Improvisation on a poem by Elizabeth Bishop for voice and electric guitar (recording of a live performance). Arrangement, added sounds (musicbox, noise, percussion), mix: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark. All sounds Snow*Omen & Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Winsor McCay, Little Nemo in Slumberland (detail), photo: VSS.

Lyrics: Elizabeth Bishop: Songs for a Colored Singer, Part III (1946)

Lullaby.
Adult and child
sink to their rest.
At sea the big ship sinks and dies,
lead in its breast.

Lullaby.
Let nations rage,
let nations fall.
The shadow of the crib makes an enormous cage
upon the wall.

Lullaby.
Sleep on and on,
war's over soon.
Drop the silly, harmless toy,
pick up the moon.

Lullaby.
If they should say
you have no sense,
don't you mind them; it won't make
much difference.

Lullaby.
Adult and child
sink to their rest.
At sea the big ship sinks and dies,
lead in its breast.

Lullaby (Snow*Omen & Velvet Something Superdark)

Pleroma II (Retorno)

Recording of a live vocal performance at Alpha Nova Kulturwerkstatt & Galerie Futura, Berlin. Edited and shortened version of the original 30-minute performance, no extensive digital post-production, not mastered. Voice: Y.A. & VSS (https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark)
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M-O-A-N \’mōn \
by Snow*Omen

 MOAN  (Noun) 
1. A long, low sound made by a person expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure. 
1.1. A sound resembling a human moan. 
2. Informal: A complaint which is perceived as trivial and not taken seriously by others.

MOAN (Verb,  no object)  
1. Make a long, low sound expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure. 
1.1. Make a sound resembling a human moan. 
1.2. Literary: Lament. 
2. Informal [reporting verb]: Complain or grumble, typically about something trivial.

Origin: Middle English (in the sense ‘complaint or lamentation’): of unknown origin. [Oxford English Dictionary]
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 In M-O-A-N sound and meaning merge on the threshold between articulated and inarticulate voice, between existential drama and triviality, between human and nonhuman.
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Performance on 11 January 2019 at Alpha Nova Kulturwerkstatt & Galerie Futura, Berlin

M-O-A-N

With my friends Mico N. Aquino and Yvonne-Nikola Fontaine we wrote a new piece every day!
Here are my submissions to the project and you can follow the links here to see all the videos with scores :-))))))))))))))))

https://www.youtube.com/@AnatoArchives/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MicoAquinoComposer/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewLeeKnowles/videos

DAY ONE: LASER POINTER CAT PIANO

DAY FIVE: SIX BECKETTIAN FIDDLES

DAY FOUR: HAPPY-FASTY-LOUDY-SMASHY

Part of: Dark Bouquet. Variations on a theme. soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/dark-bouquet
All material - cut, altered, mixed at will - comes from a nocturnal solo improvisation with fretless acoustic bass guitar with piezo pickup, effect pedals (Carcosa - Dark Star - Obscura), non synchronized loops, three amps. Recorded in the room with Zoom H2n, edited in Audacity. All sounds made with the instrument. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

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Dark Flower

https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/bibere-venenum-in-auro

Strangest of Lullabies by Fugue in Sea and LHT

The Vague Misunderstanding of Reality

Electric piano, effect pedals, non synchronized loops, two tube amps. Field recording: Electromagnetic waves made audible with Soma Ether. Spoken words: "Ariel" (Sylvia Plath, 1962), last verses, read by the author. All sounds (except Plath's reading) mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.
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"And I
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning."
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Part of https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/sets/ariel

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Cauldron

Azaroa

As a multi-instrumentalist, Ian Falcon uses modern, traditional, and electronic instruments to combine post-rock and ambient textures with the occasional modal jazz influences.

The Vague Misunderstanding of Reality

Kalimafta