The Dead Zone of pX.Qc

Somewhere

Snow*Omen/Velvet Something Superdark collaboration.
Music: Snow Omen https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen: Improvisation on a poem by Elizabeth Bishop (recording of a live performance, electric guitar: VSS, voice: Y.A.). Added sounds (musicbox, noise, percussion), mixing and production: VSS. Image: Winsor McCay, Little Nemo (detail, photo: VSS)

Lyrics: Elizabeth Bishop: Songs for a Colored Singer, Part III (1946)

Lullaby.
Adult and child
sink to their rest.
At sea the big ship sinks and dies,
lead in its breast.

Lullaby.
Let nations rage,
let nations fall.
The shadow of the crib makes an enormous cage
upon the wall.

Lullaby.
Sleep on and on,
war's over soon.
Drop the silly, harmless toy,
pick up the moon.

Lullaby.
If they should say
you have no sense,
don't you mind them; it won't make
much difference.

Lullaby.
Adult and child
sink to their rest.
At sea the big ship sinks and dies,
lead in its breast.

Lullaby

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinet/28348378107

Blues For Metal On Wet Marble

Title track from new album release called sub-Saharan. This is a collaboration with my good friend Axel Weiss (guitars),from Germany, under my name Bury The Jar.
Currently on bandcamp- soon on Spotify and other services.
 Art-Axel Weiss
Axel's coordinates are: Music: https://soundcloud.com/axelweis
Art/Other: www.axelweis.bplaced.net/wordpress/art
https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/sub-saharan

sub-Saharan

Curve of time -
a thought takes flight,
scent of a rose.

Vincenzo, aka El Wud, is an electronic musician from Naples, Italy.

A regular participant in our haiku music challenge, El Wud uses sound overlaps, causal collisions and cosmic echoes to create evocative soundscapes.

I translated Vincenzo's haiku from Italian, and made some minor variations. I hope you'll find it inspiring.

Haiku by El Wud: https://soundcloud.com/el-wud-1

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

more halF unusuaL

halF curveD [naviarhaiku577]

Created in response to:

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

Naviar Haiku challenge 580, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I used a combination of the probabilistic generative instrument Ongaku from Giorgio Sancristoforo; https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net Ongaku is just over half way down the page. And Voltage Modular from Cherry Audio: https://cherryaudio.com/products/voltage-modular I experimented with running Voltage as a plugin which allowed me to run it in parallel with Ongaku and make a single "Live" performance, the downside to this was that I couldn't assign physical controls, all mouse and window flipping.

The bell samples used at the beginning and which reappear later processed through granular synthesis and multiple delays are my own recordings.  

Quiescence-(naviarhaiku-580)

This was my contribution for Disquiet Junto Project 0686: Catch Your Breath. The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense.

Here’s a copy of my post on the Disquiet Junto 0686 discussion thread on Lines:

Lately, I’ve been thinking of experimenting with music that could evoke the empty, transitional, surreal, and perhaps eerie aesthetics of liminal spaces. This week’s prompt about breathing seemed like it would make for an interesting soundscape if combined with that vibe. 

This was produced in Ableton Live 12 using Slate + Ash Spectres Multisample. Two tracks were created using a MIDI keyboard, with built-in effects. Additional atmospheric tracks were added from various field recording samples that were recorded last week.

More on the 686th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Catch Your Breath — The Assignment: Listen to yourself inhale and exhale; make music from what you sense — at https://disquiet.com/0686/

Negative Breathing Space [disquiet0686]

Inspired by:

a splash of colour
cherry tree petals drifting
silently falling

Naviar haiku challenge 585, details here: https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

The construction of this one is quite minimal, just two elements. Even though the track was performed and recorded in a single take it does have two distinct phases. 

The opening "Splash of colour" section was achieved with a simple VCV Rack virtual modular patch and a lot of experimental modulation, I used some external compression to even it out somewhat. With the modulation dialled back to little or nothing the same patch becomes a backdrop for the "Petals drifting" conclusion. For this I live improvised sparce single notes; very simple VCV patch piped to the Blackhole reverb from Eventide.

A Splash of Colour - (naviarhaiku - 585)

Analog Heartbeat

Súper cinco

Stubborn

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