@jay-mz-173176002: thank you so much ... your words mean a lot to me <3

Further west, the metropolis its futurity self-restrained, no design for earth subsidence... ti sento...

Backward Through Time

five minutes before (r.s.stropharia) 26.06.2023

I think this haiku is a perfect match with the track I've been trying to create for some time... immediately after reading it I had very clear ideas on how to make it all happen.
 There are several recordings, the oldest was made with the guitar, processed on the elektron octatrack in 2020.
 About a month ago I found the central part of the song while experimenting with the vcv rack and the initial part (which takes up the final guitar theme) is the most recent recording processed with the Fm8 synth.
 recorded in Ableton and subsequently mixed in Cubase.

 Weekly challenge for Naviar records #naviarhaiku512.
 Text to follow by: Marco Sebastiano Alessi
 Image: Raya Mal

 "Endless echo
 footsteps on an empty house
 once full of life"

 Heartfelt thanks to: Marco Sebastiano Alessi
 for the precious inspiration.

Forgotten Games _ (Naviaraiku#512)

SenSen - Full Tied v2

That Lucky Motor

2024 - 02 - 17 19 - 36 1

This track was created for the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge in April 2024. The haiku is by Shinkei.

Autumn Streams

Autumn Streams (naviarhaiku537)

22.3.1996
bring the situation under control

STARS

black lake

Celestic naturistic data_02

Two Cities

'The railroad breaks the lagoon and
delivers life every thirty minutes.
Rarely on time.
It was November, that mystic entrance
at the arrivals. Wakes, the hiss, babel 
a few interesting exhibitions.

'Nebbia nelle calli'.

Further west, the metropolis
its futurity self-restrained, no design for
earth subsidence.
How distant the strangers strangers *
how brittle their tilting in the cold.
Desolate the two cities. 

'Acqua Alta!' they yell, 'acqua alta!' 
all through. 

And it floods slowly, it covers 
each tongue, it salts all apertures
the wounds. Do you feel 
the shockwave? Rarefied, penetrating 
and reverberating underground.
Stay still. It recedes now.

Quiet the two cities.'

©IlariaBoffa2018

fieldrecording: multiple recordings in Venice

* strangers strangers is a concept from Hyperobjects by Timothy Morton

Two Cities

Poetry, Field recording and the Human Human

'I use this space to offer an experience of Sonopoetry, the voice of verses combined with field/sound recording and music collaborations.
Writing and composition marked the passage from pre-history to history for human beings. I firmly believe that writing&listening (active care/empathy and full attention to each and every sound from each and every living and non living being) could inform, guide and represent the Posthuman era that I'll call Human Human era -from sapiens sapiens to human human.
The contemporary alliance between the disciplines of Art, Science and Philosophy elicits the conceptualisation of the Posthuman that to me also implies the transition from the Anthropocene to the Age of Art as a driver of thought and vision. I advocate the responsibility to assign a 'more than human' meaning to the Posthuman concept, that's why Human Human, in order to emphasise the human core, the genetic connection to bio and non-bio diversity as per the Biophilia Hypothesis.
Are we listening?'

Born 6 January 1972, Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet and sound recordist. 
She has published four poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018.
Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sound.
Publications:
Beginnings & Other tragedies/Inizi e Altre Tragedie, 2023, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
https://www.valleypressuk.com/shop/p/beginnings-tragedies

About Sounds About Us/Di Suoni e di Noi, 2019, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/about-sounds-about-us-ilaria-boffa/

Writing in A Different Language, volume XL NeMLA publications (Northeast Modern Language Association), College of New Jersey, 2018
http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/publications/nis/past/volume-xl.html

The Bliss of Hush and Wires/Periferie, 2016, book of poems (Eng/Ita)
http://www.samueleeditore.it/periferie-the-bliss-of-hush-and-wires-ilaria-boffa-2/

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