\här'•mə•nē\: (n) | 1: (archaic) tuneful sound; melody 2 a: the combination of simultaneous musical notes in a chord b: the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords c: the science of the structure, relation, and progression of chords 3 a: pleasing or congruent arrangement of parts b: correspondence, accord c: internal calm; tranquillity 4 a: an interweaving of different accounts into a single narrative b: a systematic arrangement of parallel literary passages for the purpose of showing agreement or harmony |
History:After the release of Shocking Duality, Duality had become something of a hit amongst our friends, and it wasn't long before other friends also began experimenting with music. While I took a summer away from college in 1998, I wrote some songs on my own, including what would later become The Best Song I Ever Wrote, "The Lake" (the Duality version of the song is better than the Triumverance version), and my bandmate from Duality, Darius Jackson, discovered a new sequencer called ACID and began toying with it, along with one of our mutual friends, Surok. Darius created a whole slew of songs, including "Song 14," a song that he had been working on ever since the completion of Shocking Duality, and Surok produced two incredibly interesting songs, the love-it-or-hate-it "Helpme" and the soothingly Asian techno "Pop."Upon my return, we decided to collect all three of our works (along with "Trinity," which Darius and I wrote together) into a new album. The addition of a third band member, however, meant that the name Duality didn't fit, so we came up with the fake word "Triumverance" to describe "Duality in the Third Degree." Triumverance: Duality in the Third Degree is certainly a good album, and I know of a couple of fans (friends, of course) who still listen to their copies of it. However, from the creativity angle, I've never really appreciated it as more than an experiment, since the heavy usage of the ACID program created songs that used pre-sequenced loops, making for lazy songwriting. I think my opinion of the program was solidified when I heard some of those same loops used in stock music for porn. But some of the songs found on the album were reinvented later on for the Duality album 1.0, in which ACID was never used. As for Surok, he got married and moved away. He and I still share a correspondence, and he was an usher at my wedding, but we haven't really worked on music together since the summer of 1998. After Triumverance, he briefly explored DJing and turntabling, and did write a few songs on his own. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Downloads:Triumverance
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| 01. | Song 14 | 4:13 | 4.06M |
| 02. | Introduction to Eternal Skies | 3:42 | 3.57M |
| 03. | Deceptive Dreams | 3:36 | 3.46M |
| 04. | Helpme | 2:44 | 2.64M |
| 05. | fuqed in da head | N/A | N/A |
| 06. | Forgotten Title | N/A | N/A |
| 07. | Drowning | N/A | N/A |
| 08. | Fear | N/A | N/A |
| 09. | Pop | N/A | N/A |
| 10. | The Lake | N/A | N/A |
| 11. | Masturbating in the Woods | N/A | N/A |
| 12. | Intruder | N/A | N/A |
| 13. | Bongo-a-Bye-Bye | N/A | N/A |
| 14. | Trinity | N/A | N/A |