[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Calm and Steady tracks series no. 364

created 2023/03/30

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Kay Oh

Broadcast of daytime nightmares is a quintessence of insomnia, derealization, and a pinch of eastern vibes. Feels like surfing internal radio waves in search of the right frequency.

äsc3ea [es 'tse: a]

Emma Grünwald Hamzayeva is an audiovisual artist and musician, currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine (born in Baku, Azerbaijan in 1994).

Emma writes music under the alias "äsc3ea" and creates visuals, combining such media as generative art, AI, design, video, and photography.

She creates works analyzing and reflecting on topics in the field of psychological science and neurobiology such as mental health, cognitive dissonance, and sleeping disorders.

While creating music she is searching for some warm analog sound, which takes you back to childhood, and creates a naïve comfort sensation. At the same time, she mixes it with the glitchy, warped, detuned sound that tends to confuse you and creates some dissonance.

The aim is to uncover the contrast between the comforting sensation of naïve childhood memories and the glitchy, distorted, out-of-tune, messed up, dissonance reality that we experience nowadays.

Label: [GSMKW: Gesamtkunstwerk]
Genre: Electronic / Experimental / Ambient

More info:
asc3ea.com
instagram.com/asc3ea
asc3ea.bandcamp.com

Plague, War & Famine

Kvass Ilium

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3 Navajo Vc

thats all thats it

Rhythm n1

Rhythm n2

Just a slow acid-flavored techno drift — all smiles, no pressure. I’ve been playing with more devices separately thanks to the new audio interface (finally!). Recorded live in a spontaneous haze, then mixed in Ableton with a touch of afterthought.
It’s got wobble, it’s got fuzz, it’s got glow. Enjoy the glide.

Arigatou Gozaimasu 🙏

Acid-Soaked Slow-Tempo Bliss with a Cheeky Edge

Photo: Netherlands, 2025.

Some ambient for you with a pulse however.

As ever, listen all the way through = good karma... thank you.

Drums: Ableton sample pack.
Bass: Sandberg Elektra 4-string with flats through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: PRS CE24 into Archetype Mateus Asato and a Godin Montreal archtop into NI GuitarRig.
Keys: various VST from NI and Arturia. Strings are Crow Hill Small String Gestures with a Crow Hill Dot Allison Dulcet Voice that sparkling pad that comes in.
Mastering: Ozone 11 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Bandcamp

Contrast

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud is the original mix:

🖋️ Lyrics: 
I listen like a child to night, But the shadows know my name. Fatigue pours gently through the vents, Wrapping me in soft, invisible blame.
The horse walks backwards on a violet cloud. My eyes face the dream it left. She whispers through distant time zones now... And I keep still, in theft.
The table breathes beneath its gift, Unknown hands tie memory in bows. My name was said, half-broken, By a mirror that never knows.
The old man’s beard touches the past. I'm seated wrong, I'm waking slow. She trains in orchards long forgotten. I’m just the ache I never show. Light moves backwards, Through our unfinished sky.
I wrote none of this — But it’s mine, It’s mine.

🎧 For alternate versions — instrumental and the Arctic Mood edit — explore the full release on Bandcamp

Full Album on Bandcamp

The Horse Walks Backwards on a Violet Cloud

Glory

Inner Waves

text:
im sog des himmelwinds
sind die gestalten kaum erkennbar
aber da
und verkünden
als ob sie unten stünden:
nach dem knall
kommt die vibration
und das gehirn
ist auch ein telefon


himmelwind

Photo: Bergen, Norway, 2025.

Gone somewhat cinematic with this one in the end. 

As ever, listen all the way through = good karma... thank you.

Drums: NI sample pack.
Bass: Sandberg Elektra 4-string with flats through NI Guitar Rig.
Guitars: Sandberg Salen Jazz into Archetype Mateus Asato and a Suhr Classic Custom into NI GuitarRig.
Keys: various VST from NI and Arturia.
Mastering: Ozone 11 Standard.
DAW: Ableton 12.

Turn the Page

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Minimalist sound explorer.

#electro #ambient #experimental #silence #love

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B/LD.

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