BLUE NOISE - Requiem d'un Immortel

for six players and electronics (2023). 

commissioned by Sinfonia Smith Square and premiered in Anghiari, Italy in July 2023.

flute: Ellie Blamires
clarinet: Raymond Brien
bassoon: Hollie Redshaw
violin: Naomi Warburton
viola: Wanshu Qiu
cello: Miki Piszczorowicz

I was thinking about euphoria in pop music, that simple, single-minded ecstatic feeling you get from so many love songs. I found some vocal samples I liked and slowed them down and looped them, imagining each one as a kind of sculpture, gently rotating round and round in a neutral, dream-like space. Still euphoric, but frozen like TV static, repeating obsessively like prayer ritual.

1. I STILL FEEL
2. YOU'RE ALL I NEED
3. DON'T RUN FROM ALL THE THINGS YOU FEAR
4. THINKIN' ABOUT YOU, I'M THINKIN' ABOUT YOU
5. WE AIN'T GOT NO PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, YEAH. I LET 'EM GO
6. TELL ME I'M YOURS
7. AH, JUST DON'T WALK AWAY
8. I DON'T WANNA LOVE YOU BUT I CAN'T SAY NO
9. I WANNA BE WITH YOU
10. YOU TOLD ME YOU WOULD NEVER, EVER FADE AWAY

https://bennobuto.com/break-up-mantras

Break-Up Mantras

Cut It Up

Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Decadent Stress Chamber
Release: July 2025

music by Keith Rankin
album cover by Keith Rankin and Ellen Thomas


Decadent Stress Chamber

Pulled Me in Dark

Life Worth Going Through {redo}

Carpal tunnel mouse pad
I believe in you
I believe I could have more fun
Bathtub overflowing
And I lay on the floor
And I sing myself to sleep
The door is always open
I invited you
I invited myself too
Didn’t find it funny
I lay on the floor
I tell you I can’t breathe

When’s the last time
You laughed until you cried
I wish I had that that in me too
And when’s the last time
You spent the day without it
I guess I overflowed long ago

Vacation’s almost over
I’ll feel the same
You can’t stand going back
What do you consider the time of your life?
Is it now? Is it me?
I am but a statuette now
I don’t sit right with me still
Patience never recovers me, is it my problem still?

When’s the last time
You laughed until you cried 
I wish I had that in me too
And when’s the last time
You cried til it felt stupid
Is it fun? Does it make sense to you?

entertainment

The Moon Microphones: https://youtu.be/kTWTN_uxNcQ?si=MQqm31RFDyMxYSuC

NextToYouTankFullOfFuel

https://soundcloud.com/humanobserver
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artwork by « Otto von Chirac »