Blue Velvet Review Records is dedicated to disseminating the text-based works of composer/rapper Nas Safa. The concepts explored in these records include (but not limited to): measured prose; >.667 modal ratio raps; vocal taqsim (syllable as 16th note); occasionalism in science fiction; neo-islamic art (recitation as composition).
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Nas Safa - Unique Towels
At an undisclosed location, an undisclosed narrator and his friend Stratos discuss a new piece of legislation that passed in Inner Saturn, where both reside, and have a lively debate as to the potential motivations and long-term effects of the legislation passing. Namely, why a polity would potentially pass legislation requiring men of breeding age to use their genital regions as dish sponges to wipe down public surfaces.
Unique Towels is a composition where each syllable is equivalent to a 16th note at either 80 or 90 BPM. Additionally, each line (bar) occupies the 8th interval of the Fibonacci sequence, containing between 34 and 55 syllables.
Math: At 80 BPM, a quarter note is 0.75 seconds, which makes a 16th 0.1875 seconds. So then there are 5.3333 16ths per second, or 320 16th Notes Per Minute.
At 90 BPM, a quarter is .667s, a 16th is .167s, imputing 359.8 16ths per minute.
The syllables per minute for the recitation/rapping should then be 320 Syllables Per Minute (or more, depending on the frequency of 16th note triplets), or >359.8 if at 90 NPM.
The aggregate Syllables Per Minute (SPM) for Unique Towels is 363.5.
Release Date: 04/20/2024
01. Unique Towels (18:24)
Nas Safa - 60% of NBA Hentai
There’s a false dichotomy between the use of vulgarity and a lack of piety. There’s a school of thought that might in fact equate personal piety with a lack of true guidance, with spiritual deception and indulgence in unsavoriness. There’s always been a certain poetry to vulgarity. This goes back some time. This poem consists of an alternate form of a variety of current and former National Basketball Association players indulging in a variety of vulgar acts.
These texts were arranged via the formula:
TEXTSPLIT(A1,“ ”,“.”,TRUE,0,“ ”). They comprise 60% of the long poem "NBA Hentai (1995-2011)"
Release Date: 04/15/2024
01. '04 Pistons
02. '09 Lakers
03. '95 Sonics
Nas Safa - Giannis Tzelepes Thomas Tzatziki
A 23-part rap about a ratio named Giannis Tzelepes Thomas Tzatziki and his inebriated evening at a bar named Nickanee's (alternate version of the record Ice Hookah w/ the Tzatziki).
Each verse is written in the meter >.667. Meaning the repetition to syllable ratio is greater than .667. (i.e. if there are 30 syllables in a line, then there should be at least 21 repetitions or 'echoes', 21/30=0.7).
Release Date: 06/23/2024
01. Giannis Tzelepes Thomas Tzatziki (16:09)
Nas Safa - Postmodern Novelists
"Postmodern Novelists" is a text composition (written in the modal ratio of >.667) that details a conversation between a narrator and the postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon about the potential origin of the postmodern novel, namely an obscure long poem by a 10th century Byzantine monk.
Release Date: 12/31/2021
01. Postmodern Novelists (22:13)
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NBA Hentai (1995-2011)
There’s a false dichotomy between the use of vulgarity and a lack of piety. There’s a school of thought that might in fact equate personal piety with a lack of true guidance, with spiritual deception and indulgence in unsavoriness. There’s always been a certain poetry to vulgarity. This goes back some time. This poem consists of an alternate form of a variety of current and former National Basketball Association players indulging in a variety of vulgar acts.
On the Concept of Byzantium w/ Continual Reference to Alcibiades (v3)
The structure of this poem, metrically, is that instances of repetition (alliteration or assonance) were placed in [brackets]. These repetitions were measured in relation to the total syllables. If there were 4 repetitions in a verse that contained 10 syllables, then that relationship would equal 0.40. The text was written and rewritten until the ratio of repetitions to syllables for each section was equal or greater than 0.667. The text, fully bracketed, was then divided by the Microsoft Excel formula =TEXTSPLIT(A1,“[”,“ ”,TRUE,0,“ ”).
American Caliphate by Nas Safa
A BVR ebook exclusive due to the page length. The novel American Caliphate continues the saga of Ibrahim Pasha and his partner J_!!1 in 2222 AD. In this chapter of the saga, Pasha is asked to intervene in the aid of his archnemesis Uday Abbasid, as the 3rd Dimensional Greater Uranus is under a ... rather unique attack.
The format of this text was structured using the =TEXTSPLIT(A1," ",".",TRUE,0," ") delimiting formula in excel, following a strategic employment of periods as opposed to commas, to demarcate the particulars of extemporaneous speech. It was then transferred to a .txt format for readability purposes (otherwise columns would stretch to BZ and DG, etc.).
On the Concept of Byzantium with Continual Reference to Alcibiades (v2)
A novel in Microsoft Excel in two segments. A figure Alcibiades indulges in two extensive monologues: first, he discusses a dream where he had sex with a woman who simultaneously was somehow African-American and Caucasian, then he gives an extended take on the division between the Byzantine and Anglo modes of thought.
Note: This text was written in a modal style, meaning that the frequency of repetition in the text was calculated in relation to the total syllable count. Each section occupies a frequency (echo to syllable) of >.667 (the final third of the number 1).
Free download. Plain text and ciphered script set side by side.