A track made for DimWitDog's Amaterasu animation. Inspired by the Okami OST, huge thanks to EastWest RA instrument library for the authentic Japanese instruments. Had a lot of fun making this!

Ok am I dreaming?

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 intro features the Nocefresca Choir - an impromptu group formed of artist residents I met in Sardinia in 2024. The group (none of us singers) were asked to vocalise in an ancient roman antechamber on a field trip by Sardinian Composer Gaia Aloisi. I recorded it on my zoom for hopeful future use - and here it is making up the intro to this 'song of praise' to the goddess of fog, mystery and chaos. 
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 (pictured). 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 : ) 
Big thanks to everyone involved!!
Official press release below. 
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.

Featuring:
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Nadège Phillipe Janon
Joshua Santospirito
Rosie Hastie
Mat Ward
Ursula Woods

When The Fog Clears is curated by Loren Kronemyer and Produced by Constance ARI

This project is supported by Arts Tasmania and presented in partnership with Ten Days on the Island.

Caligo Paean (Intro)

Edge-Runner

Spaceclub_Bluebird_Members_Only

SOMEDAY

Made in response to:

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

Naviar haiku challenge 604, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

A couple of relatively simple elements combined with an experimental layer using several stages of granular processing. All the basic components were made with Voltage Modular plus some additional granular processing using GRFX from Imaginando. Mixed and manipulated in a single "Live" improvised take.

Tea Bushes Ripple - (naviarhaiku - 604)

Made in response to Disquiet 2021 which was basically to respond to a recording of a storm. The rain here is from a field recording I made last year at my home. I regularly record rain on a yearly basis. Have been for years. Then improvised a keyboard line and built up this piece by using the midi across multiple weird asynchronous arpeggiated samplers in Ableton. Then edited down significantly.

rain.chance (Disquiet 0721)

Esik

New Drums

Sur un fil

guitars and bass:  d kivi
drum and synth programming:  d kivi
mix and master:  d kivi
photo/artwork:  d kivi
recorded on 12/31/19
remix/remaster:  12/31/25
sunflower MASTERED v1-1-9-4 (1-11-26) 247.wav
sunflower MASTERED v1-1-9-4 (12-31-25) -38.wav

this song uses some audio clips from my favorite movie of all time 1リットルの涙  (a litre of tears).  i highly recommend you watch it if you can find it somewhere.  some of the music and other sounds from the movie are still there because i didn't know how to remove them at the time.  i think i know a way to do that now but it's too late.  it's just part of the song now.

Edge-Runner

C_PY

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