This is based on a chord progression/melody I came up a few months ago. Added a few arpeggios and field recordings, and pushed everything through some nice moog-style ladder filters and saturation plugins.*

The footsteps you hear are taken from a field recording of me walking through Finnish snow :)

*Arturia Filter MINI and Klanghelm SDDR

...like glaciers

when I change guitar strings I don't cut the part that is left over, like civilized people do, but I leave it and use it sometimes to make noises or to stop some strings from playing. In this case I "played" only these pieces of string, without touching the guitar

offshoots

I don't want to be
Smashing my brain against the system of torment
I will not submit
I will not submit
I will not submit

To their treacherous game

I defy them
I defy them

Against their mindless game

Smash up beverley hills 
Not our ghettoes
Smash up beverley hills
Not our ghettoes

Focus your destructive urges
On the ruling classes
And see the system change
See the system change

Until then
We're.....
Smashing our brains against the system of torment


351. smashing my brain against the system of torment (harding).mp3

good morning rise after a bad night

noxpox - good morning rise after a bad night

gale in the mountains –
watch how the fallen blossoms
carpet the water

A contemporary of Basho, Den Sutejo was the eldest daughter of a distinguished samurai family living in the mountainous area northwest of Kyoto. After her husband’s death, she became a nun and spent the final years of her life as a Zen devotee.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 15th November 2023

Haiku by: Den Sutejo [Translated by Makoto Ueda] https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/den-sutejo.html

Picture by Gariele Wright https://unsplash.com/photos/closeup-photo-of-pink-petaled-flower-uSkJ0rk9OBE

Fallen Blossom (NaviarHaiku514)

Gogo Pistachio

Es: String Quartet

52 Shuffle

Here to be found in my first string quintet; quirky, abrasive and seemingly complicated sections/gestures are all kept in check by the employment of Sonata form.

String Quintet Nr 1 in D minor

voici un nouveau mix pour cette song de 2022
PAROLES
On s'était dit qu'en traversant la rivière
 on verrait des pays nouveaux
 On s'était dit qu'en traversant la frontière
 On pourrait repartir de zéro
 Mais qu'on soit migrant, qu'on soit prince,
Comme le chantait si bien Brassens,
 Les braves gens n'aiment pas que
 L'on suive d'autres routes qu'eux;
 Non, les braves gens n'aiment pas que
 L'on suive d'autres routes qu'eux.
_____________________________________________________
We said to ourselves that by crossing the river
 we would see new countries
 We said to ourselves that by crossing the border
 We could start from scratch
 But whether you are a migrant, whether you are a prince,
As Brassens sang so well,
 Good people don't like that
 We follow other roads than them;
 No, good people don't like that
 We follow other roads than them.

paroles et musiques : Henri Elie (copyright Mediter 2022)

String Quintet Nr 1 in D minor

Allan Segall