"An Email From Sun Ra" by Blind River Jr

Submitted for the March Challenge 4 for Brian Funk's Music Production Club, prompts provided by mrtorian

Conceived, recorded, mixed & mastered Mar 23-27 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa, NY and on East 70th St, NYC. Koala samples recorded on 19 Aug 2019 in the New York Burger Bar bathroom in Massapequa, NY. Some drum sounds from 10 Mar 2019, Massapequa, NY.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Voice, Jay Turser Mustang, Zoom MS-70CDR pedal, Nobels ODR-1, Arturia Wurli V, Ableton Live 11, Ableton/M4L devices, (including Color Limiter, Vector Delay, Reverb, Random, Scale, Arpeggiator, Beat Repeat, Buffer Shuffler, Designer Drums - Carbonized), and iPhone Koala app.

The original prompt from mrtorian

Word Prompt: Dog Tried
I am dog tired but that has been said. Has ''dog tried'' been said? Maybe but for sure now!

Musical Prompt: make a 1/4 or 1/8  note alternating octave bass-line interesting. We all love them and maybe default to them, and they are amazing. As with the above, what's something that's not been done or done to death?

This track was originally released under the artist name "Blind River Jr."

An Email From Sun Ra (MPC March #4)

The haiku that inspired this:

dropped glass -
its ring
outlasts the fall

Naviar haiku challenge 610, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge 

Was a clear indication that every sound would be in some way derived from or be a simulation of glass. While the final piece is the result of a one off live mix performance there was a lot of assembling of elements and preparation including routing audio to numerous effects.

Not possessing any glasses that properly ring I experimented with other glass objects and found I got acceptable results from several lamp shades, these were recorded and split into single hie samples. I used a simple patch in VCV Rack to play these in a semi random sequence; the result of which is passed through Moon Echo, Audio Thing. It is also routed to GRFX from Imaginando and separately to a combination of SpaceBlender, Soundtoys and ShimmerVerb, Eventide. Together these are used to build the opening of the track.

The central drone section had to be prepared in advance because of audio driver limitations.  I recorded the output of two random but overlapping sequences again generated using VCV Rack, then used that audio to excite and resonate a simulated glass disc with holes in it using Substrata from Giorgio Sancristoforo.

The closing section features two again semi random sequences generated with Voltage Modular and passed as MIDI information to two separate instances of Clear Glass from QuietMusic. The faster sequence also has a small amount of Stardust 201 Tape Echo, Cherry Audio, added towards the end.

Dropped Glass - (naviarhaiku - 610)

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku614-the-coming-of-autumn/

An improvised piece...


the fall of the red dragonfly [ naviarhaiku614 ]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
616
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku616-whenever-we-meet/

2025-10-23

whenever we meet (Naviarhaiku 616)

Marco Lucchi : piano, synthesizers and tape

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found sounds
https://freesound.org/people/felix.blume/sounds/779909/

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for the current Naviar Haiku challenge
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku616-whenever-we-meet/

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逢ふときはいつも雨なる青胡桃
au toki wa itsumo ame naru aogurumi

Tanaka Hiroaki

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piove sempre
quando ci incontriamo –
noci verdi

Traduzioni dal giapponese di Luca Cenisi

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whenever we meet
it’s raining
green walnuts

It's raining [Naviar Haiku # 616]

Little song forSaitō Sanki haiku:

"An autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea."

I translate the title to my language, catalan. "Drawn back by the sea" is "Arrossegat per la mar" on my island. In Catalonia, they say: "Arrossegat pel mar". The Balearic form is more poetic for me.

Arrossegat per la mar (naviarhaiku617)

Another beautiful collaboration with my fellow ambient producers from Studio Obscura.

Lead synths: Blooming Rains
Synths, Pad, Vocals: Enea Gorè
Pads: Our Forgotten Future, Ellipses, Outerlab
Guitars: dreamwarper, Enea Gorè
Ambiences, tones, metals, texture: Outerlab, Ellipses, Bleeptwig, Our Forgotten Future 
Production, mastering: Bleeptwig

On concrete fields

Made for the haiku challenge 617 of Naviar records.

an autumn nightfall the skeleton of a huge fish drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki

Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

More informations about haiku challenge:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

By the sea (naviarhaiku617)

11-1-25 (medusa)

Naviar Haïku 617

D'après un poème de Saito Sanki (1900-1962)

an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn by the sea


Skeleton on the beach

More on the 723rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Do the Collapse — The Assignment: Make music that falls apart repeatedly — at https://disquiet.com/0723/.

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An Email From Sun Ra (MPC March #4)

Jimmy Lem