Ecoscapes

Peace Piece

New Sevish album Formless Shadows coming September 17th 2021 — it's a quite cinematic album with a variety of moods on it. You can listen on streaming and Bandcamp.

This is the first time I've been able to release two albums in the same year. But you'll find Formless Shadows quite a different listen to January's Bubble. I just really had the urge to make music like this so here it is. As I write this I'm already making plans for future projects that go in a totally different direction. So big thanks to everybody who listens and supports my music making!

Formless Shadows

The Child Within (Astropilot's Ambient Remix)

The Child Within (Astropilot's Ambient Remix) [feat. Pooja Tiwari & Fatou Gozlan]

In Russian, Skazka means a fairytale. Each track in this album creates a magical image, symbolically depicting the gradual path of the soul from the external false ego through fears and delusions to understanding its true desires.

Fairytales are more real than modern life filled with illusory values. Man truly exists only in myth, in a supernatural mystical reality, and everything else is just an external pursuit of illusory success, which prevents us from being here and now, understanding ourselves, and being truly happy.

Mixing and Mastering by Dionis Afonichev (Dionisaf)

Artwork and cover design by Olga Sharaeva: www.instagram.com/ola_shanti

Label: Tiny Drones For Lovers (Italy) TDFL-004
tinydronesforlovers.bandcamp.com/album/skazka

Skazka on Apple Music: music.apple.com/album/skazka/1597708765

Skazka on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1Sp6seSKutXqnBA2r1P41I?si=85CQyZpeT4Oe0S8ng0ibpQ&nd=1

Skazka

Fireflies

‘I ett annat land’ is a collaborative album by the talented Swedish duo Henrik Meierkord and Knivtid. It brings together two innovative musicians whose combined artistry results in a sound that blends ambient, neoclassical and drone elements, set to a nostalgic theme.

Henrik Meierkord, originally from Helsingborg in southern Sweden, has been residing in Stockholm for the past 25 years. He began his musical journey at the age of 14, playing cello in orchestras before transitioning to creating his own music. Over the years Henrik has released works on a variety of labels including Ambientologist, Projekt Records, Shimmering Moods, Dronarivm, Ella Ruthinstitutet, Subcontinental Records, Sound Meditation, Audiobulb, Universal, and The Nerve. He has also worked with Whitelabrecs before, ‘Proscenium’ (2024), ‘Cello Improvisations’ (2023) and ‘Inseln’, a collaboration with Logic Moon (2022). His creative process is highly intuitive, often starting with the cello and layering additional strings, double bass, and violin, while drawing inspiration from a wide range of influences such as film scores, classical composers, and contemporary artists.

Daniel Andersson, who records under the name Knivtid, is currently based just outside Stockholm. His musical journey began in his teens with home computers and tracking software, later acquiring his first synthesizer with the money he’d earnt from a summer job. Daniel has released music on labels such as Purlieu Recordings, Eilean Rec, ACR, and The Ambient Zone, as well as his own self-released projects. Knivtid's music-making process often involves improvisation, recording spontaneously and building upon those foundations, with influences spanning a wide range of genres from electronic and ambient to hip hop, R&B, pop, and free jazz.

‘I ett annat land’ is characterised by a meditative, otherworldly Ambient sound, combining electronics with modern classical textures. It evokes a dreamlike state of longing for another world, encapsulating the mood of Scandinavian forests and lakes. The album's title and one of its tracks are inspired by Mare Kandre's 1984 book ‘I ett annat land’, which translates to ‘In another country’. The work captures a child's perspective on traveling, evoking the familiar sensation of sitting in the back of a car watching the landscapes pass by. For both artists, the album represents a fantasy world of sounds and tonal creations, inviting listeners to meditate and immerse themselves in the experience. Henrik and Knivtid hope that listeners will take the time to find the right mood to fully appreciate the depth of I ett annat land, an album that is not just music to be heard, but an experience to be felt and lived.

I ett annat land

wlr168 Henrik Meierkord & Knivtid - I ett annat land

68 - No one mattered more than you

68 - No One Mattered More Than You

An exercise in sound design, responding to the 563rd Naviar Haiku challenge (https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku563-autumn-wind/), a sound response to the weekly haiku, this time by Mukai Kyorai:

autumn wind...
I am stringing
a plain-wood bow

Picture by Ehud Neuhaus: https://unsplash.com/photos/low-angle-sepia-photography-of-trees-under-clouds-v9afA-or1IM

Autumn Wind (naviarhaiku563)

Sheltering Sky

A 'bit' conceptual this one ... You're hearing 1-bit sound at the beginning of the piece ... all the way up to 16-bits by the end ... Enjoy!

Fog clears away:
the waterfall shows up
bit by bit.
 
Undoubtedly one of the most important Japanese novelists in modern history, Natsume Sōseki began his career publishing haiku and renku poems in a number of newspapers and periodicals. Early in his career he met Masaoka Shiki, who encouraged him to become a writer and tutored him in the art of composing haiku.

Between 1900 and 1903 he studied at the UCL in London, but this proved to be quite a dramatic experience for the young Soseki. Despite this, when Soseki returned to Japan, he exploded into prolific writing activity.

Haiku by Natsume Soseki: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16061597.Natsume_S_seki

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

more halF unusuaL

halF waterfalL [naviarhaiku564]

This is my submission to this week's Disquiet Junto assignment.

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

20241026 [disquiet0669]

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0669 discussion thread on Lines:

Hope the music that we've all created will help forests to grow and flourish. The trees and their friends here in our yard seemed appreciative when I played this for them. 

Created with Ableton Live using Slate+Ash Choreographs, Spectres, and Max4Live devices along with loops, samples and field recordings. Valhalla Delay and Arturia Fragments were used for effects. Photo is from a native Monterey Pine forest next to where I live here in California.  

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/ 1

Daydream Forest [disquiet0669]

Video here https://youtu.be/0akHuIXUIgk?si=ggg7av6axK7fU7xX
Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis
The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Phonosynthesis  - disquiet0669

sound art for disquiet0669.

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

the tree that thirsts for rain (disquiet0669)

Dropping a kind of teaser remix of sounds from two different upcoming album projects with some dubded synth embellishement, so this is a unique blend. Field recordings from Baltic coast, synthesizers and percussion by yours truly. JG

Baltic Ozones 3 Hybridity

Caracas Night September 11, 1975

Composer & Instrument Arrangement: Chad Guse

Meet Chad Guse

Manhattan Beach Party (Short Version)

Dionisaf is an American multi-instrumentalist, ambient sound and visual artist, composer and producer. Founder and general manager of Chitra Records and its divisions. In his music, Dionisaf combines modular and granular synthesizers, electric and acoustic guitars and other instruments, field recordings, non-musical sounds and noises. 

Dionisaf equally successfully addresses Eastern and Western musical traditions, and experiments with modern technologies, AI, and sound production methods.

Fireflies

Dionisaf

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