IDM_34

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XPxpD330QwOEOOfmRZzwe
Buy: https://atlascedar.bandcamp.com/album/fool-ep

A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
http://trillionthtonne.org/

This song is the 'twin' song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi)on Unsplash.com

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2019
Original improv: 16th May 2019
Recording: 24th August 2019

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

Beyond The Billionth Tonne

🎧 Listen on Spotify

Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

You might like to watch a video clip for this track at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_07erk0_mDs

During the first days of this newly started pandemic era, I couldn't help but rereading Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the king" and meditate on how it was meant to be interpreted at the time of its first mise-en-scène. Despite being normally considered today as a quintessential hero (and victim) of rational (self-) knowledge, following the subsequent Aristotelian interpretation of this character, my impression is that Oedipus, holder of the political power, is somehow pressured to investigate his own roots (and infamy) by the public of his subjects asking him for a solution to the plague infesting their town, more than by his own, allegedly inquiring will. Oedipus' behaviour, consisting in minimizing the extent of the plague and claiming to be doing every effort in order to fight it at first, then panicking as more as his responsibility (and his sin...) becomes clear to everyone, somehow reminded me of our current, global situation; so I've tried to portray it by recording this experimental track. The recited ancient Greek text is drawn from the initial verse of Sophocles' work, and this is its English translation:

"My children, latest generation born from Cadmus,
why are you sitting here
with wreathed sticks in supplication to me,
while the city fills with incense,
chants, and cries of pain?"

ὦ τέκνα, Κάδμου τοῦ πάλαι νέα τροφή,
τίνας ποθ᾽ ἕδρας τάσδε μοι θοάζετε
ἱκτηρίοις κλάδοισιν ἐξεστεμμένοι;
πόλις δ᾽ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει,
ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων

This track is dedicated to my friend Thomas @ansound-655183295

Teth Sin : electric guitars, bağlama, vocals, Cretan lyra, bass guitar, samplers (percussions, raw data, electric piano), synthesizers, field recordings, sound design

Original composition, arrangement, mix, mastering & cover artwork design by Teth Sin

Pandemic Aberration

- "DIMENSIONAL MIRRORS" DEMO 2020 -

1. Twin Dancers (0:00 - 3:19)

2. DIMENSIONAL MIRRORS (3:20 - 7:18)

3. No More Madness (7:19 - 9:53)

Special DEMO(Lofi Audio Quality) created in the beginnings of isolation by this selfish world quarantine and also inspired by the prophecy of the Hopi Kachinas. This digital production, as a final draft with 3 song track was recorded live in multitrack session with low gama instruments, equipment and audio technics on April 2020 at a local Homestudio in H. Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 

Keyboard, Guitar, Percussion, Synthesizer, Loops, Samples and Sonorous Recordings generated by: Ivan Hërmës.

Samples extracted from: "Queen Of Outer Space" and "The Occupant"

Released May 8, 2020
Recordings, edition & mix by Ivan Hërmës
Mastering: Soundcloud and powered by Dolby

Dimensional Mirrors (Quarantine Demo Version)

"Ultimatum" by My Black Dress (BCS & Michelle) 
Rough Cut Demo with my vocals only.  Michelle's vocals will be added soon (in French!)

Ultimatum (demo)

The Storms of Jupiter

song process: @enigmacurry @mystique_wind @myrhyum
- Myrh created acapella
- EnigmaCurry granularized vox, produced ambient beats, & instrumentation
- Myrh created poetry and voices
- MystiqueWind created more instrumentation & effects
- Mystique & Enigma do final mixings

artwork process: @enigmacurry @mystique_wind @myrhyum
Myrh took two pieces of EnigmaCurry's to create the cover with text 
& Mystique Wind completed it with some key finishing details for the observant eye.

Lyrics based on this poem from my chapbook These Tales Are True
https://tarka1.bandcamp.com/merch/these-tales-are-true
PUSH FOR CHANGE (The Mere Request for Change)
here is the excerpt used in the song:
_________________________________________________________
its that time again to push
for change
push coming to shove
as the moon cycle comes into full swing

scarlet smell of oldness
and the mere request for change 
becomes a full blown criticism

and i feel ugly 
and my house 
is a mess
and people are calling me 
and wanting an explanation 
and the missing women
are still missing
(and the missing women are dead*)

....

the one love in the past 
and in the present

the dentist
the optometrist 
the oral surgeon 
the audiologist
the hair straightener 
the shoes
the bag
the activity and inactivity 
the passion and drama

the singing 
the singing

the push to change 
the push for more

it’s not enough
the fight is never over 
the flourishing
is always happening

even when the winter comes 
and the withering begins 
my body chases my soul 
from sleep to awakedness

it's that time again
to Push For Change

*this poem was written during my involvement with a project related to missing & murdered women in British Columbia, Canada.

USG Report 222

The Mere Request for Change | of mystique & myrcury

original composition, final arrangement, mix & master:
Monkey Blood Lowdown @monkeybloodlowdown

lyrics, vocals & their pre-mix:
Mariam Zohra D : Myrh


A WONDER
____________________
oh me! well i had to see this for myself
sometimes its just snakes and ladders!
snakes!
ladders.... and you
wonder how
you ever got here?
how you ever made it out?
how you ever made it out?

how you ever made it through... what did you do?
life is a wonder!
even if its all goin downhill
always a wonder
how you get over it, and wow oh!
see a new way of seeing

a new scene
a landscape
a landscape of divine
something you hadn't quite found
before - merry go round, around and around

life is a wonder

A Wonder

the set

A Wonder | The Consolers

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass-geography-of-translations

In support of the "Translations" album by @Ilaria_Boffa:  https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/sets/translations
On @Meticulous-Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/news/2020-11-20-272

A year ago, we recorded our first joint track with Ilaria (https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/ilaria-boffa-foreign), and then we agreed that we would do another one later in which each of us will read own poem in native language. Everything coincided. "We translated our voices into exact references and wording. Now, hear." 

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (november 2020)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/geography-of-translations-ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass

Poem in Italian: Ilaria Boffa @Ilaria_Boffa
Poem in Russian, field recording & photo (poplars & wind): Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass
Music: Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey

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TRADUZIONI (Ilaria Boffa)

Una precisa geografia di pioppi bianchi
frassini e aceri circonda quest’area fluviale.
Narrazione di fruscii, conversazioni rumorose.
Traduzioni. Ciò che sentiamo e il linguaggio
udibile implicano indagini
sui modi di ascolto dell’altro.
In dubbio l’affettività, il riverbero degli oggetti
che scontra soggetti oltre noi.
Dentro quei metri cubi di suolo e aria
il suono prende spazio, costruisce e colpisce.
Neuro-trasforma e impatta la plasticità
delle cose.
Abbiamo tradotto le nostre voci in
riferimenti e formulazioni. Ora, ascoltami.

TRANSLATIONS 

A clear geography of silver poplars
ashes and maples surrounds this fluvial area.
A narrative of rustles, chatting loudly.
Translations. What we hear and the language
that makes it audible imply investigations
on others’ listening modes.
We question affectivity, objects’ reverbs
crashing into beings beyond us.
Inside those cubic metres of soil and air
noise spacialises, builds and hits.
It neuroshapes and impacts the plasticity
of things.
We translated our voices into exact
references and wording. Now, hear.

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ГЕОГРАФИЯ (Nata Boundariver)

На свете так много мест, куда я не смогу попасть.
Попасть бы хотя бы туда, где я есть.
Почти нигде и почти никогда.
Забытое слово я.

GEOGRAPHY 

There are so many places in the world where I cannot get.
Get at least where I am.
Almost nowhere and almost never.
Forgotten word I'm.

full

Geography of Translations (Ilaria Boffa & Crazy Compass)

The confusion, the conflict...

“this is not a crime against the state
it is merely a misdemeanour of the heart
a fine how-do-you-do, a merry dance
this is clearly the chaos of romance

this is not a crime against the state
such a skirmish fuelled by jealousy of the heart
here within a time to bide and wait
forget the fuss, the ballyhoo in plain sight

a china tea cup storm, a flash in the pan
costs so dearly foolish impoverished man
this is not a crime against the state
disorder rules the day”

Chaos of Romance

Mutated Toenail vs Rōnin Dust [part 1]

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