from the Sun. This is possible because light is made up of packets of energy known as "photons", that act like atomic particles, but with more energy.
When a beam of light is pointed at a bright mirror-like surface, its photons reflect right back, just like a ball bouncing off the wall. In the process the photons transmit their momentum to the surface twice - once by the initial impact, and again by reflecting back from it. Ever so slightly, propelled by a steady stream of reflecting photons, the bright surface is pushed forward.

2020

length: 13:28

Music: Patrick Schouten
Photograph: Loannis Koniaris

Distant Memories

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The video is created with Magic Music Visuals and the visual effect template by Eric

1996

This music I have created in memory of my father Leo Schouten (1936-1992) and my aunt Cilia van der Kooij. 

In contrast of later albums, this album was not recorded with any virtual instruments, but with:

• Roland D5 multi-timbral digital waveform linear synthesizer
• Roland W30 sampler workstation
• Casio CZ1000 Multi-Timbral Phase Distortion Digital Synthesizer
• Technics SX-AX7 multitimbral PCM synthesizer workstation
• Yamaha DD 11 drum machine

This album is not digitally distributed.

2020

length: 07:20

Hypnagogic hallucinations are imagined sensations that seem very real. They occur as a person is falling asleep, and are also referred to as sleep hallucinations.

Hypnagogic Hallucinations

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1988

As kid, I volunteered for many years at the Astronomical Observatory Rijswijk. At the start of the summer, we would have a barbecue party. In 1988, I formed with E. Tiessens and A. Versluis the synthesizer group Floating Spheres to give a concert at the 1988 barbecue party. The live recording of that concert was taped and given to the party participants.

E. Tiessens: synthesizer, sampler, sequencer, drums and effects
A. Versluis: synthesizer, drums and effects
P. Schouten: synthesizer, keyboard and drums

This album is not digitally distributed

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2021

James Winston (A.k.a Allard Koene) and I are long time friends. We started as colleagues and became friends. And although we now live in different countries, we play chess almost weekly. Allard played guitar, piano and bass, and in the past we were often jamming. Some of these jam sessions became tracks, and after years of sitting on the hard drive, four of them ended up on this album. 

Also listen to the album '1304 Elk Lane Road' By James Winston

Some sounds used in the music come from Freesound.com:
Battle sounds: https://freesound.org/people/YleArkisto/sounds/258207/ 
Battle sounds: https://freesound.org/people/pfranzen/sounds/192072/
Photo for album by: Enrico Motta

2004

2007

2010

This album is an ambient landscape telling the story of the oceans. The pictures used for the album cover are from Primal Pictures.

Music of this album is used in the movies by Robert Bergman (Nomad); Documentary: Garden of Eden and the TV series: Naked Club.

Movement 3

Spirit of the Ocean

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With the photos of Marianne Brouwer I created a video for the Movement 3 track. This track refers tot the deepest part of western Pasific ocean; the Mariana Trench.

2020

This album is a homage to the Drake equation.
The Drake equation was presented in 1961 by Frank Drake at the first scientific meeting of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). He wrote down all the things you needed to know to detect extraterrestrial life, so it would be clear how hard it’s going to be.
Calculating this formula you get a number N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms. The formula was not an answer, but a way to stimulate the scientific dialogue.