Name: Musing on bats by Veljo Runnel
Duration: 3 min 30 s
Description: The flow of sounds is slowing down, bat echolocation emerges, it gets distorted, human speech and concept of communication interferes with acoustic world of bats.

A fictitious competition where 99 of the 100 competitors in a squiggling competition perish. Somewhat inspired by the Dancing Plague of 1518 and Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery".

The original version had more vocals, but a decent portion of them were scrapped for the reupload.

Sinny: percussion (shakers, caxixi, cabasa, tambourines, triangle, finger cymbals, cowbells, jam block, rototoms, djembe, vibraslap, helix bowl, The Night Cricket, brake drum, slit drum, frame drum, flexatone, ratchet, thunder tubes, xylophone, marimba, orchestral chimes); drum kit, kalimba, synthesizers, dobro, samba whistle, bulb horn, sound sticks, vase, chair, voices; synth, drum, and percussion programming

Squiggle Till You Drop

Interpolation [apex]

The flow of sounds is slowing down, bat echolocation emerges, it gets distorted, human speech and concept of communication interferes with acoustic world of bats.

Musing on bats

A session done originally in Nanoloop made in the last year and edited in ableton on the fly.

version update of 22/09/2022 edited in cubase 
i think that is more accurate than the first in ableton.

Work in progress

Many Thanks to the freesound.org users: 
https://freesound.org/people/benjammin2006/
https://freesound.org/people/Mystikuum/
https://freesound.org/people/koutino/
https://freesound.org/people/Jagadamba/
for their rainstick samples

Night prayer © 2022 by Nadir is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Night prayer

night prayer

picture of Clontarf Towers-Ireland
-the sound of stepping out of body- the spiritual sound from the soul
-what it could sound like in a state of higher awareness
The lower clouds look like a person laying on their back.....out of body-:)!!

Eternal Project- Out Of Body

TOF

Are you ardent?
In the MADNESS of war
Guarding his life with your DEATH
His SONG on your breath
Your LOVE for Him filling your heart
Are you still wild?
Can you take command?
O will you join the attack?
Fire true from horseback?
Let us ride all ye Redhats
& fill afternoon with our arrows
High & aloft
Fighting forever for Ekkor our God
Are you ardent?
Let us hear a tale of SONG from Hemlock now!

HEM

Centuries ago
On the shores of the world
Travelers tossed by a fault
Neath an ocean of salt
Washed up without bearings nor hope
And the Holy Forest throng
The uncanny birdsong
Called to them more than the reach
They abandoned the beach
Wandered into the trees
Where they joined in the chorus forever
Drifting in time
Castaways wed to the Wood
Speech & destinies all but forsaken
For music & rhyme
Artistic extremes and dreams leporine
Are you ardent?
Let us hear a tale of DEATH from Fury now!

FUR

I recall my first
Far from my worst
A man from the bigotted hordes
A Captain of sorts
At the Battle of Dáktylir
Fire had snapped my bow
So I rode him down
Drove him into a red oak
As he slashed at my throat
I crushed him back into the
Trunk with Ontario’s shoulder
Till his breastbone exploded
& a hundred branchfuls of snow
Shook down like confectioners’ sugar
His blood on my face
His dying eyes marking who’d furnished his fate
Are you ardent?
Let us hear a tale of MADNESS from Christoffel now!

TOF

Ah, quei giorni utopici giù in Toscana!
La poesia!
La musica senza finale!
Gallegiando sul maestrale!
E tanti amici demenziale!
Feci caprioli su Cheope in la piazza,
Tutt’applaudirono!
E por un solo momento,
Io sapevo cosa significa
Essere veramente singolare,
La bella del ballo, 
La Eterodossa!
Una sopra, n’una tra, billione
Cast’e doverosa ragazze scout in le gonne marrone.
Sei appassionata?
Let us hear a tale of LOVE from Hobby now!

HOB

O ye think me proud
But I know a tale
Round which your others will pale
All that SONG on your breath
All your MADNESS & DEATH
Very well, I will tell of a love so pure
Yet so insecure
Nothing could come of it but
Rivers of blood
A testament cut
In the breast of the mountain forever
A carving away
A breathlessly penitent hush
In the Song of the Forest forever
A pining away
A beautiful, terrible rush
To the depths of Creation forever
A falling away
A hopelessness manifest just
In the drape of an arm round a shoulder
& a heart that would break
But that it meant never seeing that face again...
Are ye ardent?

Are You Ardent?

“Singing in hiding”

Art work: Bianca Van Dijk via Pixabay
Vocal: Vocaloid Yukari and a dove cooing in the treetops of a neighbor's garden.

鳩のごと梢の影にかくれたし

I want to sing like a dove, hiding high in the treetops.

Singing in hiding

Singing In Hiding

Composed 2017, recorded July 2023

Bernhard Plagg - trumpet 1
Stephan Stadtfeld - trumpet 2
Lionel Speciale - horn
Vladimir Vereś - trombone
Fabian Neckermann - tuba

Sound recording in the studio of the Landesmusikakademie Berlin, 2023
Sound engineer: Benjamin Ostarek

Program Note
Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) was created on the occasion of a composition competition for brass quintets announced by the publishing house Furore Verlag in 2017.
At the beginning of 2023, I decided to record the piece in a recording studio and to make it available to the public. The trumpeter Bernhard Plagg was kind enough to take on the project. He put together a brass quintet, organised rehearsal dates, etc.
The composition consists of two elements that alternate or interpenetrate each other. On the one hand, composed, notated music, harmonic and rhythmic in the broadest sense. And on the other, improvised music, mainly consisting of differentiated, nuanced noises and representing a kind of random music, like random sounds in nature.

Tagundnachtgleiche for brass quintet

This tune made with only KORG Gadget iPhone.

Sunset 2023

1週間DTM お題➁PLAYLIST : カフェで流れてほしい自作曲３選

カフェでの演奏をイメージしてシンプルな構成(スリーピース)で作りました
生活感満載のメロウなポップスです

#重音テト
#花隈千冬
#Korggadget
#１週間DTM

SynthesizerV 重音テト SynthesizerV 花隈千冬
ライト版を使用

ぐるぐる洗濯(GuruGuru Washing)

from 2023 album *MUSIC FROM MY VULVA* (tbr)
this side: 
Wheels Ov Cornucopia
other side:
https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/lyergenei-scream-ov-orgasm

Wheels Ov Cornucopia (Confusion Comes n Goes...)

Biologist, naturalist and field recordist based in Estonia. 

"Sights and sounds of nature are fascinating, I try to capture them both on photos and sound recordings. Unfortunately the diversity of nature is fading away,  I hope that showing the beauty of nature will slow down the merciless destruction of nature by humankind."

Musing on bats

Veljo Runnel

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