See the video for this track: https://youtu.be/plobBpzc4wk

Atelier takes the recent music-box patch and lets the current run wild — randomising at VERY nearly halF (49.1%), with morphs stretching from 14 seconds to the full minute maximum. Now THAT'S what I call a crossfade! 🎚️

What begins as a gentle stream becomes a weir, a weird, and then … weirder still, via liquid transitions. 💦

Check out the seed generative patch: https://soundcloud.com/half-unusual/half-handled?si=0390bf75f15b4a3ba0d17e96c87e464d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing and associated visuals: https://youtu.be/yY9Fg9GZVME

visuals (YouTube)

halF randomisatioN

The haiku prompt for this:

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

Naviar haiku challenge 617, details here:  https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge

I have my field recording of the sea so I had a starting point; everything else was made with VCV Rack. I started with the sequences then added the synthetic waves, mixed with the real ones towards the end of the track. Wanting to keep the rest quite sparce and minimal I then made a simple chord sequence and a simple self generating melody.   

With a rough plan for the overall form I was going to follow I set up physical controls and multi track recording, hit record and mixed/modulated all the elements in one live take.

While the sea recording is my own it has been uploaded to freesound, find it here: Waves_on_a_Shingle_Beach by Mr_Lamppost -- https://freesound.org/s/800900/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Drawn Back By The Sea - (naviarhaiku - 617)

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

   -- Saitō Sanki --

autumn beach (naviarhaiku617)

2025-11-08

just whistle a little

under the light of the full moon

almost black
deepening purple
ripe grapes

Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan.

He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures and real ones, but prefer the real ones.”

Haiku by Masaoka Shiki: https://mypoeticside.com/poets/masaoka-shiki-poems

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

more halF unusuaL

halF deepeninG [naviarhaiku619]

Guitar Signal from the Loft

2025-11-16

changes in the sun

root conductor

made for the naviar haiku challenge n.619: https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku619-almost-black/

(almost) black (naviarhaiku619)

slowworldmusic - a remaster from 2013 release
Andrew Janik is awesome at:- https://soundcloud.com/soundpainter
Illusions In Retrograde Remastered -4 tracks out now:https://burythejar.bandcamp.com/album/illusions-in-retrograde-remastered
available on all other streaming services in the coming weeks

Soundpainter & The Oxford Ambient Collective - Illusions In Retrograde - 01 Illusion 1 Odyssey

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