Love that spaghetti western guitar style & tone!!!! Very cool!!!!

Very relaxing.  So many subtle nuances of sonic artifacts playing within your use of fx.   Nicely done!

I love the verby tremolo guitar, reminds me of the movie Blue Velvet

I love the lounginess of this track.  It's contemporary with a hint of nostalgia--sometimes the Ventures come to mind as I listen.  Beautiful.

Drowning Hymns

Another snippet from Califo Paean, this time featuring bass guitar fighting for its life amongst the reverb. 

Caligo Paean is a 1 hour long sound piece installed on river front property in the town of Franklin, Tasmania as part of the exhibition "When The Fog Clears". It formed part of the Ten Days on The Island Festival March 2025.
The work was installed in several locations across the property including a stack of subs under an old bus, in the main exhibition space and in an abandoned shed some 40 metres from the main area . The speakers were 'tuned' quite differently depending on their location and the sound was not delay corrected with the result of each mini-installation merging with each other in odd sonic ways - kind of calling the listener from one spot to another. The the work features field recordings, percussion, piano, bass guitar and Intonarumori as well as this special one off choir : )

Caligo is the Ancient goddess of Chaos. Born of the fog she controls the darkness, dwells in the void and is as old as the primordial matter that created the universe. This work is a tribute to the goddess as she continues to influence our lives and, in the case of this installation, the site and concept informing the show.

Official press release below for The Fog Clears

Every day, the mists of the Huon Valley perform a seductive dance, gently obscuring and revealing contours of the fertile land and waters. Situated in The Watershed Franklin, When The Fog Clears features six artists from lutruwita / Tasmania exploring the region’s iconic mists through a variety of mediums including installation, sculpture, illustration, sound, and video.

Developed exclusively for Franklin, this exhibit extends from the waterfront itself into the chambers, kilns, and rafters of the shed, inviting visitors to consider fog as an atmosphere that can cloak us in unexpected ways.


image credit: Rosie Hastie

Caligo Paean (Bass solo)

winter time festival fun in Tasmania- it was COLD and Dani and I thought we had been a bit pretty with our Live offerings lately so we decided to bring the noise for this little gig, so fair warning... there is some rude nosies ahead : ) Always a pleasure

Kirby/Ward LIVE @ Good Grief Studios/Dark Mofo festival

She bends the grids with whispered spell,
A prism voice through circuits fell.
Each line she stirs becomes a path,
Unwinding space in spiraled math.

Through sacred shapes her silence sings,
The colors pulse with hidden wings.
Beware the gaze that meets her trace.
She chants in patterns, warps in place.

Inchantress

Interchantress

I sit inside the screen inside the room — inside the hum,
each pixel rehearsing a version of me that flickers —
time-lapse roses opening in fast-forward, then rewinding to a seed.
The laugh track is a swarm of moths beating at the lamp of memory;
credits roll backward, naming my ghosts as executive producers.
Doors opening onto seasons that dissolve like wet chalk.
Somewhere a remote pauses the storm before it speaks my name

Inside the Screen Inside the Room

released in Jan 2025 - https://nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-never-freer-than-when-i-am-with-you. 


Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of  21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar -  2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano 
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel In Adelaide part 3

Like Water

Hydrolin

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

Not gone. Just elsewhere. A sonic migration from shadow to glow.

Her light folds gently into absence 歩きながら、光は沈黙へ変わる ("While walking, the light turns into silence")
The beat is a bridge between forgotten warmth And the shade that hums with memory
In the dust of transition — 残響だけが残る ("Only the reverberation remains")
Glide through airless places Where dawn once rehearsed A shimmer that now belongs elsewhere.

🎛️ This track emerged from a live session — raw, evolving, and captured in the moment. Catch the full performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWCCXdI7aXc

Passed-Light 🙏🏻

Passed Light

This is the 2nd collab with Textured Grooves! Title says it all, I think it is extremely hopefull.

It's so much fun to hear the result of our collab, as if it is possible to share visions with eachother, which is just great. 

Textured Grooves pushes me into new directions with his materials. I am surprised and completely taken away by the sounds and rhythms I get to play with. 

Listen to more of his tracks and drift away on his adventures!
https://soundcloud.com/textured-grooves/tracks

IT'S JUST A PASSING PHASE

Music by Mike Brosco
Recorded at Waterworks Audio, Champaign, Illinois

Waning Shade

Inspired by the ancient and the contemporary: 
''octogon branches'' is a work centered around 8 drone like ''moments'', created by synthesizer connected together by low gentle tamtam hits,  and is interwoven by chants, glassbowl and a bit of brass:)

Octogon branches

music . Ivy Told a Secret @ivy-told-a-secret
instrumental here https://soundcloud.com/ivy-told-a-secret/tape-stop-1
vocals & their mix / lyrics / artwork . Mariam Zohra D : Myrh

TRANSFORMING THE ENERGY
all my days are numbered
all my days are numbered
numbered

my days
my days
numbered
my days
are numbered
numbered
all my days are numbered

....

days are numbered, my days
it may be strange
price
time
time
price
price and distance
time
price and distance

many numbers!
many
numbers!

"you!
keep transforming the energy - 1 foot in the described
one in the witnessed

but you tend to follow
to follow

keep transforming the energy
keep transforming the energy

- but life is stress!

one foot in the described
one in the witnessed

you have the ability
one foot in the described
you have the ability
one in the witnessed"

december 4 2018
vocal mix improved dec 18 2018

Transforming The Energy - Ivy Told a Secret | Myrh

André Baptista - Bouzouki
João Sousa - Classic Guitar, Voice

Gravado na Estudantina de São Domingos de Rana

André Baptista (𝗜𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗕𝗼𝘂𝘇𝗼𝘂𝗸𝗶) & João Sousa (𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿)

You might like to watch a video for this track at https://youtu.be/rDaaJu14PIo

This experimental acoustic piece is meant to portray the Phoenician goddess Tanit fighting for her life in the darkest depths of the sea… I'm encouraging disinformation here, because "true legends" about her don't relate her drowning... Fake news or T.S. Eliot's influence in this title?

Teth Sin : acoustic guitars, vocals, sampler (drums), sound design

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

How Tanit was drowned

How Tanit Was Drowned

Aether ocean

I'm primarily a guitar player but I'll try to make music with anything you throw at me. When left to my own devices I enjoy recording minimalist ambient pieces and textural soundscapes. My principal sound source for these efforts is manipulated guitar but I often include electronics and organic sources. I enjoy working on collaborations with other musicians. Please contact me if you are interested.
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I am the co-founder of the 80's indie avant-garde mutant pop band Proof of Utah, the Smiley Turtle Records label and the Smiley Turtle Recording Studio. For a taste of the Smiley Turtle sound check out: https://soundcloud.com/user-745187095
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*** Visit the collaborators' websites:

Louie Simon @lsimon33
Stan Magendanz @stan_magendanz
Wodwo @user-364196783-552705040
Lone Arrivals @tiny_wytch and @tinywytch
Marcin Gruszczynski http://www.fairlyconfusing.net/

First album, "That's Sin", is out on Bandcamp @ https://tethsin.bandcamp.com/album/thats-sin

Waning Shade

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