Nice dissonant elements and a haunting quality

A dual contact microphone recording of a temporary wind harp.

Recorded 15 February 2021 at Walltown Crags, Northumberland, UK.
54°59'24.0"N 2°30'46.0"W
Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/GLVb4qVRaCbDXk8y9

Part of the Hidden-by-the-Wall Open Remix project:
soundcloud.com/zoviet-france/sets/hidden-by-the-wall-open-remix/

© 2021 This recording is made available under creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Wind Harp, Walltown Crags

This is the fifth episode of the Disquietude podcast of ambient electronic music.

The goal of the Disquietude podcast is to collect adventurous work in the field of ambient electronic music. What follows is all music that captured my imagination, and I hope that it appeals to your imagination as well.

All five tracks of music are featured with the permission of the individual artists or record labels. Below is the structure of the episode with time codes for the tracks, the spoken annotation of the tracks, an interviews with one of the musicians (Lesley Flanigan), and a brief essay about reading waveforms.

02:15 Lesley Flanigan's "Headphone Space"
http://lesleyflanigan.com

08:09 Dave Seidel's "For LMY and MZ"
https://mysterybear.net

15:51 KMRU's "Figures Emerge"
https://kmru.info
	
23:34 Celia Hollander's "5:59 PM"
http://celiahollander.com

26:55 John Hooper's "Underwater Stream"
https://johnhooper.net

29:20 Annotation Begins

32:39 Lesley Flanigan Interview

39:53 "Reading Waveforms"

42:00 Credits

42:59 Closing Music

43:26 End

Thanks for listening.

Produced and hosted by Marc Weidenbaum. Disquietude theme music by Jimmy Kipple, with vocal by Paula Daunt. Logo by Boon Design.

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I was actually just messing around for a few hours with some sounds and thinking of the heat wave we're having here in the UK. This was bubbling along and  I was playing some dead sounds on the piano when the Naviar Haiku came along, it seemed to fit the mood and the words. I then started a new arrangement to further focus the sounds on the words and meaning of the poem. Quite pleased with this. Not taken part in the Haiku challenge for a while so seemed a good time to come back to it.
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    having a dream
    is part of the job …
    rain in spring

    Arii Shokyu-Ni was a haiku poetess during the Edo period who began a wandering life after running away from her husband at 29 with the haiku poet Kohaku. Just like Matsuo Basho, “the Nun Shokyu” traveled to to the Deep North of Japan.

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

    Deadline: 28th July 2021

    haiku by Arii Shokyu-Ni https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.com/2007/03/shokyu-ni.html

    picture by Corey Hearne https://unsplash.com/@socialcorey

     

    TO PARTICIPATE

    - Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)

    - When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku394)”

    To submit your track:

    - If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

    - If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram

    - If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title. www.dropbox.com/request/JvKyUfuCSzJ3gRNRocZz

    Your track may be included in Naviar's weekly podcasts and free (pay-what-you-want)compilations. If you can, please set the track as downloadable on Soundcloud and allow others to remix/reuse it by using a Creative Commons License.

    For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

A Dream... Of Rain (naviarhaiku394)

features interesting eery cricket/insect sound, (quite different to Australian crickets) actually recorded next to a light rail track near Rhonert, Sonoma County California . TRACK VIDEO : https://vimeo.com/581883985

Stony Moonlit Mountain (NaviarHaiku 395)

A track for Naviar Records' weekly haiku challenge. As this haiku mentions specific Japanese imagery (the kimonos and Tokyo's Sumida River) I thought I'd base my piece largely around the Hirajoshi pentatonic scale, although I have taken a couple of liberties and added an extra note in the first section.

Watching The Sumida (naviarhaiku396) - Adrian Lane

Breet Velvit Ake | By Jez riley French | Hull

(My First attempt at a Naviar Haiku Challange for a whille due to being locked for a while out of my old Soundcloud profile. I've started a new profile as my old one was full and I no longer pay the fee. )

It was a pleasure to create this, after reading the haiku and thinking of it, I went for a classical sort of instrumentation but from a fairly out there place, I wanted to have the string sounds to become a drone and repeat and delay to symbolise the 'piled up snow'. 
I enjoyed this attempt and is nice to be creating something quick and fresh again. The piano represents the sound of water. 
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A mountain village
under the pilled-up snow
the sound of water.

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

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

Deadline: 24th August 2022

haiku by Masaoka Shiki https://mypoeticside.com/poets/masaoka-shiki-poems

picture by Bryan Rodriguez https://unsplash.com/@yosoybrod

Audio Obscura - Under Sound (naviarhaiku450)

the fall
of memory
leaves

Jim Young [haigo – Oyoguhito] is an old poet writing from his beach hut on the Gower peninsula, Wales, UK.

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

Deadline: 23rd November 2022

haiku by Jim Young https://haikueye.blogspot.com

picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/@anniespratt
 

TO PARTICIPATE

- Make music in response to the assigned haiku.

- When choosing a title for your piece also include the assignment number, for example “Title of your track (naviarhaiku463)”

To submit your track:

- If you’re a Soundcloud user, upload it on Soundcloud and send me the URL via private message, or tag me in the track.

- If you upload your music on Youtube, Bandcamp or anywhere else, upload your submission and then send me the link by email at marco@naviarrecords.com or contact me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

- If you don’t use any music platform, upload it to this Dropbox folder and I’ll include it in the weekly playlist. If you choose this option, make sure you include your name in the track’s title.

Audio Obscura - The Falling (naviarhaiku463)

From my new album, A Compendium Of Obscure Sorrows, released on 17th February on Wormhole World label;
https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/

Audio Obscura - Flickering Hope

It's the half term school holidays in the UK this week, I'm sitting at home with two young kids and I read this email from Naviar for the Haiku challenge as it pops into my inbox.  I love the image this haiku creates. Outside my window at home we have tree branches that are winter bare. I was filming these the other day for another project. 
I had an idea for the music straight away - a 'bare' sort of sound to reflect the image of branches.  I started on this straight away. The kids are happy playing so I progressed and made this in about 2 hours. 

Birds in a bare tree
Dance on windswept branches
Their waiting ballet…

John Hinks, aka FlownBlue, is a prolific and talented composer, and a regular participant in the Haiku challenge. Aside from his solo project, John is also involved in three improvising duos: ‘Windfall Light‘ (with Jim Tetlow), ‘Abstract Blue‘ (with Kevin Buckland) and ‘Light Fragments‘ (with Steve Escott).

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

Deadline: 22nd February 2023

haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue

picture by Robbin Huang https://unsplash.com/@ikarishinjigao

Audio Obscura - The Ballet Of Birds On A Windswept Branch (naviarhaiku476)

Composed in 2020.
Commissioned by 840 Series, for their 5th anniversary concert, 
with funds provided by Arts Council England, Richard Thomas Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation and RVW Trust.
Performed by Juliet Fraser (soprano), Colin Alexander (cello), Stephanie Tress (cello) and Peteris Sokolovskis (cello).
Live recording of 1st performance, at Cafe Oto, London on 
31 January 2020.

European Towns

"Light is to the camera obscura as sound is to audio obscura." 
 
Odd electronics for the ears, making music covering the wide spectrums of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, idm and occasional field recordings, with post-classical minimal leanings but beats and bass as well!.  Someone described it as "experimental easy-lsitening" which I like. 
For a while I collaborated as part of a collective under the name Sound Celestial Orchestra but that is no more!  (see, https://soundcloud.com/sound-celestial-orchestra)
I'm always keen on remixing other Soundcloud users and like a challenge.

A Dream... Of Rain (naviarhaiku394)

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