Songs Dedicated to Lukas Peter
From The Extended Group
Songs Dedicated to Lukas Peter highlight the important (and often mythologized) position the man has held in group folklore. Although a significant amount of oral, written and pictorial stories of the Lukas phenomenon have emerged over the course of the past approximately three years, music has become an increasingly favored outlet for some group members--particularly Asher and Kevin.
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Nature of Songs
By far the most memorable composition to date is Asher's "Lukas Peter, Friend of the Octopus". Despite the simplistic nature of the melody, the song seemed to capture a perfect balance of humor and ridiculousness, two key staples of the Lukas Peter character, and consequently, is considered by most who've listened to be a work of genius. The series of tracks that followed were produced by Kevin, intended as elaborations upon the minimalist foundations of LPFOTO, while including more complex electronica elements and typically centered upon a 4/4 hip hop beat between 120-140 bpm.
Asher's Songs
- Lukas Peter, Friend of the Octopus (Information on instrumentation and musicological anecdotes can be found here)
Kevin's Songs
All tracks were composed through the employment of the basic channels of electronic music-- sampling, sequencing, the synthesizer, and the drum machine (with the notable absence to of the keyboard, though electronic keyboard compositions are evident). Although varying from track to track, the bedrock method of synthesizing is induced through the TS404 analog synthesizer. An emphasis on sampling (both melodic, vocal and percussive) is also heavily employed and such roles are often intermixed in accordance with the thematic purposes of the songs.
- Lukas and the Tapir: Lukas befriends a hypnotic Tapir who guides him through various epiphanic situations in an alternate universe
- Lukas Makes Contact with Grey Lukas at the Arecibo Observatory: After hours of attempted communication with extraterrestrial beings at the famous Puerto Rican satellite center, Lukas, in an introspective and melancholy moment, is finally able to make contact with one such entity--a "Grey" who turns out to be an alien relative of human Lukas in the distant future.
- Lukas's Personal Sense of Accomplishment While Smiling, Driving home from the Everett Docks in Summer 2005: The themesong of Lukas's journey home from work over the Summer of 2005.
- Mischievous Lukas avoids Capture in the Forest of Mirrors: A goat-legged, pan-pipe playing Lukas is chased around an ancient Macedonian forest by disgruntled villagers. The entrancing song and whimsical gallop of the Lukas creature eventually leads the villagers in a circle, away from the sly trickster they pursued.
- Some Say the Ghost of Old Man Lukas Peter Still Inhabits the Broken Clock Tower: A solemn ode to the long-dead spirit of Lukas Peter, who is finally able to come to peace with his forgotten soul. (See Give Up The Ghost)
- The Too-Cool Lukas Looking for New Information Online Theme: Dedicated to the hours a smug Lukas spends searching for interesting facts on the internet.
- Lukas Completes His Manifesto Atop Mt. Octopus and then Reaches a Higher State of Being: Lukas is able to reach a level of consciousness akin to Nibbana after spending several years atop the Olympic Peninsula transmission station.
- Lukas Energy Drink Commercial: Theme in accordance with highlights of Lukas performing various snowboarding tricks/jumps for an unnamed energy drink commercial.
- Micro-Lukas visits the mushroom people beneath the logs: Lukas and Elias somehow construct a shrink-ray in their garage. Lukas unknowingly zaps himself, shrinking to a height of 3 cm. He explores around his back yard and encounters a race of jovial fungus-people living in the wood pile next to that big tree.
- The Heart and Soul of a Man by Lukas Peter: Lukas's Spanish-guitar inspired ballad composed on the dusty streets of an old western village near the Mexican border.
- Lukas's 1976 Job Offer in Trenton, NJ: A mustachio'd, curly afro'd Lukas pulls up to an inner-city parking lot in his brand new Cadillac, ready to face the challenge of teaching one of the roughest high schools in the Tri-State area.
