'immersive' original music videos of Resistance history
Burned to The Ground
Children of The Third Millennium
Children of The Third Millennium
This a really controversial one from 2017.
YouTube AI blocked it. Regardless
it went viral on FB with 100's of views a day.
A protest of centuries of religious bigotry, everything in it is historically accurate.
The mix is a cathedral effect.
20,114 views for FB Demo
Posted June 20, 2017.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021
Children of The Third Millennium
Children of The Third Millennium
Children of The Third Millennium
This was made for Earth Day 2017.
Climate Change with a sci-fi twist.
The viola player
is a professionally recognized genius.
Purposely mixed to create 'space' .
7014 views for FB Demo
Posted February 2, 2017.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021.
The Lock Dirge
Children of The Third Millennium
Shadows of Power
The growth
of wars since Hiroshima.
14,038 views for FB Demo
Posted March 21, 2018.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021.
Shadows of Power
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Shadows of Power
The history of
Corporatists vs. Labor.
19,608 views for FB Demo
Posted July 1st, 2018.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021.
Hērosˈsɪzɪdʒiékleipsis
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Resistance heroes.
They refused oppression.
Heroes are Real - Saints are fantasy.
23,829 views for FB Demo
Posted on October 1, 2018.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021.
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Relevant today because
of the Social Media aspect then, and now.
I support the Hong Kong activists.
10,541 views for FB Demo
Posted on April 15, 2019.
FINAL MASTER moved to VIMEO
January 2021.
Click ^IMAGE^ to view Burned to The Ground ~ SUITE ONE Ages
A 1980's composition created to sonically sound
like a rock band had invaded a cathedral,
to convey how we live
in the Echo-chambers of inheritance
of prosperity built on murder, genocide and slavery
with the same denial distance of time
would have granted the grandchildren
of the Nazis and Hirohito Japan if they won WW2.
Thus, we ‘successful’ inheritors of this past
- like our predecessors -
are stuck in societies that blissfully rationalize
compartmentalization to ‘normalize’ these atrocities.
BURNED TO THE GROUND
i. monophony
The witch, the unbeliever, the whore, the rebel
a few of the myriad titles cast for centuries, millennia, ages,
upon scapegoats to sanction bloodlust
in whatever Name the accusers call..."god".
Each death a Vaticide;
a single mournful chant
against the sanctimonious polyphony
of a pious crowd.
ii. Vaticide
Te Deum excerpts - public domain recording
iii. ashes of centuries
Quotations - James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology. ©1975
I used Empirical death counts to defy criticism.
It's conservatism of numbers still remains a horrific testament.
I personally feel that all the numbers are at the minimum
double what I posted.
SUITE ONE ~ Ages: Climate Apocalypse
CHILDREN OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
Handpicked...The best of the educated kind;
Sure in themselves they have the better design.
Galleons with solar sails striding our Star’s Wind.
Colonists to New Worlds.....
Children of The Third Millennium.
Veiled in technical prowess sins can hide
Within great knowledge and disciplined pride.
Promised Lands yet to claim -
The future stage in mankind’s game
On these virgin soils, they travel to tame.
Imagination led to manned flight.
My choice of musical device using modern prophecy
- a hopeful science fiction -
of recovery from the future disasters
of Climate Change
is optimistic unless we initiate a strong reversal
in this second decade of The Third Millennium.
Our penchant for ignoring atrocities
has led to the fact
that in a few decades all our social contentions
and aspirations will inevitably be forced
into the contextual repercussions of Climate Change.
Competitive technology led to it,
and only cooperative technology can be the solution.
The segue to that true new age will have horrific episodes - some affecting millions at a time.
That said, apocalyptic dystopian views are escapist.
Instead we must complete
the reality of two plus centuries
of industrialism and the advent of techno suburbia. Physically, mentally, chemically, psychically, 'spiritually'
we are in a chaos of this ravaging juggernaut
that will be judged by the harsh mistress
Nature we are invoking.
OPUS I ~ The Lough Derg Pilgrimage: The Rise of Corporations
~The Lough Derg Pilgrimage~
Now known as St. Patrick's Purgatory,
or Owayne Miles,
in Lough Derg, Ireland
it was an ancient sweat house
for physical or spiritual healing
- long before Christianity -
arrived at by subterranean passages.
The Celtic Hero Owayne,
who, because of his innate characteristics
and values of the world in which he lived,
was tested in the darkness of The Lough Derg;
Ultimately transformed
not by the blinding insight of the visionary
but by the recovery of that
from which he had been dispossessed
by false societal norms: His Soul.
The Lock Dirge
~gehenna dawn~
is a LIVE Recording of our first time playing together
after demo tape solo practice.
~theophany eve~
"Et defecit in cithara angelus,
Dum in vento tubae sanguine spargunt
Flores novos - innocentiam atque peccatum"
(And the Angel failed his harp,
As trumpets of the wind scattered blood
On fresh flowers-innocence and sin).
OPUS I ~ The Lough Derg Pilgrimage: The Rise of Corporations
Shadows of Power
i. Industrial Utopias
ii. Workers Rights
iii. Prosperity
iv. Standing Up
v. Deconstruction
Corporate elitism as an American evil
is yet to be fully restrained,
mostly due to Neo-liberal apologetics for Capitalism,
that, abandoning the policies of FDR,
justifies taxation for a national state
above health and education.
Conservatism is the bully action of this violation
of The Most Fundamental of Human Rights...
in the name of God, law, and order.
SUITE TWO ~ Hērōs.sizidʒi.ékleipsis: The Persecuted Resist
Hērōs.sizidʒi.ékleipsis
Hērōs.
Greek, "demi-god"; "defender, protector," from PIE root *ser "to watch over, protect".
sɪzɪdʒi.
Greek, the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
ékleipsis.
ancient Greek, "to cease (stop) to exist (be there)".
Three Movements:
·Exordium
·Lament
·Angelius Alatus Semiustus
Exordium: introductory section of rhetoric
Angelius: urban/street slang
for a person who is kind hearted and trustworthy
thus vulnerable to fake people;
if betrayed or done harm
can rage with the potential to kill.
Alatus: winged, having wings.
Semiustus: singe, burn superficially.
OPUS II ~ The Dictatorship of The Proletariat
April 15th, 1989
University of Beijing students protest
for freedom of the press,
speech, and democratization.
By May 17th
Millions were demonstrating in over 400 cities.
On June 4th
The Military, positioned for two weeks prior as a deterrent, covered by the dark of night of a new moon
became active with deadly force.
Tiananmen Square became an Iconology
of the first live media broadcast
of martyrdom in history.
Original poem 06-04-1989
The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Can you hear Beijing ring
echoed gunshots to the world?
The leaded sting soldiers and tanks bring
- Death to boys and girls.
Beijing rings the rites of liberty.
Beijing rings notes in the song of the free.
Beijing rings and cries and bleeds.
The sleeping giant China stirred to awake;
The wicked dictator took his life away.
Scattered blood, martyr seed
of springs darkened moon.
3rd world hitting the streets,
next centuries bold lead
bearing the sacred wound.
Beijing killed those who sing
for human rights and liberty.
O’ Beijing ghosts haunt there still
from that song you cannot kill.
Tiananmen square will again rise
and shame the worlds eyes
who forgot June 1989.
Can you hear Beijing ring
echoed gunshots to the world?
OPUS II ~ The Dictatorship of The Proletariat
The Volga
Волга-матушка Volga-Matushka
(Mother Volga)
is the longest and widest basin river in Europe.
30 years ago The Berlin Wall fell....
The hope from that Event
was co-opted in a decade by Putin.
This music video came
from experimental sessions about
the spirit of the Russian people
who have been consistently oppressed
for over 1000 years.
Putin's effect on Us the past 4 years was eerie,
so I turned this into a 'soundtrack'
(instead of a song)
of Russian history.
Use headphones for the full ethereal effect.
Musicians :
Drums
Josh Holland~Burned to the Ground
Ian Gordon~Children of The Third Millennium
Rick Ward~OPUS I, SUITE TWO, The Volga, Child in Time
Eric Olson, Hand Percussion~Angelius
Steve Barrington~The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Bass
Seth Gordon~SUITE ONE
Paul Gordon (Fretless)~OPUS I, OPUS II, Child in Time
Moog
Dave Hulling~OPUS I, OPUS II
Viola
William Taylor~SUITE ONE, The Ghosts of Tiananmen Square
Vocals
Cynthia Flanagan~Children of The Third Millennium, Child in Time
Nurmi Husa~Burned to the Ground, Theophany Eve
Ellen Douras, Levi Gordon CHORALE: Child in Time
All other Sound, Production and MASTERING ~Joshua Gordon
except: Cynthia Flanagan, Piano~Children of The Third Millennium
WITHIN and it's domain Withinvideosongs is a non-commercial venture not for sale.
Imagery and sound not created by me modified for this video is from digitized public domains,
images, historical broadcasts plus images licensed for non commercial use by Google,
the New York Public Library, Library of Congress, NASA, JPL,
and imagery allowed for use under the conditions of the Fair Use Act.
I want to thank artist bryanversteeg.com who graciously allows
not-for-sale use of his futurist space travel art;
Painting "Angelius" by Wesley Clemmons used by permission;
AND especially Ernesto Yerena Montejano
for his free protest art We The Resilient.