70 tracks halF starting with the letter 'c' for an extended and eclectic exploration of halF unusuaL, spanning the years in an alphabetical way!

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- Make a song in response to the weekly assigned poem (a new poem is published every Wednesday)
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haiku #558: cascade sounds / along a mountain path - / the blistering heat

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Fantaisie track (courte) series no. 485

infinitely open ... except for the beat, no beat, or not enough to call it a beat, or too many of them in succession or concurrent.

creation: 2024/09/22

These tracks were uploaded to SC in August and September 2024,
except for the following, older ones:
. . .

[TO BE COMPLETED]

Happy listening!

* Soundcloud time: 1 year = 12 - 23 months.

hk_fantaisies_tracks_485

My 2024 Playback (by Soundcloud)

Excerpts from the sound composition of the stage piece "Paramècis i Meteorits" by Xesca Salvà i Marc Villanueva. 

PARAMECIS I METEORITS (PARAMECIUMS AND METEORITES). Understory: 1st episode

In Paramecis i Meteorits, set designer Xesca Salvà and playwright Marc Villanueva propose an equally gentle and radical movement, but they begin with their eyes on the microscope.

The first part in a longer collaborative tour titled Understory, Paramecis i Meteorits takes the life of bacteria and fungi as its starting point. Yes: fungi. Microorganisms governed by horizontal and non-hierarchical structures. A biological field defined by multiplicity— also in sexual and reproductive terms! —where the overarching rule is not selfishness, but symbiosis.

To bridge the gap between this paradoxically progressive dimension of existence and our own, the Salvà/Villanueva duo place the character of Lynn Margulis as the main focus. Margulis (1938-2011), an American biologist, was the first to extrapolate what she had learned about these microorganisms to a planetary scale. From fungi to the cosmos, her theory opened the door to observing the earth as a huge web of interdependence and evolution, as a process in which symbiosis is more primitive than Darwinist competition.

Revolutionary both in her hypotheses and methodology, Lynn Margulis defended speculation—the necessary link between science and fiction—as a touchstone for her praxis. By giving fabulation an equally important role, Xesca and Marc have designed a stage show that lies somewhere between an installation and an immersive experience. Within this framework, they invoke Margulis through conversations with six local biologists and explore how we can be inspired by her work and the currents of activity that run beneath our feet.

A small attempt at leaving our anthropocentric arrogance behind and embracing the unquenchable diversity of life.

Creation: Xesca Salvà & Marc Villanueva Mir
Performer: Marina Mulet
Concert: Anatomía humana desmontable
Biologists: Montserrat Garcia, Isabel López and Carmen Mediano
Sound Composition: Gerard Valverde
Lighting: Ana Rovira
Executive Production: Helena Febrés

And the shared knowledge of biologists Montse Bayés, Cristina Junyent, Teresa Pastor, Mercè Piqueras and Montse Vallmitjana

Special knowledge to  Lynn Margulis, Ricard Guerrero, John Feldman, Rubén Duro and Nanna Neudeck


Co-produced by Festival TNT
Supported by Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, ICUB, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Es Baluard, Teatre Lliure and Konvent.0
This project has received the support of “Premis Barcelona 2020” from Ajuntament de Barcelona

Paramècis i Meteorits

red camellia
white camellia
falling down

haiku by Kawahigashi Hekigotō https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kawahigashi-Hekigoto

picture by Han Chenxu https://unsplash.com/@hanchenxu

For more information visit http://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

halma icefall

halF camelliA [naviarhaiku410]

My first introduction to Sound Reporters was the mysterious and beautiful Amazonia 6891, a lush sound collage of field recordings and experimental electronic sounds, echoes, and waves, which we featured on an earlier mixtape (RIAFC025). Much later, quite by accident, I came across a spectacular field recording of frogs calling for rain in Mae Hong Son, Thailand (also featured in an earlier mixtape – RIAFC090). The field recording was made by Fred Gales, co-founder of Sound Reporters. We began corresponding and, thanks to good fortune (mine and yours), he agreed to put together a compilation of Sound Reporters recordings for Radio is a Foreign Country.

As you will hear in this curated mix, Fred is not only a prolific field recordists and musician, he is also an avid collector and student of the world’s music. (He does an amazing show called Klankbron on Concertzender Radio – Amsterdam, the Netherlands). It begins with Sail 85, a stunning 14-minute orgy of foghorns (recorded in the harbors of Amsterdam) combined with a thick atmosphere conjured up by synthesizers and other electronic sounds. This is followed by a series of raw field recordings from West Papua, Suriname, East & Central Africa, and southeast Asia. Enjoy!    

TRACKLIST
1. Sail 85, Plompentorengracht & Secret Journey – Fred Gales/Sound Reporters (Amsterdam)
2. Love Song of the Zongonau clan (West Papua)
3. Pieriemja tiero notamore panong – Yamore (Surinamese Caribs)
4. I am innocent – Wat Mon and group (North Uganda)
5. Ngbindi – Ngbanda and friends (Central African rainforest) 6. Teum Luang Namtha – Khammu Villagers (Laos)
7. Flirting – Tüpo (Northern Thailand) 8. Love song – Nai Lu Pang Le (Burma/Myanmar)   9. Winwong Sawet – Mae Buason Mueng Prao (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
10. Suffer and worry – Nang Sün Nay Lang (Northern Laos)
11. Luuk Kam Pla – Taw Bun, Taw Keo, Nang La (Laos) 12. A New Year Song and Talk with a Lady – Ha Paa (Northern Thailand)
13. Akha Love Song – Nang Meu Se, Nai Seto vocals (Northern Laos)

Sound Reporters, 1985-2022 (RIAFC098)

SciFiSky
Album: Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 2nd Session - October 2016

This is our second jam, about a month after our first. While still raw and minimal, this session was more ambient than the first and included a few longer tracks that seamlessly blended into each other, in addition to some new sonic direction. 

Recorded live in a terrible duplex bedroom by Jonathan Carey (guitar) and Evan Witkowski (drums, keys) with a single cheap room microphone. Bass added later by Evan.

Album Art by SciFiSky. 

SciFiSky 2016

Spontaneity / Live Recordings: 2nd Assembly - October 2016

10 Shoals (Live Spontaneous Jam)

tomorrow بكرا

-blood on my soul على روحي على روحي في دم

A wistful blend of notes and found sound.

Car On A Bridge recorded by Rebecca

Adios, Άγιος

cry of the whales

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

A supporter of Kobayashi Issa, Kubota Shunko was the husband of the more famous Kubota Seifu. He was responsible for preserving one of his master's works: Last Days of Issa's Father (父の終焉日記, Chichi no Shūen Nikki), a poignant account of his father's final days. The text was passed down by generations of Shunko's descendants.

Haiku by Kubota Shunko

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

halF cascadE [naviarhaiku558]

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

Kubota Shunko
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

Cascade sounds: The Plava Voda (Blue Water) in Travnik, Bosnia, recorded in July 2024.

Free download

Naviar Haiku 558

Plava Voda [NaviarHaiku558]

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku group.
558
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku558-cascade-sounds/

2024-09-12

Cascade Sounds (Naviarhaiku 558)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 12 Sep 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2024 Jim Lemanowicz

Tools used - Bitwig & PolyGrid, Arturia Augmented Strings, Ableton Live & Live native devices. 

This original version of "There Is No Down" was submitted as part of Naviar Haiku 558, Cascade Sounds

cascade sounds
along a mountain path -
the blistering heat

by: Kubota Shunko

A supporter of Kobayashi Issa, Kubota Shunko was the husband of the more famous Kubota Seifu. He was responsible for preserving one of his master's works: Last Days of Issa's Father (父の終焉日記, Chichi no Shūen Nikki), a poignant account of his father's final days. The text was passed down by generations of Shunko's descendants.

For more about the Naviar Haiku Challenge, see https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

There Is No Down  (naviarhaiku558)

An electronic composition, original sounds created in Pure Data.

Mountain Heat (naviarhaiku558)

Yellow Lines (the Nails Of Truth On A Glass Surface)

a possibility fading_01

Half Life

why would you insist on a leading capital

halF camouflagE

nine

halF cannoN

chaff

halF calF

More on this 470th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Calendar View / The Assignment: Create a sonic diary of the past year with a dozen (or more) super-brief segments — at:

https://disquiet.com/0470/

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Image associated with this project is by Dan Allison, and used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license allowing editing (cropped with text added) for non-commercial purposes:

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handcar fella

halF calendaR [disquiet0470]

Welcome to halF unusuaL, an evolving space inspired by play in the spirit of ‘hai’ (meaning “fun” or “unusual” in the word haiku). Here, improvisation connects the unexpected, mining the boundary between music and non-music to shape sound worlds that feel oddly familiar in their oddity. Listen freely, explore deeply, and for the sounds to live for your eyes as well as your ears, please stop by the YouTube channel. Thank you for joining this journey! Your support helps keep this afloat ... and is HUGELY appreciated 🥰