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“Spectral Iteration: A Prismatic Journey thru the Beautiful Art of Fractals and Abstracts”

Mass Market Paperback by San Jaya Prime

Beautiful and vivid fractal designs, hypnotic Mandelbrot spirals, and mysterious and inspiration abstracts. Every page is taking another step forward in the spectrum. The journey is yours to take. This 7" x 7" art book comes from the internationally acclaimed and award-winning fractalist San Jaya Prime. His designs appear on book covers, album art, video games, and as large murals featuring vivid colors that envelop lines formed from sacred geometry. This is where math and nature meet on the shores of the infinite. I walk in dreams and dream waking. Who am I?

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Details on the Book

Publisher: Blurb (September 7, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1367260833

ISBN-13: 978-1367260832

Pages: 20 full-color pages

Dimensions: 7 in x 7 in x 0.2 in

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I'm terrible at keeping up with news, mostly because of how much of it there is. My fractal "The Chaos Clock" was awarded a Daily Deviation in March of 2012, and I didn't even find out about it until a few months later when I was getting emails about people wanting to have it on book covers and video games. That's only one small example. This is only one of my own mods based on the original fractal [Here on deviantART]. For a while, I tried keeping up with everywhere that the Clock appeared, and kept a list of my favorites [Here in my dA Journal], but I've since given up. Every day is something new, and lately I've been post-processing my fractals and posting them [Here on My Instagram]. I completely blame LiLiYi for my addiction to editing on my iPod, as it's her fault that I'm even using these apps. Her. Fault! If I could actually render Apophysis flames from my iPod for the base fractals, my computers would be feeling neglected. That day's coming. I can feel it. Cheers lovelies!

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For those who were tuned in to my "IO Teknika" release, the memorial song I made for Mushuto has appeared on YouTube in this video about rock climbing. From the climber's own words, I get a feeling that he's a fellow child of the desert... and well worth the watch!

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Graham Russel Photography [Vimeo] created this series of short videos and photographs from Taiwan, and the photography and environment really do fit my original song "At a tea house, under paper shadows".

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Yesterday, I received a surprise email from Indaba Music. The VIP remix of "Underwater Grave" has been hand-picked by Indaba for licensing in their catalog (film, television, video games, etc.), with Indaba approaching publishers, labels, and partners for licensing opportunities. "Underwater Grave" has also been chosen to be included in the Getty licensing catalog, where it will also be actively promoted.

The news could not come at a better time. I am currently in Andorra, and separated from the woman I love and fighting to reach her again. Both of us are working together to find legal ways for me to live inside the Schengen zone (France, Spain, Germany, etc.), and I am definitely hurting for money. "Underwater Grave" truly brings something new and unique to both licensing catalogs... and I feel hope. Stay tuned!

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Empresarios - Negrita Linda (K. Sabroso Freemix)

K. Sabroso remixed "Negrita Linda" by Empresarios, bringing an entirely new energy to the song while keeping every single sexual overtone that makes the original so hot! BMFD and I mastered the remix, so tune in as soon as it's released. At the same time, I need to share one of my recent favorites, this one coming in from K. Sabroso, Smashy SkyShaker, and DJ Ninja... working to mash together songs by Meiko, Mirel Wagner, and Kanye. I would never even think to bring these songs together, but the end result is the proof that they work beautifully as one song. You can listen and download it for free [Here on SoundCloud].

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Jaya Prime dot Com: Updates

For once, the news is not specifically music. I have started serious development on an actual site. As I write this, I am actually about 50% finished with the work. The main construction is being done at www.jayaprime.com, but it will be migrated here to the news section soon. It looks like one site, but it is actually many different sites woven together. The news, the blogs, and the about me section are all different sites. Trust me... it makes sense. If you scroll the page slowly, you will see that the stars move inside and outside of the nebulae.. and the stars parallax at different speeds. For once, it actually performs better on Firefox than it does on Chrome. But it works on Internet Explorer, also, which says a lot. Once the code is complete, I will turn my eye towards music, graphics, and actual content. Stay tuned!

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In September of 2011, Nathan Dodge released his short film "Mixed Drinks" [YouTube] [IMDb]. Beyond the movie itself, and I highly suggest investing the 20-minutes to watch it, there are a few special things about this movie. First, the soundtrack was produced by K. Sabroso (including Dodge, himself). When K. Sabroso contacted me about engineering the final masters for the soundtrack, BMFD and I replied with an immediate "yes". With the quake that tore Tokyo and surrounding areas apart, we had worries about whether the movie would be finished... but our fears were for naught, and "Mixed Drinks" is now available online. Check it out!

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[March 20, 2012] San Jaya Prime - Watch Me [Free on BandCamp]

"When one becomes like a revengeful ghost and shows great determination, though his head is cut off, he should not die. [...] Our bodies are given life from the midst of nothingness. [...] Emptiness is form. [...] Form is emptiness. [...] One should not think that these are two separate things." ~Forest Whitaker, quoting the "Hagakure", from the movie "Ghost Dog" (1999)

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[March 31, 2012] San Jaya Prime - Sombranoche (The Nocturnal Memories Refix)

This was the very first song I ever produced for Trochlear Recordings, all the way back in 2005. Now I have returned to "Sombranoche" and made quite a few changes. For those with VIP access, it is available as a free download.

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[April 12, 2012] San Jaya Prime - Feathers for the Daughter of the Wind

This song is dedicated to my woman, and it is only available for those with VIP access and to specific friends, donors, and tribe. But you can listen to it right here.

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[April 21, 2012] San Jaya Prime - Underwater Grave

Getty Images, along with Indaba Music, is looking for dubstep music that they will license and promote for use in film, television, commercials, and more. I created an edit of my original "Underwater Grave [Drowned]" specifically to be selected for licensing. It is also available for download for those with VIP access. You can find the edit [Here on Indaba].

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[April 24, 2012] San Jaya Prime - The Last Memory of Fire (The Weyland Industries Mix)

After seeing Peter Weyland's TED Talk (for the movie Prometheus), I knew I needed to do something more with this speech. Taking my original song "The Last Memory of Laughter", I brought the speech together into a chillstep / trip-hop fusion that emphasizes Weyland's speech about fire, technology, evolution, and humanity's place among the gods. You can download this song for free [Here on SoundCloud]. You can watch Peter Weyland's 2023 TED Talk [Here on YouTube].

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2010: Measuring Impact

(originally posted on December 31, 2010) This post will have little value other than to other musicians and label who are in the Web2.0 game. It's also the first time I'm measuring my insights publicly. The major changes this year? A migration to Facebook, including the Root Music app for musicians. The larger change, however, was signing up for a pro account on SoundCloud. SoundCloud is specifically oriented around music and it truly specializes in this task. Other than downtime errors, this has proven the most viable audio platform for the Internet... ever. Onward. I've learned some lessons, have some graphs to show and even some surprises (like cornering the Japanese School Girl market).

Groups: Beyond the initial burst that follows in the wake of releasing a track or compilation, I found that the tracks that I'd submitted to groups kept getting more listens. Out of my top ten tracks on SoundCloud this year, only two tracks were not submitted to groups: "A Glorious Dawn" and the "All the Warmth in this Memory" mash. Groups appear to be a common way for people to discover music, as they've provided a constant influx of listeners for the tracks that I submitted to them. The dubstep and mashup groups appear the most active, although both the house and chillout groups are no sleepers.

Interaction: SoundCloud lets people comment at a specific place in a song. I found that leaving insightful comments often got an awesome response and listens from that artist as well. I basically leave comments that I would want to see: pertinence, understanding, critical where necessary. An unexpected side-effect was that other listeners picked up on this, as you can see my comment was used as an example of what a good comment is here on Beantown Boogie.

Remix Competitions: The year was dotted with one remix competition after another: "Crash Tactics" by 65daysofstatic; "Waterline" by Sage Francis and Mark Isham; "Drive It Like You Stole It" by The Glitch Mob. Here I get fail points. An artist who wanted to net a larger audience based on their remix would make their remix sound like the music they make. I'm not making music (or, at least, I'm not practicing a craft). I'm making a specific artistic set of releases along thematic lines... yet I approached the remixes as a craft. The one remix that matched the sound of my major release this year was my remix of "Drive It Like You Stole It". In the future, once the "IO" series is wrapped up, I'll take better advantage of these competitions on SoundCloud.

The Error of the Year: Last year's major error was breaking up the "IO Teknika" release into triads, as it turned out that Last.fm does know how to deal with releases from multiple albums. It really messed up radio play and statistics. This year's was to upload 30-second samples of "IO Vapoura", then update those samples as the tracks were released from week-to-week. What I didn't know was that it wouldn't inform listeners that the track had been updated, so they went largely unnoticed outside of groups. I should have tested this beforehand. Now I know. Next year's "IO Pulse" will have a solid release schedule via SoundCloud running in tandem with Last.fm.

Here were my Top Ten Songs on SoundCloud in 2010:

01. (Mash) Teardrop on Roads [DL] Plays: 4893 / DLs: 772 / Favs: 121 / Comments: 87

02. (Remaster) A Glorious Dawn [DL] Plays: 1049 / DLs: 101 / Favs: 11 / Comments: 9

03. (Rmx) Drive It Like You Stole It [DL] Plays: 746 / DLs: 91 / Favs: 6 / Comments: 23

04. (Set) The Dust of Gods [DL] Plays: 456 / DLs: 51 / Favs: 6 / Comments: 18

05. (Rmx) A Drowning [DL] Plays: 447 / DLs: 65 / Favs: 9 / Comments: 12

06. (Original) Gongo Dodan [DL] Plays: 397 / DLs: 27 / Favs: 3 / Comments: 4

07. (Original) Halcyon Electronica (4x4) [DL] Plays: 382 / DLs: 33 / Favs: 3 / Comments: 5

08. (Rmx) Crash Tactics [DL] Plays: 237 / DLs: 46 / Favs: 1 / Comments: 6

09. (Original) Non-finite [DL] Plays: 206 / DLs: 28 / Favs: 5 / Comments: 1

10. (Mash) All the Warmth in this Memory [DL] Plays: 206 / DLs: 43 / Favs: 2 / Comments: 2

Before going into the chart, I want to note that the 2nd-to-top track of the year almost had nothing to do with me. I worked on the levels a little, but BMFD was the brilliance behind the re-mastering... WUB was the brilliance behind the remix... and Symphony of Science was the brilliance behind turning Carl Sagan's message into a song. In fact, this track was originally private, as I was trying to get a copy to WUB so he would update the one on his page. After a month with no response, I finally made it public.

Here's the chart for the year, ever since going pro in May:

Shortly after the release of "Teardrop on Roads", it was picked up by The Jack Plug, then Earmilk. The two put the track on HypeMachine... and it took off. It's been played on radio since then, such as KBUT in Utah. There's also at least one fanvid made for it, with a more professional one in the works.

With over 10,000 plays on my combined tracks on SoundCloud, that's already more than my profile views (ever) on MySpace. This truly changes the arena. Speaking of MySpace, they made a lot of updates that I would actually go so far as to call "improvements". Sadly, they may have gone too far, as it now takes forever to load and is otherwise a bulky mess. That hasn't stopped some listeners. I recently pulled my MySpace stats as well.

This is where it gets funny.

I've joked for years that one of my only goals in music is to corner the Japanese School Girl market. It was a joke, because I didn't consider it a viable outcome. I was wrong. Checking my MySpace tracks, ALL of my listeners this year were women in the 13-17 age range. 33% of those school girls were from Japan, while the other 66% were from the States. Victory is mine!

Last.fm: I'm not counting out Last.fm, as it's still a way to get on Internet radio and for listeners to discover my music. I love these listeners, as they fall under the "Power Listener" category just for using Last.fm. They're in the top 10% of listeners, taking an active roll in the music, and I reach out to new listeners from time-to-time just to touch base. I didn't upload "IO Vapoura" until it was complete in October, but it's already halfway to taking over this last January's EP--"The Smell of a Storm".

"The Smell of a Storm" is a surprise, as I expected it to be so specialized that almost no one else would enjoy it. I was wrong from day one, as RadioScott Void sent out a tweet with a link to the EP as soon as it launched on BandCamp and Last.fm. Here are the listener stats on the EP from Last.fm:

Rank-by-Listeners[# of listeners]. Track Title

01[26]. DigitalRain [for a Broken World]

02[17]. DigitalRain [for a Binary World]

03[14]. Inundacion

04[11]. BSAT iHS (Tribal Breaks Epilogue)

05[06]. The Last Hookah in Austin

06[05]. MEB (H-Based Cloud Mod)*

07[05]. Skybreak

08[04]. r0K U L1K3 4 hURR1K4n3

And here are the stats for the top four from "IO Vapoura":

01[12]. A day in the Bazaar of Wonders

02[08]. Last Train to Sheol [Fantasmas Krystalinos]*

03[04]. Non-finite**

04[04]. At a tea house, under paper shadows*

Note: Each * is a user who has added this track to their favorites

Compared to the 12 listeners of "IO Teknika" from last summer, the 39 listeners behind "IO Vapoura" already places it well ahead... but, then again, there were issues with Last.fm and the release of "Teknika" last year... so these numbers are all off. It will be interesting to track "IO Pulse" next summer.

So far, Fairtilizer is not a big outlet for our music. However, I'll keep uploading to that site just to keep it open as an outlet for users who are exclusive to it. The same goes for iLike, which is currently in upheaval over the year due to the merger with MySpace. But, after seeing what happened to iMEEM, I think iLike got the better end of the deal.

Escape from Hunahpu: For the first time ever, I had a release outside of the T.Rex DigiLab. "Escape from Hunahpu" was released as a part of the "2999" project thru Peppermill Records. This is new territory, as I've had to re-think how to divert attention towards it. People can't find it on my profile, and I can't add it to groups, but I have found a few creative avenues. The "2999" project as a whole has blown me away... and almost every track has made its way into my library. It's also introduced me to artists like Liar, El Haijn and Alphabets Heaven. It was definitely worth the intense weeks of work, and so much gratitude goes out to BMFD, Skybreak and PK for all the feedback and effort that they put into this track as well.

A Shadow on the Horizon: The rumors have already started, saying that the major labels are putting pressure on SoundCloud to start shutting down DJ-mixes, remixes and mashes. SoundCloud is in Germany, where there's no Fair Use laws, so their only option is to pull the plug or risk legal actions from the RIAA Mafia. I won't be surprised if both "Teardrop on Roads" and "The Dust of Gods" are deleted before the end of 2011. We'll see. We can hope.

It's about to be a brand new year.

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Mushuto taught me almost everything I know about making electronic music. If I'd been a better student, I wouldn't still be learning from him to this very day. There are definitely some rather annoying and embarrassing mistakes I could have avoided along the way. His birthday would have been this last March 10th. I wish he could see how far our record label has come. The memorial that I built for him [Here on the Main Site] is not good enough for him. I forgot his birthday this year. I was "too busy" until I was reminded about it. I asked myself if this is the memorial that I would want built for me when I die. The answer was immediately "no". Even worse, this memorial is dependent on my own life. If I die, Mushuto dies with me. I need to build him a proper memorial. I won't be able to rest until it is built. I am giving it the same deadline as all my other projects--April 1st of 2011. April is never a good time for me, as the majority of those that I have lost in this life have all been lost in the beginning of April or the end of August.

Mushuto came from the streets like I did... like Faerie did. I owe him more than this. But it is close now. In only a year, I will be leaving the cities again... I will be going home. I can do this last thing for my brother... and for myself.

(originally posted March 10, 2011)

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The final 8th part of the "IO" series has begun releasing--"The Last Memory of Laughter". Free tracks are becoming available on SoundCloud every few days, focusing entirely on chillstep, dubstep, and post-step. It has been a very long journey since "IO" began on January 16th of 2006, the day that Trochlear Recordings Limited went public. And now, after exactly six years, it's time to end this. Mad love for all who've tuned in!