Madoromi Lounge

Dedicated to the Japanese POWs interned in Siberia

Composition, performing and recording: Leonid Zvolinsky

Muffled voice (2022) for acoustic guitar and live electronics

Chinatown in Buenos Aires
recorded on a friday, 12 noon

Chinatown in Buenos Aires

This album is a collaboration between Gallery Six (sound), D.R. Taylor (artwork) and EiramsAccord (essential oils).

The title is derived from a common expression “catch the flavor of the original”. It is in the things we see and hear without thinking that something important, forgotten and despised, lies hidden. It is just like unraveling the sourcebook. I produced this album in the hope that actually coming into contact with the disparaged sounds, flowers, and scents of these objects themselves will make us more aware of what is important and provide us with an opportunity to reconsider.

"Hanami" means cherry-blossom viewing

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- D.R. Taylor -

D.R. Taylor is a British-Dutch writer, artist and animal enthusiast. His artwork regularly features on projects released by electronic music label Italdred Records, as well as appearing on independent music releases.

https://drtaylor.nl/

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- EiramsAccord -

Creates fragrances based on inspiration from music, art, and landscapes.

[ Essential oil blends for this album ]

< Top notes >
Grapefruit ( Citrus paradisii )
Spike lavender ( Lavandula spica )

< Middle notes >
Virginian juniper ( Juniperus virginiana )
Damascus rose ( Rosa damascena )
Peppermint ( Mentha × piperita )

< Base notes >
Vetiver ( Vetiveria zizanoides )

https://linktr.ee/eiramsaccord

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All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Artwork by D.R. Taylor
Essential Oil for this album by EiramsAccord

Catch the Flavor

Hanami

Tracklist

01. Lorenz Weber - A Wounded Bird
02. Shuta Yasukochi - Cave
03. Observatories - Snow And Stars Danced Through The Night
04. Andrew Tasselmyer - The Other Side
05. David Cordero & Kenji Kihara - Sobremesa en Berango
06. Machinefabriek -  Goor Koor
07. Christopher Bissonnette - Red Sky At Night
08. Glacis & The Humble Bee - Five (V4) 
09. Darren Harper - Wooded

319. Sleepy Sunday Podcast (Elm Records)

6. SOLID - LIQUID

For example, on a cold winter night, icicles form on the eaves of my house. If the next morning is sunny and warm, the icicles will naturally melt and become water. However, it would be almost impossible to define exactly how much of it is ice and how much is water.

In this way, nature is constantly changing, not on a second-by-second basis, but on a much finer time scale. In fact, there is probably very little that we can perceive with any precision.

If you listened to this track while working on some task, you would not notice that what started out as a solid has turned into a liquid. No, even if you listened intently with headphones on, it would be impossible to pinpoint the point at which the solid turns into a liquid.

This is the world in which we live.

Produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Art by Hidekazu Imashige

Transition 6

Grabación de campo en el "Salón" de las Grutas de Salamanca, Maldonado, Uruguay; parte del proceso de investigación del proyecto Tierra Quemada: Memorias y resonancias. 

Investigación y escritura: Rafael J.Sarasqueta & Matías Ygielka
Fotografías: Mery Arias Simonovis
Grabaciones de campo: Matías Ygielka
Producción editorial: Rafael J.Sarasqueta

TQ: Investigación artística orientada a indagar en la diversidad cultural de nuestra región a partir de la memoria indígena, sus cosmovisiones y las nociones implícitas de territorio a través de un abordaje interdisciplinario; en un proceso de creación de nuevas narrativas referidas a la memoria histórica.
Como parte del proceso de investigación se realizó un trabajo de campo en determinadas localidades del interior del país, así como entrevistas con científicas y especialistas de diversas disciplinas.

El libro publicado reúne las derivas y reflexiones escritas, junto con fotografías y grabaciones de campo.

Esta registro sonoro corresponde al capítulo de las Grutas de Salamanca, página 73. Se recomienda escuchar mientras se lee el libro (con auriculares)

Link al libro (pdf, gratis): https://archive.org/details/tierra-quemada-ygielka-juarez/mode/2up
Link al libro físico:

Grutas de Salamanca (Proyecto de investigación Tierra quemada)

Percusión de la interprete y musicóloga uruguaya Mariana Berta (1956-2008) sobre piedra campana encontrada en el departamento de Florida, como parte de su investigación sobre lozas resonantes en Uruguay y la región.
Parte de su archivo en casete fue cedido por el ingeniero Franco Simini, albacea del archivo, a nuestro proyecto de investigación Tierra quemada. Memorias y resonancias.

La digitalización del archivo sonoro (en curso) forma parte del proyecto de investigación artística sobre las piedras campana (Lourdes Silva, Rafael J.Sarasqueta, Matías Ygielka)

«¿Qué dice ese paisaje, el suelo que se mueve? ¿Qué dicen las rocas en esos lugares escogidos? Estas cuestiones dan pie a la búsqueda de las razones que subyacen a nuestra percepción de la realidad, y la profundización en las cuestiones eternas y a la vez cambiantes que nos preocupan –nuestro origen, el sentido de la vida, qué posibilidad tenemos de entender y aprender qué es el mundo–. Para afrontar estas inquietudes existenciales, y enigmas de la historia nacional, la invitación es, en primera instancia, a escuchar, tratar de comprender el sentido a partir de la cualidad sensible como esbozan los autores… Tierra quemada es un ejercicio de duda, pausa y escucha, y gracias a esos movimientos nos trae a la memoria, bajo tantos nombres distintos, aquello que habíamos vivido y habíamos olvidado. »
Extracto del prologo del libro, escrito por Jairo Rojas Rojas

Percusión en Piedra Campana de Florida (1991) por Mariana Berta.

Dawn Dance

More on the 647th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Day Drone — The Assignment: Make some daylight drones for Drone Day — at https://disquiet.com/0647/

Day Drone (Birth) - (disquiet0647)

Jamuary 2025 Day 2 "55 bpm"
Used RC30, TE po-33, bass and mic.

Recorded improvisation without effects from hardware only first, added some delay, compression and EQ.

Jamuary2024 "futile attempts" 55bpm

quiescence!
touching not the blossoms,
temple bell's voice

by: Fuhaku
Kawakami Fuhaku was a tea master and the founder of the Edosenke, a school of tea ceremony. He was also an accomplished haiku poet.

Touching Not  - 時鐘 [naviarhaiku580]

Part of the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge: www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

SONG 74 - Naviarhaiku581

heaven and earth:
neither exists apart from
snow fluttering down

ひらひらと雪
そしてなんにもない
天と地と

it was snowing this morning 
everything white everywhere smile
nowhere sounds

Kajiwara Hashin was born in 1864 and studied under Kyoshi. Although Hashin is not very well-known as a poet, this particular haiku that he wrote is quite popular worldwide: it was first translated by Miyamori Asataro and later by R. H. Blyth.

Haiku : Kajiwara Hashin
Music : Nukumori Eugene / Nx a-tale-of.bandcamp.com/
IG: www.instagram.com/jinsei_books

fluttering snow 雪華 [naviarhaiku584]

Prophet-6 PWM pad, going through the Shimmer cartridge for the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP. Dry PWM at first, then I turn up the wet/dry mix on the Z-DSP.

Prophet Canon

A little experiment - an attempt to make pop music with nothing but sounds from the piano. The track is a single and was written for Piano day 2019, March 29th.

Brev 29 (Piano Day 2019)

As the science of neurophysiology claims, human memory involves the ability to store and recover information we have learned or experienced, constantly redefining and updating it`s content. Moreover, each time you retrieve a particular memory from that storage, the brain rewrites it, so that each time it is modified and reshaped into a new piece of memory. The more often a person remembers anything, the more their memory is interfered with and distorted.
In extreme cases, this process leads to a complete deformation of the original information.
But what if the memory is the only remain trace of the past? Each mental retrieval gradually erases original events and people,transforming them into new entities and replacing with phantoms. Music mirrors this process through constant changes in the material of the recorder: the rhythmic figure, accent, and long sound are repeated, and fixed, gradually flowing into new hybrid forms. The electronics part is based on interference and interaction with alto recorder and is expressed in the similarity of synaptic connections between musical elements, providing both the possibility of a contact with the memory and its changes.
Synoptic connections rewrite something very important over and over again, taking the original meanings further away from the inception leaving us with no chance to ever go back.

Composition, performing and recording: Leonid Zvolinsky

Из нейрофизиологии известно, что память человека – это не стабильное хранилище информации, а постоянно обновляющийся нейронный текст. Более того, каждый раз возвращаясь к тому или иному воспоминанию, мозг переписывает это воспоминание заново, так что при каждом следующем обращении человеческая память будет содержать уже изменённые варианты. Чем чаще человек вспоминает что-либо, тем сильнее он вмешивается в текст памяти и искажает её. В крайних случаях этот процесс приводит к совершенной деформации исходного материала.  
Каждое мысленное возвращение постепенно стирает реальные события и людей, заменяя их трансформациями и фантомами. В музыке это отражается через постоянные изменения в материале блокфлейты: ритмическая фигура, акцент и длинный звук повторяются, смешиваются и перетекают в новые гибридные формы. Партия электроники основана на взаимовлиянии с партией блокфлейты и реализует подобие синоптических связей между музыкальными элементами, обеспечивающих как возможность контакта, так и их постоянные изменения. 
Синоптические связи переписывают нечто очень важное снова и снова, уводя исходные смыслы всё дальше от оригинала и без возможности вернуться к предыдущей версии.

2020

X-SynapseL (2020) for alto recorder and live electronics

Home of sweet experimental slow music, sound and art practice by Nukumori Eugene / Nx -街音の収集 (always welcome demo & collabo for release from Living Room Tapes)　　 

Nukumori Eugene / Nx ﾇｸﾓﾘ ﾕｰｼﾞﾝ / ぬくもりゆーじん is a Hong Kong - Japan Base Sound Artist, Researcher and  Architect. He is joining the sound & art projects around the world beside run his own label  "Living Room Tapes" - the sound & art collective. 

The project often highlights the sounds and arts placed between the nature and city's folklore - deconstructive city street culture and urban suburbia - related to the urban observation research project ~ Research and Practice of Alternative Art Space / Micro-Art Space  

featured projects :  Strange Ordinary Necessities不思議な日用品 / Urban Observational Studies 都市観察学会 / Skmtt /  / HONG KONG SUBURBIA / 3am / Soundscape Saitama 100 / 100音夜行 / Edition 1/f / A TALE OF OUR CITIES / MEIV

Madoromi Lounge

Nukumori Eugene/ Nx -FRCS