Synth impro inspired upon H.P.Lovecraft's myths.
R'lyeh, the sunken city.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"
(In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming)

R'lyeh • Ernesto Schmied

Spectrum

Original Track by::
https://soundcloud.com/user-364196783-552705040/deep-sea-dive
Photo by Ivons

Wodwo - Deep Sea Dive (Senglar Surface Version)

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - Paulownia

Tenative Uprising

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.” ~ Einstein

Track list and start times:
00:00  Microfiche – The Arrow That Never Fell Back to Earth
11:00  Mr Andrew's Garden – The Stars Above Looking Down
14:22  Sara Persico – Exit
18:33  Yoko Ono & The Great Learning Orchestra – Overtone Piece
23:39  Giulio Aldinucci – The Overturned Abacus
29:25  Loo(p)cy – Blossoms And Symbols
33:06  Phill Niblock & Arne Deforce – Harm (excerpt)
40:43  Pier WILL – AUDI-R_211
44:54  Joy Moughanni – For A Moment, We Stopped To Listen
52:55  75 Dollar Bill – 15 (YASI)
58:18  Loo(p)cy – Falling In The Sacred Vortex
1:01:41  David Wallraf – La Nuova Periferia
1:08:38  Purple Trap – The Stone, Part II (Live)
1:13:09  Schneider TM – Pluralität
1:20:58  the moon is a spaceship – badger hormones by the mountain sound
1:28:58  nullwizard – improvisation i
1:32:53  Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Sechstes Kapitel (herausgewunden)
1:37:25  Stan Magendanz – Syntonologae
1:42:00  William Fowler Collins – The Church Steps in Montreuil
1:57:33  Gil Sanson – Argument In The Shower
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Eclectic current – Under the Milky Way tonight

weak and savourless

Processed a Krell patch I made on the Tiptop Buchla system then sent it through the new Soundtoys plugin, SpaceBlender.

Tiptop Krell SpaceBlender

"Run here, my towhead grandchillen, and let this geezer dandle you upon his knee." - Lester Bangs

Recorded, edited, mixed & mastered on 04 & 05 Jul 2025 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, USA. 

Synths, effects

The first sentence in Lester Bangs' posthumous collection "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" is also the first sentence in the essay with the same title. While ostensibly a record review of the Count Five, it's more accurately a work of fiction. Since the early '90s, I haven't read many complete books beyond instructional ones—instead, I graze for inspiration and create my own works. So I pulled out a Kindle app, scrolled until I found a past favorite and here I am.

What I tried to do is capture all sorts of miscommunication—be it literally Lester imagining himself a grandfather (something I don't believe he ever became), or the way he writes in a slang he probably did not speak, in character. Or my own generation (X) trying to figure out the noise of the generation prior ("who cares about Woodstock when there was Love, garage punks, Pet Sounds and the VU?" was my way of thinking at approximately 20). Or how some of this has not aged well since Lester wrote it, and I know he, being of some conscience and allowing himself revisions and growth might approach it differently now. In the same book, read “The White Noise Supremacists” to experience him struggling with it an emerging skinhead culture. Then, perhaps, how people younger or otherwise different than myself would react to this writer.

The title is an obvious nod at Lester’s character's stolen vernacular and also a reference to an anonymous woman long ago who left a message on an answering machine of my co-improviser where the outgoing message was a snippet of some improv we’d done. She left a message that it was “ugly music.” 

The synths I used here are; Cherry Audio's ARP 2600 & Minimoog emulations; Arturia's DX7; Korg's M1; and the Puremagnetik Klome through a Moogerfooger filter and other things for the textural, almost percussive stuff.

Photography/Art - Jim Lemanowicz, 31 Jan 2015, Marjorie Post Park, Massapequa, NY, USA

Music & art © 2015, 2025 Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of “You Some Ugly Child” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0705: Book Start. The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto/

More on the 705th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Book Start — The Assignment: Let the beginning of a book help you begin a new piece of music — at https://disquiet.com/0705/. This week’s project was proposed by Neil Stringfellow.

You Some Ugly Child (disquiet0705)

This episode features music made by Naviar's community inspired by Yatsuka Ishihara’s poem “pulling light / from the other world . . . / the Milky Way”.

Tracklist:

windspace · Otherworldly Light https://soundcloud.com/windspace/otherworldly-light
Benn DeMole · Pulling Light https://soundcloud.com/benn-demole/pulling-light-naviarhaiku601
Night Note · pulling light from the other world https://soundcloud.com/mmastalka/pulling-light-from-the-other-world-naviarhaiku-601
Ed Mundio · By the Light Of The Milky Way https://soundcloud.com/edmundio1/by-the-light-of-the-milky-way-naviarhaiku-601
Tuonela · Light from another world https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1/light-from-another-world


Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house”by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Micah Hallahan

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

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