Name: Through The Arched Window by Diarmuid MacDiarmada
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: From the forthcoming double album The Corpse Farts (once) / (twice). Dream-babble conversation between the past, the present and a bockety machine

Music & Lyrics: Jan Schonander

Not being a drummer or having access to a collaborating drummer very often I have been moving away from using the Logic Pro virtual drummer and playing the drum grooves on my keyboard. I have to admit it has given me added respect for the art as it is not easy (at least for me) to keep a consistent beat even for a few bars. For this I used the Vintage Breaks+ drum kit, but to get the deep sound applied the Space D reverb, which I then also used to give the same overall sound to all the stems. The bass is a Logic Baby Bass treated with a Full Stack guitar amplifier. For the vocal in the chorus I used a reverse Space D reverb to achieve the ghostly effect. Lyrically I think this song speaks for itself.

TWO SPEED

There’s vintage and new
All kinds and looks
On this brand new two speed highway
I can see you clearly
You’re holding on and dearly

There’s a clear road ahead
Slipping into 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
There’s a lane you can choose instead
Letting go, letting go 

I’ll pass you by
Why don’t you even try
I want to love you 
I want to hold you

I can’t wait for you
Makes me wanna cry
Stay away from you
I’m afraid of you

Unless you help yourself
Take good care of yourself
And love yourself
Unless you help yourself
Take good care of yourself
And love yourself

So much more than you and me
Can’t slip into he said, she said, we said, they said
A shiny city on a hill  
I wanna get there, you wanna get there
 
Free flowing air
Full speed ahead, but
To be close to you
Spend time with you

I’m breaking free
I wish that you could see
I can’t love you
I can’t trust you

Unless you help yourself
Take good care of yourself
And love yourself
Help yourself
Good care of yourself
And love yourself

Two Speed

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A minimum viable product (MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable by early customers who can then provide feedback for future product development (Wikipedia).

So, in my opinion, create a procedure/methodology that allows you to create/test something that will naturally be developed further with future steps.

And, therefore, what is the simplest/most comfortable and most relevant starting point to create this path?

In my case:
1) start working with samples and various granular samplers (Frame 2 and Frame 3, by Peter Dines, in Reaktor eg.)
2) always working in a heterodox way, use stochastic/random midi generators to obtain a score, which can be used as it is, or distributed among various instruments / sounds. Of course the choice of instruments in this case is crucial, since we are not within a precise and codified musical form.

This is the method I used for this track.

MTH 02 - Disquiet0530

FOR   ---    PIANO ,  CELLO  ,  ELECTRONICS

PIANO ,  ELECTRONICS    --   DROR   ELIMELECH
CELLO    --      ULRICH  LANGENBACH

TIME  BUYBACK    --  1

INTERMEZZO VI

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
494
this time NLS - night live session
https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/06/21/naviarhaiku494-on-the-canal-bank/

NLS - 2023 - 06 - 22  On The Canal Bank  ( Naviarhaiku 494 )

For Naviar's Haiku Challenge #494

> On the canal bank
> Vivid yellow irises –
> Silent sentinels

Logic Pro's sampled Bösendorfer played through some virtual tape loops via VCV Rack: 5 Nysthi Simpliciters, 5 Count Modula Gate to Trigger converters and VirtualModular's shimmer made with Clouds and Plateau.

Haiku by John Hinks https://soundcloud.com/flownblue
Picture by Outi Marjaana https://unsplash.com/photos/ZFTtCIb7qfc

Silent Sentinels [naviarhaiku494]

There Will Always Be ****** (Diarmuid Mac Diarmada on Drums)

a couple of records out if you have the time and interest:

https://enchanting.bandcamp.com/album/mud-glyphs-in-silhouette

https://enchanting.bandcamp.com/album/waddle-in-ostinato

track credits 
Doug Seidel https://soundcloud.com/douglasmseidel: basses
todd: percussions

maps, dna and spam

My submission for Naviar Haiku #522.

Includes field recording of thunderstorm in Colorado's Wet Mountains.

Flashing In The Mountains

Flashing In The Mountains - Naviarhaiku522

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