Cover: The juxtaposition of cute and eerie elements beautifully captured by the artistic talent of my daughter! Happy Halloween to everybody!

Cute Darkness

Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg
The creation of this work was drawn from composer's memory of childhood. When he was a child, while he was crying, suffering, or in a restless state, his mother would turn the wooden pegs(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DHiu2gUKPZE8e-ree2Jg-02NfoqmVOyQ/view?usp=sharing) on the bed to create some sounds to attract his attention to let him calm down! The main function of wooden pegs installed on bed is to hang the clothes while sleeping. But if you use different strength to poke it or turn it in , it can make interesting sounds like birds chirping, doors squeezing, or even piercing screams. 
Based on this bedside memory, the composer recorded the sound of wooden peg on the 60-years old ancient bed. Just like his mother, he improvised on this installation, trying to create various possible sounds, even a sound art piece. Those recorded sonic clips were then manipulated through the technique similar to “developing variation” to work out all the possibilities of transformation of the material.The processed sounds were then “organized”(in E. Varèse’s word) or “digital micro-montaged”(in H. Vaggione’s word) to build up a musical composition with artistic interests which may bring endless and fantastic imagination to the listener.  
Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg was created and finished at the Sound Lab at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University(NYCU) in Taiwan on October of 2024.


Fantasy Variations on a Wooden Peg

Go Home

(After the Rain) Comes the Heat

8May25
Words courtesy of Aleister Crowley
:D

The infinite silence of the Stars woos thee with subtle musick

This is the third part of the fourteenth piece in a series of Concrete Music pieces. The sounds come from pots and wooden bricks. The music is generative. The source-code can be found at github.com/danielstahl/concrete-music-14.

Dots and Strokes Part 3

et ton nom maintenant resonne, Madeleine

insect tremolo
soberingly cools the heat
of farmland roads

Kogetsu Eguchi (1825-1867) was a Japanese poet active in the late Edo period. Together with Kazan Watanabe, he authored the haiku book Tōke shunchō.

Haiku by Kogetsu Eguchi

Picture by Luca Ercolani

Mutable cicada4_Naviarhaiku603

In spring sunlight
the rows of tea bushes
ripple like waves

by Tōge Morita


https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku604-in-spring-sunlight/

wind through the tea bushes (naviarhaiku604)

fUture mOdern_02

Magma for violin and electronics uses as basis several resonances between the violin and the electronic sounds. The color of the violin timbre is changed, transformed and expanded by the electronics, enlarging the instrument sound into a surrounding mass, constantly changing. The volcanic magma also transforms over time going through shades of red, yellow, grey, until it reaches black, always in a constant tension and plastic mutation. Even when it has solidified and its surface seems to be stable, the inside of it is still boiling and filled with the agitation of the elements that constitute it. This work was commissioned by Festival Dias de Música Eletroacústica and by Seia Conservatory (Portugal) and received the First Prize at Counterpoint Composition Competition.

Magma

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