I don’t have much to say about it, it’s a Romanesca, so enjoy!
Omer Katzir
A Lion
StandardMy mom really loved the lion I did for her, but I used the wrong oil and it turned up strange. So I made a new one, with new colors and the right oil.
Waltz in E Minor / Omer Katzir
StandardWell, this Waltz wrote itself, really. I like how it turned out, simple and elegant. And there’s nothing more to say about it.
Enjoy!
Ancient Aliens – What is this shit?
StandardLet me start in a declaration, I believe in aliens. I believe they were here and some are what we know as “Gods” and I believe we’ll see them (not specific specie) in the (hope) near future. But when I see (actually, hear , but that’s a different story) History Channel Ancient Aliens, my mind goes nuclear.
Let’s start with the premise, Aliens were here in the past to guide mankind, maybe help build some monuments like the pyramids. Basically, it’s might seems logical, until one actually watch the entire series so far (17 seasons for now) and you get yourself a mixup of ideas, some are opposite to one another and some just don’t make any sense at all.
The origin of the human race, for example is in one episode we come from Mars which had nuclear explosion on it, and of course, we came without any technology. Make sense, if you’re high on drugs. In another episode we come from the Pleiades, or Orion’s Belt, depends on the episode. In some episodes the Gods came from the Pleiades or Orion’s Belt or Mars or the unknown planet at the edge of our solar system. But let’s go back the mankind here.
In a different episode, humans were created by millions of years of evolution with the building blocks brought here by an astroid, actually make sense, until they claim the astroid was of course launched by aliens. But again, mankind was also created by a God or Gods, every religion with its creation stories. And again, they mix it all up and Earth is actually an alien lab and mankind was genetically engineered by aliens. So, did we came from Mars or other planet without any technology? Are we genetically engineered to be slaves or whatever? What are we? It’s all depend on which episode you watch.
Another example, the pyramids in Egypt, in one episode they are power plants, or storage devices or alien energy. In other episode they are temples for the Gods from Orion’s Belt, in other episode they are sort of a factory to create Gold. There are at least six claims for the pyramids, some different claims in the same episode. Oh, of course, Aliens.
There is much to discuss about aliens, there are still many unknowns in our planet and history, but please, don’t tell me every single unknown thing must be aliens. Albert Einstein, Leonardo De Vince, Nicole Tesla, were connected somehow to aliens which gave them instruction/genetically manipulated/kidnapped by aliens! They couldn’t just be talented people, it must be aliens!
There is so much bullshit in the show, and I fear that our (well, your) kids might become overwhelmed with stupidity. A very serious subject is getting “owned” by bunch of self adoring clowns, without any logic in it. The least they could do is to create a one, single, coherent theory. But they have so many, and all of them must be true (according to the participants) and they all must be aliens.
I don’t know where we came from, I’m Agnostic so I don’t know if there’s a God or Gods. And I do believe we had encounters in the past. But come on, not every single thing is ALIENS! This show, is complete bullshit, probably created as a joke on the subject and went on from there. There is no way in hell the participants of this show believe all their theories are realistic with several explanations for each topic and every explanation must be the right one and everything is explainable by aliens.
Please, don’t watch this show. It will poison your brain. Don’t let your kids watch it, don’t let your cats (or dogs) watch it for the lolz of it. Maybe the creators are aliens who came here to make the subject look stupid, paranoid, incoherent and just plain old strange. Explain that Mr. Giorgio! Ha, you can’t I said the magic word!
Riley Black from The Smithsonian Magazine wrote an article back in 2012, but it’s still very, very relevant. Ancient Aliens never got better, it got much worse.
TL;DR
Ancient Aliens is pure shit full of conspiracy theories where everything and anything is aliens. This show should be taken off the air. History Channel, it’s your reputation. Right now, they’re together with Flat Earthers and Anti-Vaccination.
Woodwork is coming to you for free (almost)
StandardI’ve decided to take my woodwork to the next level and now I want to get orders from you. I create animals, bands signs, memes, musical instruments, game characters and portraits. For now, it’s completely free beside shipment which will be a flat fee of 15 USD worldwide.
Here is what you need to do: send me a picture of what you want, the higher resolution the better, with less background as possible (I will trim background anyway) to my email [email protected]
I will take the picture and transform it to a picture I can work with, and burn in to the wood. Now you can decide if you want the picture colored and if you have specific requests (like, a red shirt, or blue hair) When everything is ready and after the picture is oiled, I will send you a request for the shipment fee and you will send me your shipment address.
Examples of my works
Doing some clean up
StandardI will explain in another post why I stopped streaming, that’s not the story of this post. But my YouTube channel is full of my streams, which are no longer relevant or useful. So I’ve decided to do some spring clean up and delete ALL non music related videos from my channel.
It doesn’t mean I’m angry, frustrated or anything like that, I just want my channel to be purely for my music. If I’ll ever decided streaming again, I will open a new channel.
For now, if you see videos being deleted, don’t worry about it too much.
Thanks.
Prelude and two Minuets for Ori / Omer Katzir
StandardFirst of all, forgive my poor video editing skills, I’m not a video editor, so every video I upload is a challenge, this one was even more challenging because it’s not one musical piece, but three! That been said, let us start. As the name suggests, this work start with a prelude followed by two minuets, a major one and a minor one.
A note about interpretation and articulation
I usually don’t include any articulation marks or any instructions on my music, I leave that to the performer, whoever that may be. Tempo comes in first it’s 100 for the prelude and 90 for the minuets but it’s should actually be moderato (i.e. 108-120) As for articulations, whatever sounds good for you, is probably right, just don’t go too crazy and articulate every single dotted note. In my mind, articulation should be done gracefully.
An error
At the end of the first Minuet, there’s a repeat missing (it does appears at the start of the section), I couldn’t find out why Lilypond won’t allow me to put the repeat there, so please don’t forget to repeat the section as intended.
P.S.
This is by far the most complected and longest composition I’ve written to date.
Ori’s Waltz / Omer Katzir
StandardNothing too much to write about, it a slow and very simple waltz dedicated to my wonderful niece, Ori Livnie.
Well, there actually few things to write about it. For one, I play in faster tempo, about 110. Second, 4th bar, I don’t play it as written, I play the first chord as dotted one and shorter with the second chord. Finally, I use different chord at the end of the second part, just go G# Minor in any position you like.
It’s more of educational piece for beginning students as it’s very easy to analyze with guitar tablature for new students without musical background. Composed at October 2nd 2020, recorded at the 9th.
Fantasy III / Omer Katzir
StandardMy third, and probably shortest Fantasy. According to the file, I finished it in April 7th 2018 and recorded on a Piano in April 2nd 2022.
Although it’s a Piano recording, the original was written for Lute. There are several errors in the tablatures such as bar 6 and bar 16, in bar 6 for example a note is clearly missing from the tablature. In the recording itself there’s also an error where the sol (g) in bar 18 is shorter compared to notation.
I’ve also encountered several problems while recording, and the Piano sounds a bit dry, that’s because I only had one microphone and a very bad one, apologies on that. I already ordered a new microphone.
Finally, you can see I’ve changed the background of the video from the cloud to underwater, that’s because my FCPX, for some reason, does not show me the Cloud background anymore 🙁 in fact, I had to use iMovie for this one because FCPX doesn’t show me any backgrounds. I’m hope you’ll like it anyway!
March for The Praetorian Guards / Omer Katzir
StandardA March I wrote to the best WoW guild in the world, The Praetorian Guards, miss you guys!