Il pleure en silence aux rives endormies,
Un miroir brisé par l’oubli des vies.
Les roseaux chuchotent des contes anciens,
Que l’écho seul reprend dans le matin.
Sous la surface, des souvenirs s’enlacent,
Des rames fantômes glissent sans trace.
Le ciel ne s’y mire plus qu’à demi,
Fuyant l’azur terni d’un doux ennui.
Un trône d’eau sans royaume ni fête,
Où même le vent semble faire retraite.
Et l’onde, lassée de n’être qu’un décor,
Verse des perles que nul n’adore.

Les larmes du lac

This track is a mix of several recordings made in Vietnam, France and Romania between 2021 and 2024. It also contains Korg Monologue atmospheres... It is an attempt to merge several days into one, to express in 5 minutes a range of sensations experienced in various moments very spaced out in time and space...
Sounds best with headphones!

Ce morceau est un mélange de plusieurs enregistrements réalisés au Vietnam, en France et en Roumanie entre 2021 et 2024. Il contient aussi du Korg Monologue… L'idée était de fusionner plusieurs journées en une seule, d'exprimer en 5 minutes une palette de sensations ressenties à des moments très éloignés dans le temps et l'espace…
Sonne mieux au casque !

Burning Train

the wheel

This is a collaboration of Stan Magendanz (https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz) and Robert Knote.
Hear the original track at https://soundcloud.com/stan_magendanz/sional-rimensionds.
K1021 Cembalo

Warmth wafts through (Stan&Robert)

This is a collaboration with halF unusuaL(https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual)
Hear the original track at https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-third-disquiet0697-80-bpm
K1069 HörnerDuo
https://disquiet.com/2025/05/15/disquiet-junto-project-0698-second-third/

second third down (disquiet0698)

NEURAL  NETWORK  1  -   2025

The Feathered Crown is a card of pride, loss, and the aftermath of hubris. It draws upon two rich veins of folklore — the Appalachian belief in a feathered crown found beneath a dying person’s pillow, and the ancient myth of the Sirens and the Muses. Together, these stories form a layered symbol of reckoning, the echoes of lost glory, and the burdens of victory.

In Appalachian tradition, discovering a tightly woven feathered crown in a pillow was often seen as a sign that the soul of the deceased had passed to heaven, a mysterious mark of spiritual judgment. In mythology, after the Muses defeated the Sirens in a singing contest, the Sirens were stripped of their wings as punishment for their arrogance. The Muses, triumphant, wove the plucked feathers into radiant crowns — symbols of their victory but also of the destruction they wrought.

This card stands at the intersection of triumph and regret. It speaks of victories that come at a cost, the spoils of conquest weighed down by lingering guilt or sorrow. The Feathered Crown reminds us that success without humility invites ruin. It asks whether our pursuits of recognition or superiority are worth the burdens we carry in their wake.

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Drums, Percussion, Keyboards: Ron Thomas
Guitars, Bass, Banjo, Lyre, Vocals, Midi: PS Perkins

Mixed and mastered by Mystic Tape Deck
Dedicated to Josephine of the Mouse Folk

LYRICS
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I saw your feathered crown, the one you keep under your pillow
Did you think that you could hide it from me?
As you don your supple plumage, tell me did you win it truly
From the fairest maidens of Persephone?
Are your songs of grief and woe, are they songs of deep regret?
With feathers plucked from silvery Sirens wings?
Or from the tails of rainbow ravens perching just outside your window
Waiting for the passing ships to hear them sing
Waiting for the passing ships to hear you sing

Dashed upon the rotten rocks of harpy limbed nightingales
Where tides resound with death inducing cries
As the sailors climb and clamor for a seat upon the razor
And a melody to cling to as they die
Rejoicing in the arts of their inglorious ease,
Freely frolic where the churning waters flow
Diving from the clifftops, splashing down into the seas below
Charming in both poetry and prose
Alluring in both poetry and prose

Whosoever dare to wear the feathers in their hair
Like the parrot and the magpie in a cage
That we may divert our stare from the circling of the bear
While standing proud upon the heavens final stage
When the starry sisters nine, with their bellies full of wine
Have bested you at your own foolish games
And the ships all passing by which now leave you there to die
Having never even known your given names
Having never even known your real names

I saw your feathered crown, the one you keep under your pillow
Did you think that you could hide it from me?
Oh, Josephine, you should have known better.

The Feathered Crown

Here's my musical resonance to this week's haiku from @naviar-records.

caged bird
glaring with envious eyes
at butterflies!

by: Kobayashi Issa

Thanks to Marco of naviar records for sharing this inspiring poem!

https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku594-caged-bird/

Caged bird (naviarhaiku594)

ROTER STREUSSEL

Steadfast

Steadfast (Jun. 2025)

A track from the draft version of the Raining Spiderling album Hell Canto. The whole work in progress can be heard here: soundcloud.com/nikolaigalen/sets/hell-canto.

The dome

https://www.youtube.com/user/DRORELIMELECH120V

https://www.facebook.com/dror.elimelech.338/


ACOUSTIC AND   ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC  COMPOSER .
STUDIED  COMPOSITION WITH  SERGIU  NATRA .
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC  MUSIC  WITH YIZHAK  SADAI .
PIANO  --  WITH  PNINA  SALZMAN  , BART  BERMAN  , AVI  SCHONFELD .
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC  COMPOSER , ACOUSTIC ,
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC   MUSIC , 
EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC . SOUND  ARTIST .
IMPROVISATION AND INTUITIVE MUSIC .
PIANIST .
ACCORDION AND  RECORDER  PLAYER .
FOUNDED  AND  CURATED    2  SERIES  OF  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC  MUSIC   IN TEL AVIV  ,  ISRAEL  -- 
 " NIGHT  HAPPENING -  FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC "    1986  -  2007
" OTHER  ISRAELI  MUSIC "      1985   -  1987
MANY COLLABORATIONS  WITH  POETS , ACTORS , DANCERS ,  PAINTERS ,
 VIDEO ARTISTS , PERFORMANCE  ARTISTS .
MORE THAN  120  PREMIERS  OF  NEW  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC MUSIC - 
ACOUSTIC , ELECTROACOUSTIC , MULTI-MEDIA  --  WERE  PRESENTED
IN  HIS  SERIES DURING  23  YEARS OF ACTIVITY .
HIS  MUSIC WAS  PERFORMED  IN  EUROPE , CANADA , USA .
WON  VARIOUS GRANTS AND PRIZES .

NEURAL NETWORK 1 - 2025

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