Digital Sketch #4

The only sound source here is my stratocaster with signal splitted to acoustic guitar soundhole magnetic pickup (which I played with my right hand as a pick/slide/ebow). Both signals went through Boss Line Selector, then some fuzz and for a short time my old Yamaha octaver. Last on the signal chain was Warm Audio Ring modulator which was mainly off. 

I composed a piece which has overlayered 1-3 tracks simultaniously. No post effects in DAW. For percussive parts and coda I played the springs of vibrato system. Those I miked with this magnetic acoustic guitar pickup.

The Burning Curiosity

ATMOSPHERIC STUTTERING ARE JUST A PARABLE   6

A reworking for this track in my archive originally created in autumn 2024, after a few versions in the last year i  find it fits well with the context of Haiku Music Challenge Naviarhaiku 617



an autumn nightfall
the skeleton of a huge fish
drawn back by the sea.

by: Saitō Sanki



Saitō Sanki (1900 – 1962) was a dentist who discovered his passion for haiku poetry in his mid-thirties, when his colleagues at the hospital in Soto Kanda convinced him to write a haiku for a collection. Later, he became one of the most important exponents of wartime haiku: he was imprisoned in 1940 during the government’s World War II persecution of controversial artists, and was officially forbidden to write until the end of the war.

haiku by Saitō Sanki

Picture by John Jason

more info here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/

an autumn nightfall (Naviarhaiku#617)

A piece from the last year archive reworked in these days

Metropolis (everyday life of common people)

TRAMPELFÂD
Laboratory for Contemporary Electronic Experimental Music

In 1994 i build a few experimental aleatoric Art-Robot Sound Machines:
youtu.be/fRzDNKt1MnE

Rec.name : " Tricks  "
credit :digitakt1 ,ipad9,plugdata

date : 3-11-2025

Live : 10/ 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIlhgl2oeQ

Sleep Still Sleep

Remixed material from "Darkening" and  "Flying": Electric guitar, voice, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, two tube amps. Field recording: Thunderstorm at night. Percussion sample: Crashing dishes. Poem read by VSS. All sounds, voice, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Part of https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/tempest

Text: "An awful tempest", Emily Dickinson (1830-1886): 

An awful tempest mashed the air,
The clouds were gaunt and few;
A black, as of a spectre's cloak,
Hid heaven and earth from view.

The creatures chuckled on the roofs
And whistled in the air,
And shook their fists and gashed their teeth,
And swung their frenzied hair.

The morning lit, the birds arose;
The monster's faded eyes
Turned slowly to his native coast,
And peace was Paradise.

Digital Sketch #4

Fredrik Melander