Tall, wide-arching trees
Assume a cathedral shape
Until darkness falls

by: John Hinks

Omeostasi - Naviarhaiku536

DESERT  SYMPHONY   1

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River
 
There's so little information about this amazing renga poet that I decided to share another poem written by him. This one is part of a longer sequence, written in 1463:

Only the moon remains
floating in the memory upon
Kinokawa River—
pale glistening waves,
the blank wake of drowned men.
 
About this poem, the author said: "Among the hundreds and thousands who have drowned and perished in this river
due to the disorders in this province were those whom I knew in former days. Often
I would walk along the river, gazing at the moon."

(Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei)

Shinkei (1406-75) was a renowned renga poet and critic, best known for his two-part work "Sasamegoto" (Murmured Conversations). To find out more about this interesting and largely unknown poet-priest, I recommend reading Heart's Flower - The Life and Poetry of Shinkei by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Haiku by Shinkei: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3348384

more halF unusuaL

halF onlY [naviarhaiku538]

From a group project inspired by a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit, 60 years ago, back in 1964.

Recorded, mixed and mastered on 25 Apr 2024 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa. This was also Day 1364 of the 100 Day Project.

Stones, inner groove noise, field recordings, water, matches, effects

This original version of “Come Fly With Us” was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0643: Stone Out of Focus. The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem.

More on the Disquiet Junto at: disquiet.com/junto
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More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643 

Conversation originally took place here - https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0643-stone-out-of-focus/66985

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Artwork: 01 Apr 2017, Heckscher Park, Huntington, NY, USA.

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Come Fly With Us (disquiet0643)

Recorded June 20 2022 @ 43.62237° N, 70.20818° W

When visiting the Portland Head Light near Cape Elizabeth Maine, the sound of the surf below the lighthouse enticed me to listen closer so I crept downward slowly passing through geologic ages as I descended. The bedrock supporting the lighthouse belongs to the Cushing Formation which "is more resistant to weathering than the neighboring rock formations, and is why it forms such prominent rocky headlands and islands." Other types of mineral material is present amidst the formation, likely deposited through volcanic activity:

"Certain minerals from the Cushing Formation, carefully collected, processed, selected and analyzed in a US Geological Survey laboratory, have been dated at approximately 471 million years old (±3 million), which is in the Ordovician Period. This means that the volcanic eruptions that produced the Cushing Formation occurred before the Himalayas or Alps had formed, before the Atlantic Ocean existed, before the dinosaurs lived, and before the first land plants had evolved. The volcanos that must have existed near here at that ancient time have long since been eroded; all that is left is a layer of volcanic debris preserved in the rocks."

I could personally see and touch the time lines literally carved in stone with striations, fractures, and deposits intermingling like they'd always been there together. But the various rocks and minerals had found their way to this spot at differing points spanning hundreds of millions of years. The descent felt like I was going deeper into deeptime.

At the bottom I encountered a beach of basalt and gneiss stones all larger than my hand. Growing up near the Great Lakes in Michigan, I'm used to some wave action at a beach, but here, near the ocean, the tides produce significant swells and motion and I was stunned to hear these large rocks moving around and bumping into each other creating  mesmerizing sounds as the surf rearranged them on the beach swell after swell. The rocks vibrating together can be heard more clearly after the 1:10 mark of this recording and close listeners will also hear evidence of humans and sparrows talking along with the ever present fog signal marking time.   You can read more about the Balsalt Dike geological feature that creates the conditions for this auditory phenomena in the following link (which is also where the quoted material above comes from) :

https://digitalmaine.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1297&context=mgs_publications#:~:text=Seen%20best%20on%20a%20clean,to%20the%20minute%20mineral%20fragments.

More on the 643rd weekly Disquiet Junto project, Stone Out of Focus — The Assignment: Make music inspired by a poem — at https://disquiet.com/0643/

This week’s project is based on a text by Yoko Ono, originally published in her book Grapefruit60 years ago, back in 1964.

"Take the sound of the stone aging.” Basalt Dike at Portland Head Light [disquiet0643]

CAMP R P

July 8, 2024

Lyrics: Hah ah hah hah hah...

HAH_AH_HAH

In the Ancient Egyptian Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld the symbol of the serpent swallowing its tail represented the beginning and end of time, and the formless disorder which surrounds the orderly world. In Norse culture it was Jörmungandr, the world-serpent. In the 15th century alchemical text the  Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra, it represents balance of opposites. For Jung, the embrace of the shadow self. And what does it represent for you?

Ouroboros

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Space 9.1 (flyby)

this is like 4 years old, but i listen to it all the time. i love the sound palette, but sadly i lost the ableton files :(

passion, ooh

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